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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2009
Tetsuo Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Ryu Aoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Takehiko Tsurumi, Tokyo, JP;
Fuminori Homma, Tokyo, JP;
Shoichiro Moriya, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Ryu Aoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Takehiko Tsurumi, Tokyo, JP;
Fuminori Homma, Tokyo, JP;
Shoichiro Moriya, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display/input device is provided which includes a position sensor on which an electrode pattern in grid form is arranged, the position sensor being for specifying a position of an operating tool by detecting a capacitance changing at a contact part or a proximity part at a time the operating tool is made to contact the electrode pattern or is brought into proximity of the electrode pattern, and an outer frame portion forming an outer frame of a display screen provided with the position sensor. A boundary of an area where the position of the operating tool can be specified by the position sensor despite a non-presence of the electrode pattern is visually or haptically indicated at the outer frame portion.