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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2009
Applicant:
Ryota Kitamura, Miyagi, JP;
Inventor:
Ryota Kitamura, Miyagi, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/045 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A touch panel includes n first line electrodes (n is an integer of 2 or greater) to which pulses are applied, m second line electrodes (m is an integer of 2 or greater) for use in detection, the second line electrodes being arranged to cross the first line electrodes, and a pulse generating circuit configured to apply pulses, in a selected order, to nfirst line electrodes (nis an integer of at least 1 and not greater than n) selected from among the n first line electrodes. A touched position on the touch panel is detected by detecting a change in capacitance between one of the first line electrodes and one of the second line electrodes.