ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,614, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Input display device" was invented by Takashi Amano (Fukushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input display device that includes: a display configured to display an image; a touch sensor of a capacitive type mounted on the display; a plurality of three-dimensional operation portions mounted over the touch sensor and capacitively coupled to the touch sensor; a distance detector configured to detect a distance, that is the distance from an operation object to the touch sensor, of the three-dimensional operation portion receiving an operation by the operation...