INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DRAG CONTROL METHOD

• US 20110260997A1
• Filed: 04/07/2011
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ozaki, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US13/081,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20110260997A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1618 the display being foldable up to the back of the other housing with a single degree of freedom, e.g. by 360° rotation over the axis defined by the rear edge of the base enclosure
• 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 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 information processing apparatus includes a first touch-screen display, a second touch-screen display, a first movement control module and a second movement control module. The first movement control module selects an object on the first touch-screen display in accordance with a touch position on the first touch-screen display, and moves a position of the selected object in accordance with a movement of the touch position on the first touch-screen display. The second movement control module moves the position of the selected object from the first touch-screen display to the second touch-screen display in order to display the selected object on the second touch-screen display when the selected object is moved to an end part on the first touch-screen display. The end part on the first touch-screen display is opposed to a boundary between the first touch-screen display and the second touch-screen display.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first touch-screen display;

a second touch-screen display;

a first movement control module configured to select and move a position of an object on the first touch-screen display in accordance with a touch-screen operation on the first touch-screen display; and

a second movement control module configured to move the position of the selected object from the first touch-screen display to the second touch-screen display in order to display the selected object on the second touch-screen display if the selected object is moved to an end part on the first touch-screen display, the end part comprising a boundary between the first touch-screen display and the second touch-screen display.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second movement control module is configured to move the position of the selected object toward the second touch-screen display by a predetermined distance.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second movement control module is configured to move the position of the selected object from the first touch-screen display to the second touch-screen display so that the selected object is fully displayed on the second touch-screen display.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second movement control module is configured to move the position of the selected object from the end part of the first touch-screen display to an end part of the second touch-screen display opposed to the boundary.

5. A drag control method for dragging an object between a first touch-screen display and a second touch-screen display in an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

selecting an object on the first touch-screen display in accordance with a touch position on the first touch-screen display;

moving a position of the selected object in accordance with a movement of the touch position on the first touch-screen display; and

moving the position of the selected object to an end part on the first touch-screen display comprising a boundary between the first touch-screen display and the second touch-screen display,

wherein the selected object is moved from the first touch-screen display to the second touch-screen display in order to display the selected object on the second touch-screen display.

6. The drag control method of claim 5, wherein moving the position of the selected object to an end part on the first touch-screen display comprises moving the position of the selected object toward the second touch-screen display by a predetermined distance.

7. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a program for dragging an object between a first touch-screen display and a second touch-screen display in an information processing apparatus, the program being configured to cause the information processing apparatus to:

select an object on the first touch-screen display in accordance with a touch position on the first touch-screen display;

move a position of the selected object in accordance with a movement of the touch position on the first touch-screen display; and

move the position of the selected object from the first touch-screen display to the second touch-screen display in order to display the selected object on the second touch-screen display when the selected object is moved to an end part on the first touch-screen display, the end part on the first touch-screen display being opposed to a boundary between the first touch-screen display and the second touch-screen display.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein said causing the computer to move the position of the selected object from the first touch-screen display to the second touch-screen display comprises causing the computer to move the position of the selected object toward the second touch-screen display by a predetermined distance.