Input system, input device, and input method

• US 20090231303A1
• Filed: 03/06/2009
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Lin, Guosheng
• Application Number:
  US12/382,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20090231303A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact

Abstract

An input system includes an input unit with a touch panel, a plurality of seating regions in which an operator can be seated, each of the seating region having an individual electric characteristic and connected to an electric base, an electric-signal supply unit that supplies an electric signal to the input unit with respect to the electric base, and a seating-region specifying unit that detects a response passing between the input unit and the electric base via the operator and the seating region in which the operator is seated, corresponding to the electric signal, when the operator operates the input unit, and that specifies the seating region in which the operator operating the input unit is seated from the detected response, based on the response information having each seating region in which the operator is seated related to the response.

Claims

1. An input system comprising:

an input unit having a touch panel;

a plurality of seating regions in which an operator can be seated, each of the seating region having an individual electric characteristic and connected to an electric base;

an electric-signal supply unit that supplies an electric signal to the input unit with respect to the electric base; and

a seating-region specifying unit that detects a response passing between the input unit and the electric base via the operator and the seating region in which the operator is seated, corresponding to the electric signal, when the operator operates the input unit, and that specifies the seating region in which the operator operating the input unit is seated from the detected response, based on response information having each seating region in which the operator is seated related to the response.

2. The input system according to claim 1, wherein each of the seating region has a securing device that secures the seated operator, and

the response information relates each of the seating region in which the operator is seated to the response, for each case that the operator is wearing the securing device and a case that the operator is not wearing the securing device.

3. The input system according to claim 1, wherein the seating-region specifying unit further includes change information that relates the response information for each of the seating region in which the operator is seated to the response obtained when the operator seated in the individual seating region is touching an item other than the individual seating region and the input unit, and when the seating-region specifying unit detects the response when the operator operates the input unit, the seating-region specifying unit specifies the seating region in which the operator operates the input unit, from the detected response based on the response information and the change information.

4. An input device comprising:

an input unit having a touch panel;

an electric-signal supply unit that supplies an electric signal to the input unit with respect to an electric base; and

a seating-region specifying unit that detects, when an operator seated in one of a plurality of seating regions in which the operator can be seated, each having an individual electric characteristic and connected to the electric base, operates the input unit, a response passing between the input unit and the electric base via the operator and the seating region in which the operator is seated, corresponding to the electric signal, and that specifies the seating region in which the operator operating the input unit is seated from the detected response, based on response information having each seating region in which the operator is seated related to the response.

5. An input method for specifying one of a plurality of seating regions in which an operator can be seated, each having an individual electric characteristic and connected to an electric base when the operator operates an input unit having a touch panel, the input method comprising:

supplying an electric signal to the input unit with respect to the electric base;

detecting a response passing between the input unit and the electric base via the operator and the seating region in which the operator is seated, corresponding to the electric signal, when the operator operates the input unit; and

specifying the seating region in which the operator operating the input unit is seated from the detected response, based on response information having each seating region in which the operator is seated related to the response.