Operating element, for electronic household appliance operating by touch, uses touch sensitive sensor and calculates control value from two detectors

摘要

Operating element has a touch sensitive sensor (12) for inputting a control value into the control (20) of the appliance. The sensor has one transmitter (14) and at least two receivers (16) or one receiver and at least two transmitters with which at least two detection values can be detected. The input control value is determined from the relationship between the two detected detection values.