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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Ota-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhito Oshita, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Naoyuki Hatano, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an electrostatic input device including a plurality of electrodes, and receiving an input operation according to electrostatic capacitances generated between the plurality of electrodes and an object when the object comes close to a detection surface, the device including a variation detection unit configured to detect variations in the electrostatic capacitances, a determination unit configured to determine whether the object coming close to the detection surface is the fingertip or the palm on the basis of the variations detected by the variation detection unit, and a control unit configured to inhibit reception of an input operation on the detection surface for a predetermined period of time in a case where the determination unit determines that the object coming close to the detection surface is the palm.