Content display device, content display method and program

• US 10,620,818 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Issued: 04/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Koyama, Noriyuki, Terada, Satoshi, Urano, Kazunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Dharia, Prabodh M
• Application Number:
  US15/050,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20160378290A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,512 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184, 345650, 345676, 345684, 715716, 715741, 715780, 715823, 710 17, 348239
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A content display device includes: a display unit for displaying a content in a displayable area; a position detecting unit for detecting a touch position; a determination unit for determining whether or not the detected touch position is on the displayed content; and, a content movement control unit that, when the determination unit has determined that the detected touch position is on the displayed content while part of the content resides outside the displayable area of the display unit, performs a control so as to move and display the content in such a manner that an entire content is displayed within the displayable area.

Claims

1. A content display device comprising:

a display unit configured to a content in a displayable area which is a screen;

a position detecting unit for detecting a touch position tapped by a user in the displayable area;

a determination unit for determining whether or not the detected touch position is on the displayed content; and

,

a content movement control unit that, when the determination unit has determined that the detected touch position is on the displayed content while part of the content resides outside the displayable area of the display unit, performs a control so as to move and display the content in such a manner that an entire content is displayed within the displayable area, wherein

the display unit includes a first displayable area and a second displayable area which are different screens,

the content is displayed extending across the first displayable area and the second displayable area,

the content movement control unit performs a control so as to move and display the content in such a manner that, after the detected tap position has been determined to be on the displayed content, the entire content can be alternatively displayed within either the first displayable area or the second displayable area that includes the tap position, and an edge area of the entire content is positioned in proximity to the boundary of an alternative displayable area of the first displayable area and the second displayable area, the alternative displayable area including the tap position.

2. The content display device according to claim 1, wherein when a multi-touch is detected, the determination unit determines whether or not the touch position is on the displayed content.

3. The content display device according to claim 1, wherein when a double-tap is detected, the determination unit determines whether or not the touch position is on the displayed content.

4. The content display device according to claim 1, wherein when a touch-and-hold has been detected for a predetermined period of time, the determination unit determines whether or not the touch position is on the displayed content.

7. The content display device according to claim 1, further comprising a flick operation detecting unit for detecting a flick operation,

wherein the content movement control unit performs a control so as to move and display the content in such a manner that, when the detected touch position has been determined to be on the displayed content, the entire content is displayed within the displayable area that is located on a direction of the flick operation.

5. A content display method comprising the steps of:

displaying a content extending across a first displayable area and a second displayable area which are different screens;

detecting a touch position tapped by a user in the displayable area;

determining whether or not the detected touch position is on the displayed content; and

,

after, in the determining, it has been determined that the detected tap position is on the displayed content, moving and displaying the content in such a manner that an entire content can be alternatively displayed within either the first displayable area or the second displayable area that includes the tap position, and an edge area of the entire content is positioned in proximity to the boundary of an alternative displayable area of the first displayable area and the second displayable area, the alternative displayable area including the tap position.

6. A program that causes a computer to realize:

a display function for displaying a content extending across a first displayable area and a second displayable area which are different screens;

a position detecting function for detecting a touch position tapped by a user in the displayable area;

a determination function for determining whether or not the detected touch position is on the displayed content; and

,

a content movement control function that, after the determination function has determined that the detected tap position is on the displayed content, performs a control so as to move and display the content in such a manner that an entire content can be alternatively displayed within either the first displayable area or the second display device that includes the tap position, and an edge area of the entire content is positioned in proximity to the boundary of an alternative displayable area of the first displayable area and the second displayable area, the alternative displayable area including the tap position.