Project Resource

Competitor Products/Prototypes

1. TeslaTouch Technology, Disney Research (2011).
2. Revel: Programming the Sense of Touch, Disney Research (2012).
3. Tactile Rendering of 3D Features on Touch Surfaces, Disney Research (2013).
4. HapticFeedback at the Fingertips, Microsoft Research (2014).
5. Senseg FeelScreen Spacial Haptics Technology Demo at CES 2015, Senseg (2014).

 Electrovibration Patents

No.	Patent No.	Assignee	Title	Essence
1	US 2008/ 0303795 A1		Haptic display for a handheld electronic device	A handheld device including touchscreen, haptic display and image display
2	US 2009/ 0251421 A1	Sony (SE)	Method and apparatus for tactile perception of digital images	Provide vibration feedback for 2D texture (edges)
3	US 7,924,144 B2 (2011)	Senseg (F1)	Method And Apparatus For Sensory Stimulation	Electrovibration method and setup
4	US 2011/ 0109584 A1		Tactile stimulation apparatus having a composite section comprising a semiconducting material	Semiconductor interface doped with carbon nanotubes
5	US 7,982,588 B2 (2011)	Senseg (F1)	Method And Apparatus For Sensory Stimulation	Electrovibration method and setup
6	US 2011/ 0248962 A1	Sony (JP)	Information presenting device, tactile sense presenting method, and program	Electrovibration integrated to a touchscreen
7	US 2011/ 10285667 Al		Electrovibration for touch surfaces	Reverse electrovibration
8	US 2012/ 0038559 A1	Nokia (F1)	Generating Perceptible Touch Stimulus	Providing electrovibration stimulus spatially varies across the area based on finger position
9	US 8,174,373 B2 (2012)	Senseg (F1)	Method And Apparatus For Sensory Stimulation	Electrovibration method and setup
10	US 2012/ 0327006 A1	Disney (US)	Using tactile feedback to provide spatial awareness	Electrovibration feedback based on the tactile feedback map of the image
11	US 2013/ 0106758 A1	Nokia (F1)	Apparatus and Associated Methods	Detection of input position through changing of capacitive coupling
12	US 2013/ 0106765 A1	Nokia (F1)	Apparatus and Associated Methods	Electrodes are used as capacitive input and haptic feedback according to the states of the system
13	US 8,441,465 B2 (2013)	Nokia (F1)	Apparatus comprising an optically transparent sheet and related methods	Transparent conducting film with insulator for portable device
14	US 8,570,163 B2 (2013)	Senseg (F1)	Method And Apparatus For Sensory Stimulation	Electrovibration method and setup
15	US2014/ 0059427 A1	Siemens	Operator Control Device for a Technical System	Touch panel elements with friction haptic feedback at the borders
16	US 2014/ 0092055 Al	Nokia (F1)	Apparatus and Associated Methods	Electrovibration through a shaft
17	US 2014/ 0139327 A1	Disney (US)	Controlling a user's tactile perception in a dynamic physical environment	Constant current mechanism to cope with impedance change
18	US 8,766,933 B2 (2014)	Senseg (F1)	Tactile stimulation apparatus having a composite section comprising a semiconducting material	Semiconductor interface doped with carbon nanotubes
19	US 8,779,307 B2 (2014)	Nokia (F1)	Generating perceptible touch stimulus	Hand-portable apparatus providing touch perception
20	US 8,791,800 B2 (2014)	Nokia (F1)	Detecting touch input and generating perceptible touch stimulus	A device that can detect touch input and generate  touch stimulus

 

Development Tools

1.  OpenCV IOS.

Technical Papers

1. Edward Mallinckrodt, A. L. Hughes, and William Sleator, Jr., “Perception by theSkin of Electrically Induced Vibrations”, Science, Vol. 118, September 1953.
2. Robert M. Strong, and Donald E. Troxel, “An Electrotactile Display”, IEEE Transactions on Man-Machine Systems, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1970.
3. David J. Beebe, Celeste M. Hymel, Kurt A. Kaczmarek , Mitchell E. Tyler, “Apolyimideon-silicon electrostatic tactile display”, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference, Vol. 2, September 1995.
4. Hui Tang and David J. Beebe, “A microfabricated electrostatic hapticdisplay for persons with visual impairments”, IEEE Transactions On Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 1998.
5. Kurt A. Kaczmarek, Krishnakant Nammi, Abhishek K. Agarwal, Mitchell E. Tyler, Steven J. Haase, and David J. Beebe, “Polarity Effect in Electrovibration forTactile Display”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 53, No. 10, October 2006.
6. Olivier Bau, Ivan Poupyrev, Ali Israr, and Chris Harrison, “TeslaTouch- Electrovibrationfor Touch Surfaces”, UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 2010.
7. Olivier Bau and Ivan Poupyrev “REVEL: Tactile Feedback Technology forAugmented Reality”, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 4, Article 89, Publication Date: July 2012.
8. Dinesh Wijekoon, Marta E. Cecchinato, Eve Hoggan and Jukka Linjama, “ElectrostaticModulated Friction as Tactile Feedback- Intensity Perception”, Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7282, 2012
9. Zoran Radivojevic, Chris Bower, Paul Beecher and Piers Andrew, “Transparent ElectrostaticTactile Surface”, Proceeding of Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC 2011), April 2011.
10. Z. Radivojevic, P. Beecher, C. Bower, S. Haque, P. Andrew, T. Hasan, F. Bonaccorso, A. C. Ferrari and B. Henson, “Electrotactile touch surface by usingtransparent graphene”, VRIC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Virtual Reality International Conference, 2012
11. David J. Meyer, Michael A. Peshkin, and J. Edward Colgate, “FingertipFriction Modulation due to Electrostatic Attraction”, IEEE World Haptics Conference 2013, April 2013.
12. Ye-Sheng Kuo, Thomas Schmid, and Prabal Dutta, “Hijacking Power and Bandwidth from theMobile Phones Audio Interface”, ISLPED’10 Design Contest, August 2010.
13. Seung-Chan Kim, Ali Israr, and Ivan Poupyrev, “Tactile Rendering of 3D Features onTouch Surfaces”, UIST’13, October  2013.
14. Lynette A. Jones and Nadine B. Sarter , “Tactile Displays: Guidance for Their Designand Application”, Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, February 2008.
15. Masashi Konyo, Hiroshi Yamada, Shogo Okamoto, and Satoshi Tadokoro, “AlternativeDisplay of Friction Represented by Tactile Stimulation without Tangential Force”, Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008, Vol. 5024, 2008.
16. Bruce Banter, “Touch Screens and Touch Surfacesare Enriched by Haptic Force-Feedback”, Information Display 3/10, March 2010.

Technical Reports

1. Electrovibration: How to Create a 2D Tactile Display Systemfor the Visually Impaired People Based on Electrovibration? (2014), Chin-Sung Lin

Hardware Design Tutorials

1. “ASingle-Supply Op-Amp Circuit Collection”, TI Application Report SLOA058, November 2000.
2. “HandbookOf Operational Amplifier Applications”, TI Application Report SBOA092A, October 2001.
3. “BipolarTransistor Basics”, University of Pittsburgh.
4. “TransistorAmplifier Design and Measurement”, Hunter College Electronics Lab 15:
5.  “Flyback Converters for Dummies”, Ronald Dekker.
6. “555Timer Calculator”.
7. “Whatis a Current Limiting Diode”, Central Semiconductor Corp.
8. Seri Lee, “How To Select A Heat Sink”, Advanced Thermal Engineering, Aavid Thermal Technologies, Inc.
9. “ToFloat or Not to Float? Analysis of a Floating vs. Grounded Output”, Associated Power Technologies.

 Software Design Tutorials

1. “OpenCV iOS”, OpenCV website: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/ios/table_of_content_ios/table_of_content_ios.html.

Datasheets

1. Vishay Siliconix IRF840 Power MOSFET
2. Fairchild DF06M Bridge Rectifiers
3. Midcom 750032050 Flyback Transformer
4. TI TLC555 Timer
5. Linear Technology LTC6090 140V Current Op Amp
6. APITAL Surfboards 9082 SMD Adaptor
7. CUI sj1-351x-series 3.5 mm Audio Jacks
8. CnC Tech 770-10040-00050 3.5 mm Audio Cable
9. TI OPA454 High Voltage OP-Amplifier

Transparent Films

1. DuPont Kapton Polyimide film (0.3 mils or 0.00762 mm)
2. Dunmore PET film (0.25 mils or 0.00635 mm) 
3. ACPO 410U Clear Polypropylene Film (0.75 mils 0r 0.0191 mm) 
4. Sdionline APF-NS polyester film (1 mil or 0.025 mm)