Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vibration control device, touch panel input apparatus, and vibration control method
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Application No.: US14737726Application Date: 2015-06-12
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Publication No.: US09874955B2Publication Date: 2018-01-23
- Inventor: Masashi Sugiyama , Takayuki Nishikawa , Yoichi Nishida , Ryo Yokoyama
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2012-279743 20121221
- Main IPC: G09G1/00
- IPC: G09G1/00 ; G06F3/041 ; G06F3/0488 ; G06F3/01 ; G06F3/16

Abstract:
In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device that is used for a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, includes a sound data acquirer that acquires sound data of a surrounding sound of the touch panel; a predominant frequency acquirer that extracts a predominant frequency of the surrounding sound from the acquired sound data; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the extracted predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the extracted predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150277612A1 VIBRATION CONTROL DEVICE, TOUCH PANEL INPUT APPARATUS, AND VIBRATION CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
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