Abstract: A controller identifies, when a contact position of a finger is detected by a detector, an object on a screen of a display device designated by the contact made on an input surface, on the basis of the contact position detected by the detector. When the object on the screen is identified, the control unit selects the object as an object to be moved, according to pressing force detected by the detector. When the contact position detected by the detector moves, with the object on the screen kept selected as the object to be moved, the controller moves such object to be moved on the screen, according to the movement of the contact position.

Abstract: An input device includes an operating surface at which touch operations relating to changing a display form of a display object are performed, a contact sensor configured to detect touch operations as to the operating surface, a pressure sensor configured to detect pressing operations as to the operating surface, a tactile feedback presentation element configured to present tactile feedback corresponding to operations detected by the touch sensor, and a tactile feedback controller configured to control the tactile feedback presented by the tactile feedback presentation element. In a case where an operation detected by the touch sensor is a specified operation specified beforehand out of the contact operations relating to changing the display form, the tactile feedback controller causes the tactile feedback presentation element to present tactile feedback corresponding to that specified operation.

Abstract: Included are an operating surface, a touch sensor configured to detect touch operations of an operating member as to the operating surface, a pressure sensor configured to detect a pressing operation on the operating surface by the operating member, a tactile feedback presenting element configured to present tactile feedback, and a tactile feedback controller configured to control tactile feedback that the tactile feedback presenting element presents. When the touch sensor detects that a position indicated on a display screen by an operation as to the operating surface is an object on the display screen or a specified region of the display screen, and further the pressure sensor detects that a predetermined pressing operation has been performed as to an object region, the tactile feedback controller causes the tactile feedback presenting element to present tactile feedback corresponding to a double-clicking operation.

Abstract: A detectable region having a large area is provided in an input panel below a surface panel. An input operation region is provided in part of the detectable region, and the position and the area of the input operation region can be changed within the detectable region. An input processing apparatus is provided with a responding force generator, and the responding force generator is set to different operation states between when a digit touches the input operation region and when a digit touches a non-operation region that is around the input operation region.

Abstract: An input device includes a voltage divider circuit that includes a resistive sensor whose resistance changes in accordance with a change in pressure of a pressing operation and at least one resistor device and that, upon receiving driving voltage, generates a divider voltage according to the resistance of the resistive sensor device, a first driving circuit that alternately supplies, to the voltage divider circuit at certain time intervals, a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage for generating different divider voltages, a capacitor whose charge changes in accordance with a change in the divider voltage, and a first charge detection circuit that detects an amount of change in the charge of the capacitor at a time when the driving voltage changes from the first driving voltage to the second driving voltage and when the driving voltage changes from the second driving voltage to the first driving voltage.

Abstract: An input device includes a capacitive sensor and a piezoelectric sensor. The piezoelectric sensor is positioned on the front side of the capacitive sensor in a front-to-back direction from the front to the back of the input device, and is configured to change its output in response to a force applied to the piezoelectric sensor from its front side. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric layer and a first electrode and a second electrode positioned across the piezoelectric layer from each other in the front-to-back direction. The capacitive sensor includes a capacitive sensing area where the capacitive sensor is configured to perform a sensing operation. The first electrode and the second electrode of the piezoelectric sensor do not overlap the capacitive sensing area when viewed in the front-to-back direction.

Abstract: In an electrostatic capacitance-type position detection device, a corresponding ground region is formed at an intersection point between a corresponding first virtual center line and a corresponding second virtual center line, and a corresponding detection electrode and a corresponding drive electrode are disposed on the outer side of the relevant ground region. The detection electrodes each include a first electrode line and a second electrode line that extend in a second direction and are disposed so as to sandwich therebetween the ground regions from a first direction. The drive electrodes are each configured by arranging electrode patterns in order in the first direction. The electrode patterns each include a third electrode line that extends in the second direction, and a fourth electrode line and a fifth electrode line that are located on both respective ends of the third electrode line and extend in the first direction.

Abstract: In an input system, an arithmetic device includes a judgment unit that judges whether a pointing stick is electrically connected, the arithmetic device transmits, to a control unit, identification information indicating that the pointing stick does not exist if the pointing stick is not connected to the arithmetic device, the arithmetic device transmits, to the control unit, identification information indicating that the pointing stick exists if the pointing stick is connected to the arithmetic device, the control unit operates in a first mode in which control is performed based only on a first coordinate if the identification information indicating that the pointing stick does not exist is received, and the control unit operates in a second mode in which control corresponding to each of the first coordinate and a second coordinate is performed if the identification information indicating that the pointing stick exists is received.

Abstract: An input device includes a flexible base, a sensor member that is provided on the surface of the flexible base and can detect the operation position of a finger, connection portions that are provided on a back of the flexible base, a printed circuit board of which an area is smaller than the area of the flexible base and which includes terminal portions on the surface thereof facing the back, and an electronic component that is mounted on a surface of the printed circuit board opposite to the surface of the printed circuit board on which the terminal portions are provided and is electrically connected to the terminal portions. The flexible base and the printed circuit board are bonded to each other with an adhesion layer interposed therebetween so that the connection portions come into contact with the terminal portions.

Abstract: In a case where a touch position is a peripheral portion, when spatial characteristics which correspond to an area and a length of a touch region exceed a first condition corresponding to a predetermined area and length, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a palm. When the spatial characteristics do not exceed the first condition, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a finger. In a case where a touch position is a central portion, when the spatial characteristics exceed a second condition corresponding to an area and a length that are larger than those of the first condition, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a palm. When the spatial characteristics do not exceed the second condition, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a finger.

Abstract: In an electrostatic capacitance-type position detection device, a corresponding ground region is formed at an intersection point between a corresponding first virtual center line and a corresponding second virtual center line, and a corresponding detection electrode and a corresponding drive electrode are disposed on the outer side of the relevant ground region. The detection electrodes each include a first electrode line and a second electrode line that extend in a second direction and are disposed so as to sandwich therebetween the ground regions from a first direction. The drive electrodes are each configured by arranging electrode patterns in order in the first direction. The electrode patterns each include a third electrode line that extends in the second direction, and a fourth electrode line and a fifth electrode line that are located on both respective ends of the third electrode line and extend in the first direction.

Abstract: A control unit, has a palm rejection function to determine whether a contact region of an object, calculated by detecting electric variance due to the object in proximity of an operating face, is from an fingertip or from a palm. The control unit determines that in a case where the difference between an area of the a first proximity region calculated at a first sensitivity and an area of a second proximity region calculated at a second sensitivity higher than the first sensitivity is large, the contact region is from a palm, and at in a case where the difference is small, the contact region is from a fingertip.

Abstract: In a case where a touch position is a peripheral portion, when spatial characteristics which correspond to an area and a length of a touch region exceed a first condition corresponding to a predetermined area and length, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a palm. When the spatial characteristics do not exceed the first condition, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a finger. In a case where a touch position is a central portion, when the spatial characteristics exceed a second condition corresponding to an area and a length that are larger than those of the first condition, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a palm. When the spatial characteristics do not exceed the second condition, it is determined that the touch region is caused by a finger.

Abstract: An input device includes a flexible base, a sensor member that is provided on the surface of the flexible base and can detect the operation position of a finger, connection portions that are provided on a back of the flexible base, a printed circuit board of which an area is smaller than the area of the flexible base and which includes terminal portions on the surface thereof facing the back, and an electronic component that is mounted on a surface of the printed circuit board opposite to the surface of the printed circuit board on which the terminal portions are provided and is electrically connected to the terminal portions. The flexible base and the printed circuit board are bonded to each other with an adhesion layer interposed therebetween so that the connection portions come into contact with the terminal portions.

Abstract: A detection electrode and an X-driving electrode (first driving electrode) are stacked through a sensor side insulating layer, at the side of a sensor portion of a film base material, and a Y-driving electrode (second driving electrode) is formed on the same forming surface as the detection electrode. The X-driving electrode is formed of a first conductive layer, the detection electrode and the Y-driving electrode are formed in a stacked structure of a second conductive layer having a resistance lower than the first conductive layer and a third conductive layer having a resistance higher than the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.

Abstract: A detection electrode and an X-driving electrode (first driving electrode) are stacked through a sensor side insulating layer, at the side of a sensor portion of a film base material, and a Y-driving electrode (second driving electrode) is formed on the same forming surface as the detection electrode. The X-driving electrode is formed of a first conductive layer, the detection electrode and the Y-driving electrode are formed in a stacked structure of a second conductive layer having a resistance lower than the first conductive layer and a third conductive layer having a resistance higher than the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.

Abstract: A capacitance type input device includes: a film base material; a driving electrode patterned at a sensor side of the film base material; and a detection electrode patterned to output capacitance between the driving electrode and the detection electrode, opposite to the driving electrode through a sensor side insulating layer, in which reference capacitor portions having reference capacitance for capacitance between the driving electrode and the detection electrode are patterned at the side of a circuit portion opposite to the sensor portion of the film base material. The reference capacitor portion includes a first conductive layer conductively connected with the detection electrode and a second conductive layer opposite to the first conductive layer through a circuit side insulating layer.

Abstract: An input processing device includes a touch pad that detects a touch position of a finger, at least two button operation units that are provided around the touch pad, a pad signal processing unit that processes a detection signal from the touch pad to generate a pad signal and processes a detection signal from the button operation units to generate a button signal, a stick pointer that is provided at a position farther away from a user than the touch pad and detects an operation in the tilting direction, a stick signal processing unit that processes a detection signal from the stick pointer to generate a stick signal, and, an operation signal generating unit that receives the pad signal, the button signal, and the stick signal.

Abstract: An input device includes a coordinate input member which has a predetermined area and detects a position touched with an indicator, and a detection member which detects that the coordinate input member has been pressed.

Abstract: An input sensor is bonded on the rear surface of an insulating support plate which supports the input sensor. By forming the input sensor to be thin, a device in which an input device having the input sensor is incorporated can be formed very thin.