公开(公告)号：US10180724B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-15

申请号：US14699071

申请日：2015-04-29

Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION

Inventor： Yuki Mishio ,  Hiroki Koyama ,  Yoshihisa Ogata ,  Naohisa Nakada

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G09B21/00

Abstract: An operating terminal operates an external device for projecting and retracting a part of the external device, and includes: a display unit that displays an image; a touch panel on the display unit, and configured to detect a touched area of an object and to receive a position signal in response to the touched area; a determining unit that determines a change of the touched area on the touch panel, based on the position signal; a detecting unit that detects a boundary of areas having different features in the touched area in the image; and a signal generating unit that generates a drive signal indicating a drive amount for causing the part of the external device to be projected and retracted, based on a determination result by the determining unit and a detection result by the detecting unit, and outputs the drive signal to the external device.