Electronic apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroto SUGAHARA
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Abstract
There is provided an electronic apparatus including: an input mechanism including a sheet-shaped base material having flexibility and a bending detector which detects an elastic bending deformation of the base material; a power supply device; a bending deformation judging mechanism judging whether or not a first bending deformation mode is generated in the base material; a controller; and a mode changing mechanism changing an operation mode of the electronic apparatus from a normal mode to a low power mode in which the electronic apparatus is operated in a power lower than the normal mode, when the first bending deformation mode is generated in the base material.
Claims18
An electronic apparatus which operates in a plurality of operation modes, comprising:
- an input mechanism including a sheet-shaped base member which has a flexibility and is arranged to spread in a plane direction, and a bending detector which is disposed on a front surface of the base member and which detects an elastic bending deformation generated in the base member;
- a power supply device which supplies a power;
- a bending deformation judging mechanism which judges whether or not a first bending deformation mode is generated in the base member based on a detection result of the bending detector;
- a controller which controls an operation of the electronic apparatus;
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- a mode changing mechanism which changes an operation mode of the electronic apparatus from a normal mode to a low power mode under a condition that the bending deformation determining mechanism judges that the first bending deformation mode is generated in the base member, the normal mode being an operation mode in which the electronic apparatus operates with a power consumption, and the low power mode being an operation mode in which the electronic apparatus operates with a low power consumption lower than the power consumption.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.