Technique for executing a combined operation in response to a single press and release of a sensor unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9001069-B2
Application number	US-201414210546-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2014
Priority date	Jun 16, 2003
Publication date	Apr 7, 2015
Grant date	Apr 7, 2015

Abstract

A touch panel is constructed by a display/sensor unit which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD and a sensor unit which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on the right. A finger of the user is touched to a selection item such as desired button, icon, or the like on the display/sensor unit and vertically moved on the sensor unit. A selection display constructed by a plurality of buttons is displayed along the side of the display screen by the LCD. A button beside the finger is highlighted. When the finger is released, the highlighted button is selected. If there are no buttons adjacent to the finger, the button is not highlighted. Even if the finger is released, the state is not changed. When finger is moved to the display/sensor unit, the selection display disappears.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An input method using a sensor unit, in which the sensor unit is located to an outside of one side of a display screen, an instruction according to a touching position of a finger or a touch pen onto said sensor unit is given, and a controller generates a control signal on the basis of said instruction, comprising the steps of:
displaying a selection display, comprising a plurality of selection menu items, on said display screen;
highlighting one of said s…

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Goto Koichi
• Sakurai Mikiko
• Yoshioka Akio
• Nashida Tatsushi

Classifications

• H04N5/44582

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/482

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/42222

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/42207

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/44543

  Electricity · mapped topic