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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2020
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
Methods and apparatus provide for causing a device to present a sense of force against depressing of a button in response to receiving an input initiated by the user of a sense-of-force presentation start position in said predetermined movable range, and to store the sense-of-force presentation start position in a memory in response to the input initiated by the user; acquiring a depress amount of said button; receiving the sense-of-force presentation start position from the memory; and instructing the presentation of the sense of force against depressing of said button when said depress amount reaches said sense-of-force presentation start position.