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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ikuo Yamano, Tokyo, JP;

Yusuke Miyazawa, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0414 (2013.01); G06F 3/0237 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided an input apparatus including: a pressure detecting unit which detects press pressure of an operational body applied to a virtual key having one or more input candidates allocated selectively; and an input control unit which varies a selection state of the one or more input candidates selectively allocated to the virtual key for every pressing operation having, as a single time of pressing operation, timing that the press pressure detected by the pressure detecting unit exceeds a predetermined selection threshold value or timing that the press pressure becomes smaller than the selection threshold value as being attenuated after exceeding the selection threshold value.


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