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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Naoki Tsukamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihisa Usami, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Kitagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Okabe, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01);
Abstract
A touchpad constituting a touch type operation apparatus includes a hemisphere portion and a flat surface portion and is mounted in an automobile. The hemisphere portion is a protruding type region having at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region defined by a step. A front half portion is set as a second region. A rear half portion and the flat surface portion are set as a first region. During manual driving of the automobile, the first region is set as a non-sensitive region, and the second region is set as a sensitive region.