Input device and method for controlling input device

• US 10,795,492 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2017
• Issued: 10/06/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tomizu, Makoto, Shinozaki, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Faragalla, Michael A
• Application Number:
  US15/709,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20180011591A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,112 Days
• 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 display unit configured to display an object; and

a control unit configured to, while an entirety of the object is displayed on the display unit,

execute predetermined processing in response to a determination that a contacting object presses onto the object corresponding to a predetermined region of the touch sensor, and

not execute the predetermined processing, in response to a determination that (i) the contacting object, while pressing the touch sensor, slides onto the object from outside the predetermined region where a slide operation of the contacting object starts to inside the predetermined region where the slide operation of the contacting object ends, and (ii) then the contacting object is released from the predetermined region to outside the predetermined region,

wherein after the predetermined processing is not executed, the control unit is configured to execute the predetermined processing in response to a determination that the contacting object releases from the predetermined region to outside the predetermined region and then presses again onto said object.

2. A method of controlling an input device including a touch sensor and a display unit, said method comprising:

displaying an object on the display unit;

while an entirety of the object is displayed on the display unit,

executing predetermined processing in response to a determination that a contacting object presses onto the object corresponding to a predetermined region of the touch sensor;

not executing the predetermined processing, in response to a determination that (i) the contacting object, while pressing the touch sensor, slides onto the object from outside the predetermined region where a slide operation of the contacting object starts to inside the predetermined region where the slide operation of the contacting object ends, and (ii) then the contacting object is released from the predetermined region to outside the predetermined region; and

after the predetermined processing is not executed, executing the predetermined processing in response to a determination that the contacting object releases from the predetermined region to outside the predetermined region and then presses again onto said object.

3. An input device, while an entirety of an object is displayed, being configured to

execute predetermined processing in response to a determination that a contacting object presses onto the displayed object corresponding to a predetermined region of a touch sensor, and

not execute the predetermined processing, in response to a determination that (i) the contacting object, while pressing the touch sensor, slides onto the displayed object from outside the predetermined region where a slide operation of the contacting object starts to inside the predetermined region where the slide operation of the contacting object ends, and (ii) then the contacting object is released from the predetermined region to outside the predetermined region

wherein after the predetermined processing is not executed, the control unit is configured to execute the predetermined processing in response to a determination that the contacting object releases from the predetermined region to outside the predetermined region and then presses again onto said object.