REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20090096755A1
• Filed: 09/09/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kashiwa, Kotaro, Tokunaka, Junzo, SHINKAI, Mitsutoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,493,335 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0393 Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates the touch panel, including: a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of the touch panel by a user; and a driving circuit configured to vibrate the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.

Claims

1. A reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates said touch panel, comprising:

a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of said touch panel by a user; and

a driving circuit configured to vibrate said touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.

2. The reproduction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, where the speed of the reproduction by said reproduction circuit is not higher than a substantially normal speed, said vibration circuit vibrates said touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced, but where the speed of the reproduction is higher than the substantially normal speed, said vibration circuit vibrates said touch panel at predetermined intervals of time.

3. The reproduction apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

a determination circuit configured to determine a speed of the reproduction in response to an operation of said touch panel by the user;

said reproduction circuit reproducing the data at the speed of the reproduction determined by said determination circuit.

4. The reproduction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a display section configured to display an image based on the data reproduced by said reproduction circuit.

5. A reproduction method for a reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates said touch panel, comprising the steps of:

reproducing data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of the touch panel by a user; and

vibrating the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.

6. A program for causing a computer to execute a process comprising the steps of:

reproducing data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of a touch panel by a user; and

vibrating the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.

7. A reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates said touch panel, comprising:

a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a field in response to an operation of said touch panel by a user; and

a driving circuit configured to vibrate said touch panel every time the data of each field are reproduced.