PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL, INPUT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120223906A1
• Filed: 11/16/2010
• Published: 09/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Zhou, Yifeng
• Application Number:
  US13/508,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20120223906A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A portable information terminal includes display (1) equipped with a touch panel capable of detecting a touch; and controller (2) that executes a process corresponding to a user interface component when a touch to the user interface component displayed on display (1) is detected. When the touch operation to display (1) is a specific touch operation and the user interface component specified by the touch operation is a specific user interface component undetermined as to whether or not to execute the corresponding process, controller (2) does not execute the process corresponding to the specified user interface component.

Claims

1. A portable information terminal comprising:

a display equipped with a touch panel capable of detecting a touch; and

a controller that executes a process corresponding to a user interface component when a touch to the user interface component displayed on the display is detected, wherein

when a touch operation to the display is a specific touch operation and the user interface component specified by the touch operation is a specific user interface component undetermined as to whether or not to execute the corresponding process, the controller does not execute the process corresponding to the specified user interface component.

2. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein if the touch operation is not the specific touch operation or if the user interface component specified by the touch operation is not the specific user interface component, the controller executes the process corresponding to the specified user interface component.

3. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the specific touch operation is a touch to a second predetermined area that has been made within a certain time after a continuous touch to a first predetermined area of the display was released.

4. The portable information terminal according to claim 3, wherein the first predetermined area and the second predetermined area are near a side of the display.

5. The portable information terminal according to claim 3, wherein the first predetermined area is near a side of the display and the second predetermined area is near a side adjacent to the side specified by the first predetermined area.

6. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a rotation detector that detects rotation of its own terminal, wherein

the specific touch operation is a touch that has been made within a certain time after the rotation detector detected the rotation of its own terminal in a direction horizontal to the display.

7. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the specific touch operation is a touch including a shape of a portion touched on the display which is similar to a preliminarily stored shape touched by a finger when its own terminal is grasped.

8. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the specific touch operation is a predetermined touch operation that may occur when a user changes a position of holding the portable information terminal.

9. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller does not treat a touch operation in which strength at which the display is pressed is less than a predetermined strength, as the specific touch operation.

10. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller does not treat a touch operation in which time for continuing to remain in contact with the display screen is less than a predetermined time, as the specific touch operation.

11. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the specific touch operation is a touch to the display by a hand holding a stylus pen.

12. The portable information terminal according to claim 11, wherein

the controller preliminarily stores a size of a contact by the stylus pen;

and

the specific touch operation is a touch that is made within a predetermined time before and after a touch having a size similar to that of the preliminarily stored contact by the stylus pen is made, in a location different from that of the touch.

13. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein

a predetermined disable operation for disabling the touch to the specific user interface component is provided;

and

the specific touch operation is a touch after the disable operation is performed.

14. The portable information terminal according to claim 13, further comprising a rotation detector that detects rotation of its own terminal;

and

the disable operation is an operation of turning the terminal toward a direction that is perpendicular to the display and that is detected by the rotation detector.

15. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller stores the specific user interface component by associating it with character information displayed by the specific user interface component.

16. An input control method for a portable information terminal comprising a display equipped with a touch panel capable of detecting a touch and executing a process corresponding to a user interface component when a touch to the user interface component displayed on the display is detected, wherein

when a touch operation to the display is a specific touch operation and a user interface component specified by the touch operation is a specific user interface component undetermined as to whether or not to execute the corresponding process or not, the process corresponding to the specified user interface component is not executed.

17. The input control method according to claim 16, wherein if the touch operation is not the specific touch or if the user interface component specified by the touch operation is not the specific user interface component, the process corresponding to the specified user interface component is executed.

18. The input control method according to claim 16, wherein the specific touch operation is a touch to a second predetermined area that has been made within a certain time after a continuous touch to a first predetermined area of the display was released.

19. The input control method according to claim 18, wherein the first predetermined area and the second predetermined area are near a side of the display.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing a program that causes a portable information terminal to execute a process, the portable information terminal comprising a display equipped with a touch panel capable of detecting a touch and executing the process corresponding to a user interface component when a touch to the user interface component displayed on the display is detected, wherein

when a touch operation to the display is a specific touch operation and the user interface component specified by the touch operation is a specific user interface component undetermined as to whether or not to execute the corresponding process, the program causes the portable information terminal to execute a process of preventing execution of the process corresponding to the specified user interface component.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing the program according to claim 20, wherein if the touch operation is not the specific touch or if the user interface component specified by the touch operation is not the specific user interface component, the process corresponding to the specified user interface component is executed.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing the program according to claim 20, wherein the specific touch operation is a touch to a second predetermined area that has been made within a certain time after a continuous touch to a first predetermined area of the display was released.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing the program according to claim 22, wherein the first predetermined area and the second predetermined area are near a side of the display.