CHARACTER STRING RETRIEVAL APPARATUS

• US 20130151961A1
• Filed: 08/26/2011
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Sasaki, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 9,740,286 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/014 Force feedback applied to GUI
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/021 Arrangements integrating additional peripherals in a keyboard, e.g. card or barcode reader, optical scanner
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04892 Arrangements for controlling cursor position based on codes indicative of cursor displacements from one discrete location to another, e.g. using cursor control keys associated to different directions or using the tab key arrangements for controlling cursor position based on coordinate signals G06F3/038
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2748 by matching character strings

Abstract

In order to enable an operator to unfailingly recognize a retrieved character string displayed on a display unit as a result of retrieval from a target such as text, a character string retrieval apparatus 1 for retrieving the character string from the target includes a display unit 20 for displaying a retrieval result of the character string, an operation unit 30 for detecting an input operation, a tactile sensation providing unit 40 for vibrating the operation unit 30, and a control unit 10 for shifting an area of the retrieval result of the character string displayed on the display unit 20, based on the input operation detected by the operation unit 30, and, when displaying the retrieved character string on the display unit 20, for controlling the tactile sensation providing unit 40 such that a tactile sensation is provided to an object pressing the operation unit 30.

Claims

1. A character string retrieval apparatus for retrieving a character string from a target, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a retrieval result of the character string;

an operation unit configured to detect an input operation;

a tactile sensation providing unit configured to vibrate the operation unit; and

a control unit configured to, based on the input operation detected by the operation unit, control to shift an area of the retrieval result of the character string displayed on the display unit, wherein

the control unit, in displaying a retrieved character string on the display unit, controls the tactile sensation providing unit such that a tactile sensation is provided to a pressing object pressing the operation unit.

2. The character string retrieval apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit, in displaying the retrieved character string together with a predetermined number of characters before or after the retrieved character string on the display unit, controls the tactile sensation providing unit such that the tactile sensation is provided to the pressing object.

3. The character string retrieval apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit, in displaying the retrieved character string on the display unit, controls to disable the input operation detected by the operation unit for a predetermined time.

4. The character string retrieval apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit, in displaying the retrieved character string on the display unit, controls to disable the input operation detected by the operation unit for a predetermined time.