Operation apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Imaging Corp.
InventorsKazuhiro Sato, Sumio Kawai, Osamu Nonaka, Shinsuke Homma
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Abstract
A touch operation device includes a piezoelectric element, a touch detection unit, and a piezoelectric body control circuit. The piezoelectric element has a piezoelectric property and flexibility. The touch detection unit is disposed to correspond to the piezoelectric element and detects a touch operation. The piezoelectric body control circuit selectively applies a signal to a part of the piezoelectric element corresponding to the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit and then bends the part of the piezoelectric element.
Claims27
A touch operation device comprising:
- a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric property and flexibility;
- a touch detection unit which is disposed to correspond to the piezoelectric element and which detects a touch operation;
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- a piezoelectric body control circuit which selectively applies a signal to a part of the piezoelectric element corresponding to the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit and then bends the part of the piezoelectric element.
An information device comprising:
- a touch detection unit which has detection points associated with positions of an image and which detects a touch operation on the detection points by a user;
- a target specifying unit which specifies a target to be photographed or reproduced;
- a sensory stimulation providing unit which provides a sensory stimulation to the user;
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- a control unit which uses the sensory stimulation providing unit to provide the sensory stimulation in accordance with positional relation between the position of the target in the image and a touch position detected by the touch detection unit.
An interface device comprising:
- a display unit which displays an image;
- a touch detection unit which is disposed to correspond to a display region of the display unit and which detects a touch operation;
- a vibration unit which is disposed to correspond to the display region of the display unit and which provides tactile information for each part of the display region;
- a region information generating unit which generates region information regarding the image;
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- a control unit which controls the vibration unit so that tactile information corresponding to the region information regarding the image displayed at a position in the display region corresponding to a position where the touch operation is detected by the touch detection unit.
A control method of an interface device, the method comprising:
- detecting a touch operation on an image acquired in a two-dimensional arrangement;
- generating region information in the image;
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- providing a tactile signal responsive to the region information corresponding to the position where the touch operation is detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.