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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 31, 2012
Applicant:
Shuichi Konami, Chiba, JP;
Inventor:
Shuichi Konami, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06F 9/4446 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device includes a display unit which displays display screens, an input unit which receives a gesture input, and a controller which detects whether a gesture, input on the input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on one of the display screens of the display unit. The controller displays gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.