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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2001
Nobuhiro Komata, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Electronic equipment which provides an easier-to-use user interface for zoom-in and zoom-out actions has a switch which includes a pressure-sensitive unit, and a processing unit that performs enlargement or reduction processing depending on the output from the pressure-sensitive unit. A computer is provided, which has a controller which has the pressure-sensitive unit a unit which generates a pressure-sensing output signal depending on a pushing pressure of a user, sensed by the pressure-sensitive unit. The computer further has a unit for converting the pressure-sensing output signal to a deformation amount for an object on the screen of the monitor and a unit which deforms the object displayed on the monitor depending on the deformation amount.