Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Yo-An Lim

Ki-Uk Kyung

Dong-Woo Lee

Jeong-Mook Lim

Hee-Sook Shin

Jun Seok Park

Hee Sook Shin

Jeong Mook Lim

HyunGon Kim

A button for providing visual-haptic information includes a visual-haptic variable button that adaptively provides various types of visual-haptic information according to input of information to an electronic apparatus. The visual-haptic variable button includes a visual information output part that adaptively changes various types of button icons according to manipulation and touch of the visual-haptic variable button for the input of information, thereby outputting visual information, and a haptic information output part that adaptively changes various types of sense of button manipulation and sense of button touch according to the manipulation and touch of the visual-haptic variable button, thereby outputting haptic information. At least one visual-haptic variable button is provided in the electronic apparatus for the input of information.

Apparatus and method for providing visual-haptic information, and button having the same

A terminal for providing visual-haptic information includes a visual-haptic keypad that displays and provides the visual-haptic information. The visual-haptic keypad includes: a button frame of a plurality of buttons provided in the visual-haptic keypad; a visual display layer positioned under the button frame in a vertical direction on a basis of the button frame; and a haptic display layer positioned under the visual display layer in the vertical direction on the basis of the button frame. The button frame and the visual display layer are fixedly bonded to boundary portions of the plurality of buttons.

Apparatus and method for providing visual-haptic information, and terminal having the same

Disclosed is a haptic feedback case for electronic equipment, including: a main body configured to accommodate the electronic equipment; a communication unit configured to receive haptic generation information from the electronic equipment; a filmy type actuator configured to generate haptic sensations; and a control unit configured to operate the film type actuator according to the haptic generation information input from the communication unit.

Haptic feedback case for electronic equipment

Growing community of inventors

Gwangju, South Korea

Yo-An Lim