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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2007
Applicants:
Satoshi Aida, Tokyo, JP;
Noboru Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Matsuzawa, Ayase, JP;
Ohki Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Satoshi Aida, Tokyo, JP;
Noboru Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Matsuzawa, Ayase, JP;
Ohki Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Access Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided is a terminal device including: operation means for receiving an input operation by a user; non-operation detection means for detecting whether a non-operation state in the operation means has continued for a predetermined period of time; and icon display means used when it is detected that the non-operation state has continued for the predetermined time, for shifting to another mode different from the current mode and displaying an icon corresponding to the new mode.