Electronic apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorTomoki Takano
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Abstract
A control unit causes a first display and a first vibration when a finger has continued to exist in a first X-Y region of a touch panel and a first Z region for a prescribed time. When the finger being in a second X-Y region of the touch panel enters a second Z region from the first Z region, the control unit activates a prescribed function and causes a second display and a second vibration. When the finger being in the second X-Y region enters the second Z region before the finger continues to exist in the first Z region for the prescribed time, the control unit causes only a third display and a third vibration without activating the prescribed function.
Claims18
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a display unit;
- and
- a touch panel which is placed on the display unit and can detect a distance between an instruction body and the touch panel,
- wherein a prescribed function corresponding to a first region and/or a second region of the touch panel is activated when the distance of the instruction body being in the second region becomes shorter than or equal to a second distance which is shorter than a first distance after a state that the instruction body exists in the first region and the distance is shorter than or equal to the first distance and longer than the second distance has lasted for a prescribed time or more;
- and
- wherein the prescribed function is not activated and the display unit makes at least a display to an effect that input has failed when the distance of the instruction body being in the second region becomes shorter than or equal to the second distance before the state that the instruction body exists in the first region and the distance is shorter than or equal to the first distance and longer than the second distance lasts for the prescribed time or more.
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An operation control method which can be used in an electronic apparatus having a display unit and a touch panel which is placed on the display unit and can detect a distance between an instruction body and the touch panel, wherein:
- a prescribed function corresponding to a first region and/or a second region of the touch panel is activated when the distance of the instruction body being in the second region becomes shorter than or equal to a second distance which is shorter than a first distance after a state that the instruction body exists in the first region and the distance is shorter than or equal to the first distance and longer than the second distance has lasted for a prescribed time or more;
- and
- the prescribed function is not activated and at least a display to an effect that input has failed is made by the display unit when the distance of the instruction body being in the second region becomes shorter than or equal to the second distance before the state that the instruction body exists in the first region and the distance is shorter than or equal to the first distance and longer than the second distance lasts for the prescribed time or more.
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