# US 12,001,031 B2 · Input device and information processing device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,001,031 B2 - Document ID: US12001031B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/016,927 - Filed: 2021-05-31 - Published: 2023-11-02 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2020-07-22 - Assignees: Nidec Sankyo Corporation - Applicants: Nidec Sankyo Corporation - Inventors: Junro Takeuchi; Shinya Miyazawa; Yosuke Oguchi; Masaya Fujimoto - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12001031B2 ## CPC - G02B 30/56: by projecting aerial or floating images - G06F 3/041: Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means - G06F 3/0418: {for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment} - G06F 3/042: by opto-electronic means - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G06F 3/04886: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus - G06F 21/602: {Providing cryptographic facilities or services} - G06F 21/6245: {Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes} - G06F 21/83: input devices, e.g. keyboards, mice or controllers thereof - G06V 40/172: {Classification, e.g. identification} - G06F 3/0428: {by sensing at the edges of the touch surface the interruption of optical paths, e.g. an illumination plane, parallel to the touch surface which may be virtual (sensing beam interruptions in a planar beam grid of an optical touch-screen G06F3/0421)} - G06F 2203/04803: Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas - G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract An input device includes a control portion for controlling the input device encrypts image data, which is data of an image displayed on a display surface of a display mechanism, and transmits it to the display mechanism, and a detection mechanism for detecting a position of the user's fingertip in an aerial-image display region encrypts position data, which is data of a detected position of the user's fingertip, and transmits it to the control portion. In addition, in this input device, at least a fraud against a position-data signal line which transmits the position data from the detection mechanism to a control board and a fraud against the control board can be detected by a fraud detection mechanism for detecting that a fraud against the input device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An input device inputting information by using a user's fingertip, the input device comprising: a display mechanism having a display surface which displays an image, an aerial-image forming mechanism which projects the image displayed on the display surface into a space to form an image as an aerial image, a detection mechanism detecting a position of the user's fingertip in an aerial-image display region, which is a region in which the aerial image is displayed, a control board having a control portion controlling the input device, and a fraud detection mechanism detecting that a fraud was committed against the input device, wherein the aerial-image display region is an input portion inputting information; the control portion encrypts image data, which is data of the image displayed on the display surface, and transmits the encrypted image data to the display mechanism; the detection mechanism encrypts position data, which is data of a detected position of the user's fingertip, and transmits the encrypted position data to the control portion; and at least a fraud against a position-data signal line which transmits the encrypted position data from the detection mechanism to the control board and a fraud against the control board is detected by the fraud detection mechanism. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The input device according to claim 1, wherein the fraud detection mechanism includes a breakage detection circuit for detecting at least either one of disconnection and a short circuit of itself; and the breakage detection circuit covers at least a part of the position-data signal line. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The input device according to claim 1, wherein when the control portion recognizes that a fraud was committed based on a detection result of the fraud detection mechanism, after transmitting notification data notifying occurrence of the fraud to a higher-level control portion controlling a higher-level device on which the input device is mounted, the control portion performs at least either one of bringing the control board into an unusable state and erasing data stored in the control portion. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The input device according to claim 3, wherein the notification data includes data for identifying an occurrence spot of the fraud. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The input device according to claim 1, wherein the image displayed on the display surface is an image of a keypad including a plurality of numeric keys; and the control portion changes arrangement of the numeric keys on the image of the keypad displayed on the display surface each time or changes a size of the numeric keys on the image of the keypad displayed on the display surface each time. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) An information processing device, comprising: the input device according to claim 1 and a card data reading mechanism reading data recorded in a card, wherein the card data reading mechanism is electrically connected to the control portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein as the card data reading mechanism, at least any one of a magnetic head reading magnetic data recorded in a card, an integrated circuit (IC) contact block having a plurality of IC contact springs that contact an external connection terminal of an IC chip formed on the card, and an antenna communicating information with the card in a non-contact manner. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The information processing device according to claim 6, further comprising: a camera for acquiring a face image for facial authentication of the user, wherein the camera is electrically connected to the control portion.