Touch type operation apparatus and operation method of same, and non-transitory computer readable medium
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsNaoki Tsukamoto, Yoshihisa Usami, Yusuke Kitagawa, Yuki Okabe
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Abstract
A touchpad constituting a touch type operation apparatus includes a hemisphere portion and a flat surface portion and is mounted in an automobile. The hemisphere portion is a protruding type region having at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region defined by a step. A front half portion is set as a second region. A rear half portion and the flat surface portion are set as a first region. During manual driving of the automobile, the first region is set as a non-sensitive region, and the second region is set as a sensitive region.
Claims17
A touch type operation apparatus comprising:
- a touch sensor;
- an operation region that is subjected to a touch operation and comprises a first region and a second region which is different from the first region and includes an uneven solid shape region which is a recessed region or a protruding region and of which at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region is defined by a step;
- an operation state determination unit that determines whether or not an apparatus in which the touch type operation apparatus is mounted is in a specific operation state;
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- a sensitive region setting unit that sets the first region as a non-sensitive region in which the touch sensor does not respond and sets the second region as a sensitive region in which the touch sensor responds in a case where it is determined that the apparatus is in the specific operation state.
An operation method for a touch type operation apparatus comprising a touch sensor and an operation region that is subjected to a touch operation and includes a first region and a second region which is different from the first region and includes an uneven solid shape region which is a recessed region or a protruding region and of which at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region is defined by a step, the method comprising:
- an operation state determination step of determining whether or not an apparatus in which the touch type operation apparatus is mounted is in a specific operation state;
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- a sensitive region setting step of setting the first region as a non-sensitive region in which the touch sensor does not respond and sets the second region as a sensitive region in which the touch sensor responds in a case where it is determined that the apparatus is in the specific operation state.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing a computer-executable program of a touch type operation apparatus, the operation program causing a computer to implement a touch type operation apparatus comprising a touch sensor and an operation region that is subjected to a touch operation and includes a first region and a second region which is different from the first region and includes an uneven solid shape region which is a recessed region or a protruding region and of which at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region is defined by a step, the computer-executable program causing the computer to execute:
- an operation state determination function of determining whether or not an apparatus in which the touch type operation apparatus is mounted is in a specific operation state;
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- a sensitive region setting function of setting the first region as a non-sensitive region in which the touch sensor does not respond and sets the second region as a sensitive region in which the touch sensor responds in a case where it is determined that the apparatus is in the specific operation state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.