ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20110141044A1
• Filed: 12/09/2010
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: SUZUKAWA, Hajime
• Application Number:
  US12/964,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20110141044A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1649 the additional display being independently orientable, e.g. for presenting information to a second user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first touch panel and a second touch panel, a display device, a detection module, a setting module, a processor, and a display module. The detection module is configured to detect a predetermined operation on the first touch panel. The setting module is configured to set a process mode corresponding to the predetermined operation when the predetermined operation is detected by the detection module. The processor is configured to execute a process corresponding to the process mode in accordance with an operation on the second touch panel. The display module is configured to display on the display device a result of the process by the processor.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a first touch panel and a second touch panel;

a display device;

a detection module configured to detect a predetermined operation on the first touch panel;

a setting module configured to set a process mode corresponding to the predetermined operation when the predetermined operation is detected by the detection module;

a processor configured to execute a process corresponding to the process mode in accordance with an operation on the second touch panel; and

a display module configured to display on the display device a result of the process by the processor.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the detection module is configured to detect an operation of selecting an object which is displayed on the display device, and

the setting module is configured to set the process mode corresponding to a process for the object.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the operation of selecting the object comprises an operation of moving a first position and a second position, at which the first touch panel is touched, to an area corresponding to the object displayed on the display device, such that a distance between the first position and the second position is shorter than a predetermined distance.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the operation of selecting the object comprises an operation in which a position of contact with the first touch panel is a position corresponding to the object displayed on the display device, and a time period of the contact is a predetermined time or longer.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the operation of selecting the object comprises an operation in which a position of contact with the first touch panel is a position corresponding to the object displayed on the display device, and an area of the contact is a predetermined value or more.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the operation of selecting the object comprises an operation in which the first touch panel is touched at a first position corresponding to the object displayed on the display device, and the first position is moved, while the touch is sustained, to a second position on the first touch panel within a predetermined range of the first position.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure of contact with the first touch panel,

wherein the operation of selecting the object comprises an operation in which a position of contact with the first touch panel is a position corresponding to the object displayed on the display device, and the pressure of contact detected by the pressure sensor is a predetermined value or more.