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Input device and display

  • US 9,678,613 B2
  • Filed: 02/13/2014
  • Issued: 06/13/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An input device that, while a first panel component of the input device is placed adjacent to a second panel component of a counterpart device, accepts an input of a continuous track made through contact of a target object or approach thereof, the continuous track extending from the first panel component to the second panel component, the input device comprising:

  • the first panel component and the second panel component that are capacitive touch panels that detect contact of the target object or the approach thereof;

    a central processing unit (CPU) that;

    at an occurrence of contact of the counterpart device with the input device or approach thereof to the input device, determines a first adjacent region and defines in the first adjacent region, an input coordinate system that is in common with the counterpart device, the first adjacent region being a region located in the first panel component to be adjacent to the second panel component;

    upon detection of a user operation performed in the first adjacent region, determines first detection coordinates indicating a position of the user operation in the input coordinate system; and

    transmits, to the counterpart device, the first detection coordinates; and

    a casing in which the first panel component is located, whereina minimum distance between the first panel component and an end surface of the casing is no longer than a detectable distance within which the first panel component is capable of detecting the contact of the target object with the end surface or the approach thereof to the end surface, andthe first panel component transmits a pulse signal to the second panel component when the counterpart device has contacted or approached the end surface.

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