INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INPUT DEVICE

• US 20140300571A1
• Filed: 08/10/2012
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tomizu, Makoto, Shinozaki, Takayuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,798,410 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An input device includes a touch sensor, a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the touch sensor, and a control unit that performs control to execute predetermined processing when, in a state such that the touch sensor detects contact inside a predetermined region, data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, and performs control not to execute the predetermined processing when, in a state such that the data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, the touch sensor detects contact that transitions from outside the predetermined region to inside the predetermined region.

Claims

1. An input device comprising:

a touch sensor;

a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the touch sensor; and

a control unit configured to perform control to execute predetermined processing when, in a state such that the touch sensor detects contact inside a predetermined region, data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, and to perform control not to execute the predetermined processing when, in a state such that the data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, the touch sensor detects contact that transitions from outside the predetermined region to inside the predetermined region.

2. An input device comprising:

a touch sensor;

a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the touch sensor; and

a control unit configured to perform control to execute predetermined processing when, in a state such that the touch sensor detects contact inside a predetermined region, data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a first standard, and to perform control to execute the predetermined processing when, in a state such that the data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies the first standard, the touch sensor detects contact that transitions from outside the predetermined region to inside the predetermined region and the data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a second standard higher than the first standard.

3. The input device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit sets the second standard in accordance with data based on pressure satisfying the first standard.

4. An input device that executes predetermined processing when a contacting object presses inside a predetermined region of a touch sensor and that does not execute the predetermined processing when the contacting object, while pressing the touch sensor, transitions from outside the predetermined region to inside the predetermined region.

5. A method for control to cause an input device to execute predetermined processing when a contacting object presses inside a predetermined region of a touch sensor and not to execute the predetermined processing when the contacting object, while pressing the touch sensor, transitions from outside the predetermined region to inside the predetermined region.