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

• US 20120274551A1
• Filed: 04/25/2012
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: ISHIZUKA, Yuka, MIYASHITA, Tsuneo
• Application Number:
  US13/455,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20120274551A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a first display unit, a second display unit, a detecting unit, and a control unit. The first display unit displays a first object corresponding to a first function. The second display unit displays a second object corresponding to a second function. The detecting unit detects an operation. When the operation is detected by the detecting unit while the first object is displayed on the first display unit, the control unit dismisses the first object from the first display unit and displays information with respect to the first object on the second display unit.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a first display unit configured to display a first object corresponding to a first function;

a second display unit configured to display a second object corresponding to a second function;

a detecting unit configured to detect an operation; and

a control unit configured to dismiss the first object from the first display unit and display information with respect to the first object on the second display unit when the operation is detected by the detecting unit while the first object is displayed on the first display unit.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the detecting unit detects the operation when the electronic device is transformed from a first form in which the second display unit is hidden to a second form in which the second display unit is exposed.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a first housing provided with the first display unit; and

a second housing provided with the second display unit and movable relative to the first housing, wherein

the second display unit is configured to be covered by the first housing in the first form.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the detecting unit includes a contact detecting unit configured to detect a contact to the first display unit and the second display unit, and

the contact detecting unit detects a contact operation that moves from a location on the first display unit where the first object is displayed to the second display unit, as the operation.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the contact operation is a drag operation, a flick operation, or a sweep operation.

6. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein

the contact detecting unit detects a contact operation in which a contact is made with the location on the first display where the first object is displayed, the contact moves toward the second display unit, and then another contact is made with a portion adjacent to the first display unit on the second display unit within a predetermined time, as the operation.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit displays an icon as the first object when the first object is displayed on the first display unit, and displays an image containing text information as the information with respect to the first object when the first object is displayed on the second display unit.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein

the text information is related to details of the first object.

9. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein

a display area for the icon is smaller than that for the image containing the text information;

10. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein

a control unit is configured to dismiss the information with respect to the first object form the second display unit and display the first object on the first display unit when the detecting unit detects that the electronic device is transformed from the second form to the second form while the information is displayed on the second display unit.

11. A screen control method executed by an electronic device including a first display unit, a second display unit, and a detecting unit, the screen control method comprising:

displaying an object corresponding to a function on the first display unit;

detecting an operation by the detecting unit while the object is displayed on the first display unit; and

dismissing the first object from the first display unit and displaying information with respect to the first object on the second display, upon detection of the operation.

12. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a screen control program for causing, when executed by an electronic device including a first display unit, a second display unit, and a detecting unit, the electronic device to execute:

displaying an object corresponding to a function on the first display unit;

detecting an operation by the detecting unit while the object is displayed on the first display unit; and

dismissing the first object from the first display unit and displaying information with respect to the first object on the second display, upon detection of the operation.