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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
May. 09, 2014
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Koji Morikawa, Kyoto, JP;
Akinori Matsumoto, Osaka, JP;
Jeffry Bonar Fernando, Osaka, JP;
Katsuyoshi Yamagami, Osaka, JP;
Jun Ozawa, Nara, JP;
Abstract
An exemplary electronic device is in a housing to be gripped by a right hand and a left hand of a user, and has a plurality of manipulable portions. The electronic device includes: electrodes placed at positions which come in contact with the right hand and left hand of the user gripping the housing; an extractor for extracting an electrocardiographic component of the user from a potential difference between the electrodes; a determination section for determining whether the extracted electrocardiographic component is in a positive direction or a negative direction by referring to a prestored criterion; and a change section for, in accordance with a result of determination by the determination section, changing assignment between each of the plurality of manipulable portions and a manipulation signal generated in response to a manipulation.