Kyocera Corporation

Kyocera Corporaton

Tomotake Aono

Jun Takeda

Kenji Kono

Tetsuya Takenaka

Yuta Shiokawa

Kaoru Tashiro

Junichi Ujii

Megumi Kuwabara

Hiroshi Inoue

Takashi Yamada

Katsuhiko Shimizu

Fumiaki Nakao

Shigeto Hattori

Tomoyoshi Ikeda

There is provided an input apparatus having a configuration simple enough to be compact and capable of presenting an operator with the same real feeling of pressing as the feeling of operating a push-button switch when the operator operates a pressing-type input unit. The input apparatus includes an input unit which accepts a pressure input; a load detection unit which detects a pressure load to the input unit; a vibration unit which vibrates the input unit; and a control unit which, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a predetermined criterion for accepting an input to the input unit, controls driving of the vibration unit so as to generate a floating force on a pressing object pressing the input unit.

Input apparatus accepting a pressure input

A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor configured to detect a touch input, a load detection unit configured to detect a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, a tactile sensation providing unit configured to vibrate the touch face, and a control unit configured to adjust a drive signal of the tactile sensation providing unit based on a pushed position when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a standard to provide a tactile sensation.

Tactile sensation providing apparatus and control method for tactile sensation providing apparatus

A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensorconfigured to receive an input, a load detection unitconfigured to detect a pressure load on a touch faceof the touch sensora tactile sensation providing unitconfigured to vibrate the touch facea memory unitconfigured to store drive signal information for the tactile sensation providing unitand a control unitconfigured, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unitsatisfies a standard for providing a tactile sensation, to retrieve the drive signal information from the memory unitand to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unitbased on the drive signal information such that a button depression sensation is provided one time to a pressing object pressing the touch face

An input apparatus has a touch sensorconfigured to receive an input, a load detection unitconfigured to detect a pressure load on a touch faceof the touch sensor, a tactile sensation providing unitconfigured to vibrate the touch face, and a control unitconfigured to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unitsatisfies a standard to provide a tactile sensation, such that a click sensation is provided to an object (means) pressing the touch face. Thereby, a realistic click sensation similar to that obtained when a push-button switch is operated is provided when an operator operates the touch sensor.

Input apparatus and control method for input apparatus

An object display device is disclosed. An object display device includes a display unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display an object. The detection unit is configured to detect a location and a load of a pressing to the display unit. The control unit can control a movement of the object based on conditions of first and second pressings.

Object display device

Operability is improved when operating an electronic device with one hand. An electronic device () includes a touch sensor on the front surface, a touch sensor on the back surface, and a controller that sets a reference point for screen processing upon detecting an operation on the touch sensor () on the back surface and executes screen processing based on the reference point and on input to the touch sensor () on the front surface.

Electronic device

For providing a tactile sensation regardless of an input position of a user when receiving a pressure at which the tactile sensation is to be provided, The tactile sensation providing apparatus includes: a load detection unit configured to detect a different pressure load depending on a pushed position even when an object presses by a uniform pressure a touch face of a touch sensor to detect a touch input; a tactile sensation providing unit which provides the tactile sensation to the object pressing the touch face of the touch sensor; and a control unit which controls according to the pushed position on the touch face such that the tactile sensation providing unit provides the tactile sensation to the pressing object when the pressing object, applying the uniform pressure, presses any position on the touch face for providing the tactile sensation.

An electronic device can effectively transmit sound even if a force is applied to a panel by an ear. The electronic device includes a panel () and a vibration unit () that vibrates the panel () to generate air-conducted sound and vibration sound that is transmitted through a portion of a human body. The intensity of vibration of the vibration unit () changes in accordance with the force applied to the panel ().

Electronic device and panel device

An input apparatus has a touch sensorconfigured to detect a touch input, a piezoelectric elementmounted on the touch sensor, and a control unitconfigured to detect a pressure load on a touch faceof the touch sensorbased on an output signal of the piezoelectric elementand, when the pressure load detected satisfies a standard to provide a tactile sensation, to drive the piezoelectric elementsuch that the tactile sensation is provided to an object pressing the touch face

A tactile sensation providing apparatus capable of providing a constant tactile sensation to a user regardless of a position of a touch input is provided. According to the present invention, the tactile sensation providing apparatus has a touch sensor configured to detect the touch input, a load detection unit configured to detect a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, a tactile sensation providing unit configured to vibrate the touch face, and a control unit configured to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit based on a pushed position, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a standard to provide a tactile sensation, such that the tactile sensation is provided to an object pressing the touch face by vibration with certain amplitude independent of the pushed position.

An input apparatus has an input unit for receiving a pressure input, a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on the input unit, a vibration unit for vibrating the input unit, and a control unit for controlling drive of the vibration unit such that a click sensation is provided to an object pressing the input unit when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard for receiving an input to the input unit and for controlling drive of the vibration unit such that the click sensation is provided to the object, after the input to the input unit is received, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a standard lower than the predetermined standard for receiving the input to the input unit. Thereby, a realistic click sensation similar to that obtained when a push-button switch is operated is provided when an operator operates the input unit of a pressure type, which enables a continuous input operation without a feeling of strangeness.

Input apparatus for generating tactile sensations and control method of input apparatus

An input apparatus has a touch sensorfor an input, a load detection unitto detect a pressure load on a touch faceof the sensor, a tactile sensation providing unitto vibrate the touch face, and a control unitto control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit, when the detected pressure load satisfies a standard to provide a tactile sensation, to provide a click sensation to an object (means) pressing the touch face. The control unitdrives the tactile sensation providing unit, when the detected pressure load satisfies the standard after the click sensation is provided in pressing, to provide a release sensation corresponding to the click sensation to the object. Thereby, a realistic click sensation similar to that in operating a push-button switch is provided when an operator operates the touch sensor.

An input apparatus has a touch sensor for receiving an input, a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, a tactile sensation providing unit for vibrating the touch face, and a control unit, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a first standard for providing a tactile sensation, for controlling drive of the tactile sensation providing unit such that a click sensation is provided to a pressing object (pressing means) pressing the touch face. The control unit, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a second standard lower than the first standard after the click sensation is provided in pressing, controls drive of the tactile sensation providing unit such that a release sensation corresponding to the click sensation is provided. Thereby, a realistic click sensation similar to that obtained when a push-button switch is operated is provided to an operator when the operator operates the touch sensor, allowing the operator to perform a continuous input operation without having a feeling of strangeness.

Input apparatus for providing a tactile sensation and a control method thereof

An input apparatus has a display unit for displaying an input object, an input unit for receiving a pressure input to the input object, a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on the input unit, and a control unit for controlling to receive the pressure input if the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a load standard. The control unit controls such that a load standard for receiving the pressure input to the input object is different from a load standard for receiving a pressure input to another input object adjacent to the input object.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tomotake Aono