An innovative hearing system utilizing the human body as a transmission medium

Towards disappearing user interfaces for ubiquitous computing: human enhancement from sixth sense to super senses

“…Collect body temperature and hugging pressure and transfer to remote site (Teh et al 2008;Samani et al 2013) 3. Haptic jacket transfer the hugging feeling of the remote person (Teh et al 2008;Samani et al 2013) Clairaudience The alleged ability to hear sound or speech that is not audible to normal humans Directional audio using parametric speaker array or body self-demodulation of ultrasound (Akahori et al 2014;WoonSeng et al 2011;Sung-Eun et al 2014;Kim et al 2013;Betlehem et al 2015) Lip reading through visual image recognition to detect inaudible speech from a distance (Tasaka and Hamada 2012;Bazrafkan et al 2015) Detection of speech from noisy environment or from a long distance can be achieved through facial feature recognition and the recognised speech is transferred to the subject listener Remote viewing The alleged ability to see something far away through perception 1. Smart eye-glasses can see remote images or video through wireless communication (Brusie et al 2015), or 1.…”

“…Distortion of the recovered audio signals and the directivity are big challenges in this method, while recent research has improved the frequency response through enhancing the transducers as well as preprocessing the audio signal before modulation (Akahori et al 2014;Woon-Seng et al 2011). Modulated ultrasonic carriers can also be self-demodulated through the human body, thus the privacy is further enhanced since only the person(s) touching with the ultrasonic vibration can hear the original audio signals (Sung-Eun et al 2014;Kim et al 2013). Personal Sound Zone is an active research topic trying to control ambient sound pressure and establish multi-zones in a room where intended sound source dominates the sound field inside a particular sound zone, thus humans staying in that zone will not be interfered by sound sources outside this virtual zone.…”

“…The alleged ability to predict the future Directional audio using parametric speaker array or body self-demodulation of ultrasound (Akahori et al 2014;WoonSeng et al 2011;Sung-Eun et al 2014;Kim et al 2013;Betlehem et al 2015) Activity recognition from tracking human locomotion to detect where the subject person is going (Dubois and Charpillet 2014;Dubois and Bresciani 2015;Kondyli et al 2015;Elhoushi et al 2014) Example of informing a person about bad traffic condition or bad weather condition after a prediction of human behaviour through activity recognition using motion detection and localisation techniques. Probabilistic algorithm is used to choose the most probable result devices such as mouse and keyboard with gestures in a menu driven approach.…”