ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THEREOF

• US 20150370403A1
• Filed: 06/19/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NAKAMURA, Samito, SHINKAI, Yasuhiro, HARA, Toshita
• Application Number:
  US14/744,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20150370403A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04895 Guidance during keyboard input operation, e.g. prompting

Abstract

A tablet terminal comprises a touch panel which functions as a display for displaying a screen on a front face of a main body, and a controller which detects a contact to a touch sensor using a contact detection signal which the touch sensor outputs and executes control assigned to a point where the contact is detected after the point where the contact is detected is changed to a non-contact state.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a display which displays a screen on a front face of a main body;

a touch sensor provided at a back face or a side face of the main body; and

a controller which detects a contact to the touch sensor using a contact detection signal which the touch sensor outputs and executes control assigned to a point where the contact is detected after the point where the contact is detected is changed to a non-contact state.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller detects contacts to plural points of the touch sensor, and executes control assigned to the point where the non-contact state is detected after at least one of the points is changed to the non-contact state.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller executes control assigned to the point where the non-contact state is detected after at least one of the points where the contact is detected is changed to the non-contact state while the other points is kept in the contact state.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the touch sensor includes a recessed part or a projecting part to which control is assigned.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the touch sensor has the plurality of recessed parts or projecting parts, and provides an identification part to identify a reference position to at least one of the recessed parts or projecting parts.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the touch sensor includes the plurality of recessed parts or projecting parts to which one hand or finger which holds the main body contacts and the plurality of recessed parts or projecting parts to which another hand or finger which holds the main body contacts, wherein at least one of the recessed parts or projecting parts to which one hand or finger contacts is provided with the identification part and at least one of the recessed parts or projecting parts to which another hand or finger contacts is provided with the identification part.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the touch sensor has the plurality of recessed parts or projecting parts which are arranged in a curved line projecting or recessed from a side face of the main body toward the center of the touch sensor.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller executes input control of a letter or symbol.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display to display a graphical user interface indicating control to be executed.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the controller notices through the graphical user interface that control assigned to the contacted point is executable, after detecting a contact to the touch sensor.

11. An operation method of an electronic apparatus, in which the electronic apparatus has a display which displays a screen on a front face of a main body and a touch sensor provided at a back face or a side face of the main body, the operation method comprising steps of:

detecting a contact to the touch sensor using a contact detection signal which the touch sensor outputs; and

executing control assigned to a point where the contact is detected after the point where the contact is detected is changed to a non-contact state.