Electronic device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira Koga, Naoto Yumiki, Yusuke Adachi, Masahiro Inata, Ryo Okumura
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Abstract
An electronic device 10 according to an embodiment includes: a display section 12 for displaying an operation area 40; a touch panel 11 disposed on a display surface side of the display section 12; a vibration section 13 for vibrating the touch panel 11; a vibration control section 33 for controlling a vibration pattern of the vibration section 13; and a detection section 20 for detecting whether an operation to the touch panel 11 has been made with a has been made with a finger of a user or a pen. The vibration control section 33 varies the vibration pattern of the vibration section 13 depending on whether a finger or a pen is detected by the detection section 20.
Claims6
An electronic device comprising:
- a panel touched by a user;
- a vibration section configured to vibrate the panel;
- a vibration control section configured to control a vibration of the vibration section;
- and
- a detection section configured to detect between whether an operation to the panel has been made with a finger of a user or whether the operation to the panel has been made with an input means other than a finger, wherein
- the vibration control section varies the vibration of the vibration section differently depending on whether the finger of the user or the input means other than the finger is detected by the detection section, and
- the vibration section causes a greater vibration in the panel when the finger is detected than when the input means other than the finger is detected in order to compensate for differences in vibration propagation characteristics between the finger of the user and the input means other than the finger, so that the user feels approximately the same degree of a vibration regardless of whether the operation to the panel has been made with the finger of the user or the input means other than the finger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.