Input apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10180756-B2
Application number	US-201615210540-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2016
Priority date	Jul 21, 2015
Publication date	Jan 15, 2019
Grant date	Jan 15, 2019

Abstract

An input apparatus includes: a touchpad that detects an input position; a display unit; and a calculation device configured to: move a display position of a cursor in steps in an identical direction to a variation direction of the input position detected by the touchpad every time the input position varies in an identical direction by a predetermined unit amount; calculate the number of movement steps and the adjustment amount by dividing a value by the predetermined unit amount when the variation direction of the input position calculated during a first predetermined period is equal to a variation direction of the input position calculated during a second predetermined period, the value obtained by adding the adjustment amount calculated during the second predetermined period to the displacement amount calculated during the first predetermined period, the second predetermined period being a predetermined period immediately preceding the first predetermined period.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An input apparatus comprising:
a touchpad that detects an input position;
a display unit; and
a calculation device configured to:
cause the display unit to display a cursor;
move a display position of the cursor in steps in an identical direction to a variation direction of the input position detected by the touchpad every time the input position varies in a direction identical to a direction the input position varies before by a predetermined unit amount;
calculate the variation direction of the input position detected by the touchpad at consecutive intervals each having a predetermined period for at least a first predetermined period and a second predetermined period;
calculate a displacement amount of the input position detected by the touchpad at the consecutive intervals each having the predetermined period for at least the first predetermined period and the second predetermined period;
calculate a quotient and a remainder by dividing the displacement amount by the predetermined unit amount for each of the consecutive intervals of the predetermined period for at least the first predetermined period and the second predetermined period; and
move in steps the display position of the cursor by a number of movement steps in the identical direction to the variation direction of the input position, wherein
when the variation direction of the input position calculated during the first predetermined period is equal to the variation direction of the input position calculated during the second predetermined period, the number of movement steps is calculated by dividing a value by the predetermined unit amount, and
the value is obtained by adding the remainder calculated during the second predetermined period as an adjustment amount to the displacement amount calculated during the first predetermined period, the second predetermined period being a predetermined period immediately preceding the first predetermined period.

2. The input apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the calculation device is configured to display an image which indicates a coordinate position that is distanced, by an amount corresponding to the adjustment amount, from the display position of the cursor following movement of the cursor in steps by the number of movement steps in a movement direction of the display position of the cursor when the adjustment amount is not zero.

3. An input apparatus comprising:
a touchpad that detects an input position;
a display unit; and
a controller having a processor and memory, the controller configured to:
cause the display unit to display a cursor;
move a display position of the cursor in steps in an identical direction to a variation direction of the input position detected by the touchpad every time the input position varies in a direction identical to a direction the input position varies before by a predetermined unit amount;
calculate the variation direction of the input position detected by the touchpad at consecutive intervals each having a predetermined period for at least a first predetermined period and a second predetermined period;
calculate a displacement amount of the input position detected by the touchpad at the consecutive intervals each having the predetermined period for at least the first predetermined period and the second predetermined period;
calculate a quotient and a remainder by dividing the displacement amount by the predetermined unit amount for each of the consecutive intervals of the predetermined period for at least the first predetermined period and the second predetermined period; and
move in steps the display position of the cursor by a number of movement steps in the identical direction to the variation direction of the input position, wherein
when the variation direction of the input position calculated during the first predetermined period is equal to the variation direction of the input position calculated during the second predetermined period, the number of movement steps is calculated by dividing a value by the predetermined unit amount, and
the value is obtained by adding the remainder calculated during the second predetermined period as an adjustment amount to the displacement amount calculated during the first predetermined period, the second predetermined period being a predetermined period immediately preceding the first predetermined period.

4. The input apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the controller is configured to display an image which indicates a coordinate position that is distanced, by an amount corresponding to the adjustment amount, from the display position of the cursor following movement of the cursor in steps by the number of movement steps in a movement direction of the display position of the cursor when the adjustment amount is not zero.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kakinuma Shoji
• Shikata Hiroshi
• Hamabe Ryota

Classifications

• G06F3/041 Primary

  Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means · CPC title

• G06F3/03547

  Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface · CPC title

• G06F3/0488 Primary

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F3/0416

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/038

  Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry · CPC title