Terminal Device With Display Function

• US 20100315371A1
• Filed: 01/23/2009
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Koizumi, Michiaki, Katsu, Eita
• Granted Patent: US 8,432,369 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• 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 1/236 including keys on side or rear faces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A terminal device with a display function enables only an operation of a desired operation key valid, and easily perform the invalidation operation. In response to switching to a predetermined function mode by manipulating a jog dial, an image in the switched function mode is displayed in a display surface, based on an image signal from a display control section. A bar is located on a borderline between a contents area and an operation area in an initial state of displaying an image. When the jog dial is manipulated by the user to thereby move the bar from the borderline to a predetermined position within the operation area, a CPU determines that the position of the bar has been moved. Then, the CPU detects a new position of the bar, and makes an operation with respect to the operation key located between the bar and the borderline invalid.

Claims

1. A terminal device with a display function, comprising:

a display section;

a display control section which divides a display area of the display section into a first display area and a second display area to display images corresponding to the respective areas;

operation keys to be displayed in the second display area;

a moving element which is displayed in the display area, and is movable in an array direction of the first display area and the second display area;

a first operating section which allows a user to move the moving element; and

a function control section which makes an operation of the operation key located between a stop position of the moving element and the first display area in the array direction invalid.

2. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second operating section which allows the user to perform an operation of prohibiting movement of the moving element, wherein the display control section prohibits movement of the moving element in response to user'"'"'manipulation of the second operating section.

3. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third operating section which allows the user to perform an operation of switching a function mode; and

a storing section which stores a position of the moving element and the function mode in correlation to each other, wherein

the display control section displays, in response to user'"'"'s manipulation of the third operating section, an image in accordance with the function mode corresponding to the position of the moving element in the respective areas obtained by dividing the display area by the moving element.

4. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third operating section which allows the user to perform an operating of switching a function mode; and

a storing section which stores a ratio of each area obtained by dividing the display area by the moving element, and the function mode in correlation to each other, wherein the display control section displays, in response to user'"'"'s manipulation of the third operating section, an image in accordance with the function mode corresponding to the ratio in the respective areas obtained by dividing the display area by the moving element.

5. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, wherein

the function control section makes a part of functions allocated to the operation key valid in a state that the operation key is set as invalid.

6. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a table, in which a function to be changed in a setting when the operation key is made invalid is correlated to the corresponding operation key, wherein

the function control section changes the function corresponding to the key which is made invalid by movement of the moving element, based on the table.

7. A terminal device with a display function, comprising:

a display section;

an area dividing section which divides a display area of the display section into a first display area and a second display area;

a display control section which displays operation keys in the second display area;

a moving element which is displayed in the display area, and is movable in an array direction of the first display area and the second display area;

a first operating section which allows a user to move the moving element; and

a function control section which makes an operation of the operation key displayed between the moving element and the first display area invalid, in response to stopping of the moving element after the moving element is moved by the first operating section.

8. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 7, further comprising:

a second operating section which allows the user to perform an operation of prohibiting movement of the moving element.

9. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 7, wherein

the function control section makes a part of functions allocated to the operation key valid in a state that the operation key is set as invalid.

10. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 7, further comprising:

a table, in which a function to be changed in a setting when the operation key is made invalid is correlated to the corresponding operation key, wherein

the function control section changes the function corresponding to the key which is made invalid by movement of the moving element, based on the table.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium for a computer in a terminal device, the non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereo one or more sequences of instructions for causing one or more processors to perform the steps for displaying information in a display area, the steps comprising:

dividing a display area into a first display area and a second display area,

displaying operation keys in the second display area, and

displaying, in the display area, a moving element movable in an array direction of the first display area and the second display area,

making an operation of an operation key displayed between the moving element and the first display area invalid, in response to stopping of the moving element after the moving element is moved in the second display area.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium for a computer in a terminal device, the non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereof one or more sequences of instructions for causing one or more processors to perform the steps for displaying information in a display area, the steps comprising:

making an operation of an operation key between a moving element and a boundary of the display area invalid, in response to stopping of the moving element after the moving element is moved in a display area of the operation key.