PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20120249420A1
• Filed: 03/27/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: SATO, Takao, TSUBONUMA, Jun
• Application Number:
  US13/431,268
• Publication Number:
  US 20120249420A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

There is provided a portable terminal apparatus including a touch display section mounted with a touch panel. The apparatus includes: a touch pad assignment section configured to assign a touch pad region to a specific region in the touch display section; a pointer display section configured to display a touch pad pointer at a specific position on the touch display section when the touch pad region is assigned by the touch pad assignment section; a processor configured to execute a specific processing according to a touch operation in the touch pad region; and a touch controller configured to disable a touch operation, when the touch operation is performed in the touch display section other than the touch pad region assigned by the touch pad assignment section.

Claims

1. A portable terminal apparatus comprising a touch display section mounted with a touch panel, the apparatus comprising:

a touch pad assignment section configured to assign a touch pad region to a specific region in the touch display section;

a pointer display section configured to display a touch pad pointer at a specific position on the touch display section when the touch pad region is assigned by the touch pad assignment section;

a processor configured to execute a specific processing according to a touch operation in the touch pad region; and

a touch controller configured to disable a touch operation, when the touch operation is performed in the touch display section other than the touch pad region assigned by the touch pad assignment section.

2. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the touch pad assignment section is configured to analyze a current display state on the touch display section and assign the touch pad region to the specific region in the touch panel display according to the display state.

3. The apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the touch pad assignment section is configured to assign the touch pad region to an empty region in the touch panel display, wherein any data is not displayed in the empty region.

4. The apparatus of claim 3,

wherein the empty region comprises a plurality of empty regions, and

the touch pad assignment section is configured to assign the touch pad region to an empty region closest to an edge portion of the touch display section among the plurality of empty regions.

5. The apparatus of claim 3,

wherein the touch pad assignment section is configured to assign the touch pad region to the empty region such that a size of the touch pad region is substantially equal to a size of the empty region.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the pointer display section is configured to display the touch pad pointer in or near the touch pad region.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a discrimination section configured to discriminate a type of the touch operation when the touch operation is performed in the touch pad region, and

wherein the processor is configured to;

a) move the touch pad pointer;

b) select an object overlapped with the touch pad pointer;

or c) perform a specific processing on the object, according to the type of touch operation,

8. A computer-readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform predetermined operations, the operations comprising:

(a) assigning a touch pad region to a specific region in a touch display section;

(b) displaying a touch pad pointer at a specific position on the touch display section when the touch pad region is assigned to the specific region;

(c) executing a specific processing according to a touch operation in the touch pad region; and

(d) disabling a touch operation, when the touch operation is performed in the touch display section other than the assigned touch pad region.