Input display apparatus and mobile radio terminal

• US 20090021387A1
• Filed: 02/07/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hosono, Masafumi
• Application Number:
  US12/069,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20090021387A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/686.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

When a user brings a finger thereof or the like close to a display unit, a touch-screen input unit detects the finger or the like, and the control unit displays a pointer indicating a position to be accepted, on the display unit to show the pointer to the user. If the finger or the like contacts the touch-screen input unit after the pointer is displayed, the control unit executes a process corresponding to the object closest to the pointer.

Claims

1. An input display apparatus, comprising:

a display unit which displays information;

a detection unit provided in a display area of the display unit to detect a position of an object brought close to the apparatus in an non-contact fashion, in the display area; and

a display control unit which displays information at a position based on the position detected by the detection unit, in the display area of the display unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays at the position detected by the detection unit a pointer indicating the detected position.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects a displayed object closest to the pointer if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit displays the pointer.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays a pointer at a position offset from the position detected by the detection unit in a preset distance.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects a displayed object closest to the pointer if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit displays the pointer.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising an execution unit which executes a process corresponding to the object if the selection unit selects the object.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit detects a displayed object closest to the position detected by the detection unit, deforms the object and displays the deformed object on the display unit.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects the object if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit deforms and displays the object.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising an execution unit which executes a process corresponding to the object if the selection unit selects the object.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit detects a displayed object closest to the position detected by the detection unit, adds information to the object and displays the object.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects the object if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit adds the information to the object and displays the object.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising an execution unit which executes a process corresponding to the object if the selection unit selects the object.

13. A mobile radio terminal establishing radio communications with a base station accommodated in a network, comprising:

a display unit which displays information;

a detection unit provided in a display area of the display unit to detect a position of an object brought close to the apparatus in an non-contact fashion, in the display area; and

a display control unit which displays information at a position based on the position detected by the detection unit, in the display area of the display unit.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the display control unit displays at the position detected by the detection unit a pointer indicating the detected position.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects a displayed object closest to the pointer if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit displays the pointer.

16. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the display control unit displays a pointer at a position offset from the position detected by the detection unit in a preset distance.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects a displayed object closest to the pointer if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit displays the pointer.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising an execution unit which executes a process corresponding to the object if the selection unit selects the object.

19. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the display control unit detects a displayed object closest to the position detected by the detection unit, deforms the object and displays the deformed object on the display unit.

20. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects the object if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit deforms and displays the object.

21. The apparatus according to claim 20, further comprising an execution unit which executes a process corresponding to the object if the selection unit selects the object.

22. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the display control unit detects a displayed object closest to the position detected by the detection unit, adds information to the object and displays the object.

23. The apparatus according to claim 22, wherein the detection unit detects contact of an object, and

the apparatus further comprises a selection unit which selects the object if the detection unit detects the contact while the display control unit adds the information to the object and displays the object.

24. The apparatus according to claim 23, further comprising an execution unit which executes a process corresponding to the object if the selection unit selects the object.