Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Daisuke Wakuda

Tetsuyoshi Ogura

Takashi Matsumoto

Koichi Hirano

Takeshi Suzuki

Kenichi Ezaki

A gesture input system () that accepts a user operation based on a motion of a portion of the body of a user and that produces an input signal indicating a direction of the motion and/or an amount of the motion of the portion of the body, includes a sensor () that detects the motion of the portion of the body of the user, a tactile feeling presenting apparatus () that presents a tactile feeling at a base point () set inside a space, and a control apparatus () that sets a chasing point on the portion () of the body detected by the sensor and that produces the input signal based on a variation of the relative positional relation between the chasing point and the base point. The tactile feeling presenting apparatus () continuously presents the tactile feeling at the base point () during a time period for the gesture input system to be in an input acceptable state where the gesture input system is able to accept the user operation.

Gesture input system and gesture input method

A system includes a sensor that detects motions of a first portion and a second portion of a body of a user, a controller that sets an association relationship between a coordinate system of a real space and a coordinate system of a virtual space in response to the motion of the first portion and receives an operation for an object in the virtual space in response to a position and the motion of the second portion, and a notification device that contactlessly notifies a third portion of the body of prescribed information.

System for receiving input in response to motion of user

A system includes: a sensor that detects motions of a first portion and a second portion of a body of a user; a controller that sets a base point of the second portion in response to the motion of the first portion and receives a prescribed input in response to the motion of the second portion with respect to the base point; and a notification device that contactlessly notifies a third portion of the body that the base point is set.

System and input method for receiving input in response to motion of user

An elastic flexible substrate includes an insulating base material having a first insulating film and a second insulating film, and a plurality of wires, each of which is disposed on one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film. The insulating base material has a plurality of bonding portions that are surface-bonded, openings are formed between the bonding portions, and two of the plurality of wires are electrically connected in the bonding portions.

Elastic flexible substrate and manufacturing method thereof

An elastic flexible substrate including an insulating film base material provided with a wire is provided. In the insulating film base material, a plurality of slits are provided with a predetermined space left therebetween, the insulating film base material has a bellows shape in which the insulating film base material is bent or curved by using the slits as base points, and the slits are deformed when the insulating film base material is stretched.

Elastic flexible substrate and method for manufacturing the same

There is provided an elastic flexible substrate including an insulating film base material which includes a wire. The insulating film base material includes an opening which is formed by opening a slit, and an opened state of the opening is held by an insulating member.

Elastic flexible substrate and manufacturing method therefor

A tactile sense presentation device includes first electrodes covered with an insulating film and arranged on a plane; second electrodes arranged on a plane with tops exposed to outside; and a control unit performing a first operation in parallel with a second operation. The first operation is for applying temporally changing first voltages to a part of the first electrodes to generate electric fields which are changed by the part of first electrodes, and the second operation is for applying temporally changing first electric currents to a part of the second electrodes to cause the electric currents to flow from the part of the second electrodes to second electrodes which are different from the part of second electrodes via electric conductors. The first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged not to overlap each other.

Method for presenting tactile sensation and device therefor

A tactile sense presentation method includes arranging a plurality of first electrodes covered with an insulating film on a plane; arranging a plurality of second electrodes on a plane with tops exposed to outside; and performing a first operation in parallel with a second operation. The first operation is for applying temporally changing first voltages to a part of the plurality of first electrodes to generate electric fields which are changed by the part of the plurality of first electrodes. The second operation is for applying temporally changing first electric currents to a part of the plurality of second electrodes to cause the electric currents to flow from the part of the plurality of second electrodes to second electrodes which are different from the part of the plurality of second electrodes via electric conductors.

A tactile sense presentation device including: a tactile-sense presentation unit having a first working electrode group of a plurality of first working electrodes arranged along a first direction; and a control unit operable to apply a first tactile sense signal having a first waveform to each of the first working electrodes. The control unit applies the first tactile sense signal, in which a phase difference corresponding to a distance between adjacent first working electrodes is applied to the first waveform, to each of the plurality of first working electrodes so as to cause the first waveform to travel along the first direction at a predetermined speed.

Tactile sense presentation device and tactile sense presentation method

A touch panel device with the tactile sense presenting function according to this embodiment includes the plurality of electrodesarranged on the single plane, and the controller. The controllerperforms a first operation and a second operation in a time division manner. The first operation includes applying the first voltage which changes temporally, to some of the electrodes, detecting voltages generated on at least some of the remaining electrodesin this state, and detecting the position of the dielectric which is in proximity to the touch panel device, on the basis of the detected voltages. The second operation includes applying the second voltage which changes temporally, to some of the electrodes, and generating electric field with the some working electrodes

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Daisuke Wakuda