US 12,260,033 B2
Operation detection device, operation detection unit, and information processing method
Takashi Amano, Fukushima (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/591,812.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-036263 (JP), filed on Mar. 9, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0302911 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/039 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0393 (2019.05) [G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation detector for detecting an operation on a guide member fixed onto a detection surface of an electrostatic capacitive sensor panel, the guide member being a member that has an upright portion extending in a state of protruding forward with respect to the detection surface, and is to be used for an operation in which a finger of a user moves along a side wall of the upright portion while being in contact with the side wall, the device comprising:
a control unit comprising a processor, the control unit configured to detect that an operation on the guide member is started on the basis of a detection result of the sensor panel, exclude a resting region corresponding to a region in which the finger rested on the upright portion can be positioned from a region in which a touch is enabled before the start of the operation on the guide member is detected, and include the resting region in the region in which the touch is enabled after the start of the operation on the guide member is detected.