Abstract: The present invention relates to a thin plate shaped apparatus comprising a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes which are arranged on the first surface of a nonconductive base material, a linear conductive member, a plurality of indicator electrodes formed in the operation area.

Abstract: An information input system with a touch panel-mounted information processing device which inputs the position, direction and code information of a card when the card is placed on the touch panel, and further inputs information combining the position of a finger and information of the card when the touch panel is touched through the card. The information input system includes a touch panel that receives operations by the user by an electrostatic capacitance method, an information processing unit with the touch panel as input means, and a thin-plate medium to be placed on the touch panel. The information processing unit identifies, using a predetermined calibration method, code information defined in the medium and medium information including the placing position and placing direction of the medium, and identifies coordinate values in a touch panel coordinate system for specifying the position on the medium surface touched by the user in touch operations.

Abstract: The present invention enables a code to be recognized by a smart phone or other electronic devices even when the code is successively changed. The apparatus is equipped with an incoming amount detection unit for detecting the incoming amount per unit time of external energy incoming from the exterior, an information acquisition circuit for acquiring input information in a predetermined format based on a change in the said incoming amount per unit time, a working surface arranged with one or more elements in which a physical quantity change detectable from a counter surface occurs, one or more physical quantity control units which generate the said physical quantity change in each of the said one or more elements, and an information output unit in the said one or more physical quantity control units which outputs output information in a predetermined format in accordance with the said physical quantity change by the said one or more elements.

Abstract: A dot pattern that defines information based on, not an arrangement position of a dot, but a distance and direction between two dots. The dot pattern includes at least one set of a starting-point information dot that is an information dot to be a starting point, and an end-point information dot that is an information dot to be an end point are provided, and the two or more information dots are arranged while an interval between information dots which adjoin each other in a prescribed order from the starting-point information dot has a prescribed distance value or prescribed distance value of a prescribed direction interval, and codes are encoded based on the prescribed distance value or prescribed distance value of a prescribed direction interval.