ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20090213069A1
• Filed: 09/23/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kusaka, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/236,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20090213069A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a sensor portion configured to detect an input by touch; a button portion provided in a vicinity of the sensor portion; a first switch portion provided correspondingly to the button portion and configured to detect an input in response to press-down of the button portions; a second switch portion provided correspondingly to the sensor portion and configured to detect an input in response to press-down of the sensor portion; and a sensor control portion configured to control an input detecting operation at the sensor portion while both the first switch portion and the second switch portion detect the input.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a sensor portion configured to detect an input by a touch;

a button portion provided in a vicinity of the sensor portion;

a first switch portion provided correspondingly to the button portion and configured to detect an input in response to a press-down of the button portions;

a second switch portion provided correspondingly to the sensor portion and configured to detect an input in response to a press-down of the sensor portion; and

a sensor control portion configured to control an input detecting operation at the sensor portion when both the first switch portion and the second switch portion detect the input.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control of the input detecting operation in the sensor control portion comprises switching whether the input detecting operation at the sensor portion is executed or not.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second switch portion is provided in a central part in a transverse direction of the sensor portion.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first switch portion and the second switch portion are mounted on same substrate.

5. A method of controlling an electronic apparatus comprising a sensor portion configured to detect an input by a touch, a button portion provided in a vicinity of the sensor portion, a first switch portion configured to detect an input in response to press-down of the button portion, and a second switch portion configured to detect an input in response to press-down of the sensor portion, comprising:

detecting an input at the first switch portion;

detecting an input at the second switch portion; and

controlling an input detecting operation at the sensor portion when both the first switch portion and the second switch portion detect the input.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein controlling the input detecting operation at the sensor portion comprises switching whether the input detecting operation at the sensor portion is executed or not.