US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 24 for "Electronic apparatus having operation member for receiving various forms of input operation" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,009, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus having operation member for receiving various forms of input operation" was invented by Takashi Sugie (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus capable of reducing erroneous detection of each input operation and variation in an operation detection state, while enabling various input operations with one operation member. The electronic apparatus comprising an operation member that is displaced according to user's operation; a movable electrode that is displaced according to displacement of the operation member; a fixed electrode fixed...