Display control apparatus equipped with touch panel, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor

• US 10,642,472 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2017
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Kazuhiro, Narushima, Hideki, Horikirikawa, Kazuya, Yamazaki, Shingo, Kaku, Wataru, Takita, Soushi, Hokari, Yuko
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Gene W
• Application Number:
  US15/697,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20180074628A1
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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

A display control apparatus that is capable of making a user feel a fact that a user'"'"'s operation is received and of notifying the user that an end of a scrolling range has come. A display unit displays a displaying object. An operation detection unit detects a user'"'"'s operation to the display unit. A display control unit scrolls the displaying object when the operation detection unit detects an instructing operation of scrolling, and displays a shadow of the displaying object and moves the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation when the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a displaying object;

a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and

at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to;

detect a user'"'"'s operation to said display unit;

scroll the displaying object in a case where an instructing operation of scrolling is detected as the user'"'"'s operation, and display a shadow of the displaying object and move the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation in a case where the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range; and

move the shadow so that the shadow becomes smaller, increasingly dense, and disappears as the shadow returns to the position of the displaying object in a case where the at least one processor no longer detects the instructing operation.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor displays the shadow so that density of the shadow becomes thinner as the instructing operation continues after displaying the shadow.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor changes a movement speed of the shadow of the displaying object according to a scrolling speed to the end of the scrolling range.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the shadow of the displaying object is displayed without distorting the displaying object and is moved in the direction opposite to the direction of scrolling, so as to give the user an illusion as if the displaying object were moving in the direction of scrolling.

5. A control method for a display control apparatus that displays a displaying object on a display unit, the control method comprising:

a detection step of detecting a user'"'"'s operation to the display unit;

a first control step of scrolling the displaying object in a case where an instructing operation of scrolling is detected as the user'"'"'s operation in said detection step;

a second control step of displaying a shadow of the displaying object and moving the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation in a case where the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range; and

a third control step of moving the shadow so that the shadow becomes smaller, increasingly dense, and disappears as the shadow returns to the position of the displaying object in a case where the instructing operation is no longer detected.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a control method for a display control apparatus that displays a displaying object on a display unit, the control method comprising:

a detection step of detecting a user'"'"'s operation to the display unit;

a first control step of scrolling the displaying object in a case where an instructing operation of scrolling is detected as the user'"'"'s operation in said detection step;

a second control step of displaying a shadow of the displaying object and moving the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation in a case where the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range, and

a third control step of moving the shadow so that the shadow becomes smaller, increasingly dense, and disappears as the shadow returns to the position of the displaying object in a case where the instructing operation is no longer detected.