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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Kenji Kono, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 1/169 (2013.01); G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 1/1692 (2013.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01); G06F 3/03547 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device () includes a touch sensor on a front surface, a touch sensor on a back surface, and a controller () that includes two control modes, the control modes being a scroll mode to scroll the currently displayed screen upon detecting a slide operation on the back surface touch sensor () and a pointer mode to move a currently displayed pointer (P) upon detecting an operation on the back surface touch sensor (), and that switches between the control modes from the scroll mode to the pointer mode upon detecting a switching operation on the back surface touch sensor () during the scroll mode.