Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20120293456 | INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information input apparatus includes: a touch pad; a touch information detecting unit which detects touch information that is information resulting from an operator contacting the touch sensor with a finger; a touch operation start position detecting unit which detects, using the touch information, a touch operation start position that is a start position of a touch operation performed by the operator; a touch operation recognition condition storage unit which stores a plurality of touch operation recognition conditions each for recognizing one of types of touch operation, in association with each of touch operation start positions; and a touch recognizing unit, which recognizes the touch operation, using the touch operation recognition conditions stored in association with the touch operation start position detected by the touch operation start position detecting unit, to determine a type of the touch operation. | 11-22-2012 |
20130063386 | INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In order to provide an information input device that solves the misclick caused by a clickable touch sensor without using information corresponding to pressure of the user's finger, the information input device includes: a touch information detecting unit that detects a touch information item obtained when a finger of the user is in contact with the touch sensor; a touch information sequence storage unit configured to store the touch information item for a predetermined period; and a pressing start position estimating unit configured to estimate a pressing start position at which the user started to press the touch sensor with the finger, based on touch information items stored in the touch information sequence storage unit, when the switch was pressed down, the touch information items including the touch information item. | 03-14-2013 |
20130090807 | VEHICULAR INPUT DEVICE AND VEHICULAR INPUT METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular input device which is capable of improving accuracy for detecting a contactless input from a driver. A vehicular input device includes a contactless operation detecting unit for detecting a contactless operation on a center display, distance detecting units, distance information storing units in which distance information items obtained from the distance detecting units are stored for each of the distance detecting units, a proximity object determining unit for determining whether or not an object is in proximity of any of predetermined specific positions in a vehicle based on the stored distance information items, and a detecting operation controlling unit for limiting the detection by the contactless operation detecting unit when the object is determined to be in the proximity of any of the specific positions. | 04-11-2013 |
20140046988 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A content management apparatus includes: an uploaded content detection unit which detects a content item uploaded to a network service by a user; a management information generation unit which generates management information of: the content item uploaded to the network service by the user; and a content item stored on a device connected to a network; an uploaded content information storage unit which stores the management information of the uploaded content item; a home content information storage unit which stores the management information of the content item stored on the device; a home content detection unit which detects a new content item newly stored on the device; and an identification unit which verifies, when the new content item is detected, whether the new content item and the content item whose management information is stored on the uploaded content information storage unit are identical. | 02-13-2014 |
20140118254 | INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS - The handheld controller controls a graphic cursor on a display. A motion sensor responds to user movement of a first type producing motion data. A touchpad responds to user movement of a second type more precise than the first type producing second sensor data. A processor calculates a hybrid cursor movement signal having a large scale movement component corresponding to movement of the first type and a fine scale movement component corresponding to movement of the second type, the hybrid cursor movement signal being for moving the graphic cursor. A processor calculates the large scale movement component based on a first sensitivity parameter representing sensitivity of the motion sensor determined by associating the touchpad data with the motion data, and the fine scale movement component based on a second sensitivity parameter representing sensitivity of the touchpad determined by associating the motion data with the touchpad data. | 05-01-2014 |
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20140306827 | ACCIDENTAL INGESTION DETECTION APPARATUS, ACCIDENTAL INGESTION DETECTION SYSTEM, AND ACCIDENTAL INGESTION DETECTION METHOD - An accidental ingestion detecting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a swallowing sensing unit which senses swallowing by an animal; a swallowing detecting unit which detects swallowing based on sensing data outputted by the swallowing sensing unit and which outputs swallowing information that is information related to the swallowing; a feeding information inputting unit which accepts input of information related to feeding of the animal and which outputs the information as feeding information; and an accidental ingestion determining unit which determines accidental ingestion by the animal, wherein the accidental ingestion determining unit determines accidental ingestion by the animal based on date/time information included in the swallowing information and date/time information included in the feeding information. | 10-16-2014 |
20140311415 | EXCREMENT DETECTION SYSTEM, EXCREMENT DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THAT CONTROLS EXCREMENT DETECTION SYSTEM - An excrement detection system of this disclosure includes: an excretion information acquiring apparatus acquiring excretion information indicating whether a pet in a living space has performed excretion; a toilet observing apparatus observing inside of a pet toilet to acquire toilet information regarding inside of the pet toilet; an excretion information processing unit determining whether the pet has performed excretion based on the excretion information; a toilet information processing unit determining whether the pet is in the pet toilet based on the toilet information; an excretion position determining unit determining that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion and that the pet is absent from the pet toilet; and a notifying unit notifying a pet's owner that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316216 | PET MEDICAL CHECKUP DEVICE, PET MEDICAL CHECKUP METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A pet medical checkup device of the present disclosure includes a shooting section that shoots a moving image of a pet, a first storage section that stores the moving image of the pet shot by the shooting section, a first database that stores motion information representing a specific motion made by the pet when the pet has a disease for each disease of the pet, a first determination section that determines whether or not the pet is making the specific motion represented by the motion information stored in the first database using the moving image of the pet stored in the first storage section, and an estimation section that estimates the disease of the pet based on a determination result of the first determination section. | 10-23-2014 |
20150077395 | INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information input apparatus includes: a touch pad; a touch information detecting unit which detects touch information that is information resulting from an operator contacting the touch sensor with a finger; a touch operation start position detecting unit which detects, using the touch information, a touch operation start position that is a start position of a touch operation performed by the operator; a touch operation recognition condition storage unit which stores a plurality of touch operation recognition conditions each for recognizing one of types of touch operation, in association with each of touch operation start positions; and a touch recognizing unit, which recognizes the touch operation, using the touch operation recognition conditions stored in association with the touch operation start position detected by the touch operation start position detecting unit, to determine a type of the touch operation. | 03-19-2015 |