PORTABLE COMPUTER DEVICE

• US 20110185308A1
• Filed: 08/31/2010
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: MACHIDA, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/872,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20110185308A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

In one embodiment, a portable computer device is equipped with a display for displaying information, a sensor for detecting a touch to the display, and a control unit. The control unit displays a first image data and a second imaged data which is an enlarged image data of the first image data, scrolls the enlarged image data when a tracing operation is detected by the sensor and a scroll mode is set, and selects at least one object contained in the enlarged image when the tracing operation is detected by the sensor and a selection mode is set.

Claims

1. A portable computer device comprising:

a display for displaying information;

a sensor for detecting a touch to the display;

a control unit for displaying a first image data and a second imaged data which is an enlarged image data of the first image data, scrolling the enlarged image data when a tracing operation is detected by the sensor and a scroll mode is set, and selecting at least one object contained in the enlarged image when the tracing operation is detected by the sensor and a selection mode is set.

2. The portable computer device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit scrolls the enlarged image data or selects the at least one object contained in the enlarged image data only when coordinate information detected by the sensor is in an area where the at least one object is displayed.

3. The portable computer device according to claim 1, the control unit controls to display a switch button on the display so as to switch between the scroll mode and the selection mode by touching the switch button.

4. The portable computer device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls to display a window, in which the enlarged image is displayed, on the display.

5. The portable computer device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one object contained in the enlarged image data is folder in a hierarchical tree structure.

6. A portable computer device comprising:

means for displaying information;

means for detecting a touch to the display;

means for displaying a first image data and a second imaged data which is an enlarged image data of the first image data;

means for scrolling the enlarged image data when a tracing operation is detected by the sensor and a scroll mode is set; and

means for selecting at least one object contained in the enlarged image when the tracing operation is detected by the sensor and a selection mode is set.

7. The portable computer device according to claim 6, wherein the enlarged image data is scrolled only when sensed coordinate information is in an area where the at least one object is displayed.

8. The portable computer device according to claim 6, wherein the at least one object contained in the enlarged image data is selected only when sensed coordinate information is in an area where the at least one object is displayed.

9. The portable computer device according to claim 6, further comprising:

means for displaying a switch button on the display so as to switch between the scroll mode and the selection mode by touching the switch button.

10. The portable computer device according to claim 6, further comprising:

means for displaying a window, in which the enlarged image is displayed, on the display.

11. The portable computer device according to claim 6, wherein the at least one object contained in the enlarged image data is folder in a hierarchical tree structure.