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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2012
Yusuke Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sensor unitgenerates a sensor signal according to proximity and contact of a manipulation object. A proximity detecting unitperforms proximity detection of the manipulation object, on the basis of the sensor signal. When a plurality of manipulation objects are detected by the proximity detection, a determining unitsets a priority order to the detected manipulation objects and adopts a proximity detection result on the basis of the set priority order. For this reason, even though the plurality of manipulation objects are detected, the proximity detection result having the high priority order is adopted, so that erroneous detection can be prevented and an input manipulation can be correctly performed.