Electronic equipment

• US 20040056847A1
• Filed: 09/17/2003
• Published: 03/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Yoshihara, Keiichiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,893,927 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04809 Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

In a display touch sensor, there configured a guide shape which protrudes from a surface of the touch sensor placed on a display surface of a display and fringes with the surface of the touch sensor with a line using a concave portion as a vertex, and a main CPU for setting a position of the touch sensor corresponding to the vertex of the line of the guide shape to a reference position and changing an adjustment value based on a direction of a slide operation from the reference position.

Claims

1. An electronic equipment comprising:

a display device configured to display information and having a display surface;

a touch sensor arranged on at least a part of the display surface;

a guide portion configured to protrude from a surface of the touch sensor and to fringe the surface with a line having either a concave portion or a convex portion as a vertex in which configured as a reference position; and

a controller configured to control an adjustment value in accordance with a direction of a slide operation from the reference position.

2. The electronic equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller sets the adjustment value to a predetermined reference value when the reference position is depressed.

3. The electronic equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the controller changes the adjustment value from the reference value when the slide operation is performed after the reference position is depressed.

4. The electronic equipment as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a notification unit configured to provide a notification that the reference position is depressed.

5. The electronic equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller controls an adjustment value of an output level of an acoustic signal.