US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 14 for "Information processing device, operation input method and operation input program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,633, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, operation input method and operation input program" was invented by Yusuke Miyazawa (Tokyo) and Fuminori Homma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a contact detection unit configured to detect a contact operation for an operation surface, an approach detection unit configured to detect an approach operation for the operation surface, and a control unit configured to recognize the contact operation and the approach operation as a series of operation inputs when the contact o...