US 11,755,114 B2
Input device
Takahiro Mitani, Tokyo (JP); Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Kyoto (JP); Hiroyuki Togawa, Osaka (JP); and Sho Sonoda, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Dec. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/542,075.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-210090 (JP), filed on Dec. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0197385 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/016 (2013.01) [G06F 3/03547 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An input device comprising:
a touch sensor that detects a position of a touch on an operation surface by an operation body;
a vibration element that vibrates the operation surface; and
a controller that changes a magnitude of vibration of the operation surface by the vibration element according to acceleration in movement of the operation body along the operation surface, the movement being performed while the operation body is touching the operation surface.