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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2016
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An input device includes a sensor unit, a processing unit, a storage unit, and an interface unit. The processing unit includes: a change amount calculating section for calculating the temporal change amount of the electrostatic capacitance that is detected by the sensor unit and that changes according to the proximity degree of an object with respect to a detection surface; a determination section for determining a touch operation corresponding to an operation on the detection surface using a fingertip, a palm operation corresponding to an operation on the detection surface using a palm, and a grip operation corresponding to an operation on a conductor portion, based on the calculated change amount; and a reset section for performing reset processing in a case where the duration of a state, in which a palm operation is not determined and a grip operation is determined, is a first predetermined time or more.