Patent ID: 8314778
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An electric apparatus operable by a user, who wears a signal transmitter module attached to a limb of the user and supplying an electric signal via an attached part of the signal transmitter module, the electric apparatus comprising: a detecting device including an electric conductor for receiving, by a direct contact or an electric coupling with the user, the electric signal output from the signal transmitter module, and detecting a contact or proximity of the electric conductor with a body part of the user corresponding to the attached part of the signal transmitter module based on the electric signal received by the electric conductor; an input device operable by the user and responding to an operation different from an operation of the detecting device caused by the signal transmitter module so that the input device inputs an operation signal corresponding to a user operation, the input device being independent from the detecting device; and a performing module performing a plurality of functions corresponding to the operation signal supplied from the input device, wherein the performing module is configured to be able to perform the plurality of functions corresponding to the operation signal supplied from the input device, and selectively performs the plurality of functions according to a detection result of the detecting device, wherein the input device includes one or more mechanical operable members; wherein the input device is an input device for supplying the operation signal indicative of one mechanical operable member, which is actually operated, into the performing module as the operation signal; wherein the performing module is configured to be able to perform the plurality of functions corresponding to each mechanical operable member on the input device; and wherein, when the input device supplies the operation signal in response to an operation of the mechanical operable member, the performing module selectively performs one function according to the detection result of the detecting device, the one function being selected from the plurality of functions corresponding to the mechanical operable member actually operated.