INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20090058827A1
• Filed: 07/21/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaneko, Yoshihiro
• Application Number:
  US12/176,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20090058827A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

According to one embodiment, the information processing device includes a display provided with a touch sensor on a display surface thereof, a virtual display section capable of virtually displaying an area larger than a maximum display area of the display, a mode switch section configured to switch the display from a first mode in which the maximum display area of the display is presented to a second mode in which an area of a screen of the virtual display section, and a display area panning section configured to, when the display is switched to the second mode and when the touch sensor detects that one of predetermined areas of the display is touched, pan the display area so that a not-shown area of the virtual display section that corresponds to the touched area is presented on the display.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a display provided with a touch sensor on a display surface thereof;

a virtual display section capable of virtually displaying an area larger than a maximum display area of the display;

a mode switch section configured to switch the display from a first mode in which the maximum display area of the display is presented to a second mode in which an area of a screen of the virtual display section that is to be presented on the display is designated; and

a display area panning section configured to, when the display is switched to the second mode and when the touch sensor detects that one of predetermined areas of the display is touched, pan the display area so that a not-shown area of the virtual display section that corresponds to the touched area is presented on the display.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein buttons are presented in the predetermined areas to show panning directions of the display area.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the touch is detected when the display surface of the display is touched for at least a predetermined length of time.

4. An information processing method adopted for an information processing device having a display provided with a touch sensor on a display surface thereof, comprising:

presenting a screen of a maximum display area of the display, which is a part of a screen on a virtual display section capable of virtually displaying an area larger than the maximum display area of the display, on the display;

receiving an instruction of switching the display from a first mode in which the screen of the maximum display area is presented to a second mode in which an area of the screen of the virtual display section that is to be presented on the display is designated;

detecting with the touch sensor that one of predetermined areas of the display is touched; and

panning the display area to a not-shown area of the virtual display section that corresponds to the detected area so that the not-shown area is presented on the display.

5. The information processing method according to claim 4, wherein, when switched to the second mode, buttons are displayed to show corresponding panning directions of the display area in the predetermined areas.

6. The information processing method according to claim 4, wherein in detection of the touch, a length of time of continuous touch of the display surface of the display is counted and the touch is detected when the length of time is equal to or greater than a predetermined length.

7. A program executed by a computer having a display provided with a touch sensor on a display surface thereon, the program causing the computer to implement procedures of:

presenting a screen of a maximum display area of the display, which is a part of a screen on a virtual display section capable of virtually displaying an area larger than the maximum display area of the display, on the display;

receiving an instruction of switching the display from a first mode in which the screen of the maximum display area is presented on the display to a second mode in which an area of the screen of the virtual display section that is to be presented on the display is designated;

detecting with the touch sensor that one of predetermined areas of the display is touched when the display is switched to the second mode; and

panning the display area to a not-shown area of the virtual display section that corresponds to the detected area so that the not-shown area is presented on the display.