Patent ID: 8416207
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An input device comprising: a plurality of detectors aligned in one direction for respectively detecting a close approach of an approaching object; a transmissive plate configured, upon the close approach of the approaching object, to be disposed between the approaching object and the plurality of detectors; and a controller including a plurality of input channels; wherein each of the detectors belongs to one of a plurality of groups each of which two or more detectors belong to, the plurality of detectors in each of the groups is connected in common to one of the input channels associated therewith in the controller, a permutation of the groups which at least three detectors, continuously aligned thus forming a set and arbitrarily selected from the plurality of detectors, respectively belong to is different by each set of at least three detectors, and said at least three detectors are each connected to a different one of the plurality of input channels.