Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9746924-B2
Application number	US-201314426021-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2013
Priority date	Sep 11, 2012
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

A portable terminal device ( 10 ) includes a touch panel display ( 12 ) which displays information such as character strings, vibration setting information ( 16 c ) which stores character strings and vibration patterns in association with each other, a control unit ( 15 ) which recognizes an image displayed on the touch panel display ( 12 ) as a character string, and a vibration generating unit ( 14 ) which generates vibration in a particular vibration pattern. The control unit ( 15 ) determines a character string from among a displayed image, obtains a pattern of vibration corresponding to the determined character string referring to the vibration setting information ( 16 c ), and causes the vibration generating unit ( 14 ) to generate vibration in the obtained vibration pattern.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a vibration generator;
a display memory that stores display data;
a display that displays information corresponding to the display data stored in the display memory;
an antenna which receives a signal from another electronic device;
a unit that stores data included in the received signal in the display memory as the display data;
a memory that stores character string data and vibration patterns indicating patterns of the vibration in association with each other; and
a controller that recognizes the display data stored in the display memory as character string data representing a sender of the received signal, obtains a vibration pattern corresponding to the recognized character data from the memory, and vibrates the vibration generator in the obtained vibration pattern that varies according to the sender,
wherein the controller determines whether or not the received signal contains character string data and designation information that designates a vibration pattern that the sender set, and updates the character string data stored in the memory and the vibration pattern corresponding to the character string data on the basis of the designation information when the controller determines that the received signal contains the designation information,
wherein the controller executes a plural application programs, loads display data as an image for each of the application programs, and causes the display memory to store the image, and
wherein the controller executes a character string data recognition program in parallel with execution of the application programs.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller starts a corresponding application program in response to reception of the signal, causes the display memory to store character string data, and causes the display to display the character string data.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller controls the display so that the display position of the information corresponding to the display data does not overlap with the display position of an icon or a shortcut corresponding to a trigger for start of an application program.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the vibration generator also generates sound.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the vibration generator vibrates an entirety of the electronic device.

6. A control method of an electronic device comprising:
storing display data in a display memory;
displaying information corresponding to the display data stored in the display memory;
receiving a signal from another electronic device;
storing data included in the received signal in the display memory as the display data;
recognizing the stored display data as character data representing a sender of the received signal, obtaining a vibration pattern corresponding to the recognized character data based on a correlation between the character data and the vibration pattern stored beforehand, and generating vibration in the obtained vibration pattern that varies according to the sender,
determining whether or not the received signal contains character data and designation information that designates a vibration pattern that the sender set, and updating the character data and the vibration pattern stored beforehand corresponding to the character data on the basis of the designation information when determining that the received signal contains the designation information,
executing a plural application programs, loading display data as an image for each of the application programs, and causing the display memory to store the image, and
executing a character string data recognition program in parallel with execution of the application programs.

7. A non-transitory recording medium recording a program that causes a computer to execute:
a process for storing display data in a display memory;
a process for displaying information corresponding to the display data stored in the display memory;
a process for receiving a signal from another electronic device;
a process for storing data included in the received signal in the display memory as the display data;
a process for recognizing the stored display data as character data representing a sender of the received signal, obtaining a vibration pattern corresponding to the recognized character data based on a correlation between the character data and the vibration pattern stored beforehand, and generating vibration in the obtained vibration pattern that varies according to the sender,
a process for determining whether or not the received signal contains character data and designation information that designates a vibration pattern that the sender set, and updating the character data and the vibration pattern stored beforehand corresponding to the character data on the basis of the designation information when determining that the received signal contains the designation information,
a process for executing a plural application programs, loading display data as an image for each of the application programs, and causing the display memory to store the image, and
a process for executing a character string data recognition program in parallel with execution of the application programs.

Assignees

• Nec Casio Mobile Comm Ltd
• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Ichimura Shigehiro

Classifications

• G06F3/016 Primary

  Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user · CPC title

• H04M1/72547

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M19/04

  the ringing-current being generated at the substations · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• H04M1/7243

  with interactive means for internal management of messages · CPC title