Some implementations provide tactile interaction to a user during consumption of content. For instance, when a user accesses a content item on an electronic device having a display, the user may touch the display at a location corresponding to a first feature in a displayed image to generate a first type of tactile output. Moving the user's finger to a location of a second feature of the image may result in a second type of tactile output, different from the first. Additionally, in some implementations, a force of a touch input may be determined, and the tactile output may vary based on the amount of force of the touch input. Further, in some implementations, the tactile output may vary based on a time duration of a touch input.

An integrated pedestrian access system comprising of wireless push buttons adapted to transmit and receive wireless signals and receivers connected to pedestrian crosswalk signal systems, wherein said one or more receivers are configured to communicate with the wireless push buttons through wireless signals, communicate among the receivers, determine whether source device from which a request for registering a pedestrian signal is received through the said communication is the wireless push button or the receivers, determine status of pedestrian signal based on signals received from the pedestrian signal system, register request for pedestrian crosswalk signal if walk signal of the pedestrian signal is not on in the desired direction as per the status of pedestrian signal and provide acknowledgement corresponding to the status of pedestrian signal through the said source device.

Vision-assist systems and methods include use of processor(s) and a communicatively coupled feedback device and environmental sensing device upon which generated feedback is based. Machine readable instructions stored on a memory module cause the system to perform the following when executed by the processor(s): record a first metric corresponding to a level of reliance by a user on the feedback device at a first time; record a second metric corresponding to the level of reliance by the user on the feedback device at a second time after the first time; and record an awarded amount of reliance points when the second metric is less than the first metric, indicative of a decrease on a reliance by the user on the vision-assist system. The awarded amount of reliance points corresponds to a percentage by which the second metric decreases compared to the first metric.

A human-interface device and a guiding apparatus for a visually impaired user including such human-interface device. The human-interface device includes a tactile module arranged to provide a set of haptic signals to a user, wherein the tactile module has a plurality of tactile units each arranged to provide at least a first haptic signal and operable to cooperate with one or more of other tactile units to provide different haptic signals.

In a road guidance using a Braille block, it has not been possible to determine a walking direction of a user only by a single Braille block. To solve the above problem, in a road guidance system including a mobile information terminal and a Braille block, the mobile information terminal includes a photographing processing unit, a QR code analysis processing unit that analyzes a QR code, a voice output processing unit, and a control unit, a QR code is affixed to the Braille block, and the control unit analyzes the QR code affixed to the Braille block photographed by the photographing processing unit using the QR code analysis processing unit to obtain QR code information, generates road guidance information generated based on a walking direction of a user holding the mobile information terminal from the QR code information, and outputs the road guidance information from the voice output processing unit as a voice.

A tactile music learning apparatus converts sound data of a user's voice corresponding to original music into first tactile data including tactile information, generates a synchronized tactile pattern by synchronizing the first tactile data with second tactile data including tactile information corresponding to sound data of the original music, and transfers the synchronized tactile pattern to a tactile reproducing apparatus to allow the tactile reproducing apparatus to reproduce the synchronized tactile pattern.

A disposable, portable and compact fluid and floss dispenser that is substantially rectangularly shaped with dispensers for fluid located at each of the four slanted configured corners and a spindle for dispensing floss and a mirror located on the bottom surface of the dispenser housing. In one embodiment two layers or sections are connected together. Nozzles are provided on a housing portion that is adapted to connect preferably by being form fitted onto the container to dispense fluid, drops or foam.

A method detects the image of an obstacle-free region surrounding a photograph-capturing unit. A photograph of a portion of the environment of the photograph-capturing unit is created by the photograph-capturing unit and a digital picture is created. The digital picture is examined for the presence of possible boundaries of an obstacle-free region, a boundary indicator value being determined for each individual pixel of the digital picture in accordance with the picture data of the digital picture within an environment of the pixel in question. The picture data being defined pixel by pixel, the boundary indicator value indicating the probability that the image of the boundary of an obstacle-free region is located within a specified pixel environment. A coordinate parameterization having two parameters is specified for the digital picture, which coordinate parameterization corresponds in particular to the pixel coordinates.

A haptic feedback device for providing haptic sensation comprises a haptic feedback interface that includes a plurality of haptic elements. The haptic feedback device detects a relative position and a height associated with a plurality of objects in an upcoming scene of a video based on a look-ahead buffer of the video played on an external display device or the haptic feedback device. A haptic feedback is determined for the upcoming scene of the video based on the look-ahead buffer of the video and the detected relative position and height associated with the plurality of objects. One or more movable haptic cues are generated on the haptic feedback interface using the plurality of haptic elements in synchronization with a current scene played on the external display device or the haptic feedback device, based on the determined haptic feedback.

A communication support device comprises an imaging unit, a counterpart detector, a distance measuring unit, a expression determination unit, a motion determination unit, and a voice output unit. The imaging unit captures an image of a surrounding environment of a user. The counterpart detector detects a predetermined counterpart in the captured image. The distance measuring unit measures a distance between the counterpart and the imaging unit based on the captured image. The expression determination unit determines a facial expression of the counterpart based on the captured image. The motion determination unit determines a motion of the counterpart based on the captured image. The voice output unit notifies the user of identification information for identifying the counterpart by a voice when the distance measured by the distance measuring unit is an interaction distance of a first threshold or less. The voice output unit then notifies the user of the identification information and at least one of facial expression information related to the facial expression determined by the expression determination unit and motion information related to the motion determined by the motion determination unit by a voice when the distance measured by the distance measuring unit is longer than the first threshold.