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Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2022
Applicant:

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Osamu Ito, Tokyo, JP;

Ikuo Yamano, Tokyo, JP;

Takuro Noda, Tokyo, JP;

Ryo Yokoyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G08B 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01); A63F 13/285 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 7/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); A63F 13/285 (2014.09); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control device includes a reproduction unit that causes stereo speakers of an aural-tactile presentation device to output sound on the basis of sound data and causes tactile presentation units provided corresponding to the respective stereo speakers in the aural-tactile presentation device to provide a tactile stimulus on the basis of tactile data, and a switching control unit that switches, on the basis of content information of content data including at least the sound data, the tactile data to be input to the tactile presentation units to either the tactile data generated by a tactile data generation unit on the basis of the sound data or the tactile data included in the content data.


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