Notification device and notification method
AssigneeNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
InventorsArinobu NIIJIMA, Toki TAKEDA, Takafumi MUKOUCHI, Takashi SATO
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Abstract
A notification device includes a detection section which detects occurrence of an event which a user is to be notified of, an estimation section which estimates whether or not the user is vibrating, and a stimulation presentation section which provides a notification to the user by presenting a thermal stimulation in a case where the user is vibrating and presenting a vibratory stimulation in a case where the user is not vibrating when the detection section detects the occurrence of the event.
Claims2
A notification device comprising circuitry that executes instructions that cause performance of operations to:
- detect occurrence of an event which a user is to be notified of;
- which estimate whether or not the user is vibrating;
- and
- provide a notification to the user by presenting a thermal stimulation in a case where the user is vibrating and presenting a vibratory stimulation in a case where the user is not vibrating when the detection section detects the occurrence of the event.
A notification method comprising:
- causing a computer to detect occurrence of an event which a user is to be notified of;
- causing the computer to estimate whether or not the user is vibrating;
- and
- causing the computer to provide a notification to the user by presenting a thermal stimulation in a case where the user is vibrating and presenting a vibratory stimulation in a case where the user is not vibrating when the computer detects the occurrence of the event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.