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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2018
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide an operation input device () including an operating knob () to be operated by a user; a guide unit () having vertices and formed in different directions with respect to each of the vertices being base points, the guide unit () indicating an operating area for the operating knob; first sensors () each for detecting whether the operating knob () is present at a corresponding one of the vertices; and a calculating unit () for calculating a set value on the basis of input information received from each of the first sensors (), by which the user can accurately perform an input operation scale by scale even without looking at the operation input device ().