TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF

• US 20110237303A1
• Filed: 03/08/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: MATSUDA, Masayuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,806,382 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

In a terminal device 10, two rectangular casings 11A, 11B are connected by a hinge section 12, and touch screens TD1, TD2 of the same shape and size (rectangular) are arranged on substantially the entire inner surface thereof, respectively. When a slide operation performed on at least one of the touch screens TD1, TD2 is detected with the two vertically long casings 11A, 11B being horizontally aligned (horizontally opened state), a control section 1 identifies the touch screen on which the slide operation has been performed as an operation screen and performs display control corresponding to the slide operation on the touch screens TD1, TD2 including the operation screen and a touch screen related thereto (such as an adjacent screen). For example, it sequentially performs page turning on display information on the touch screens TD1, TD2, as display control corresponding to the slide operation.

Claims

1. A terminal device having a plurality of screens, comprising:

a slide operation detection means for detecting a slide operation performed on each of the plurality of screens;

an identification means for, when the slide operation is detected by the slide operation detection means, identifying a screen on which the slide operation has been performed as an operation screen; and

a display control means for performing display control corresponding to the slide operation on the plurality of screens including the operation screen identified by the identification means and a screen related to the operation screen.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the identification means identifies whether the slide operation has been performed within a single screen or performed across a plurality of screens, in addition to identifying the screen on which the slide operation has been performed as the operation screen;

and

the display control means performs different display control depending on whether the slide operation has been performed within a single screen or performed across a plurality of screens, which has been identified by the identification means.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the display control means generates, when the slide operation is performed across a plurality of screens with information amounting to a plurality of pages being assigned and displayed in page sequence on the plurality of screens including the operation screen identified by the identification means and the related screen related to the operation screen, an instruction to perform page turning corresponding to the number of screens on which the slide operation has been performed, as display control corresponding to the slide operation.

4. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the display control means sequentially performs page turning on display information on the plurality of screens as display control corresponding to the slide operation, with the display information amounting to a plurality of pages being assigned and displayed in page sequence on the plurality of screens including the operation screen identified by the identification means and the related screen related to the operation screen.

5. The terminal device according to claim 4, wherein the slide operation detection means further detects, in addition to detecting the slide operation performed on each screen, a sliding direction of the slide operation;

and

the display control means generates an instruction to perform page turning in the sliding direction detected by the slide operation detection means when performing the display control to perform page turning in response to the slide operation.

6. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the slide operation detection means detects whether a single slide operation has been performed or a plurality of slide operations have been simultaneously performed, when detecting the slide operation performed on each screen;

and

the display control means repeatedly performs the display control by a number of times corresponding to the number of slide operations at predetermined time intervals, when the slide operation detection means detects that a plurality of slide operations have been performed simultaneously.

7. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the display control means performs display control to scroll display information on the plurality of screens in page sequence, with the display information amounting to a plurality of pages being assigned and displayed in page sequence on the plurality of screens including the operation screen identified by the identification means and the related screen related to the operation screen.

8. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the display control means generates an instruction to scroll the display information by an amount equivalent to a slide length when the slide operation is performed within an area of a single screen and the slide length is a predetermined value or less with respect to a length of the screen, or generates an instruction to perform page turning by an amount equivalent to a single screen when the slide length exceeds the predetermined value.

9. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of screens are constituted by a plurality of independent display sections.

10. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of screens are configured by a single display section being divided into a plurality of screens.

11. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of screens are touch screens structured by a touch panel being arranged on each screen;

and

the slide operation detection means detects a slide operation performed on each of the plurality of touch screens.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program that is executable by a computer, the program being executable by the computer to perform a process comprising:

processing for detecting a slide operation performed on each of a plurality of screens;

processing for identifying, when the slide operation is detected, a screen on which the slide operation has been performed as an operation screen; and

processing for performing display control corresponding to the slide operation on the plurality of screens including the identified operation screen and a screen related to the operation screen.