Electronic device
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuo MURATA, Tomohiro KIMURA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Ryuzo YUKI
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Abstract
In order to achieve an electronic device with a high display quality while preventing a wiring pattern of a touch panel from being visually recognized in a display region, the present invention includes: a touch panel electrode (20) provided so as to surround a display region (41); and a control section (10) connected to the touch panel electrode (20) and configured to sense, in accordance with a change in capacitance of the touch panel electrode (20), a touch operation carried out by an object coming into contact with or coming closer to at least one of the display region (41) and a frame region (50).
Claims9
An electronic device comprising:
- a display device including a display region and a frame region;
- a touch panel electrode provided so as to surround the display region;
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- a control section connected to the touch panel electrode and configured to sense, in accordance with a change in capacitance of the touch panel electrode, a touch operation carried out by an object coming into contact with or coming closer to at least one of the display region and the frame region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.