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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2012
Applicant:
Masako Wada, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Masako Wada, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01);
Abstract
An input device includes: a screen () that displays images on a screen portion; a touch pad () that receives designation of in-plane positions with respect to the screen and supplies, as output, position signals that indicate the designated in-plane positions; and a control unit () that, when a plurality of in-plane positions has been designated, specifies each in-plane position on the basis of the position signals and both displays a plurality of images at the in-plane positions and controls the size of the display of each image in accordance with the spacing between the in-plane positions.