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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2001
Chikao Nagasaka, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yasuhiro Fujioka, Aichi-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Kishi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kouichi Masamura, Aichi-ken, JP;
Chikao Nagasaka, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yasuhiro Fujioka, Aichi-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Kishi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kouichi Masamura, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika Denki-Seisakusho, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fingertip interrupting two of a plurality of light beams projected in a lattice on a panel of a controller at an intersection thereof is set as a first-touch position, on the basis of which an active area is established. This makes, of a plurality of selection buttons, selection buttons in the active area become selectable. Further, when the active area is changed by changing the first-touch position with a change in fingertip position to change light beams that are interrupted, selection buttons in the changed active area become selectable.