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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Machida, Kanagawa, JP;
Kunihito Sawai, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Hirata, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihisa Takahashi, Saitama, JP;
Yoichi Nishimaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasushi Okumura, Tokyo, JP;
Norihiro Nagai, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus for a device with one of the left side and the right side of the device fixed as pressed against the palm of a user. The device includes a button that can be depressed within a predetermined movable range and a sense-of-force presentation block for presenting a sensor of force against button depression within a range in which any of the fingers of the user is reachable, the input of a sense-of-force presentation start position in the predetermined movable range being received, a button depressing amount being acquired, and, when the sense-of-force presentation start position is reached, instructing the sense-of-force presentation block to present a sense force against the depressing of the button.