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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2019
Fanuc Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;
Yasumichi Sakoda, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Hiroyuki Kataya, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi, JP;
Abstract
A touch panel device includes: a switching unit configured to switch between a first state where first electrodes operate as drive electrodes and second electrodes operate as sense electrodes and a second state where the second electrodes operate as drive electrodes and the first electrodes operate as sense electrodes; and an operation position obtaining unit configured to, if the sense signals are not determined to contain noise, obtain as an operation position touched by an operating member, a section whose signal strength in the first state is a first threshold or more, and if the sense signals are determined to contain noise, obtain as the operation position by the operating member, one section whose signal strength in the first state is the first threshold or more and the signal strength in the second state is the first threshold or more.