# US 2024/0201800 A1 · Input display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2024/0201800 A1 - Document ID: US20240201800A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/506,465 - Filed: 2023-11-10 - Published: 2024-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2022-12-20 - Assignees: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Taksashi Amano - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20240201800A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/0362: with detection of one-dimensional [1D] translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts - B60K 35/00: Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles - B60K 35/10: Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor - G06F 3/03547: {Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface} - G06F 3/0393: {Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads} - G06F 3/04186: {Touch location disambiguation} - G06F 3/044: by capacitive means - G06F 3/04817: using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) - G06F 3/04847: Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials - G06F 3/04883: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text - B60K 35/28: characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver - B60K 2360/119: Icons - B60K 2360/126: Rotatable input devices for instruments - B60K 2360/1434: Touch panels - B60K 2360/168: Target or limit values - G06F 2203/04101: 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup - G06F 2203/04104: Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger - G06F 2203/04108: Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES ## Abstract An input display device includes a display configured to display an image, a capacitive touch panel attached to the display, a knob that is at least one three-dimensional operation unit on a front face of the touch panel, and a sensing unit configured to measure an electrostatic capacitance of the touch panel and sense an operation on the touch panel based on the measured electrostatic capacitance. The sensing unit senses the rotation amounts of all the fingers touching the knob, and determines that the rotation operation on the knob has been performed when a sensed rotation amount of any of the fingers reaches a threshold value. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An input display device comprising: a display configured to display an image, a capacitive touch panel attached to the display, at least one three-dimensional operation unit on a front face of the touch panel, and a sensing unit configured to measure an electrostatic capacitance of the touch panel and sense an operation on the touch panel based on the measured electrostatic capacitance, wherein the sensing unit senses rotation amounts of all fingers touching the operation unit, and determines that a rotation operation on the operation unit is performed when a sensed rotation amount of any of the fingers reaches a threshold value. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The input display device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where sensing of a finger disappears before a rotation amount of the finger having a largest rotation amount reaches the threshold value, the sensing unit updates rotation amounts of remaining fingers to a rotation amount of the finger having the largest rotation amount. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The input display device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where sensing of a finger touching the operation unit is added in during the operation, the sensing unit allocates a rotation amount of a finger having a largest rotation amount to a rotation amount of an added finger. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The input display device according to claim 1, wherein the sensing unit resets a sensed rotation amount of a finger when determining that a rotation operation on the operation unit is performed. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The input display device according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit configured to display a gauge, corresponding to a rotation operation, around the operation unit of the display. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The input display device according to claim 5, wherein the display unit displays an icon representing an input operation at a corresponding position of the operation unit of the display. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The input display device according to claim 1, wherein the operation unit has a cylindrical knob shape, a cylindrical button shape, or a cylindrical finger grip shape.