Input device
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsKazuyuki Suzuki, Masaho Morita
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Abstract
An input device includes an exterior member having an opening formed therein; an input member that has an upper surface to be touched by a user with a finger and that is disposed inside the opening; and a light diffusing member having a light emitting surface located along an outer edge of the input member, where the light emitting surface has a first region exposed in a gap between an inner edge of the opening of the exterior member and an outer edge of the input member and a second region positioned on an inner side of the outer edge of the input member and below a peripheral portion of the input member.
Claims9
An input device comprising:
- an exterior member that has an exterior surface of the input device;
- an input member that has an upper surface to be touched by a user, the upper surface exposed from the exterior surface of the exterior member;
- a circuit board disposed inside the exterior member;
- a plurality of light sources mounted on the circuit board and arranged in a left-right direction;
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- a light diffusing member that has a light emitting surface, the light emitting surface is disposed along an edge of the input member and extends in the left-right direction, wherein the light diffusing member receives light from the plurality of light sources and causes the light emitting surface to emit light,
- wherein the plurality of light sources are disposed along a rear edge of the circuit board, and
- wherein the light emitting surface is disposed behind the circuit board and extends along the rear edge of the circuit board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.