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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Applicants:
Masatsugu Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuhiro Ueno, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Masatsugu Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuhiro Ueno, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G08B 6/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 6/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device includes a display unit, a panel, a tactile sensation providing unitconfigured to vibrate a touch face of the panel, and a control unitconfigured, when detecting contact to a tactile sensation providing area of the touch face corresponding to a predetermined word displayed on the display unit, to drive the tactile sensation providing unitbased on tactile sensation providing information associated with the predetermined word, such that a tactile sensation is provided to a contact object in contact with the tactile sensation providing area.