Abstract: A wearable article comprising a knitted fabric formed in the shape of a glove. A force sensing element coupled to the fabric, the force sensing element comprising a resistive sensing system and a fluidic sensing system comprising one or more soft tubes coupled to a surface of the wearable glove wherein the resistive and fluid sensing systems correspond to first and second different sensor modalities which are physically decoupled. Control circuitry is coupled to receive signals from both the resistive sensing system and the fluidic sensing system and to combine resistive and fluidic sensing system signals provided thereto to perform at least one of: pose estimation, environment sensing, human state sensing, and static and dynamic task identification.

Abstract: A wearable article comprising a knitted fabric formed in the shape of a glove. A force sensing element coupled to the fabric, the force sensing element comprising a resistive sensing system and a fluidic sensing system comprising one or more soft tubes coupled to a surface of the wearable glove wherein the resistive and fluid sensing systems correspond to first and second different sensor modalities which are physically decoupled. Control circuitry is coupled to receive signals from both the resistive sensing system and the fluidic sensing system and to combine resistive and fluidic sensing system signals provided thereto to perform at least one of: pose estimation, environment sensing, human state sensing, and static and dynamic task identification.

Abstract: An optical disk recording apparatus writes data onto and reads data from a target optical disk, and is connected to a control device so as to control data recording and data reading operations of the optical disk recording apparatus. The control device generates recording status information of the target optical disk. The optical disk recording apparatus includes an optical disk drive coupled electrically to the control device and including an optoelectronic mechanism operable for writing data onto and reading data from the target optical disk, and an operating face panel mounted on the optical disk drive and including a display unit and a driver circuit coupled electrically to the optoelectronic mechanism and the display unit. The driver circuit activates the display unit so as to generate a visual indication of the recording status information from the control device.