PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, BROWSING METHOD, AND BROWSING PROGRAM

• US 20100146456A1
• Filed: 01/08/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Hideaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,015,637 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/862
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• 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 3/04892 Arrangements for controlling cursor position based on codes indicative of cursor displacements from one discrete location to another, e.g. using cursor control keys associated to different directions or using the tab key arrangements for controlling cursor position based on coordinate signals G06F3/038
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/233 including a pointing device, e.g. roller key, track ball, rocker switch or joystick constructional details of pointing devices per se G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A browsing method by which within-site browsing and within-screen browsing can be switched over to each other without making the user conscious of it is provided. A control means superposes and superposingly displays a Web page and a pointer moving in response to the operation applied to a pointing device (3) and arrow keys (4) on a display (2) in the within-screen browsing. If the pointer moves out of the area, the area of the Web page to be displayed on the display (2) is changed. The control means also changes the area of the Web page displayed on the display (2) in response to the operation applied to the pointing device (3) and the arrow keys (4) in the within-site browsing. The control means then changes the within-screen browsing to the within-site browsing and vice versa.

Claims

1. A portable communication terminal comprising:

a display unit displaying information targeted for browsing on a screen thereof,

an instruction unit instructing a region of the information to be displayed on the display unit according to an operation performed by a user; and

a control unit causing the region of the information corresponding to the operation performed on the instruction unit to be displayed on the display unit,

wherein

the control unit causes, in a first state, superimposed display of the information and a pointer that moves according to the operation performed on the instruction unit on the display unit and changes the region of the information to be displayed on the display unit when the pointer moves outside the region, and

changes, in a second state, the region of the information to be displayed on the display unit according to the operation performed on the instruction unit; and

the control unit includes a state transition unit causing transition from the first state to the second state and causing transition from the second state to the first state.

2. The portable communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit changes the region of the information targeted for browsing to be displayed on the display unit when the pointer moves outside the region in the first state;

and

the state transition unit causes transition to the second state when the pointer moves outside the region in the first state.

3. The portable communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the state transition unit causes transition to the first state when the operation performed on the instruction unit is finished in the second state.

4. The portable communication terminal according to claims 1, wherein

the information targeted for browsing is a web page.

5. A browsing method of displaying information targeted for browsing on a display apparatus according to an operation performed on an instruction unit by a user, comprising:

a control step of displaying on the display apparatuses a region of the information corresponding to the operation performed on the instruction unit, wherein,

in a first state, superimposed display of the information and a pointer that moves according to the operation performed on a screen of the display apparatus is made on the a screen of the display apparatus and the region of the information to be displayed on the screen of the display apparatus is changed when the pointer moves outside the region, and

in a second state, the region of the information to be displayed on the screen of the display apparatus is changed, according to the operation performed on the instruction unit; and

a transition step of changing the region of the information to be displayed on the screen of the display apparatus when the pointer moves outside the region in the first state, thereby causing transition to the second state, and causing transition to the first state when the operation performed on the instruction unit is finished in the second state.

6. A browsing program installed in a portable communication terminal including display unit displaying information targeted for browsing on a screen thereof, the browsing program causing a computer to execute a control process that causes a region of the information corresponding to an operation performed on instruction unit by a user to be displayed on the display unit,

in a first state of the control process, superimposed display of the information and a pointer that moves according to the operation performed on the instruction unit being made on the display unit, and the region of the information to be displayed on the display unit being changed when the pointer moves outside the region;

and

in a second state of the control process, the region of the information to be displayed on the display unit being changed according to the operation performed on the instruction unit.

7. The browsing program according to claim 6, which causes the computer to execute the control process so that when the pointer moves outside the region in the first state, the region of the information targeted for browsing to be displayed on the display unit is changed, thereby causing transition to the second state, and when the operation performed on the instruction unit is finished in the second state, transition to the first state is caused.

8. A portable terminal capable of performing switching when information targeted for browsing that cannot be held in a display region is displayed, the switching being performed between:

a first browsing mode in which, when a pointer operated by a user moves outside the display region, a location of the display region of the information targeted for browsing is moved; and

a second browsing mode in which the location of the display region of the information targeted for browsing is moved according to an operation amount of the user.

9. The portable terminal according to claim 8, wherein

when the pointer moves outside the display region in the first browsing mode, the display region is moved and transition to the second browsing mode is made.

10. The portable terminal according to claim 8, wherein when a pointer operation is finished in the second browsing mode, transition to the first browsing mode is made.

11. A browsing program installed in a portable terminal and executed by a computer, the browsing program implementing a function of performing switching when information targeted for browsing and having a size that cannot be held in a display region of the portable terminal is displayed, the switching is performed between:

a first browsing mode in which, when a pointer operated by a user is moved outside the display region, a location of the display region of the information targeted for browsing is moved; and

a second browsing mode in which the display region is moved according to an operation amount of the user.