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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2012
Yasuo Morinaga, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Masakatsu Tsukamoto, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Manabu Ota, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Takeshi Higuchi, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yasuo Morinaga, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Masakatsu Tsukamoto, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Manabu Ota, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Takeshi Higuchi, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A mobile information terminal to determine whether a user's operation state is one-handed operation or two-handed operation. The mobile information terminal includes a pressure sensor array that acquires a gripping pressure distribution; a gripping pressure logger that records time-series changes in gripping pressure at each pressure sensor forming the pressure sensor array; a gripping pressure change point detection unit that includes a gripping pressure change amount calculation section that acquires time-series changes in gripping pressure at each pressure sensor and determines whether the amount of change in gripping pressure per unit time exceeds a predetermined value at any pressure sensor; and an operation state determination section that determines the operation state of the user of the mobile information terminal is one-handed operation when the amount of change in gripping pressure per unit time exceeds the predetermined value at any pressure sensor.