Display Processing Apparatus and Display Processing Method

• US 20110307827A1
• Filed: 02/07/2011
• Published: 12/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mizuura, Yasuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,972,889 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/800
• 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 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it

Abstract

According to one embodiment, there is provided a display processing apparatus, including: a display unit configured to display an image, the display unit having a screen on which the image is displayed; an input module configured to receive a first manipulation and a second manipulation, the first manipulation being a trace manipulation performed on the screen to define a tracing locus on the image being displayed, the second manipulation being different from the first manipulation; and a display controller configured to control the display unit to enlargedly display the image in a given range, upon simultaneously receiving the first manipulation and the second manipulation through the input module, the given range being determined based on the tracing locus.

Claims

1. A display processing apparatus, comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image, the display unit having a screen on which the image is displayed;

an input module configured to receive a first manipulation and a second manipulation, the first manipulation being a trace manipulation performed on the screen to define a tracing locus on the image being displayed, the second manipulation being different from the first manipulation; and

a display controller configured to control the display unit to enlargedly display the image in a given range, upon simultaneously receiving the first manipulation and the second manipulation through the input module, the given range being determined based on the tracing locus.

2. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the given range to be enlargedly displayed is determined based on at least one of a horizontal length and a vertical length of the tracing locus.

3. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the first manipulation includes a loop trace manipulation performed on the screen of the display unit.

4. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the second manipulation includes a touch manipulation on the screen of the display unit.

5. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the second manipulation includes a manipulation on a keyboard.

6. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the input module further receives a third manipulation,

wherein the first manipulation includes a loop trace manipulation performed in a first rotational direction, while the third manipulation includes a loop trace manipulation performed in a second rotational direction different from the first rotational direction;

and

wherein the display controller controls the display unit to reducedly display the image, upon simultaneously receiving the third manipulation and the second manipulation through the input module.

7. A display processing method, the method comprising:

displaying an image on a screen of a display unit;

receiving a first manipulation being a trace manipulation performed on the screen to define a tracing locus;

receiving a second manipulation being different from the first manipulation; and

upon simultaneously receiving the first and second manipulations, enlargedly displaying the image in a given range on the screen of the display unit, the given range being determined based on the tracing locus.