Patent ID: 8027705
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for providing information during a call, the apparatus comprising: an information-sensing unit sensing at least one of information about a state of a mobile device and a state of a conversation during the call; an information-analysis unit analyzing the sensed state information; a tactile information-generating unit generating tactile information corresponding to the state information, which was analyzed by the information-analysis unit; a tactile information-outputting unit delivering the tactile information to a user through tactile stimuli transmitted to the user through a contactor having individual contacting portions capable of physically contacting the user only when the tactile information is being delivered to the user; and a driving unit generating a driving signal which drives the tactile information-outputting unit by converting the tactile information, wherein the tactile information is transmitted in a selected pattern of the individual contacting portions based on a type of sensed information at a specific frequency according to a type of the selected pattern, the selected pattern is selected from a plurality of different patterns of the individual contacting portions, wherein the specific frequency of each of the plurality of different patterns is different from each of the specific frequencies of each of the other patterns, and each type of sensed state information is associated with one of the selected patterns and a specific frequency of transmitting the tactile information in the one selected pattern of the individual contacting portions.