User Interface Control Program and Method for Controlling User Interface

• US 20080235612A1
• Filed: 03/18/2008
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: NAKAGAWA, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US12/050,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235612A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1253 Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

There is provided a user interface control program by which a process for controlling a user interface in a computer equipped with a control device and a display device is performed by the control device. The process performed by the user interface control program includes displaying a graphic interface of a slider type for instructing a predetermined performance in which a state of a predetermined index which continuously changes is specified on the display device, when a position except an end of the graphic interface is instructed, instructing the predetermined performance in which a state of the predetermined index corresponding to the instructed position is specified, and when a position of an end of the graphic interface is instructed, instructing a performance different from the predetermined performance.

Claims

1. A user interface control program by which a process for controlling a user interface in a computer equipped with a control device and a display device is performed by the control device, the process performed by the user interface control program comprising:

displaying a graphic interface of a slider type for instructing a predetermined performance in which a state of a predetermined index which continuously changes is specified on the display device;

when a position except an end of the graphic interface of the slider type is instructed, instructing the predetermined performance in which a state of the predetermined index corresponding to the instructed position is specified; and

when a position of an end of the graphic interface of the slider type is instructed, instructing a performance different from the predetermined performance.

2. The user interface control program according to claim 1, wherein a performance instructed when a position of one end of the graphic interface is instructed is different from a performance instructed when a position of the other end of the graphic interface is instructed.

3. The user interface control program according to claim 1, wherein an icon for indicating a performance to be instructed when a position of an end is instructed is displayed at the vicinity of the end of the graphic interface.

4. The user interface control program according to claim 3, wherein when the icon is instructed, a performance indicated by the icon is instructed.

5. The user interface control program according to claim 2, wherein the user interface is used for displaying information about a plurality of data on the display device,

when a position except the ends of the graphic interface is instructed, display of images about the plurality of data to which an enlargement factor in accordance with the instructed position is specified is instructed,

when a position one end of the graphic interface is instructed, display of character information related to the plurality of data is instructed, and

when a position of the other end of the graphic interface is instructed, display of an image about predetermined data selected from the plurality of data is instructed.

6. A user interface control method for controlling a user interface in a computer equipped with a control device and a display device, the user interface control method performed by the control device comprising:

displaying a graphic interface of a slider type for instructing a predetermined performance in which a state of a predetermined index which continuously changes is specified on the display device;

when a position except an end of the graphic interface is instructed, instructing the predetermined performance in which a state of the predetermined index corresponding to the instructed position is specified; and

when a position of an end of the graphic interface is instructed, instructing a performance different from the predetermined performance.