ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20130002582A1
• Filed: 06/27/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: MYOI, Tomoki, KATAE, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,558,376 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An electronic device includes a display unit configured to display characters, a contact detection unit configured to detect a contact, a tactile sensation providing unit configured to provide a tactile sensation to an object contacting the contact detection unit, and a control unit configured to control such that predetermined characters are displayed as turned characters on the display unit, wherein the control unit, when the contact detection unit detects the contact at a position corresponding to the turned characters displayed on the display unit, controls the tactile sensation providing unit such that a tactile sensation associated with the characters corresponding to the turned characters is provided to the object.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display unit configured to display characters;

a contact detection unit configured to detect a contact;

a tactile sensation providing unit configured to provide a tactile sensation to an object contacting the contact detection unit; and

a control unit configured to control such that predetermined characters are displayed as turned characters on the display unit, wherein

the control unit, when the contact detection unit detects the contact at a position corresponding to the turned characters displayed on the display unit, controls the tactile sensation providing unit such that a tactile sensation associated with the characters corresponding to the turned characters is provided to the object.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls such that a magnitude of the tactile sensation providing unit for providing the tactile sensation when the contact detection unit detects the contact at the position corresponding to the turned characters displayed on the display unit is smaller than the magnitudes of vibrations of the tactile sensation providing unit for providing the tactile sensation for other operations.