KR20010016371A - stimulator, system and method capable of regulating vibration according to signals - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: Provided are a stimulator and a stimulating system, which can control vibration according to a vibration signal inputted with a moving picture signal. CONSTITUTION: The simulator comprises: a penis- or a vaginal cavity-shaped body(10); a vibration means(20) for vibrating the body(10); a signal treatment device to treat the vibration signal transmitted from a computer(100); a vibration controller(30) to control the vibration means(20) according to the vibration signal inputted from the signal treatment device by switching power which is supplied to the vibration means(20) or by controlling the amount of the power supply.

Description

Stimulator, system and method capable of regulating vibration according to signals

The present invention relates to a stimulator, and more particularly, to a stimulator for adjusting vibration according to a vibration signal input together with a video signal. The invention also relates to a system and method of operation for implementing such a stimulator.

According to the Kinsey report, published about 50 years ago, 92% of men experience masturbation. In recent years, a large proportion of women do not feel orgasm during sexual activity, and many of them have found themselves masturbating to feel orgasm on their own.

Today's social climate is gradually shifting to an open-minded view of sex, and in that sense, there is a growing tendency to accept masturbation as a means of natural libido. Experts say that excessive suppression of sexuality is prone to stress and adverse effects, and, if not addicted, proper masturbation can give life.

In the meantime, patents on various tools for masturbation, especially stimulators, have been steadily registered. For example, US Pat. No. 5,460,597, "Portable hand-held vibratory feminine stimulator." And US Pat. No. 5,657,765 "Erotic stimulator", US Pat. No. 5,690,603 "Erogenic stimulator."

As described in the above documents, these stimulators are also used for medical purposes such as sexual problems of couples and treatment of insensitivity of women, and research and experiments on these have become more active in recent years.

However, the conventional stimulator is mostly made of soft latex material (latex material), the user must shake or shake it by hand. Although a stimulator which vibrates automatically by employing a vibration means including a motor has been developed, it is difficult to produce an effect such as actual intercourse because it merely generates mechanical vibrations repeatedly.

On the other hand, the user of the stimulator generally wants to increase the effect even more by visually viewing the photographs taken of men or women. Recently, with the development of computer and graphic processing technology, adult movies produced in the form of moving pictures are becoming common, but a means for interworking the moving pictures with the stimulator has not been developed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide a stimulator in which vibration is adjusted according to a preset vibration signal.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a stimulator capable of bringing an effect close to actual sexual intercourse by generating such a signal together with moving image data and reproducing it, with the most appropriate vibration depending on the contents of the moving image.

In addition, the stimulator of the present invention is operated in connection with a computer, and the present invention also provides such a stimulating system.

Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a method of operating a stimulator for separating vibration signals and controlling vibrations according to the vibration signals.

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the following drawings, but these drawings illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the technical concept of the present invention is not limited to the drawings and should not be interpreted.

1 illustrates an example of a stimulator in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

2 illustrates an example of a stimulator in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a stimulating system according to the present invention.

4 is a flow chart showing a method of operating a stimulator in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a stimulating system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

<Description of reference numerals in the drawings>

10. Body 20. Vibration means 21. Motor

22. Wheel 23. Connecting rod 30. Control box

32. Mode switch 35. Power switch 33. Battery

In order to achieve the above object, the stimulator according to the present invention has a shape corresponding to the genital body and is in contact with the genitals of the user; Vibration means connected to the body to vibrate the body; A signal processor which processes the vibration signal transmitted from the computer; And a vibration controller for controlling the vibration means by opening or closing the power supplied to the vibration means or adjusting the amount of power supply according to the vibration signal input from the signal processor.

In addition, the stimulator of the present invention may further include a transceiver for receiving a vibration signal transmitted wirelessly from the computer to the signal processor.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a storage medium for storing a multi-signal including a video signal and / or an audio signal and a vibration signal, a central processing unit for separating the multi-signal into respective signals, and the central processing A graphics adapter and / or sound adapter for processing video and / or audio signals separated from the device, and a monitor and / or a speaker for outputting video according to the signal processed by the graphic adapter and / or sound adapter. A computer having a port for transmitting a vibration signal separated from the central processing unit; And

A body having a shape corresponding to the genital contact with the user's genitals, vibration means connected to the body to vibrate the body, a signal processor for processing a vibration signal transmitted from a port of the computer, and an input from the signal processor Disclosed is a stimulating system comprising a stimulator having a vibration controller for controlling the vibration means by opening or closing the power supplied to the vibration means or adjusting the amount of power supplied according to the vibration signal.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, a method having a shape corresponding to a genital organ and comprising a body in contact with the genital of the user and vibration means connected to the body to vibrate the body and operating a stimulator connected to a computer. In

Separating a multi-signal consisting of a video signal and / or an audio signal and a vibration signal for each signal in a computer; Processing the video signal and / or audio signal and outputting the same to a monitor and / or a speaker; Transmitting the vibration signal to the stimulator; Processing the vibration signal; And adjusting the vibration of the vibration means according to the processed vibration signal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

An example of a stimulator according to the invention is shown in FIG. 1. The illustrated stimulator is for men, a part of the body, that is, the body 10 in contact with the genitals, the vibration means 20 serving as a vibration source for mechanically vibrating the body 10, and a computer as described below. Control box 30 for controlling the operation of the vibration means 20 by processing the vibration signal input from the (100).

The shape, material, and mechanical operation of the stimulator are not limited by the present embodiment, and various techniques well known in the art are applicable. Preferably, the body 10 is made of a soft latex material, and a vaginal cavity 11 is formed to allow a penis of a male to be inserted therein.

Vibration means 20 is installed in the body 10, the vibration means 20 includes a motor 21 to be a vibration source and a wheel 22 fixed to the rotating shaft of the motor 21. The wheel 22 is connected to the motion assembly 24 by a connecting rod 23, which is composed of one or more annular rings surrounding the vaginal wall. Accordingly, the rotational movement of the wheel 22 according to the rotation of the motor 21 is converted into a linear reciprocating motion by the connecting rod 23 to reciprocate the motion assembly 24. The structure of this vibrating means is only one of various examples that can be applied to the present invention.

The power supplied to the motor 21 is controlled by the control box 30. The control box 30 receives the vibration signal from the computer 100 through the port cable 31 and processes it and supplies power to the motor 21 intermittently through the power cable 34 according to the signal. The vibration by the motor 21 is controlled. Preferably, the motor 21 employs a stepping motor or the like to precisely respond to the control power input from the control box 30.

In addition, the control box 30 is preferably provided with, for example, a power switch 35 for supplying or interrupting current from the battery 33 and a mode switch 32 for selecting an operation mode. The mode switch sets an 'online mode' that generates vibration according to the input vibration signal and an 'offline mode' that generates vibration regardless of the input vibration signal.

Although the battery 33 is illustrated as a power source in this embodiment, it is also possible to supply a home AC power source by employing a separate adapter, for example.

In this embodiment, the control box 30 is separated from the body 10 but is not limited thereto, and may be formed integrally with the body 10.

2 shows an example of a female stimulator. The stimulator of the present embodiment includes a body 10 'inserted into a vagina of a woman and vibration means 20' installed on the body 10 '.

The body 10 'takes the form of a male genitalia, and the vibration means 20' is installed on the motor 21 'serving as a vibration source and the fixture 11' of the body 10 '. And an oscillator 23 'vibrating eccentrically with the rotating shaft of the motor 21'. This vibrating means 20 'is preferably detachable to the body 10'.

Also, although not shown in FIG. 2, the stimulator of this embodiment also employs the same control box as in FIG.

The structure of the stimulator disclosed herein is not limited by this drawing or description, and includes various types of stimulator structures including the stimulators disclosed in the above-described US Patent Nos. 5,460,597, 5,657,765, and 5,690,603. It should be understood to include.

According to the present invention, such a stimulator vibrates according to a vibration signal input from the computer 100, which will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

3 shows a system in which a stimulator 200 is connected to a computer 100 in accordance with the present invention. As shown, the stimulator 200 controls the power supply to the vibration means 20 according to the signal processor 40 for processing the input vibration signal, and the vibration signal 20 to control the strength and time of vibration, etc. Vibration controller 50 to adjust, and the vibration means 20 for generating a vibration in accordance with the control of the vibration controller 50.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the vibrating means 20 may employ various types of vibrating mechanisms according to gender or use. In addition, the term 'vibration' referred to in the present specification and claims encompasses not only simple vibration by a motor but also mechanical motion such as reciprocating motion, circular motion, and the like.

Preferably, the signal processor 40, the vibration controller 50 and the like are built in the control box 30 of FIG.

Then, the operation of the stimulator system according to the present invention having the above configuration will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

The user switches the mode switch 32 of the control box 30 connected to the computer 100 in a state in which the body 10 of the stimulator as shown in FIGS. To online state, then turn on the power switch (35).

<Vibration signal>

Unlike the conventional stimulator which simply vibrates repeatedly, the stimulator according to the present invention inputs a vibration signal and adjusts the vibration according to the vibration signal. The vibration signal is stored in advance in the storage medium 110 of the computer (100 of FIG. 3).

Preferably, the vibration signal is recorded in the storage medium 110 together with the video signal and / or the audio signal. For example, the vibration signal is recorded in the storage medium 110 together with a moving picture signal and / or an audio signal photographing and recording sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. More preferably, the vibration signal is coded into a signal that can be synchronized with a video signal and / or audio signal recorded together to cause a stimulus most appropriate for the video and audio.

Such video signals and / or audio signals and vibration signals may be compressed according to the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standard and recorded on a storage medium 110 such as a CD-ROM or a digital versatile disk (DVD). A composite signal including a signal and / or a voice signal and a vibration signal together is called a 'multi signal'.

In addition, the storage medium 110 includes a hard disk of the computer 100, and it should be understood that the storage medium 110 includes downloads from a specific server online.

<Signal Reproduction>

The multi-signals recorded on the storage medium 110 of the computer 100 are read and processed by the CPU 120 (step S300). At this time, the CPU 120 executes an application program for reproducing the multi-signals preloaded in the RAM (not shown) of the computer 120.

The CPU 120 separates the read multi signal into a video signal and / or an audio signal and a vibration signal, and transmits them to the graphic adapter 130 and / or the sound adapter 140 and the port 150, respectively (step S310). .

The video signal is decoded and processed by the graphic adapter 130 (step S320) and displayed on the monitor 160 (step S321).

The voice signal is decoded and processed by the sound adapter 140 (step S330) and output through the speaker 170 (step S331). The processing and output of such video and audio signals are already well known.

The vibration signal is output through the port 150 and transmitted to the stimulator 200. The port 150 is a serial port or a parallel port. The stimulator 200 processes the input vibration signal (S340), and generates vibration by the vibration means 20 according to the signal (S341).

Specifically, the vibration signal transmitted to the stimulator 200 is processed and decompressed by the signal processor 40 and then input to the vibration controller 50, and the vibration controller 50 vibrates according to the input vibration signal. By regulating the power supplied to the means 20, the vibrating means 20 is controlled to generate characteristic vibrations. Preferably, since the vibration signal is set to match the video signal and / or the audio signal, the vibration signal effectively generates a vibration suitable for the video and / or audio output through the monitor 160 and / or the speaker 170.

The vibration controller 50 may adjust the vibration time and intensity by intermittently opening or closing the power supplied to the vibration means 20 or by adjusting the amount of power supply.

The vibration by the vibrating means 20 is transmitted to the body 10 of the stimulator, and the user feels the vibration corresponding to the situation in real time while watching the image of the monitor 160 and the voice of the speaker 17. Can be.

For example, in the embodiment of FIG. 1, when the motor 21 rotates under the control of the vibration controller 50, the wheel assembly coupled to the motor shaft rotates and the motion assembly connected to the connecting rod 23 is provided. While reciprocating to stimulate the penis inserted in the imitation vaginal hole (11).

Also in the stimulator of FIG. 2, when the rotational speed and time of the motor 21 ′ are controlled according to the control of the vibration controller 50, the vibrating body 23 ′ eccentrically connected to the motor shaft vibrates and the body ( 10 ') to transmit vibration.

5 shows a stimulator system according to another embodiment of the present invention. Here, the same reference numerals as in the above-described drawings indicate the same members.

The computer 100 of the present embodiment has a first transceiver 60 as a port for wirelessly transmitting the vibration signal separated from the CPU 120 to the stimulator 200, and correspondingly, the stimulator 200 also employs a second transceiver 70 for receiving a vibration signal.

Therefore, the vibration signal is transmitted from the first transceiver 60 of the computer 100 according to, for example, a Bluetooth communication standard, and the second transceiver 70 of the stimulator 70 receives the signal processor. Transmit to 40. Since other operations are the same as in the above-described embodiment, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

According to the stimulator and the system of the present invention, the user can feel the vibration that best matches the image and the voice through the stimulator while watching the image and the voice at the same time, more realistic stimulation than the conventional simple mechanical vibration method. Will be able to receive.

Furthermore, when applied to insensitivity or marital therapy, the treatment effect can be further enhanced by developing an audiovisual program for this purpose and using a stimulator that generates vibration corresponding to the program.

Claims (8)

A body in contact with the genitals of the user having a shape corresponding to the genitals; Vibration means connected to the body to vibrate the body; A signal processor which processes the vibration signal transmitted from the computer; And And a vibration controller for controlling the vibration means by opening or closing the power supplied to the vibration means or adjusting the amount of power supplied according to the vibration signal input from the signal processor. The stimulator of claim 1, further comprising a transceiver configured to receive a vibration signal transmitted wirelessly from the computer and transmit the vibration signal to the signal processor. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a mode switch for selecting any one of an 'online mode' for generating vibration according to the input vibration signal and an 'offline mode' for generating vibration irrespective of the vibration signal. Stimulator characterized in that. A storage medium storing a multi-signal including a video signal and / or an audio signal and a vibration signal, a central processing unit for separating the multi-signal into respective signals, a video signal separated from the central processing unit and / or A graphics adapter and / or sound adapter for processing audio signals, a monitor for outputting images and / or a speaker for outputting audio in accordance with signals processed by the graphic adapter and / or sound adapter, and a separate processor from the central processing unit A computer having a port for transmitting a vibration signal; And A body having a shape corresponding to the genital contact with the user's genitals, vibration means connected to the body to vibrate the body, a signal processor for processing a vibration signal transmitted from a port of the computer, and an input from the signal processor Stimulating system comprising a stimulator having a vibration controller for controlling the vibration means by opening and closing the power supplied to the vibration means or by adjusting the amount of power supply according to the vibration signal. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the port of the computer is a first transceiver for wirelessly transmitting the vibration signal, and the stimulator is configured to receive the vibration signal transmitted from the first transceiver and transmit the vibration signal to the signal processor. Stimulating system further comprises two transceivers. The mode of claim 4, wherein the stimulator selects one of an 'online mode' which generates vibration according to an input vibration signal and an 'offline mode' which generates vibration irrespective of the vibration signal. Stimulating system further comprising a switch. Claims [1] A method of operating a stimulator connected to a computer, comprising a body having a shape corresponding to a genital penis and a vibrating means connected with the body to vibrate the body. Separating a multi-signal consisting of a video signal and / or an audio signal and a vibration signal for each signal in a computer; Processing the video signal and / or audio signal and outputting the same to a monitor and / or a speaker; Transmitting the vibration signal to the stimulator; Processing the vibration signal; And And adjusting the vibration of the vibration means in accordance with the processed vibration signal. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein transmitting the vibration signal to the stimulator is wireless.