Information processing apparatus
AssigneesSony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony Corporation
InventorKenji TOKUTAKE
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus including a touch panel that detects a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller that determines a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance, and controls a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
Claims16
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a touch panel that detects a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel;
- and
- a controller that determines a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance, and controls a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- detecting a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of a touch panel;
- determining a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance;
- and
- controlling a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:
- detecting a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of a touch panel;
- determining a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance;
- and
- controlling a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.