A presented force sense is associated with an input of an operator to a touch panel. An input to the touch panel is performed using a touch panel input device including: a first object including a first surface, a first texture including a region of an S-pole and a region of an N-pole being previously magnetized on the first surface, a plate surface on an opposite side to the first surface being disposed to face an input surface of the touch panel; and a second object including a magnetic sheet and a conductive portion, the magnetic sheet including a second surface, a second texture including a region of an S-pole and a region of an N-pole being previously magnetized on the second surface, the second surface being disposed to face the first surface, the conductive portion forming a conductive pattern on the second surface, the second object being operated by an operator performing an input operation on the touch panel.

A touchpad assembly for used in a housing of an electronic device is provided. The touchpad assembly includes: a touchpad and a slider. The touchpad is disposed in the housing, and includes a touch bump. The slider includes a base and a plurality of top abutment surfaces. The slider is slidably disposed in the housing, causing the touch bump to be correspondingly positioned on any of the top abutment surfaces to generate a touch stroke. The plurality of top abutment surfaces is arranged on an upper surface of the base, and there is a height difference between adjacent ones of the top abutment surfaces, causing the touch stroke to increase. An adjustable stroke of a touchpad is implemented, so that an idle stroke is increased when the touch of the touchpad is weak or dead, and the idle stroke is reduced when the touch of the touch panel is intense, thereby achieving a good pressing touch.

In at least one embodiment, a system is provided that includes a user interface, a plurality of proximity sensors, and at least one controller. The user interface is configured to enable selection of one or more operations for a vehicle. The plurality of proximity sensors is positioned about or within the user interface and is configured to transmit first signals indicative of a location of a user relative to the user interface as the user selects the one or more operations for the vehicle with the user interface. The at least one controller is configured to determine the location of the user relative to the user interface in response to the first signals and to transmit a vehicle control signal to a vehicle subsystem to perform the one or more operations based on the location of the user relative to the user interface.

An actuating user interface for a media player or other electronic device is disclosed. According to one aspect, the user interface is a display device that can both display visual information and serve as a mechanical actuator to generate input signals is disclosed. The display device, which displays visual information such as text, characters and graphics, may also act like a push or clickable button(s), a sliding toggle button or switch, a rotating dial or knob, a motion controlling device such as a joystick or navigation pad, and/or the like. According to another aspect, the user interface is an input device that includes a movable touch pad control signal capable of detecting the movements of the movable touch pad so as to generate one or more distinct second control signals. The control signals being used to perform actions in an electronic device operatively coupled to the input device.

An exemplary embodiment of a circuit for determining information about the position, attitude, or orientation of a magnet comprises an input interface configured to receive components of a magnetic field produced by the magnet. An evaluation logic unit corresponds to at least one trained neural network and is configured to determine the information about the position, attitude, or orientation of the magnet on the basis of the received components.

This disclosure generally relates to various directional input units of a mobile communication terminal, where such directional input units receive a single user input or multiple concurrent user inputs and then acquires at least one selecting (user) sub-input therefrom while a terminal is in its powered-off state or its off-state. After acquiring the selecting user sub-input, a terminal runs at least one pre-selected operation which is selected from a set of multiple pre-selected operations and which matches the selecting user sub-input when a terminal powers on from its powered-off state or wakes up from its off-state. A directional input unit may acquire the selecting user sub-input from a movement of at least a portion thereof, a contact between at least a portion thereof and a user body part, or the like. As a result, a terminal can provide a user with more seamless operations.

A device control apparatus includes: a base panel; a screen which displays information; a moveable/rotatable switch panel over the base panel; a connector that moveably connects the switch panel and base panel; a sensor which detects movement of the switch panel; and a controller which controls: displaying, on the screen, first information associated with a detected first movement of the switch panel, and identifying at least one outside device; displaying, on the screen in response to a subsequently-detected second movement of the switch panel, second information including function items or modes of one outside device included in the at least one outside device and third information on the one outside device; instructing the one outside device to perform a function item or change a mode selected by a user in response to the second information; and continuing the displaying of the second and third information, while the instructing is performed.

An apparatus and method of measuring a collective capacitance on a group of capacitive sense elements from at least one of rows or columns of a capacitance sense array when in a first mode, and individually measuring capacitances on each of the rows and columns when in a second mode.

A touch information acquiring unit acquires touch information including the positions of touch points and the electrostatic capacitances of the touch points. A touch means determining unit determines whether each of the touch points is touched by a finger or by an input device with which a finger is in contact using the touch information, and thereby determines whether there is a touch point touched by the input device with which the finger is in contact. In a case where it is determined that there is a touch point touched by the input device with which the finger is in contact, and the total number of touch points on a touch panel exceeds an effective upper limit number, an operation determining unit determines that one or more touch points touched by fingers are points where touches are to become ineffective, and regards the one or more touch points as points from which touches are released, the number of the one or more touch points being equal to a number by which the total number exceeds the effective upper limit number.

A handheld apparatus, a control method thereof of a presenting mode and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The handheld apparatus includes at least one first sensor, a second sensor, a screen and a processor. The first sensor is disposed on the handheld apparatus. The second sensor detects orientation. The handheld apparatus has an auto-rotate screen function of automatically adjusting a presenting mode of the screen to a portrait mode or a landscape mode according to the orientation. The processor determines whether the handheld apparatus is in a hold state according to sensing data of the first sensor. In response to determining that the handheld apparatus is in the hold state, the processor locks the presenting mode according to the presenting mode currently performed by the handheld apparatus without adjusting the presenting mode according to the auto-rotate screen function. Accordingly, a convenient operation of the presenting mode is provided.