Electronic device equipped with touch panel
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsYosuke Nakazato, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Makoto Kowaka
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Abstract
An electronic device includes a touch panel, an operation position detecting unit that detects an operation position, in a locked state, at which a touch operation has been made on the touch panel, an ear pinna determining unit that determines whether the touch operation has been made by a user's ear pinna, according to the detected operation position, and an ear pinna operation accepting unit that, if the touch operation is determined to have been made by the user's ear pinna, accepts an operation input made by the touch operation by the ear pinna.
Claims8
An electronic device comprising:
- a touch panel;
- an operation position detecting unit that detects an operation position at which a touch operation has been made on the touch panel;
- an ear pinna determining unit that determines whether the touch operation has been made by a user's ear pinna, according to the detected operation position;
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- an ear pinna operation accepting unit that, if the touch operation is determined to have been made by the user's ear pinna, accepts an operation input made by the touch operation by the ear pinna.
An operation accepting method comprising:
- detecting, via an operation position detecting unit, an operation position at which a touch operation has been made on a touch panel;
- determining, via an ear pinna determining unit, whether the touch panel has been made by a user's ear pinna, according to the detected operation position;
- and
- accepting, if the touch operation is determined to have been made by the ear pinna, an operation input made by the touch operation by the ear pinna via an ear pinna operation accepting unit.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores an operation accepting program executable by a computer, the operation accepting program comprising:
- first program code that causes the computer to detect an operation position at which a touch operation has been made on a touch panel;
- second program code that causes the computer to determine whether the touch operation has been made by a user's ear pinna, according to the detected operation position;
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- third program code, if the touch operation is determined to have been made by the ear pinna, causes the computer to accept an operation input made by the touch operation by the ear pinna.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.