Tactile sensation providing apparatus

US20130076686A1Inactive Publication Date: 2013-03-28KYOCERA CORP
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
KYOCERA CORP
Publication Date
2013-03-28
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

An operator may operate, without a feeling of strangeness, provided with a realistic tactile sensation matching an object on a touch sensor by a tactile sensation providing apparatus 1 including a touch sensor 11, a load detection unit 12 for detecting a pressure load, a tactile sensation providing unit 13, and a control unit for controlling drive of the tactile sensation proving unit 13 such that: a first tactile sensation is provided upon detecting a position of the pressure load satisfying a predetermined standard load shifts into a predetermined area, a second tactile sensation is provided upon detecting the position of the pressure load satisfying the predetermined standard load shifts out of the predetermined area, and a tactile sensation different from the first and the second tactile sensations is provided upon detecting the position of the pressure load shifts out of the predetermined area and into another predetermined area.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

[0001] This application claims priority to and the benefit of Japanese Patent Application No. 2010-121877 filed on May 27, 2010, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD

[0002] The present invention relates to an apparatus for providing a tactile sensation in response to reception of an input to a touch sensor.BACKGROUND ART

[0003] In recent years, there are mobile terminals such as mobile phones that employ input apparatuses having touch sensors such as touch panels, touch switches or the like, as input apparatuses such as operation units, switches and the like configured to detect operations by operators. Such input apparatuses having the touch sensors are popularly employed not only by the mobile terminals but also by information equipments such as calculators, ticket vending machines, home electric appliances such as microwaves, TV sets, lighting equipments, industrial equipments (FA equipments) and the li...

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