INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INPUT METHOD

• US 20110285625A1
• Filed: 04/29/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: NAKANISHI, Wataru
• Application Number:
  US13/097,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20110285625A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/158
• 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 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a touch-screen display, a detection module and an output module. The detection module is configured to detect a number of touch positions on the touch-screen display. The output module is configured to output first data indicative of a touch position on the touch-screen display in order to activate a function associated with a touched display object on the touch-screen display, the output module being configured to output second data indicative of a direction of movement and an amount of movement of a touch position on the touch-screen display, in place of the first data, in order to move a cursor on a screen of a display, if the detection module detects that a plurality of positions on the touch-screen display are touched.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a touch-screen display;

a detection module configured to detect one or more contact positions on the touch-screen display and to determine the number of contact positions; and

a processor configured to output first data indicative of a first contact position on the touch-screen display in order to activate a function associated with a touched display object on the touch-screen display, the processor being configured to output second data indicative of a direction of movement and an amount of movement of the first contact position on the touch-screen display, in place of the first data, in order to move a cursor on a screen of a display, if the number of contact positions is equal to or larger than two.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to output the second data in place of the first data, if the number of the contact positions is equal to or larger than two and the contact positions are substantially close to each other.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first data is an absolute coordinate value indicative of the first contact position on the touch-screen display.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second data is a relative coordinate value of a target destination position of the movement of the cursor.

5. An input method of inputting data with use of a touch-screen display of an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

detecting one or more contact positions on the touch-screen display;

determining the number of the contact positions;

outputting first data indicative of a first contact position on the touch-screen display in order to activate a function associated with a touched display object on the touch-screen display; and

outputting second data indicative of a direction of movement and an amount of movement of a first contact position on the touch-screen display, in place of the first data, in order to move a cursor on a screen of a display, if the number of the contact positions is equal to or larger than two.

6. The input method of claim 5, wherein the outputting the second data comprises outputting the second data in place of the first data, if the number of the contact positions is equal to or larger than two and the contact positions are substantially close to each other.

7. The input method of claim 6, wherein the first data is an absolute coordinate value indicative of the first contact position on the touch-screen display.

8. The input method of claim 6, wherein the second data is a relative coordinate value of a target destination position of the movement of the cursor.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program for inputting data with use of a touch-screen display of a computer, the program being configured to cause the computer to:

detect one or more contact positions on the touch-screen display;

determine the number of the contact positions;

output first data indicative of a first contact position on the touch-screen display in order to activate a function associated with a touched display object on the touch-screen display; and

output second data indicative of a direction of movement and an amount of movement of a first contact position on the touch-screen display, in place of the first data, in order to move a cursor on a screen of a display, if the number of the contact positions is equal to or larger than two.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the second data is output in place of the first data, if the number of the contact positions is equal to or larger than two and the contact positions are substantially close to each other.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the first data is an absolute coordinate value indicative of the first contact position on the touch-screen display.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the second data is a relative coordinate value of a target destination position of the movement of the cursor.