Patent ID: 8982071
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A tactile sensation providing apparatus comprising: a touch sensor; a detection unit configured to detect an operation to the touch sensor; a tactile sensation providing unit configured to vibrate a touch face of the touch sensor; a main control unit configured to process data; and a tactile sensation provision control unit configured to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit, wherein the main control unit, based on detected information of the detection unit, supplies a tactile sensation provision instruction signal to the tactile sensation provision control unit, and the tactile sensation provision control unit includes a memory unit configured to store a signal associated with the detection information from the detection unit and, based on a comparison of the contents of the memory unit and the tactile sensation provision instruction signal supplied from the main control unit, determines correspondence to a busy state of the main control unit, wherein, only when the tactile sensation provision instruction signal does not correspond to a busy state of the main control unit, the tactile sensation provision control unit controls the tactile sensation providing unit to vibrate the touch face of the touch sensor in a first vibration mode, and only when the tactile sensation provision instruction signal corresponds to the busy state of the main control unit, the tactile sensation provision control unit controls the main control unit to cancel execution of processing based on the detection information corresponding to the busy state, and also controls the tactile sensation providing unit to vibrate the touch face of the touch sensor in a second vibration mode different from the first vibration mode.