ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20130285958A1
• Filed: 04/26/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: NISHIMURA, Yasuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,916,026 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic device (1) is provided with a display unit (20), a contact detection unit (30) that detects contact, a vibration unit (40) that vibrates the contact detection unit (30), and a control unit (10), such that the contact detection unit (30) detects contact, the control unit (10) changes a display page of information displayed on the display unit (20) and causes the vibration unit (40) to vibrate the contact detection unit (30) in accordance with the change of the display page.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display unit;

a contact detection unit configured to detect contact;

a vibration unit configured to vibrate the contact detection unit; and

a control unit configured, when the contact detection unit detects contact, to change a display page on the display unit and cause the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detection unit in accordance with change of the display page.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit detects contact pattern on the contact detection unit and, based on the contact pattern, alters a number of display pages changed at a time. 15

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, further comprising a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the contact detection unit, wherein

the control unit detects the contact pattern as the pressure detected by the pressure detection unit.

4. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit alters vibration of the vibration unit in accordance with the number of display pages changed at a time.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the control unit alters vibration of the vibration unit by altering a drive signal provided to the vibration unit.

6. A control method for an electronic device provided with a display unit, a contact detection unit configured to detect contact, and a vibration unit configured to vibrate the contact detection unit, the control method comprising the steps of:

detecting contact to the contact detection unit;

changing a display page on the display unit upon detection of the contact to the contact detection unit; and

causing the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detection unit in accordance with change of the display page.