Touch panel apparatus and electronic apparatus providing tactile feedback to an operator
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Jan 16, 2018
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Mar 26, 2015
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Jan 16, 2013
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Jan 26, 2012
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A touch panel apparatus is provided with a strain gauge sensor (16), a piezoelectric element (17), and a control unit (1). The strain gauge sensor (16) detects the pressing force to be applied to a touch panel (12) when a select-execute function key (18) is operated. The piezoelectric element (17) makes the touch panel (12) vibrate. The control unit (1) changes the function to be selected with the operation of the select-execute function key (18), in accordance with the pressing force detected by a pressing force detection unit (20), and when an arbitrary function is continued to be selected for a prescribed period of time (T0), the function that is continued to be selected is executed. The control unit also makes, each time the function is changed, the touch panel (12) vibrate with a first vibration pattern by controlling the piezoelectric element (17), and makes, when a function is to be executed, the touch panel (12) vibrate with a second vibration pattern that is different from the first vibration pattern by controlling the piezoelectric element (17).
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