CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH CONTROL PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED

• US 20100225662A1
• Filed: 03/04/2010
• Published: 09/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Nakayama, Tomofumi
• Application Number:
  US12/717,184
• Publication Number:
  US 20100225662A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/589
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A contact position is obtained from an input device. As an operation mode of a display device, a cleaning corresponding mode which disenables an operation corresponding to cleaning of a screen and using the input device on an object to be displayed on the screen is started. In the case where the operation mode is the cleaning corresponding mode, when the screen is touched, the color of a pixel in the screen corresponding to the contact position is changed to a predetermined color. When the number of pixels whose color is changed to the predetermined color becomes to a predetermined number or more, the cleaning corresponding mode is finished.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for controlling an operation of a display device having an input device for inputting a touched position in a screen as a contact position, comprising:

a contact position obtaining device configured to obtain the contact position from the input device;

a cleaning-corresponding-mode starting device configured to start, as an operation mode of the display device, a cleaning corresponding mode which disenables an operation corresponding to cleaning of the screen and using the input device on an object to be displayed on the screen;

a color changing device configured to, in the case where the operation mode is the cleaning corresponding mode, when the screen is touched, change color of a pixel in the screen corresponding to the contact position to a predetermined color; and

a cleaning-corresponding-mode finishing device configured to finish the cleaning corresponding mode when the number of pixels whose color is changed to the predetermined color becomes to a predetermined number or larger.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when the contact position obtaining device determines that the contact position moves on the screen while continuously obtaining the contact position, the color changing device changes the color of the pixel corresponding to the contact position to the predetermined color.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pressure information obtaining device configured to obtain pressure information corresponding to a pressure applied to the screen when the screen is touched,

wherein in the case where the pressure applied to the contact position is equal to or higher than a predetermined pressure on the basis of the pressure information obtained by the pressure information obtaining device, the color changing device changes the color of the pixel corresponding to the contact position to the predetermined color.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when the number of pixels corresponding to a range simultaneously touched on the screen is equal to or larger than a predetermined number on the basis of the contact position obtained by the contact position obtaining device, the color changing device changes the color of the pixel corresponding to the range to the predetermined color.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a use information storing device configured to store use information indicating at least one of history of using the input device and use time thereof; and

a device of setting the necessary number of passage times, which sets the necessary number of passage times on the screen on the basis of the stored use information,

wherein the color changing device counts the number of passage times of the contact position on each of the pixels by the movement, and changes the color of the pixel in which the number reaches the necessary number of passage times, to the predetermined color.

6. The control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the color changing device changes the color of the pixel corresponding to the contact position to a color corresponding to the contact position in a predetermined image in place of the predetermined color.

7. The control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the cleaning-corresponding-mode starting device starts the cleaning corresponding mode, and sets the color of the screen to a color different from the predetermined color, and

the color changing device changes the color of the pixel corresponding to the contact position from the different color to the predetermined color.

8. The control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a processing device configured to execute a process according to an operation using the input device when the operation mode is not the cleaning corresponding mode, and configured to invalidate the operation except for a change of the color of the pixel to the predetermined color in response to a touch in the screen when the operation mode is the cleaning corresponding mode.

9. A control method of controlling an operation of a display device having an input device for inputting a touched position in a screen as a contact position, comprising:

a cleaning-corresponding-mode starting step of starting, as an operation mode of the display device, a cleaning corresponding mode which disenables an operation corresponding to cleaning of the screen and using the input device on an object to be displayed on the screen;

a color changing step of, in the case where the operation mode is the cleaning corresponding mode, obtaining the contact position from the input device, and when the screen is touched, changing color of a pixel in the screen corresponding to the contact position to a predetermined color; and

a cleaning-corresponding-mode finishing step of finishing the cleaning corresponding mode when the number of pixels whose color is changed to the predetermined color becomes to a predetermined number or larger.

10. A computer-readable recording medium in which a control processing program is recorded, the control processing program making a computer included in a control apparatus for controlling an operation of a display device having an input device for inputting a touched position in a screen as a contact position, function as:

a contact position obtaining device configured to obtain the contact position from the input device;

a cleaning-corresponding-mode starting device configured to start, as an operation mode of the display device, a cleaning corresponding mode which disenables an operation corresponding to cleaning of the screen and using the input device on an object to be displayed on the screen;

a color changing device configured to, in the case where the operation mode is the cleaning corresponding mode, when the screen is touched, change color of a pixel in the screen corresponding to the contact position to a predetermined color; and

a cleaning-corresponding-mode finishing device configured to finish the cleaning corresponding mode when the number of pixels whose color is changed to the predetermined color becomes to a predetermined number or larger.