Abstract: An input device according to the present embodiment includes a detection unit, a vibration unit, and a vibration control unit. The detection unit detects a touch position on an operation surface. The vibration unit vibrates the operation surface. The vibration control unit controls the vibration unit to provide different vibration modes between a case where a direction of movement of the touch position is a first direction defined on the operation surface and a case where the direction of movement is a second direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: An input device according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a touch position number calculation unit, a vibration unit, and a vibration control unit. The detection unit detects one or more touch positions on an operation surface. The touch position number calculation unit calculates the number of the touch positions detected by the detection unit. The vibration unit vibrates the operation surface. The vibration control unit controls the vibration unit to provide different vibration modes depending on the number of the touch positions calculated by the touch position number calculation unit.

Abstract: An input device according to an embodiment includes an operation panel, a selection unit, a detector, a vibration element, a setting unit, and a vibration control unit. The selection unit selects a to-be-controlled object using the operation panel in accordance with the user's action. The detector detects touch operation on the operation panel. The vibration element vibrates the operation panel. The setting unit sets a vibration pattern of the vibration element appropriate to the touch operation detected by the detector, depending on the to-be-controlled object selected by the selection unit. The vibration control unit controls the vibration element to generate the vibration pattern set by the setting unit.

Abstract: An input device according to an embodiment includes an operation detection unit, at least one vibration element, a setting unit, and a vibration control unit. The operation detection unit detects a touch operation on an operation surface. The at least one vibration element vibrates the operation surface. The setting unit receives a setting where, at least, a content of the touch operation on the operation surface and a vibration parameter of the vibration element are associated with one another. The vibration control unit controls a vibration state of the vibration element based on the setting.

Abstract: An input device according to a mode of an embodiment includes a detection unit, at least one vibration element, and a vibration control unit. The detection unit detects a contact position of a user on an operation surface. The vibration element vibrates the operation surface. The vibration control unit controls the vibration element in such a manner that a vibration state of the vibration element becomes a first vibration state when the contact position detected by the detection unit is in a predetermined region and that a vibration state of the vibration element becomes a second vibration state different from the first vibration state when the contact position is outside the predetermined region.

Abstract: A touch sensor that generates an output based on an operation performed to the touch sensor by an operator; a transducer attached to the touch sensor and configured to vibrate the touch sensor so as to give a touch feeling to the operator contacting the touch sensor; and a controller configured to (i) determine a content of the operation performed to the touch sensor by the operator based on the output of the touch sensor and (ii) select one of the plurality of operation modes based on the determined content of the operation performed to the touch sensor by the operator. The controller causes the transducer to vibrate the touch sensor with different patterns of vibration so as to give different touch feelings to the operator contacting the touch sensor depending on the determined content of the operation performed to the touch sensor by the operator.

Abstract: An operation device, includes: a touch sensor; a deriving unit that acquires information representing a point on the touch sensor subjected to an operation, and derives an amount of the operation on the basis of the point information; and a tactile sensation giving unit that gives a tactile sensation to an operator, in which the tactile sensation giving unit gives a first tactile sensation at intervals of a first operation amount from an operation start point.

Abstract: A plurality of characters that are candidates for entry are displayed on a display surface of a display corresponding to an operation surface of a touch panel as character buttons. A touch detector judges whether a user touches the operation surface either with a single point or plural points, and detects a position touched by the user. An input receiver receives an entry of a character associated with a character button in the position touched by the user among the plurality of characters displayed on the display surface of the display. Then, the input receiver receives the entry of the character which varies in type depending on whether the user touches an area in the operation surface corresponding to an identical character button with a single point or plural points.

Abstract: A plurality of characters that are candidates for entry are displayed on a display surface of a display corresponding to an operation surface of a touch panel as character buttons. A touch detector judges whether a user touches the operation surface either with a single point or plural points, and detects a position touched by the user. An input receiver receives an entry of a character associated with a character button in the position touched by the user among the plurality of characters displayed on the display surface of the display. Then, the input receiver receives the entry of the character which varies in type depending on whether the user touches an area in the operation surface corresponding to an identical character button with a single point or plural points.