ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20120306764A1
• Filed: 01/27/2011
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kamibeppu, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,175,878 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Provided is an electronic apparatus for receiving an input in accordance with a pressure load which can reduce the possibility to drop an object being dragged. The electronic apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an object, a touch sensor for detecting a touch to the display unit, a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, and a control unit for controlling to start drag processing of the object based on detection of the touch to the object by the touch sensor and detection by the load detection unit. The control unit controls the load detection unit to stop detection after the drag processing is started.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a display unit for displaying an object;

a touch sensor for detecting a touch to the display unit;

a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor; and

a control unit for controlling to start drag processing of the object based on detection of the touch to the object by the touch sensor and detection by the load detection unit,

wherein the control unit controls the load detection unit to stop detection after the drag processing is started.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls to start the drag processing of the object if a pressure load meeting a predetermined load standard is detected by the load detection unit and sliding originated from a position of the touch to the object is detected.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the load detection unit to resume detection if the sliding is no longer detected after the start of the drag processing of the object, and if a pressure load detected by the load detection unit at time of resuming fails to meet the predetermined load standard, sets the predetermined load standard to a load standard lower than the pressure load detected.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control unit sets the load standard lower than the pressure load detected to a load standard lower than the pressure load detected by a difference between the pressure load detected by the load detection unit at the start of the drag processing and the predetermined load standard, as the predetermined load standard.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls to end the drag processing based on detection by the touch sensor after the start of the drag processing.

6. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a display unit for displaying an object;

a touch sensor for detecting a touch to the display unit;

a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor;

a haptic presentation unit for presenting a haptic sense to a touch object touching the touch face; and

a control unit for controlling to start drag processing of the object based on detection of the touch to the object by the touch sensor and detection by the load detection unit,

wherein the control unit controls such that the load detection unit stops detection from the start of the drag processing until a sliding speed of the touch object for the drag processing of the object no longer meets a predetermined speed standard, and that after the sliding speed of the touch object for the drag processing of the object fails to meet the predetermined speed standard, the haptic sense is presented to the touch object when the load detection unit detects a load standard failing to meet a load standard for presenting the haptic sense, and the drag processing is ended.