US 11,954,312 B2
Input device adapted to receive a touch input and a hover input
Toshiki Nakamura, Miyagi (JP); Hiroshi Shigetaka, Miyagi (JP); Hirofumi Kuga, Miyagi (JP); Masahiro Takata, Miyagi (JP); and Yasuji Hagiwara, Miyagi (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/804,388.
Application 17/804,388 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/043060, filed on Nov. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-225803 (JP), filed on Dec. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0291814 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04842 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04806 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An input device comprising:
a touch panel having an operation surface and configured to receive a touch input and a hover input by an operation body;
a display device configured to display a plurality of selection items;
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory and configured to
highlight a selection item, a selection of the selection item being made by the hover input from the plurality of selection items,
cause the display device to display a display object when the hover input is performed, wherein the display object is a frame-shaped display object whose size decreases as a distance between the operation body and the operation surface of the touch panel decreases,
cause the display device to display a predetermined standby screen in a state in which proximity of the operation body is not detected,
cause the display device to display an operation screen in a state in which the proximity of the operation body is detected, the operation screen including the plurality of selection items, and
confirm a selection of one selection item among the plurality of selection items in response to: a total number of selection items being included in the frame-shaped display object becoming one.