Electronic device, control method, and control program

• US 20060034043A1
• Filed: 08/08/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mukai, Minoru, Hisano, Katsumi, Ozawa, Masanori, Furukawa, Ryo
• Application Number:
  US11/198,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20060034043A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.40
• 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 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1679 for locking or maintaining the movable parts of the enclosure in a fixed position, e.g. latching mechanism at the edge of the display in a laptop or for the screen protective cover of a PDA G06F1/1681 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders

Abstract

An electronic device includes a first display device having a display screen, an input device for acquiring a first information indicating a touch position on the display screen, a storing device for storing emulation information used to convert the first information into a second information indicating a touch position on an operating system, and a converting means for converting the first information indicating the touch position acquired by the input device into the second information indicating the touch position on the operating system, based on the emulation information stored in the storing device.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a first display device having a display screen;

an input device configured to acquire a first information indicating a touch position on the display screen;

a storing device configured to store emulation information used to convert the first information into a second information indicating a touch position on an operating system; and

a converting unit configured to convert the first information indicating the touch position acquired by the input device into the second information indicating the touch position on the operating system, based on the emulation information stored in the storing device.

2. An electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second display device having a display screen;

wherein the second display device displays the second information converted by the converting unit on the display screen.

3. An electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display controlling unit configured to change an input interface screen of the input device.

4. An electronic device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display controlling unit configured to change an input interface screen of the input device.

5. An electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communicating unit configured to transmit the second information converted by the converting unit to an external device.

6. An electronic device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a hardware position information holding unit configured to hold a position information of a built-in hardware.

7. An electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the display controlling unit carries out the control which displays a position of the hardware on the display screen of the first display device, which corresponds to the position information of the hardware position information holding unit.

8. An electronic device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a hardware position information holding unit configured to hold a position information of an external hardware.

9. An electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the display controlling unit carries out the control which displays a position of the hardware on the display screen of the first display device, which corresponds to the position information of the hardware position information holding unit.

10. An electronic device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a data processing unit configured to execute a data processing of the hardware.

11. An electronic device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a data processing unit configured to execute a data processing of the hardware.

12. An electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an emulation information buffer to store the emulation information.

13. An electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the emulation information buffer is formed in the operating system.

14. An electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the emulation information buffer is connected to the converting unit.

15. An electronic device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a hinge to joint swingably the first display device and the second display device.

16. An electronic device control method, comprising:

displaying an input interface screen on a display screen of a first display device;

acquiring a position that is touched in an input device on the input interface screen, as a first information;

storing an emulation information used to convert the first information into a second information indicating a touched position on an operating system; and

converting the first information into the second information indicating the touched position on the operating system, based on the emulation information.

17. An electronic device control method according to claim 16, further comprising:

displaying the second information on a display screen of a second display device.

18. An electronic device control method according to claim 17, wherein the emulation information is stored in an emulation buffer, and when an emulation information same as the emulation information stored in the emulation buffer is used, the first information is converted into the second information by using the emulation information stored.

19. An electronic device control program, comprising:

displaying an input interface screen on a display screen of a first display device;

acquiring a position that is touched in an input device on the input interface screen, as a first information;

storing an emulation information used to convert the first information into a second information indicating a touched position on an operating system; and

converting the first information into the second information indicating the touched position on the operating system, based on the emulation information.