INPUT APPARATUS AND INPUT APPARATUS PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140232675A1
• Filed: 09/20/2012
• Published: 08/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kinoshita, Masaharu, Yamamoto, Yasuhiko, Tsutsumi, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/346,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20140232675A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/04 Tank inlets B60K15/077 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/199 for avoiding maloperation
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An input apparatus includes: a display unit (20) that displays a set value relating to a control item of a control apparatus (60, 80); a touch panel (30) that detects a touch operation; a processing unit (40) configured to modify the set value displayed on the display unit (20) according to the touch operation, and output a signal indicating the modified set value to the control apparatus (60, 80); and a measurement unit (40) that measures a time interval between the touch operation and a previous touch operation, wherein the processing unit (40) is configured to modify a variation amount by which the set value is varied such that the variation amount when the time interval is smaller than a threshold and the variation amount when the time interval equals or exceeds the threshold differ from each other.

Claims

1. An input apparatus comprising:

a display unit that displays a set value set in relation to a control item of a control apparatus;

a touch panel that detects a touch operation;

a processing unit configured to modify the set value displayed on the display unit in accordance with the touch operation detected by the touch panel, and output a signal indicating the modified set value to the control apparatus; and

a measurement unit that measures a time interval between the touch operation and a previous touch operation,

wherein the processing unit is configured to set a variation amount by which the set value is varied such that the variation amount of the set value when the time interval is smaller than a threshold and the variation amount of the set value when the time interval equals or exceeds the threshold differ from each other.

2. The input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit is configured to increase the variation amount of the set value when the time interval is smaller than the threshold above the variation amount of the set value when the time interval equals or exceeds the threshold.

3. The input apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, when a plurality of short time interval touch operations, each of which is the touch operation with the time interval smaller than the threshold, are performed consecutively, the processing unit is configured to increase the variation amount of the set value in accordance with the short time interval touch operation performed subsequently above the variation amount of the set value in accordance with the short time interval touch operation performed initially.

4. The input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit configured to reduce the variation amount of the set value when the time interval is smaller than the threshold below the variation amount of the set value when the time interval equals or exceeds the threshold.

5. The input apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, when a plurality of short time interval touch operations, each of which is the touch operation with the time interval smaller than the threshold, are performed consecutively, the processing unit is configured to reduce the variation amount in accordance with the short time interval touch operation performed subsequently below the variation amount in accordance with the short time interval touch operation performed initially.

6. The input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the touch panel is disposed on a display screen of the display unit.

7. An input apparatus processing method comprising:

detecting a touch operation on a touch panel;

modifying a set value set in relation to a control item of a control apparatus, which is displayed by a display unit, in accordance with the touch operation detected by the touch panel;

outputting a signal indicating the modified set value to the control apparatus;

measuring a time interval between the touch operation and a previous touch operation; and

modifying a variation amount by which the set value is varied such that the variation amount of the set value when the time interval is smaller than a threshold and the variation amount of the set value when the time interval equals or exceeds the threshold differ from each other.