Operation device
AssigneeToyo Denso Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasushi Omori, Yusuke Nogata
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Abstract
An operation device according to the present invention includes a touch-sensitive operation surface placed in a vehicle and a detecting unit configured to detect touch operation by an operator on the touch-sensitive operation surface. On the touch-sensitive operation surface, a guide part having a convex shape or a concave shape and a planar operation part to be an operation location having a planar shape located around the guide part are formed. The detecting unit is configured to detect slide operation on the guide part from the planar operation part, and accept later operation on a predetermined operation location as an operation instruction set in accordance with a status of the slide operation on the guide part.
Claims6
An operation device comprising:
- a touch-sensitive operation surface placed in a vehicle;
- and
- a detecting unit configured to detect touch operation by an operator on the touch-sensitive operation surface,
- wherein a guide part and a planar operation part are formed on the touch-sensitive operation surface, the guide part having a convex shape or a concave shape, the planar operation part being an operation location having a planar shape located around the guide part,
- the detecting unit is configured to detect a status of slide operation of straddling the guide part from the planar operation part, and accept later operation on a predetermined operation location as an operation instruction set in accordance with the status of the slide operation of straddling the guide part, and
- wherein the touch-sensitive operation surface of both the guide part and the planar operation part are required for the predetermined operation location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.