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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2007
Tomohiro Terada, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Yamashita, Osaka, JP;
Takuya Hirai, Osaka, JP;
Nobuyuki Nakano, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiro Terada, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Yamashita, Osaka, JP;
Takuya Hirai, Osaka, JP;
Nobuyuki Nakano, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A user interface device allocates each of functions for operating an instrument to fingertips in response to a hand movement and allowing an operator to intuitively comprehend the allocation of each of the functions to the fingertips. The device includes a GUI button allocation section that first allocates a GUI button, read out from a GUI button data storing section, to each fingertip in a hand shape acquired by a hand shape acquiring section when a contact position acquiring section detects a contact to an operation surface by the operator. Then, in accordance with a change of hand shape direction, the GUI button allocation section reallocates the GUI button to each fingertip of the hand shape. The device also includes a superimposed image creating section that creates a composite image of an image of a GUI button allocated by the GUI button allocation section and an image of the hand shape, and a displaying section that displays the composite image of the image of the GUI button and the image of the hand shape created by the superimposed image creating section.