DISPLAY AND OPERATION DEVICE, OPERATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

• US 20090267912A1
• Filed: 03/24/2009
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: WADA, Mitsuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,294,679 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A display and operation device includes a display unit; a touch panel disposed on a display panel of the display unit; and a control unit for displaying a plurality of icons as an operation screen on the display panel of the display unit, the size of each of the plurality of icons being larger for the icons that are farther from a base point positioned in the vicinity of a periphery of the display panel on the device.

Claims

1. A display and operation device comprising:

a display unit;

a touch panel disposed on a display panel of the display unit; and

a control unit for displaying a plurality of icons as an operation screen on the display panel of the display unit, the size of each of the plurality of icons being larger for the icons that are farther from a base point positioned in the vicinity of a periphery of the display panel on the device.

2. The display and operation device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit displays the operation screen upon selection by a user, the selection being made between a first operation screen having a first point on the device as the base point and a second operation screen having a second point on the device as the base point, the second point being different from the first point.

3. The display and operation device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit displays the operation screen upon selection by a user, the selection being made among a first operation screen having a first point on the device as the base point, a second operation screen having a second point on the device as the base point, and a third operation screen having a third point on the device as the base point, the second point being different from the first point, the third point being positioned between the first point and the second point.

4. The display and operation device according to any one of claims 1 to 3,

wherein the device is a mobile terminal including a key operation unit with a plurality of operation keys, the key operation unit being different from the display unit.

5. An operation device comprising:

a key operation unit disposed in an area of the device, the key operation unit including a plurality of operation keys the size of each of which is larger for the operation keys that are farther from a base point positioned in the vicinity of a periphery of the area of the device.

6. The operation device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a transmission unit for transmitting a signal as a remote control signal to a target device by optical communication or radio communication, the signal being generated in accordance with an operation performed with the operation keys.

7. A program that causes a control unit including a computer, the control unit being disposed in a display and operation device including a display unit and a touch panel disposed on a display panel of the display unit, to display a plurality of icons on the display panel of the display unit as an operation screen, the size of each of the plurality of icons being larger for the icons that are farther from a base point positioned in the vicinity of a periphery of the display panel on the device.