Patent Document ID: 9569057
Application ID: 13705469
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a casing with at least four corners; a display including a display screen region, the display displaying a portion of three-dimensional (3D) content that fits within the display screen region, and the display supported by the casing; a processing circuit that determines a direction to be browsed next as a guiding direction according to a location of the portion of the 3D content displayed in the display screen region and a target location of the 3D content to be browsed next; and a perceptual active element including four active elements, each active element of the four active elements disposed at different corners of the casing, and each active element of the four active elements outputs a tactile output signal of a guiding operation to a user according to a control signal of the processing circuit, wherein the guiding operation is output when the target location is outside of the display screen region, the processing circuit is configured to determine a perceptual strength of each tactile output signal output by the four active elements, for the output of the guiding operation, based on the guiding direction, determine non-zero intensities of at least three of the four active elements based on a depth distance of a particular plane, on which the 3D content is projected, to the target location, and control the at least three of the four active elements, to output the guiding operation, to simultaneously be activated at the non-zero intensities based on the perceptual strength of each tactile output signal, and the depth distance is in a direction orthogonal to the display screen region.