US 12,291,902 B2
Door opening/closing device and operation detection device, and door opening/closing method and operation detection method
Mitsuo Nishizuka, Yokohama (JP); Takashi Ono, Yokohama (JP); and Takao Toyama, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to ALPHA CORPORATION, Kanagawa (JP); and NISSAN JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by ALPHA CORPORATION, Kanagawa (JP); and NISSAN JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Jul. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/925,451.
Application 16/925,451 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/000561, filed on Jan. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-002390 (JP), filed on Jan. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0340287 A1, Oct. 29, 2020
Int. Cl. E05F 15/75 (2015.01); B60J 5/06 (2006.01); E05B 81/78 (2014.01); G01D 5/24 (2006.01); E05B 81/00 (2014.01); E05F 15/643 (2015.01)
CPC E05B 81/78 (2013.01) [B60J 5/06 (2013.01); E05F 15/75 (2015.01); G01D 5/24 (2013.01); E05B 81/00 (2013.01); E05F 15/643 (2015.01); E05Y 2400/44 (2013.01); E05Y 2400/45 (2013.01); E05Y 2400/86 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation detection device comprising:
an operation unit;
a detection unit provided in the operation unit and configured to detect a contact state of a user with the operation unit; and
a control unit,
wherein the control unit is configured to determine that a first operation involving a direction is a user operation in which the user comes into contact with the operation unit, when the detection unit detects the first operation and a second operation,
wherein the first operation is a swipe operation tracing a surface of the operation unit along a shape of the operation unit,
wherein the control unit is configured to determine that the first operation is the user operation when the detection unit detects a first interval between the first operation and the second operation is equal to or longer than a first predetermined determination time,
wherein the first interval indicates a time period in which a hand of the user is released from the operation unit, and
wherein the control unit is configured to determine that the first operation is not the user operation when it is detected that a second interval between the first operation and the second operation is equal to or longer than a second predetermined determination time set to be longer than the first predetermined determination time, and
wherein a determination by the control unit that the first operation is the user operation includes determining that the first operation is the user operation when it is detected that the second interval is shorter than the second predetermined determination time.