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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2010
Masayuki Yabuuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Enami, Kanagawa, JP;
Junji Matsuzawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kensuke Nagumo, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Yabuuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Enami, Kanagawa, JP;
Junji Matsuzawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kensuke Nagumo, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an information input device including a touch panel in which a display screen for displaying operations information is integrated with a sensor unit and to which the operations information is input when the display screen is touched with a predetermined unit, the sensor unit having plural sensors, which are capable of measuring a capacitance at a front surface of the display screen, arranged in a staggered manner such that three of the plural sensors adjacent to each other are arranged at positions corresponding to apices of a regular triangle; and a position determination unit that determines a position touched with the predetermined unit on the display screen in accordance with levels of the capacitances detected with the three adjacent sensors in a region of the regular triangle formed by the three adjacent sensors among the plural sensors constituting the sensor unit.