Load required to cancel an input on a touch sensor is adjusted when the slide of a touch object is detected

• US 9,436,376 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2011
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Shinozaki, Takayuki, Tomizu, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Ilana
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hermann, Kirk
• Application Number:
  US13/635,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20130016056A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,021 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop

Abstract

An electronic device for receiving an input based on a pressure load that reduces a risk of ending a drag operation despite a user'"'"'s intention is provided.

The electronic device includes a touch sensor configured to detect a touch by a touch object, a load detection unit configured to detect a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, and a control unit configured to enter or cancel an input receiving state for receiving an input based on the pressure load detected by the load detection unit. The control unit, in the input receiving state, controls to make a standard load for canceling the input receiving state when a slide of the touch object touching the touch face is detected and a standard load for canceling the input receiving state when the slide of the touch object touching the touch face is not detected different from each other.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a touch sensor configured to detect a touch by a touch object;

a load detection unit configured to detect a pressure load at a specific location on a touch face of the touch sensor; and

a control unit configured to control to enter an input based on the pressure load detected at the specific location of the touch face by the load detection unit, wherein

the control unit cancels the input based on a first standard load when a slide of the touch object is detected at the specific location of the touch face, and cancels the input based on a second standard load when the touch object is detected, but a slide of the touch object is not detected at the specific location of the touch face.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit calculates a sliding speed of the touch object and controls to cancel the input when the slide is detected, based on the sliding speed.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit, when setting a new standard load for canceling the input in the input receiving state, if the pressure load detected by the load detection unit does not satisfy the new standard load for canceling the input, controls not to set the new standard load.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit, when setting a new standard load for canceling the input in the input receiving state, if the pressure load detected by the load detection unit does not satisfy a standard, obtained by adjusting the new standard load for canceling the input in a predetermined manner, controls not to set the new standard load.