Display control apparatus, method for controlling the same, and recording medium

• US 10,353,575 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Tsukasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US15/280,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20170097764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters

Abstract

A touched display item from among a plurality of display items is dragged by a touch operation, and in a case where an amount of movement of the touch operation is less than a predetermined distance in a second direction, a plurality of items located between an original position of the touched display item and a current position of the touched display item are moved, and in a case where the amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance in the second direction, in a case where the touch operation ends, the touched display item is inserted where the touch operation ended and a display item located at the position where the touched display item is inserted is moved to the original position of the touched display item.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

one or more processors which, when executing instructions, causes the display control apparatus to;

detect a touch operation on a display unit;

perform control so that a plurality of display items are displayed on the display unit arranged in a first direction;

move a display item from among the plurality of display items via a touch operation which is an operation to move a touched position while keeping a touch on the display unit;

perform, in a case where an amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than a predetermined distance in the first direction and less than a predetermined distance in a second direction different from the first direction, first rearrangement control for moving the display item in the first direction from an original position and moving, from among the plurality of display items, a plurality of items located between the original position of the display item before it is moved and a current position of the display item, in a direction of the original position;

perform, in a case where the amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance in the second direction, second rearrangement control for, when the touch operation on the display item ends, inserting the display item at a position corresponding to a position where the touch operation ends and moving another display item located at the position where the display item was inserted to the original position of the display item; and

perform switch rearrangement control based on direction of and the amount of movement of the touch operation.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control apparatus does not perform the first rearrangement control where, as a result of the touch operation continued from a state where the amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance in the second direction and the second rearrangement control is performed, a distance in the second direction between a touch position where the touch operation is started and a current touch position of the touch operation is less than the predetermined distance.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control apparatus performs the second rearrangement control where, as a result of the touch operation continued from a state where the amount of movement of the touch operation is less than the predetermined distance in the second direction and the first rearrangement control is performed, a distance in the second direction between a touch position where the touch operation is started and a current touch position of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a state where the first rearrangement control is performed, the display control apparatus moves the plurality of display items in the direction of the original position of the display item being moved before inserting the display item being moved.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display control apparatus moves, in a state where the first rearrangement control is performed, the plurality of display items in the direction of the original position of the display item being moved when a touch position of the touch operation moves to a display area of another display item not being moved.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control apparatus inserts, when the second rearrangement control is performed, the display item being moved and then moves another display item located at a position where inserting the display item occurs.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control apparatus displays, when the second rearrangement control is performed, another display item not being moved, so that the another display item can be identified as a replacement candidate display item when a touch position of the touch operation moves to a predetermined area of the another display item.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined area is an area including a display area of the another display item not being moved and an area obtained by extending the display area in the second direction.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control apparatus displays on the display unit a first display item group in which a plurality of display items are arranged in the first direction and a second display item group in which a plurality of display items are arranged in the first direction, where the first and second display item groups are separated from each other in the second direction, and

wherein the display control apparatus performs third rearrangement control for replacing the first and second display item groups with each other according to a touch operation.

10. The display control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the display control apparatus sets a replacement line between the first and second display item groups, moves a display item in the first or second display item group by the touch operation, and when a touch position of the touch operation moves across the replacement line, replaces the first and second display item groups with each other.

11. The display control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein, when the touch position moves across the replacement line and then returns to a position that is not across the replacement line, the display control apparatus reverses the replacement of the first and second display item groups.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein in a case where the touch operation on the display item being moved ends, the display control apparatus confirms the replacement of the first and second display item groups according to a position where the touch operation ended.

13. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first and second directions are directions orthogonal to each other.

14. A method for controlling a display control apparatus, comprising:

detecting a touch operation on a display unit;

performing control so that a plurality of display items is displayed on the display unit arranged in a first direction;

moving a display item from among the plurality of display items via a touch operation which is an operation to move a touched position while keeping a touch on the display unit;

performing, in a case where an amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than a predetermined distance in the first direction and less than a predetermined distance in a second direction different from the first direction, first rearrangement control for moving the display item in the first direction from an original position and moving, from among the plurality of display items, a plurality of items located between the original position of the display item before it is moved and a current position of the display item, in a direction of the original position;

performing, in a case where the amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance in the second direction, second rearrangement control for, when the touch operation on the display item ends, inserting the display item at a position corresponding to a position where the touch operation ends and moving another display item located at the position where the display item was inserted the original position of the display item; and

performing switch rearrangement control based on direction of and the amount of movement of the touch operation.

15. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing computer executable instructions for causing a computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

detecting a touch operation on a display unit;

performing control so that a plurality of display items is displayed on the display unit arranged in a first direction;

moving a display item from among the plurality of display items via a touch operation which is an operation to move a touched position while keeping a touch on the display unit;

performing, in a case where an amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than a predetermined distance in the first direction and less than a predetermined distance in a second direction different from the first direction, first rearrangement control for moving the display item in the first direction from an original position and moving, from among the plurality of display items, a plurality of items located between the original position of the display item before it is moved and a current position of the display item, in a direction of the original position;

performing, in a case where the amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance in the second direction, second rearrangement control for, when the touch operation on the display item ends, inserting the display item at a position corresponding to a position where the touch operation ends and moving another display item located at the position where the display item was inserted the original position of the display item; and

performing switch rearrangement control based on direction of and the amount of movement of the touch operation.