Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100170349 | Force sensing device - The force sensing device includes a deformable member having portions arranged to make a pair with respect to the Z-axis. Three sets of strain detecting elements are formed on the deformable member for detecting deformations of the deformable member caused by a linear force in the X-axis, a linear force in the Y-axis and a rotational force about the Z-axis. The force sensing device includes a connecting member which connects between the pair of portions of the deformable member, and between the deformable member and a shaft of a manipulatable member. The force sensing device can be manufactured with easy wiring work and can detect the applied force in three degrees of freedom, including the linear force in the X-axis, the linear force in the Y-axis and the rotational force about the Z-axis. | 07-08-2010 |
20110074825 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND INPUT OPERATION SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - A screen has four main regions located in a cross direction and respectively assigned to four operation images. The screen has an outer periphery region around a center region. The outer periphery region includes an unfilled outermost circumference region, a boundary region, which is between operation images adjacent to each other, and a remaining region, in which the four operation images are paved. At least one of the four operation images is located over a corresponding one main region and an adjacent region, which is adjacent to the corresponding one main region in a circumferential direction around the center region. Each of the four operation images has an image region including a largest rectangle region surrounded by sides being in parallel with sides of the screen. The largest rectangle region has an area greater than 50% of a total area of the image region. | 03-31-2011 |
20130117706 | VEHICULAR MANIPULATION APPARATUS - A remote manipulation apparatus includes a main body and a manipulating handle manipulated by a user to move to cover all the orientations from a manipulation basis position defined on a basis of the main body. Movement of the manipulating handle relative to the manipulation basis position corresponds to movement of a pointer image relative to a screen basis position on a screen of a display apparatus. An auxiliary navigational display window includes a specified button image assigned with pointer-pulling information. When the auxiliary navigational display window appears on the screen, the manipulating handle is automatically driven to a position that corresponds to a position of the specified button image on the screen so that the pointer image is moved onto the specified button image that is assigned with the pointer-pulling information. | 05-09-2013 |
20130167077 | Display System, Display Apparatus, Manipulation Apparatus And Function Selection Apparatus - A display system includes a screen panel, an input unit, a switch section, and a resizing section. The screen panel switches a display mode between a window selection mode and a function selection mode. The input unit includes an input panel arranged apart from the screen panel, and defines an arrangement of input regions corresponding to an arrangement of display windows displayed in the window selection mode of the screen panel. When a target input region is manipulated, the switch section sets the target input region as a selected input region, and the resizing section enlarges a size of the selected input region and rearranges an enlarged selected input region on the input panel. | 06-27-2013 |
20150067586 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATING DEVICE - A display system that is configured to select one of multiple display regions as an active region and which can avoid complicated operations for selecting an icon is provided. In the display system, one of the display regions is selected as an active region by an input operation to an input screen, and an icon in the active region is selected by another input operation to the input screen. The display system stores a specific input operation in advance as a switching operation, and determines whether an input operation is the switching operation. When the input operation is determined as the switching operation, the display region corresponding to the switching operation is selected as the active region, and the icon in the active region is displayed in a selectable state. | 03-05-2015 |
20150212589 | OPERATION INPUT DEVICE - An operation input device includes an operation body, a case holding the operation body, and at least three flexible bodies. The operation body includes an operation body movable part and a movable part driver. The operation body movable part has a touch surface having a predetermined touch surface region. The movable part driver causes the operation body movable part to move a touch surface position where the touch surface region is flush with a remaining region of the touch surface and a button position located above or below the touch surface position. Each flexible body is connected at one end to an outer edge of the operation body, connected at the other end to the case, and has a displacement-transmitting surface capable of being displaced according to a pressing operation force applied to the operation body by a pressing operation to the touch surface. | 07-30-2015 |
20150242102 | MANIPULATING APPARATUS - A manipulating apparatus includes a manipulation control portion and a touch sensor detecting manipulation to a first manipulation surface by a manipulator's finger, while acquiring a manipulation body distance from the first manipulation surface to the finger. The manipulation in a first manipulation space where the manipulation body distance is less than a first threshold distance is distinguished from the manipulation in a second manipulation space where the manipulation body distance is not less than the first threshold distance. The first movement of the finger in the first manipulation space and the second movement of the finger in the second manipulation space are respectively associated with a focus and a submenu image, to change their display modes. To assist an input by the finger in the second manipulation space, a second manipulation surface is formed to a location apart from the first manipulation surface by a first threshold distance or more. | 08-27-2015 |
20150346851 | MANIPULATION APPARATUS AND MANIPULATION TEACHING METHOD FOR MANIPULATION APPARATUS - A manipulation apparatus includes a detection circuit and a manipulation control circuit to acquire a manipulation body distance from a manipulation surface to a finger of a manipulator. The manipulation in a first manipulation space having the manipulation body distance smaller than a first threshold distance is associated with movement of a pointer and distinguished from the manipulation in a second manipulation space having the manipulation body distance equal to or greater than the first threshold distance. A tactile pattern is formed to the manipulation surface, while a visual pattern is displayed around the point, the visual pattern having the shape corresponding to the tactile pattern. The combination of tactility and visuality teaches the manipulator the pointer being movable by contact manipulation onto the manipulation surface. | 12-03-2015 |