Terminal device, display control method, and program

• US 10,394,366 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Chiashi, Eiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Awad, Amr A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Javed, Maheen I
• Application Number:
  US14/407,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20150160775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,254 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0382 Plural input, i.e. interface arrangements in which a plurality of input device of the same type are in communication with a PC
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• 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: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller

Abstract

A terminal device is provided that makes it possible to improve operability when a plurality of image data items are associated with a single character data item and displayed. This terminal device is provided with: a first display unit that displays main information on an upper layer, and displays attachment information that is associated with the main information on a lower layer underlying the main information; a first input unit that detects an operation that is input into a front surface side of the first display unit; a second input unit that is located on a rear surface side of the first display unit, and detects an input operation; and a control unit that, when the second input unit detects the operation, processes the attachment information that is displayed on the first display unit in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit.

Claims

1. A terminal device, comprising:

a first plate-shaped rectangular case, that includes a first display unit and a first input unit that detects an operation that is input into a front surface side of the first display unit;

a second plate-shaped rectangular case, that includes a second display unit and a second input unit that detects an operation that is input into a front surface side of the second display unit;

a hinge that couples the first plate-shaped rectangular case and the second plate-shaped rectangular case; and

a control unit,

wherein, in a condition in which the hinge is closed and the second display unit is located on a rear surface side of the first display unit, the control unit displays main information on an upper layer of the first display unit and displays, concurrently with the main information, attachment information that is associated with the main information on a lower layer of the first display unit underlying the main information, and upon the second input unit detecting the operation, the control unit processes the attachment information that is displayed on the first display unit in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit, and

wherein, in a condition in which the hinge is opened and the first display unit and the second display unit are positioned alongside in a planar manner, the control unit displays the main information and the attachment information on the first display unit and the second display unit, respectively, and upon the second input unit detecting the operation, the control unit processes the attachment information that is displayed on the second display unit in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit,

wherein when the second input unit has detected a screen switching operation, the control unit switches only the attachment information to an other attachment information while maintaining the display of the main information on the first display unit, and

when the first input unit has detected a screen switching operation, the control unit switches the main information and the attachment information to an other main information and an attachment information associated with the other main information.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein when the second input unit has detected an operation to move a display area of a display image or has detected an operation to reduce or enlarge the display image, the control unit moves the display area or reduces or enlarges the display image only for the attachment information.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein if the main information is information showing an individual person, then when the second input unit detects a screen switching operation, the control unit switches to attachment information that contains a human face among the attachment information that is associated with the main information.

4. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein if group information which shows a group to which the attachment information belongs is given to the attachment information, then when the second input unit detects a screen switching operation, in accordance with the designated group, the control unit switches to attachment information belonging to the group among the attachment information that is associated with the main information.

5. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein if the main information is information showing an individual person, then when the second input unit detects a screen switching operation, the control unit switches to attachment information that contains a human face among the attachment information that is associated with the main information.

6. The terminal device according to claim 5, wherein if group information which shows a group to which the attachment information belongs is given to the attachment information, then when the second input unit detects a screen switching operation, in accordance with the designated group, the control unit switches to attachment information belonging to the group among the attachment information that is associated with the main information.

7. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein if group information which shows a group to which the attachment information belongs is given to the attachment information, then when the second input unit detects a screen switching operation, in accordance with the designated group, the control unit switches to attachment information belonging to the group among the attachment information that is associated with the main information.

8. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit displays an index instructing that a predetermined program be executed as the main information, and displays a wallpaper image as the attachment information.

9. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein when the first input unit is currently detecting an operation, if the second input unit detects an operation, the control unit processes the attachment information in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit.

10. A display control method, carried out by a terminal device that includes a control unit, a first display unit and a first input unit that detects an operation that is input into a front surface side of the first display unit, a second plate-shaped rectangular case that includes a second display unit and a second input unit that detects an operation that is input into a front surface side of the second display unit, and a hinge that couples the first plate-shaped rectangular case and the second plate-shaped rectangular case, said display control method comprising:

displaying, by operation of the control unit, in a condition in which the hinge is closed and the second display unit is located on a rear surface side of the first display unit, main information on an upper layer of the first display unit, and also displaying, concurrently with the main information, attachment information that is associated with the main information on a lower layer of the first display unit underlying the main information,

upon detection, at the second input unit, of the operation, processing, by the control unit, the attachment information that is displayed on the first display unit in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit,

displaying, by operation of the control unit, in a condition in which the hinge is opened and the first display unit and the second display unit are positioned alongside in a planar manner, the main information and the attachment information on the first display unit and the second display unit, respectively,

upon detection, at the second input unit, of the operation, processing, by the control unit, the attachment information that is displayed on the second display unit in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit,

upon detection, at the second input unit, of a screen switching operation, switching, by the control unit, only the attachment information to an other attachment information while maintaining the display of the main information on the first display unit, and

upon detection, at the first input unit, of a screen switching operation, switching, by the control unit, the main information and the attachment information to an other main information and an attachment information associated with the other main information.

11. A computer-readable non-transitory medium on which is stored a program that, upon execution by a computer of a terminal device, causes the computer of the terminal device, which includes at least each of a first plate-shaped rectangular case having a first display unit and a first input unit that detects an operation that is input into a front surface side of the first display unit, a second plate-shaped rectangular case having a second display unit and a second input unit that detects an operation that is input into a front surface side of the second display unit, and a hinge that couples the first plate-shaped rectangular case and the second plate-shaped rectangular case, to function as:

a control unit that,

in a condition where the hinge is closed and the second display unit is located on a rear surface side of the first display unit, displays main information on an upper layer of the first display unit, and displays, concurrently with the main information, attachment information that is associated with the main information on a lower layer of the first display unit underlying the main information, and further, in an event where the second input unit detects the operation, the control unit processes the attachment information that is displayed on the first display unit in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit, and in a condition where the hinge is opened and the first display unit and the second display unit are positioned alongside in a planar manner, displays the main information and the attachment information on the first display unit and the second display unit, respectively, and further, in an event where the second input unit detects the operation, the control unit processes the attachment information that is displayed on the second display unit in accordance with the operation detected by the second input unit,

wherein when the second input unit has detected a screen switching operation, the control unit switches only the attachment information to an other attachment information while maintaining the display of the main information on the first display unit, and

when the first input unit has detected a screen switching operation, the control unit switches the main information and the attachment information to an other main information and an attachment information associated with the other main information.