Tactile sensation providing device
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorMasaomi Satake
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Abstract
The tactile sensation providing device includes a touch sensor, tactile sensation providing unit that vibrates the touch face of the touch sensor, display unit, and control unit that controls the display unit to display an image and sets a tactile sensation provided by the tactile sensation providing unit for a pixel in the image, so that upon the touch sensor detecting contact at a position corresponding to the pixel, the control unit executes a predetermined process allocated to the pixel and controls the tactile sensation providing unit to provide the tactile sensation set for the pixel to a contacting object in contact with the touch face.
Claims7
A tactile sensation providing device comprising:
- a touch sensor;
- a tactile sensation providing unit configured to vibrate a touch face of the touch sensor;
- a display unit;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the display unit to display an image, wherein
- the control unit is further configured to perform control to set a tactile sensation provided by the tactile sensation providing unit for a pixel in the image, so that upon the touch sensor detecting contact at a position corresponding to the pixel, the control unit executes a predetermined process allocated to the pixel and controls the tactile sensation providing unit to provide the tactile sensation set for the pixel to a contacting object in contact with the touch face, and
- wherein when the display unit displays an image across a plurality of layers, the control unit sets, for a pixel in one layer among the plurality of layers, provision of a tactile sensation set for a lower layer than the one layer to be valid or invalid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.