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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Nakajima, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Satoshi Hayasaka, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Kohei Kitagawa, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An input apparatus includes a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from each other, a signal processing unit configured to output an input signal depending on a change in a capacitance of each electrode, and a determination unit configured to determine whether an operation object comes in a proximity of at least one of electrodes based on input signals output from the signal processing unit. The determination unit makes a determination such that in a case where one of the input signals is greater than or equal to a first threshold value and an integral value of another of the plurality of input signals in a predetermined integration period is greater than or equal to a second threshold value, it is determined that an operation object has come in a proximity of an electrode corresponding to the one of the input signals.