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US 9,851,844 B2Granted
Touch panel device
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsTaiji Uchida, Hiroyuki Ushifusa
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Abstract
A touch panel device includes a capacitive touch panel; a manipulation detector that detects a manipulation performed on a manipulation detection area on the touch panel, on the basis of a change in the capacitance of the touch panel; and a manipulation valid area setting unit that sets, in the manipulation detection area, a manipulation valid area in which a manipulation detected by the manipulation detector is determined to be valid.
Claims6
A touch panel device comprising:
- a housing device that includes a front panel provided on a side surface thereof;
- a capacitive touch panel that is provided on the front panel;
- a manipulation detector that detects a touch manipulation when a water drop has adhered to a manipulation detection area on the touch panel, and detects a release manipulation that is a manipulation to release the touch manipulation when the water drop has flowed down to outside of the manipulation detection area, on the basis of a change in the capacitance of the touch panel;
- a manipulation valid area setting unit that sets an area other than a margin on the side of a floor of the housing device in the manipulation detection area to be a manipulation valid area in which a manipulation detected by the manipulation detector is determined to be valid;
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- a filtering unit, wherein after the touch manipulation has been detected by the manipulation detector in the manipulation detection area, the filtering unit determines that the release manipulation is valid when the release manipulation has been detected within the manipulation valid area, and determines that the release manipulation is invalid when the release manipulation has been detected outside of the manipulation valid area.
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A touch panel device comprising:
- a housing device that includes a front panel provided on a side surface of the housing device;
- a capacitive touch panel that is provided on the front panel;
- a manipulation detector configured to:
- (a) detect a touch manipulation when a water drop has adhered to a manipulation detection area on the capacitive touch panel, and (b) detect a release manipulation that is a manipulation to release the touch manipulation when the water drop has flowed outside of the manipulation detection area, based on a change in a capacitance of the capacitive touch panel;
- at least one controller programmed to:
- set an area other than a margin on a side of a floor of the housing device in the manipulation detection area as a manipulation valid area for determining whether a manipulation on the capacitive touch panel is valid;
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- in response to the touch manipulation being detected in the manipulation detection area:
- (1) determine that the release manipulation is valid when the release manipulation is detected within the manipulation valid area, and (2) determine that the release manipulation is invalid when the release manipulation is detected outside of the manipulation valid area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.