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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2010
Yoshinori Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Oobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Oobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
[Object] To provide a contact operation determination apparatus, a contact operation determination method, and a program that are capable of avoiding erroneous determination in an end portion of a contact detection area. [Solution] A contact operation determination apparatus includes a display panel, a touch panelconfigured to detect a contact operation for a contact detection areaprovided on the display panel surface, an area setting unit configured to set, in the contact detection area, a first area, and a second areathat surrounds the first area second areaso as to have a width greater than or equal to a predetermined distance D from a contact starting point SP to contact end points EP and EP', the first area second areabeing used to discriminate between a tap operation and a flick operation, and an operation determination unit configured to determine, when a contact end point is detected in the first or second area after a contact starting point has been detected in the second area, that a flick operation has been performed.