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US 10,372,215 B2Granted
Input apparatus and control method of input apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Ten Limited
InventorTakashi Tanaka
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Abstract
An input apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a detector, a vibration element, and an element controller. The detector detects a touch on an operation surface. The vibration element vibrates the operation surface. The element controller reduces or stops a vibration of the vibration element based on a continuation time of the touch that is detected by the detector in a state where the operation surface is being vibrated.
Claims7
An input apparatus comprising:
- a vibrator that includes a piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric element vibrating an operation surface;
- a storage that stores therein, as parameter information, information on amplification factors of counter values per unit time, each of the amplification factors corresponding to a corresponding rising rate of a touch temperature to a continuation time of a touch on the operation surface;
- and
- a processor operatively connected to the storage, the processor programmed to:
- detect a touch on the operation surface;
- determine whether the touch is in a moving state or a stopped state;
- cause the vibrator to vibrate the operation surface;
- set, based on the parameter information corresponding to a determined one of the moving state and the stopped state, an amplification factor of a counter value, the amplification factor of the moving state being smaller than the amplification factor of the stopped state;
- increase the counter value by using the set amplification factor of the counter value during the touch;
- and
- when the increased counter value reaches a predetermined threshold, reduce or stop, during the touch and regardless of a type of an input operation to the input apparatus specified by the touch, a vibration of the vibrator.
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A control method of an input apparatus, the method comprising:
- detecting a touch on an operation surface;
- determining whether the touch is in a moving state or a stopped state;
- causing a vibrator to vibrate the operation surface, the vibrator including a piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric element vibrating the operation surface;
- setting, based on parameter information corresponding to a determined one of the moving state or the stopped state, an amplification factor of a counter value, the amplification factor of the moving state being smaller than the amplification factor of the stopped state, the parameter information being information on amplification factors of counter values per unit time, and each of the amplification factors corresponding to a corresponding rising rate of a touch temperature to a continuation time of a touch on the operation surface;
- increasing the counter value by using the set amplification factor of the counter value during the touch;
- and
- when the increased counter value reaches a predetermined threshold, reduce or stop, during the touch and regardless of a type of an input operation to the input apparatus specified by the touch, a vibration of the vibrator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.