# US 9,519,347 B2 · Tactile sensation providing device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,519,347 B2 - Document ID: US9519347B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/354,164 - Filed: 2012-10-26 - Published: 2014-10-30 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2011-10-27 - Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation - Applicants: Kyocera Corporation - Inventors: Masaomi Satake - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9519347B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/016: {Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user} - G06F 1/00: Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00 (architectures of general purpose stored program computers G06F15/76) - G06F 1/1626: {with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]} - G06F 1/1637: {Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing} - G06F 1/1643: {the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads (details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615)} - G06F 3/041: Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/0481: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance - G06F 3/0483: Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The tactile sensation providing device according to claim 1, wherein in accordance with a state of the contact detected by the touch sensor, the control unit distinguishes between execution of a plurality of predetermined processes allocated to the pixel. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The tactile sensation providing device according to claim 1, further comprising: a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the touch face, wherein the control unit performs control to set a predetermined standard for the tactile sensation providing unit to provide a tactile sensation for the pixel, and while the touch sensor detects contact at a position corresponding to the pixel, when data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies the standard, the control unit executes the predetermined process allocated to the pixel and controls the tactile sensation providing unit to provide the tactile sensation set for the pixel. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The tactile sensation providing device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit performs control to set the predetermined standard for the tactile sensation providing unit to provide the tactile sensation for the pixel at a plurality of levels, and while the touch sensor detects contact at a position corresponding to the pixel, when data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies one of the plurality of levels of the standard, the control unit distinguishes, in accordance with the one of the plurality of levels of the standard that is satisfied, between execution of a plurality of predetermined processes allocated to the pixel. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The tactile sensation providing device according to claim 1, wherein, when the display unit displays the image across the plurality of layers, the control unit, in accordance with a state of the contact detected by the touch sensor, determines which layer, among the plurality of layers, contains the pixel to which the position of the contact corresponds. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The tactile sensation providing device according to claim 1, further comprising: a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the touch face, wherein when the display unit displays the image across the plurality of layers, the control unit, in accordance with data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit, determines which layer, among the plurality of layers, contains the pixel to which the position of the contact corresponds. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The tactile sensation providing device according to claim 1, wherein based on occurrence of a predetermined event, the control unit controls the display unit to change the image that is displayed and performs control to set the tactile sensation provided by the tactile sensation providing unit for the pixel in the image.