Information processing apparatus

• US 20030206202A1
• Filed: 05/01/2003
• Published: 11/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Moriya, Takashiro
• Application Number:
  US10/427,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20030206202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/846
• 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 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03548 Sliders, in which the moving part moves in a plane
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

To provide an information processing apparatus which does not block miniaturization, weight saving and low-profile making and prevents a malfunction. It has a contact detection portion for detecting contact with an icon displayed in a touch panel portion, a slide detection portion for detecting a slide of the touch panel portion against an information processing apparatus body, and an execution portion for, in the case where the slide detection portion detects the slide of the touch panel portion 3 in a state in which the contact detection portion is detecting the contact with the icon, starting an application program and opening a file corresponding to the icon.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus wherein:

a display portion for displaying an icon and slidable against an information processing apparatus body;

a contact detection portion for detecting contact with said icon displayed in said display portion;

a slide detection portion for detecting a slide of said display portion against the information processing apparatus body; and

an execution portion for, in the case where said slide detection portion detects the slide of said display portion in a state in which said contact detection portion is detecting contact with said icon, starting an application program and opening a file corresponding to the icon are provided.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display portion is constituted to be slidable by being connected to said information processing apparatus body with at least one elastic body.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said elastic body is connected to a rear face or a side face of said display portion.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of said detection portions has a piezoelectric element and performs detection from the piezoelectric element according to an electrical signal.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said slide detection portion detects the slide based on a relative slide distance between said display portion and said information processing apparatus body.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein an image processing portion for displacing a displayable area of said display portion in an opposite direction to a slide direction of said display portion based on detection results of said slide detection portion is provided.