Patent ID: 11972052
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a motorized touch device configured to apply haptic force and tactile feedback on a hand, allowing users to feel virtual objects and touch sensations;
at least one programmable processor; and
a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:
training, based on training data associated with textures of materials, a texture model generator to map a set of latent variables in a latent space to haptic texture models; and
performing, via the texture model generator, a texture search by an algorithm configured to search a desired virtual texture through evolving latent variables in a desired region in the latent space, such that the virtual texture can be provided to a user with the motorized touch device.