Electronic device and control method for electronic device

• US 9,916,026 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2013
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nishimura, Yasuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Ilana
• Assistant Examiner(s): Castiaux, Brent D
• Application Number:
  US13/871,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20130285958A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 715727, 715810, 715863, 345173
• 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 detector communicatively connected to a processor;

a vibration unit; and

a control unit,

wherein, while the contact detector continuously detects contact, the control unit changes a display page on the display unit and causes the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detector, within a time required for the change of the display page, with a first vibration pattern having within a predetermined length of time a first amplitude or a first frequency of vibration in accordance with a first number of pages changed within the predetermined length of time, and a second vibration pattern having within the predetermined length of time a second amplitude or a second frequency of vibration in accordance with a second number of pages changed within the predetermined length of time, wherein the first amplitude or first frequency of vibration is different than the second amplitude or the second frequency of vibration, wherein the first number of pages is different than the second number of pages, and wherein the predetermined length of time for the first vibration is the same as the predetermined length of time for the second vibration, and, when the contact detector no longer detects the contact, stops changing the display page on the display unit and stops causing the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detector, wherein the control unit causes the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detector differently according to an object displayed by the display unit at the contact, wherein the predetermined length of time is less than a changing the display page length of time.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit detects a contact pattern on the contact detector and, based on the contact pattern, selects the first number of pages changed within the predetermined length of time or the second number of pages changed within the predetermined length of time.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, further comprising a pressure 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 first number of pages changed within the predetermined length of time or the second number of pages changed within the predetermined length of 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. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit causes the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detector, according to the object displayed by the display unit at the contact, in a manner with changing a display page, or in a manner without changing a display page.

7. A control method for an electronic device provided with a display unit, a contact detector and a vibration unit, the control method comprising the steps of:

detecting contact to the contact detector;

while the contact detector continuously detects contact, changing a display page on the display unit upon detection of the contact to the contact detector;

causing the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detector, within a time required for the change of the display page, with a first vibration pattern having within a predetermined length of time a first amplitude or a first frequency of vibration in accordance with a first number of pages changed within the predetermined length of time, and a second vibration pattern having within the predetermined length of time a second amplitude or a second frequency of vibration in accordance with a second number of pages changed within the predetermined length of time, wherein the first amplitude or first frequency of vibration is different than the second amplitude or the second frequency of vibration, wherein the first number of pages is different than the second number of pages, and wherein the predetermined length of time for the first vibration is the same as the predetermined length of time for the second vibration;

when the contact detector no longer detects the contact, to stop changing the display page on the display unit and stop causing the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detector; and

causing the vibration unit to vibrate the contact detector differently according to an object displayed by the display unit at the contact, wherein the predetermined length of time is less than a changing the display page length of time.

8. The control method according to claim 7, wherein the vibration unit vibrates the contact detector, according to the object displayed by the display unit at the contact, in a manner with changing a display page, or in a manner without changing a display page.