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US 10,474,302 B2Granted
Touch panel device, portable terminal, position detecting method, and recording medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKouichiro Takashima, Anatol Ward
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Abstract
A touch panel device that detects a touch input at a touch panel including a plurality of electrodes arrayed in X and Y directions, calculates a width corresponding an object approaching the touch panel based on an output distribution of capacitance values from the touch panel, and determines whether an input operation corresponding to the object is valid based on the calculated width of the object.
Claims7
A touch panel device, comprising:
- a touch panel configured to detect a touch input, the touch panel including a plurality of electrodes;
- and
- circuitry configured to:
- determine a detection range of an object approaching the touch panel based on an output distribution of capacitance values from the touch panel, the detection range being within a surface area of the touch panel;
- determine a first length of the detection range, the first length being a length of the detection range on an edge of the touch panel where the detection range of the object and the edge of the touch panel intersect;
- determine a second length of the detection range, the second length being a length of the detection range in a direction substantially parallel to the edge of the touch panel within the surface area of the touch panel;
- compare the first length with the second length;
- and
- determine an input operation corresponding to the object to be invalid in response to determining that the first length is equal to or larger than the second length.
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A method, comprising:
- detecting, using a touch panel including a plurality of electrodes, a touch input;
- determining a detection range of an object approaching the touch panel based on an output distribution of capacitance values from the touch panel, the detection range being within a surface area of the touch panel;
- determining a first length of the detection range, the first length being a length of the detection range on an edge of the touch panel where the detection range of the object and the edge of the touch panel intersect;
- determining a second length of the detection range, the second length being a length of the detection range in a direction substantially parallel to the edge of the touch panel within the surface area of the touch panel;
- comparing the first length with the second length;
- and
- determining, using circuitry, an input operation corresponding to the object to be invalid in response to determining that the first length is equal to or larger than the second length.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium including executable instructions, which when executed by a computer cause the computer to execute a method, the comprising:
- detecting a touch input on a touch panel that includes a plurality of electrodes;
- determining a detection range of an object approaching the touch panel based on an output distribution of capacitance values from the touch panel, the detection range being within a surface area of the touch panel;
- determining a first length of the detection range, the first length being a length of the detection range on an edge of the touch panel where the detection range of the object and the edge of the touch panel intersect;
- determining a second length of the detection range, the second length being a length of the detection range in a direction substantially parallel to the edge of the touch panel within the surface area of the touch panel;
- comparing the first length with the second length;
- and
- determining an input operation corresponding to the object to be invalid in response to determining that the first length is equal to or larger than the second length.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.