PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20110191712A1
• Filed: 03/07/2011
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: MACHIDA, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/042,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191712A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/788
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A portable terminal includes a display unit that displays an image based in image information; a touch panel overlapped by a display area on which the image is displayed; a move unit that moves a window in response to movement of an object while the object is in contact with any position within an area of the touch panel corresponding to a predetermined area of the window displayed by the display unit; a determining unit that determines whether a part of the window moved by the move unit goes out of the display area; and a display control unit that controls the display unit to change the display of the window to a predetermined size to nondisplay, and displays an image based on indication information representing the window when it is determined that the part of the window moved with the move unit goes out of the display unit.

Claims

1. A portable terminal comprising:

a display unit that displays an image based in image information;

a touch panel overlapped by a display area on which the image is displayed;

a move unit that moves a window in response to movement of an object while the object is in contact with any position within an area of the touch panel corresponding to a predetermined area of the window displayed by the display unit;

a determining unit that determines whether a part of the window moved by the move unit goes out of the display area; and

a display control unit that controls the display unit to change the display of the window having a predetermined size to nondisplay, and displays an image based on indication information representing the window when it is determined that the part of the window moved by the move unit goes out of the display unit.

2. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit changes the display area on which the image is displayed in response to the part of the window gone out of the display area on which the image is displayed by the display unit.

3. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the determining unit determines that the part of the window moved by the move unit goes out of the display area when any one of coordinate values of an area of the window is larger than a maximum value or smaller than coordinate values of the display area on which the image is displayed by the display unit.

4. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit redisplays the window immediately before the nondisplay when the image displayed based on the indication information is displayed by the display unit and the object is in contact with any position inside the area of the touch panel corresponding to the image displayed based on the indication information while the image based on the indication information is displayed.

5. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit maintains the display of the window when the part of the window moved by the move unit goes out of the display area and the contact of the object with the touch panel is kept, and

changes the display of the window to the nondisplay of the window when the contact of the object with the touch panel is released.

6. A portable terminal comprising:

a display unit that displays an image based on image information;

a touch panel overlapped by a display area on which the image is displayed;

a determining unit that determines whether a locus of an object moving on the touch panel while the object is in contact with any position within an area of the touch panel corresponding to the display area of the display unit has a predetermined shape; and

a display control unit that controls the display unit to change the display of the window having a predetermined size to nondisplay, and displays an image based on indication information representing the window when the locus of the object has the predetermined shape.

7. A displaying method of a portable terminal having a display unit including a touch panel overlapped by a display area on which an image is displayed, the displaying method comprising:

displaying an image based in image information;

moving a window in response to movement of an object while the object is in contact with any position within an area of the touch panel corresponding to a predetermined area of the window;

determining whether a part of the moved window goes out of the display area;

controlling the display unit to change the display of the window having a predetermined size to nondisplay, and displaying an indicating image based on indication information representing the window when it is determined that the part of the moved window goes out of the display unit.

8. The displaying method according to claim 7,

wherein the controlling the display unit changes the display area on which the image is displayed in response to the part of the window gone out of the display area on which the image is displayed.

9. The displaying method according to claim 7,

wherein the determining determines that the part of the moved window goes out of the display area when any one of coordinate values of an area of the window is larger than a maximum value or smaller than coordinate values of the display area on which the image is displayed.

10. The displaying method according to claim 7,

wherein the controlling the display unit redisplays the window immediately before the nondisplay when the image displayed based on the indication information is displayed and the object is in contact with any position inside the area of the touch panel corresponding to the image displayed based on the indication information while the image based on the indication information is displayed.

11. The displaying method according to claim 7,

wherein the controlling the display unit maintains the display of the window when the part of the moved window goes out of the display area and the contact of the object with the touch panel is kept, and

changes the display of the window to the nondisplay of the window when the contact of the object with the touch panel is released.