INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20090271733A1
• Filed: 11/13/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Noma, Tatsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/270,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271733A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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, an information processing apparatus includes a display unit which has a touch sensor on a screen, a detection unit which causes the touch sensor to detect that press on an arbitrary text of text data displayed on the display unit has continued for a predetermined time, a display control unit which displays a predetermined menu when the detection unit detects that the press has continued for the predetermined time, a selection unit which, when a selection start instruction to select part of the text data is selected from the displayed menu, and an instruction to scroll display of the text data is input, selects the text data to expand a selection range in a scroll direction, and a processing unit which, an execution instruction of a predetermined function is selected from the menu, processes the execution instruction for the selected text data.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit which has a touch sensor on a screen;

a detection unit which causes the touch sensor to detect that press on an arbitrary text of text data displayed on the display unit has continued for a predetermined time;

a display control unit which displays a predetermined menu when the detection unit detects that the press has continued for the predetermined time;

a selection unit which, when a selection start instruction to select part of the text data is selected from the displayed menu, and an instruction to scroll display of the text data is input, selects the text data to expand a selection range in a scroll direction; and

a processing unit which, when the selection unit selects the text data, and an execution instruction of a predetermined function is selected from the menu, processes the execution instruction for the selected text data.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the text data is scrolled in the scroll direction before the selection start instruction is input.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a display area where part of the text that is being scrolled in the text data is enlarged and displayed.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the execution instruction is displayable by scrolling in the menu.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the execution instruction includes one of copy, paste, delete, search, and cut.

6. A control method used in an information processing apparatus including a display unit which has a touch sensor on a screen, comprising:

displaying a predetermined menu when the touch sensor detects that press on an arbitrary text of text data displayed on the display unit has continued for a predetermined time;

when a selection start instruction to select part of the text data is selected from the displayed menu, and an instruction to scroll display of the text data is input, selecting the text data to expand a selection range in a scroll direction; and

when the text data is selected, and an execution instruction of a predetermined function is selected from the menu, processing the execution instruction for the selected text data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the text data is scrolled in the scroll direction before the selection start instruction is input.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising a display area where part of the text data that is being scrolled is enlarged and displayed.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the execution instruction is displayable by scrolling in the menu.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the execution instruction includes one of copy, paste, delete, search, and cut.

11. A digital storage medium which stores a program to be used in an information processing apparatus including a display unit which has a touch sensor on a screen, the program causing a computer to execute:

a detection procedure of causing the touch sensor to detect that press on an arbitrary text of text data displayed on the display unit has continued for a predetermined time;

a display procedure of displaying a predetermined menu when it is detected in the detection procedure that the press has continued for the predetermined time;

a selection procedure of, when a selection start instruction to select part of the text data is selected from the menu displayed in the display procedure, and an instruction to scroll display of the text data is input, selecting the text data to expand a selection range in a scroll direction; and

an execution procedure of, when the text data is selected in the selection procedure, and an execution instruction of a predetermined function is selected from the menu, processing the execution instruction for the selected text data.