INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130194208A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KUBO, Seiji, MIYANAKA, Ryota
• Application Number:
  US13/689,491
• Publication Number:
  US 20130194208A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/043 using propagating acoustic waves

Abstract

An information terminal device according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of sensor units configured to detect a finger for inputting operation to at least the information terminal device; a holding hand detection unit configured to detect a holding hand position that is a position of a holding hand for holding the information terminal device; and a control unit configured to select, based on the holding hand position detected by the holding hand detection unit, at least one sensor unit which detects the finger from among the sensor units.

Claims

1. An information terminal device comprising:

a plurality of sensor units configured to detect an object for inputting operation to at least the information terminal device;

a held position detection unit configured to detect a held position that is a position of a holder for holding the information terminal device; and

a control unit configured to select, based on the held position detected by the held position detection unit, at least one sensor unit which detects the object from among the sensor units.

2. The information terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is configured to select, as the at least one sensor unit, a sensor unit positioned farthest from the held position detected by the held position detection unit.

3. The information terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is configured to stop operation of a sensor unit positioned closest to the held position detected by the held position detection unit.

4. The information terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein each of the sensor units includes:

a transmitter configured to transmit a signal; and

a plurality of receivers each configured to receive the signal transmitted from the transmitter.

5. The information terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein each of the sensor units includes:

a transmitter configured to transmit a signal; and

a plurality of receivers each configured to receive the signal transmitted from the transmitter, and

the control unit is configured to select, as the at least one sensor unit, a sensor unit which includes a transmitter positioned farthest from the held position detected by the held position detection unit.

6. The information terminal device according to claim 3,

wherein each of the sensor units includes:

a transmitter configured to transmit a signal; and

a plurality of receivers each configured to receive the signal transmitted from the transmitter, and

the control unit is configured to stop operation of a sensor unit including a transmitter positioned closest to the held position detected by the held position detection unit.

7. The information terminal device according to claim 6,

wherein the control unit is configured to stop, as operation of the sensor unit positioned closest to the held position, operation of only the transmitter positioned closest to the held position detected by the held position detection unit.

8. The information terminal device according to claim 4,

wherein the receivers are common to and shared by each of the sensor units.

9. The information terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising

an object detection unit configured to detect the object, using the at least one sensor unit from among the sensor units selected by the control unit.

10. The information terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the sensor units are further configured to detect a position that is a position of a holder for holding the information terminal device, and

the held position detection unit is configured to detect the held position using the sensor units.

11. The information terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the held position detection unit is configured to detect, as the held position, a position of the holder for holding the information terminal device, when a distance to the holder from a display screen of the information terminal device is less than or equal to a threshold.

12. A method of controlling an information terminal device, the method comprising:

detecting a held position that is a position of a holder for holding the information terminal device; and

selecting, based on the held position detected in the detecting, at least one sensor unit which detects an object from among the sensor units, the object being for inputting operation to at least the information terminal device.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program for causing a computer to control an information terminal device, the program causing the computer to execute:

detecting a held position that is a position of a holder for holding the information terminal device; and

selecting, based on the held position detected in the detecting, at least one sensor unit which detects an object from among the sensor units, the object being for inputting operation to at least the information terminal device.

14. An information terminal device comprising:

a plurality of sensor units configured to detect an object for inputting operation to at least the information terminal device;

a held position detection unit configured to detect a held position that is a position of a holder for holding the information terminal device;

a control unit configured to select, based on the held position detected by the held position detection unit, at least one sensor unit which detects the object from among the sensor units; and

an object detection unit configured to detect the object, using the at least one sensor unit from among the sensor units selected by the control unit.

15. An information terminal device comprising:

a plurality of sensor units configured to detect an object for inputting operation to at least the information terminal device;

a held position detection unit configured to detect, using the sensor units, a held position that is a position of a holder for holding the information terminal device;

a control unit configured to select, based on the held position detected by the held position detection unit, at least one sensor unit which detects the object from among the sensor units; and

an object detection unit configured to detect the object, using the at least one sensor unit from among the sensor units selected by the control unit.