Input apparatus

• US 8,937,599 B2
• Filed: 12/25/2009
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Aono, Tomotake
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Jimmy H
• Application Number:
  US13/120,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20110181538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,852 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-178, 178 1801- 1811, 715/808
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An input apparatus has a display unit for displaying an input object, an input unit for receiving a pressure input to the input object, a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on the input unit, and a control unit for controlling to receive the pressure input when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies a load standard. The control unit controls such that the load standard for receiving the pressure input to the input object displayed in an interrupting manner is higher than the load standard for receiving the pressure input to the input object which has been displayed.

Claims

1. An input apparatus comprising:

a display unit for displaying an input object;

an input unit for detecting a pressure input to the input object displayed on the display unit;

a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on the input unit; and

a control unit that controls to;

set a first standard pressure load for receiving a pressure input to a first input object which has been displayed on the display unit;

determine an occurrence of a display of a second input object to the display unit in an interrupting manner before a pressure input is detected to a first input object which has been displayed on the display unit; and

set a second standard pressure load, that is higher than the first standard pressure load, for receiving a pressure input to the second input object based on a result of the determination, wherein the interrupting manner is not caused by any pressure input applied to the input unit.

2. The input apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interrupting manner includes a state in which when the first input object has been displayed on the display based on an operation by an application, the second object is displayed on the display based on an activation of another application.

3. A control method of an input apparatus comprising a display unit for displaying an input object, an input unit for detecting a pressure input to the input object displayed on the display unit, a load detection unit for detecting a pressure load on the input unit, the control method comprising the step of:

controlling by;

setting a first standard pressure load for receiving a pressure input to a first input object which has been displayed on the display unit;

determining an occurrence of a display of a second input object to the display unit in an interrupting manner before a pressure input is detected to a first input object which has been displayed on the display unit; and

setting a second standard pressure load, that is higher than the first standard pressure load, for receiving a pressure input to the second input object based on a result of the determination, wherein the interrupting manner is not caused by any pressure input applied to the input unit.