Patent ID: 9590624
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: E05Y,G06F,H03K

Claim:
1. An input apparatus for preventing a user's unintentional input by notifying the user of a change in a pressure load, the input apparatus comprising: a touch face configured to receive a touch operation by the user; a load detection unit configured to detect the pressure load of the touch operation on the touch face; a vibration unit configured to vibrate the touch face; and a control unit configured to perform a control to receive an input, corresponding to an application, by the touch operation when the load detection unit detects the pressure load of the touch operation satisfying an input standard load to receive the input according to said application, wherein the control unit controls the vibration unit to vibrate when the load detection unit detects the pressure load satisfying a vibration standard load, which is lower than the input standard load to call the user's attention before a reception of the unintentional input due to misadjustment of the pressure load by the user, and the control unit controls the vibration unit to stop vibrating when the load detection unit detects the pressure load changing from a state failing to satisfy an another standard load to a state satisfying the another standard load and the load detection unit detects the pressure load between the another standard load and the input standard load, the another standard load being lower than the input standard load and higher than the vibration standard load.