Sony patents touch controls that track your finger before it hits the screen
Sony describes a device that uses sensors to detect both when a finger touches a surface and when it moves toward it. The system treats these two actions as a single, continuous input if they happen one after the other.
In the filing’s own words
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 operation and the approach operation are continuously detected.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device comprising: 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 operation and the approach operation are continuously detected.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- Information Processing Device, Operation Input Method And Operation Input Program
- Publication number
- US20260310347A1
- Application number
- 19711278
- Filed
- Jun 17, 2026
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 1
Classified under
G06F 3/04883 Physics & computingG02F 1/13338 Physics & computingG06F 3/041 Physics & computingG06F 2203/04101 Physics & computingG06F 2203/04104 Physics & computingG06F 2203/04108 Physics & computingMore from Sony in Phones & computers
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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