Graphic display control device for displaying graph and graphic and recording medium

• US 20070046674A1
• Filed: 11/03/2006
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Sudoh, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US11/592,353
• Publication Number:
  US 20070046674A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A graphic display control device easily changes a display of a graph or graphic by operating an area where a graph or graphic is generally displayed. When a CPU detects trace execution inputting, the CPU displays a trace pointer on a graph, and simultaneously displays coordinates at which the trace pointer is positioned. Further, when the CPU detects an operation of a graph controller by an input pen, the CPU adds a predetermined value to an x-coordinate value of the trace pointer to perform tracing of the graph.

Claims

1. A graphic display control device comprising:

a first display area which displays a function equation;

a second display area which displays a first graph corresponding to the function equation displayed in the first display area;

a selector to select a part of the function equation displayed in the first display area in accordance with a user operation;

a detector to detect, after the selector selects the part of the function equation, a user-input instruction to display a graph corresponding to the selected part of the function equation; and

a graph display controller which displays a second graph in the second display area based on the selected part of the function equation when the detector detects the instruction after the selector selects the part of the function equation.

2. The graphic display control device according to claim 1, wherein the instruction detected by the detector comprises a designation of the second display area by a user operation after the selector selects the part of the function equation.

3. The graphic display control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an equation display controller which displays the selected part of the function equation in the first display area.

4. The graphic display control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a touch pen;

wherein the selector selects the part of the function equation in accordance with a touch operation with the touch pen, and the instruction detected by the detector comprises a designation of the second display area with the touch pen.

5. The graphic display control device according to claim 1, wherein the graph display controller displays the second graph so as to overlap with the first graph.

6. A graphic display control device comprising:

means for displaying a function equation in a first display area;

means for displaying a first graph corresponding to the displayed function equation in a second display area;

means for selecting a part of the function equation displayed in the first display area in accordance with a user operation;

means for detecting, after the part of the function equation is selected, a user-input instruction to display a graph corresponding to the selected part of the function equation; and

graphic display control means for displaying a second graph in the second display area based on the selected part of the function equation when the detecting means detects the instruction after the selecting means selects the part of the function equation.

7. The graphic display control device according to claim 6, wherein the instruction detected by the detecting means comprises a designation of the second display area by a user operation after the selecting means selects the part of the function equation.

8. The graphic display control device according to claim 6, further comprising:

equation display control means for displaying the selected part of the function equation in the first display area.

9. The graphic display control device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a touch pen;

wherein the selecting means selects the part of the function equation in accordance with a touch operation with the touch pen, and the instruction detected by the detecting means comprises a designation of the second display area with the touch pen.

10. The graphic display control device according to claim 6, wherein the graph display control means displays the second graph so as to overlap with the first graph.

11. A computer-readable recording medium having a computer program stored therein that is executable by a CPU of a graphic display control device to cause the CPU to execute functions comprising:

displaying a function equation in a first display area of the graphic display control device;

displaying a first graph corresponding to the displayed function equation in a second display area of the graphic display control device;

selecting a part of the function equation displayed in the first display area in accordance with a user operation;

detecting, after the part of the function equation is selected, a user-input instruction to display a graph corresponding to the selected part of the function equation; and

displaying a second graph in the second display area based on the selected part of the function equation when the instruction is detected after the part of the function equation is selected.

12. The graphic display control device according to claim 11, wherein the user-input instruction comprises a designation of the second display area by a user operation after the part of the function equation is selected.

13. The graphic display control device according to claim 11, further comprising:

displaying the selected part of the function equation in the first display area.

14. The graphic display control device according to claim 11, wherein the part of the function equation is selected in accordance with a touch operation with a touch pen, and the user-input instruction comprises a designation of the second display area with the touch pen.

15. The graphic display control device according to claim 11, wherein the second graph is displayed so as to overlap with the first graph.