Object display device

• US 10,459,613 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Yamada, Takashi, Aono, Tomotake
• Primary Examiner(s): Harris, Dorothy
• Application Number:
  US15/222,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20160334976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,188 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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

Abstract

An object display device is disclosed. An object display device includes a display unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display an object. The detection unit is configured to detect a location and a load of a pressing to the display unit. The control unit can control a movement of the object based on conditions of first and second pressings.

Claims

1. An object display device, comprising:

a display configured to display a plurality of objects; and

a controller communicatively coupled to a location detector and a load detector, the controller configured;

to detect a first location, which is the location of a first pressing on a first object of the plurality of objects on the display, the first pressing having a maintained first pressing load that is maintained between a zero pressure and a threshold pressure on the object;

to detect a second location, which is the location of a second pressing on the display;

to move the first object to the second location only after the second pressing is detected during the maintained first pressing load when the second pressing does not exceed the threshold pressure and is in a second location that is different location than the first location;

to not move the first object when the first pressing load exceeds the threshold pressure or when the second pressing is detected only after the maintained first pressing load is released, and

when a second object is displayed at the second location and the second object does not correspond to a folder, to switch the first object and the second object, such that the first object is displayed in the second location and the second object is displayed in the first location.

2. The object display device of claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to execute the first object when the first pressing load satisfies the threshold pressure.

3. The object display device of claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to move the first object to the second location when the second pressing is maintained after the maintained first pressing load is released.

4. The object display device of claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to move the first object to a folder specified by the second location when the second location corresponds to a folder.

5. A method of controlling an object on a display device, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of objects on a display;

detecting a first location, which is the location of a first pressing on a first object of the plurality of objects on the display, the first pressing having a maintained first pressing load that is maintained between a zero pressure and a threshold pressure on the object;

detecting a second location, which is the location of a second pressing on the display;

moving the first object to the second location only after the second pressing is detected during the maintained first pressing load when the second pressing does not exceed the threshold pressure and is in a different location than the first location;

not moving the first object when the first pressing load exceeds the threshold pressure or when the second pressing is detected only after the maintained first pressing load is released, and

when a second object is displayed at the second location and the second object does not correspond to a folder, switching the first object and the second object, such that the first object is displayed in the second location and the second object is displayed in the first location.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising

executing the first object when the first pressing load satisfies the threshold pressure.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising

moving the first object to the second location when the second pressing is maintained after the maintained first pressing load is released.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising

moving the first object to a folder specified by the second location when the second location corresponds to a folder.