Displaying and inputting apparatus

• US 20070242058A1
• Filed: 06/20/2007
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Junji
• Application Number:
  US11/812,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20070242058A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A displaying and inputting apparatus includes a touch panel display, a layout information memory which stores a plurality of layout information which sets a layout of a plurality of functions displayed on the touch panel display, a selector which selects one layout information from the plurality of layout information, and a control unit which displays a function on a touch panel display based on the layout information selected by the selector.

Claims

1. A displaying and inputting apparatus comprising:

a control panel having a touch panel display and a slide mechanism which causes said touch panel display to move to the left and the right in the lengthwise direction in order to adjust the position of the control panel;

a layout information memory which stores a plurality of layout information which sets a layout of a plurality of functions displayed on the touch panel display;

a selector which selects one layout information from said plurality of layout information; and

a control unit which displays the function on the touch panel display based on the layout information selected by the selector.

2. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a detector which detects the position moved from a predetermined position against an external unit, where the selector selects the layout information based on the position detected by the detector.

3. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the detector detects the position moved by a slide mechanism.

4. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the layout information memory stores the layout information corresponding to the right-side and the layout information corresponding to the left-side;

the selector selects the layout information corresponding to the right-side when movement to the right-side by the slide mechanism is detected by the detector, and selects the layout information corresponding to the left-side when movement to the left-side is detected by the detector.

5. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the detector detects the position moved by radio communication.

6. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the layout information memory stores the layout information corresponding to the right-side and the layout information corresponding to the left-side;

the selector selects the layout information corresponding to the right-side when movement to the right-side by radio communication is detected by the detector, and selects the layout information corresponding to the left-side when movement to the left-side is detected by the detector.

7. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a user layout information memory which stores the user layout information which sets a plurality of functions displayed on the touch panel display for each user corresponding to a registered user, wherein the selector selects from the layout information and the user layout information.

8. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an interface which connects a memory medium which stores user layout information which sets a layout of a plurality of functions displayed on the touch panel display, wherein the selector selects from the layout information and the user layout information.

9. The displaying and inputting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a selected times information memory which stores the selected times of the function displayed on the touch panel display, and a layout information generator which generates preferential layout information which sets a layout of often selected functions stored in the selected times information memory preferentially, wherein the selector selects from the layout information and the preferential layout information.