Patent ID: 8154392
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, which is referred to in this claim by the descriptive name of a “touch inducer pad” [ 4 ], hereinafter in this claim referred to as “the touch inducer pad [ 4 ]”, whose input, which is by way of a common touch inducer bus [ 15 ] within the touch inducer pad [ 4 ], is connected to an output of an electronic interface system, which is constructed internal or external to the touch inducer pad [ 4 ], with the output of the electronic interface system being specifically designed to provide a pixel gate packet [ 16 ] having an output protocol that is compatible with an input protocol requirement of the common touch inducer bus [ 15 ] input to the touch inducer pad [ 4 ], which interfaces the pixel gate packet [ 16 ] with a wearer's sense of touch in an area of a wearer's skin or tongue that is directly or indirectly, via an intermediate material, in contact with a skin contact surface [ 14 ] of a touch inducing pixel [ 3 ] within the touch inducer pad [ 4 ] by way of a pixel gate [ 10 ] that is the touch inducing pixel [ 3 ] input that is programmed with a pixel address coded number [ 11 ] unique to the pixel gate [ 10 ], which facilitates a connection of each of the pixel gate [ 10 ] inputs within the touch inducer pad [ 4 ] to the common touch inducer bus [ 15 ] to which the pixel gate packet [ 16 ] output of the electronic interface system having the output protocol that is compatible with the input protocol requirements of the touch inducer pad [ 4 ] is also electrically connected in common with the pixel gate [ 10 ] inputs whereby the pixel address coded number [ 11 ] unique to each of the pixel gate [ 10 ] inputs facilitates the addressing and activation of the touch inducing pixel [ 3 ] addressed by the pixel address coded number [ 11 ] individually, in any order, in any sequence, in any arrangement and at any intensity for any duration of time as dictated by the output of the electronic interface system by way of a touch stimulating voltage [ 29 ] contained within the pixel gate packet [ 16 ] to stimulate the wearer's sense of touch in an area of the wearer's skin or tongue that is directly or indirectly, via the intermediate material, in contact with the skin contact surface [ 14 ] of the touch inducing pixel [ 3 ] within the touch inducer pad [ 4 ] in intelligible patterns that can be interpreted by a human brain; the touch inducer pad [ 4 ] comprises: the common touch inducer bus [ the pixel gate [ the touch inducing pixels [ a means of connecting [ the pixel address coded number [ a means of permitting only the skin contact surface [ a means of providing the pixel gate [ a means of maintaining the touch inducer pad [ a common ground return [ a means of stimulating a sense of touch in the area of the wearer's skin or tongue that is maintained directly or indirectly, via the intermediate material, in contact with the skin contact surface [ wherein, these component parts of the touch inducer pad [