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Touch panel device

  • US 10,146,431 B2
  • Filed: 09/11/2008
  • Issued: 12/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A touch panel device comprising:

  • a rectangular screen including a detection region for a button on the screen and a respective visible display region for indicating a position of the detection region, the detection region being smaller than, and completely inside, the respective visible display region and having an area greater than an area of a detected contact in the detection region; and

    a control section for setting a parallelogram shape of the detection region for the button for generating a control signal in response to the contact detected in the detection region, said control signal indicating a corresponding input;

    wherein the parallelogram shape of the detection region has a top boundary, a bottom boundary, a right boundary, and a left boundary, with the top and bottom boundaries being parallel to one another and to a boundary of the visible display region and the left and right boundaries being parallel to one another and inclined with respect to a side edge of the rectangular screen and the visible display region, the inclination being determined based on a hand configuration setting associated with a hand used to contact the detection region, the hand configuration setting being based on user input regarding handedness preferences or a default hand configuration setting; and

    wherein the visible display region is not identical to the detection region and comprises a non-detection region.

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