Display operating device and image forming apparatus

• US 10,162,497 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2016
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bhatia, Ajay M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chung, Mong-Shune
• Application Number:
  US15/258,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20170090726A1
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/416 Extracting the logical structure, e.g. chapters, sections or page numbers; Identifying elements of the document, e.g. authors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32058 Abbreviated dialing, e.g. one-touch dialing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A display operating device includes a storage section storing therein a plurality of character strings, a receiving section receiving a first character, a display section, a touch panel detecting a touch to the display surface of the display section, and an extraction section extracting first character strings each including the first character from among the character strings. Upon receipt of the first character, the first character is displayed within the input frame and the extracted first character strings are displayed outside the input frame. Upon detection of a touch to the input frame displaying the first character strings, the receiving section receives a second character. Second character strings each including the second character are extracted from among the first character strings. Upon receipt of the second character, the second character is displayed within the input frame and the extracted second character strings are displayed outside the input frame.

Claims

1. A display operating device comprising:

a software keyboard or a physical keyboard to which a character is to be input by a user;

a storage that stores therein a plurality of character strings;

a receiving section configured to receive input of a first character through the software keyboard or the physical keyboard, the receiving section being implemented by a processor that executes a computer program;

a display that has a display surface and that is configured to display an input frame for display;

a touch panel configured to detect a touch by a detection target to the display surface of the display, the detection target being a finger or a stylus; and

an extraction section configured to extract one or more first character strings that each are a character string including the first character from among the plurality of character strings, the extraction section being implemented by the processor, wherein

upon the receiving section receiving input of the first character, the display displays the first character within the input frame and the one or more first character strings extracted by the extraction section outside the input frame,

in response to detection of a touch operation by the detection target to the first character, the display changes shape, color, or size of the displayed first character,

the touch operation is sliding of the detection target on the display surface of the display, and is a movement of the detection target in contact with the display surface that moves while changing a movement direction,

upon the detection section detecting a touch by the detection target to the input frame displaying the first character, the receiving section receives input of a second character through the software keyboard or the physical keyboard,

the extraction section extracts one or more second character strings that each are a first character string including the second character from among the one or more first character strings, and

upon the receiving section receiving input of the second character, the display displays the second character within the input frame so that the second character is superposed on the first character having been changed in shape, color, or size, and displays the one or more second character strings extracted by the extraction section outside the input frame.

2. The display operating device according to claim 1, wherein

the first character of which input the receiving section receives includes a plurality of first characters,

the display displays the plurality of first characters within the input frame, and

the extraction section extracts one or more first character strings that each are a character string including the plurality of first characters from among the plurality of character strings.

3. The display operating device according to claim 1, wherein

the extraction section extracts one or more second character strings each including the second character located at a first or last place thereof from among the one or more first character strings.

4. The display operating device according to claim 1, wherein

the display

displays at least a part of the plurality of character strings stored in the storage section,

displays, in response to the receiving section receiving input of the first character, the one or more first character strings each including the first character in place of the plurality of displayed character strings, and

displays, in response to the receiving section receiving input of the second character, the one or more second character strings each including the second character in place of the part of the one or more first character strings.

5. The display operating device according to claim 4, wherein

an upper limit is set to any of the numbers of the plurality of character strings, the one or more first character strings, and the one or more second character strings that the display displays.

6. The display operating device according to claim 1, wherein

in response to the receiving section receiving deletion of the second character, the display displays a screen that has been displayed before input of the second character.

7. An image forming apparatus comprising:

the display operating device according to claim 1; and

an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet.

8. The display operating device according to claim 1, wherein

in response to detection of the touch operation by the detection target to the first character, the display changes color of the first character so that the first character is displayed faintly or displays the first character in a broken line.

9. The display operating device according to claim 8, wherein

the display displays the second character so that the second character is superposed on the faintly displayed first character.