MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SCREEN CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20120062564A1
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: MIYASHITA, Tsuneo, SUDOU, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US13/233,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20120062564A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A mobile electronic device includes a first touch sensor on a first face of a housing, a second touch sensor on a second face of the housing different from the first face, a display unit provided on the first face of the housing, and a control unit. When a first touch on the first face is detected by the first touch sensor and a second touch on the second face is detected by the second touch sensor, the control unit selects an object displayed on the display unit based on the first touch on the first face and the second touch on the second face.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device, comprising:

a housing having a first face and a second face different from the first face;

a first detector for detecting a first touch on the first face;

a second detector for detecting a second touch on the second face;

a display unit provided on the first face of the housing; and

a control unit for selecting an object displayed on the display unit, based on a first position of the first touch detected on the first face and a second position of the second touch detected on the second face.

2. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to

select the object based on the first position and a third position on the first face which corresponds to the second position of the second touch detected on the second face.

3. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit is configured to control the display unit to display a symbol indicating a position on the first face which corresponds to the second position of the second touch detected on the second face.

4. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit is configured to change a display magnification of the selected object in response to a movement of at least one of the first and second positions.

5. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit is configured to select another object displayed on the display unit in response to a movement of at least one of the first and second positions.

6. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to

set a selection range for selecting the object, based on the first position and the second position;

and

change a setting of the selection range in response to a movement of at least one of the first and second positions.

7. The mobile electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit is configured to select the object displayed inside a rectangular area in which the first position and the third position are set as opposing corners.

8. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to select the object displayed between the first position and the second position.

9. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to

select a first object, based on the first position and the second position;

and

transform the first object in response to a movement of at least one of the first and second positions.

10. The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, wherein

the control unit is configured to transform the first object so that one or more second object related to the first object is displayed on the display unit.

11. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to

select a first object, based on the first position and the second position;

and

transform the first object when

both the first touch on the first position and the second touch on the second position are detected over a predetermined period while the first object is displayed between the first position and the second position, or

either one of a pressure detected by the first detector at the first touch and a pressure detected by the second detector at the second touch is greater than a predetermined magnitude while the first object is displayed between the first position and the second position.

12. The mobile electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the control unit is configured to transform the first object so that one or more second object related to the first object is displayed on the display unit.

13. The mobile electronic device according to claim 12, wherein

the first object corresponds to a function of processing electronic data,

each of the second objects corresponds to the data processed by the function at various points in time, and

the control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display the second objects in the order of the most recently processed second object being displayed first.

14. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the object is three-dimensionally shaped, and

the control unit is configured to change a direction of the object in response to a movement of at least one of the first and second positions.

15. The mobile electronic device according to claim 14, wherein

the object is a polyhedron having faces allocated with respective functions, and

the control unit is configured to activate, when a predetermined operation to the object is detected by the first detector, the function allocated to a face displayed as a front face of the object on the display unit.

16. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to rotate the object in response to a movement of at least one of the first and second positions.

17. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a vibrating portion,

wherein the control unit is configured to cause, when the object is displayed between the first position and the second position, the vibrating portion to vibrate at least one of the first face and the second face.

18. A screen control method executed by a mobile electronic device that includes a housing, a first detector on a first face of the housing, a second detector on a second face of the housing different from the first face, and a display unit provided on the first face of the housing, the screen control method comprising:

displaying an object on the display unit;

detecting a first touch on the first face by the first detector;

detecting a second touch on the second face by the second detector; and

selecting the object displayed on the display unit based on a first position of the first touch detected on the first face and a second position of the second touch detected on the second face.

19. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a screen control program for causing, when executed by a mobile electronic device which includes a housing, a first detector on a first face of the housing, a second detector on a second face of the housing different from the first face, and a display unit provided on the first face of the housing, the mobile electronic device to execute

displaying an object on the display unit;

detecting a first touch on the first face;

detecting a second touch on the second face; and

selecting the object displayed on the display unit based on a first position of the first touch detected on the first face and a second position of the second touch detected on the second face.