US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on March 25 for "Operation detection device, operation detection unit, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,033, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Operation detection device, operation detection unit, and information processing method" was invented by Takashi Amano (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit of an operation detection device detects an operation on a ring-shaped guide member is started on the basis of a detection result of a sensor panel, excludes a resting region corresponding to a region where the finger rested on an upright portion can be positioned from a region where a touch is enabled before the start of the operation on the ring-shaped guide member is detected, an...