Handy terminal with programmable vibration and application software therefor

• US 20030061103A1
• Filed: 03/14/2002
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation), Ryoden Semiconductor System Engineering Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Kanai, Kazuo
• Application Number:
  US10/096,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20030061103A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring

Abstract

A handy terminal comprises reading unit, a vibration unit, an acoustic unit and a control unit, wherein an application software is installed into the control unit and the control unit is provided with means for controlling the vibration unit or means for controlling the acoustic unit available from the application software. The application software may be provided with a plurality of vibration patterns or a plurality of acoustic patterns and the control unit controls the vibration unit or the acoustic unit according to one of the plurality of vibration patterns or the plurality of acoustic patterns.

Claims

1. A handy terminal comprising a reading unit, a vibration unit, an acoustic unit and a control unit;

wherein the handy terminal is used upon installing an application software into the control unit, and the control unit is provided with means for controlling the vibration unit or means for controlling the acoustic unit available for the application software.

2. A handy terminal comprising a reading unit, a vibration unit, an acoustic unit, a control unit and an application software installed into the control unit;

wherein the application software is provided with any one of a plurality of vibration patterns and a plurality of acoustic patterns, and

wherein the control unit controls any one of the vibration unit and the acoustic unit according to any one of the plurality of vibration patterns and the plurality of acoustic patterns.

3. A handy terminal comprising a reading unit, a vibration unit, an acoustic unit, a control unit and an application software installed into the control unit;

wherein the application software is provided with both a plurality of vibration patterns and a plurality of acoustic patterns, and

wherein the control unit controls the vibration unit and the acoustic unit according to one of the plurality of vibration patterns and the plurality of acoustic patterns.

4. An application software for a handy terminal,

wherein the handy terminal comprises a reading unit, a vibration unit, an acoustic unit and a control unit, and

wherein the application software is provided with any one of a plurality of vibration patterns and a plurality of acoustic patterns so as to actuate any one of the vibration unit and the acoustic unit with any one of the plurality of vibration patterns and the plurality of acoustic patterns.

5. An application software for a handy terminal,

wherein the handy terminal comprises a reading unit, a vibration unit, an acoustic unit and a control unit, and

wherein the application software is provided with a plurality of vibration patterns and a plurality of acoustic patterns so as to actuate the vibration unit and the acoustic unit with one of the plurality of vibration patterns and the plurality of acoustic patterns.