Electronic Device and Touch Operation Processing Method

• US 20130127749A1
• Filed: 09/06/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: ENOMOTO, Shigeru, YAMAMOTO, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 9,411,501 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An electronic device is provided with a touch panel configured to include a display device and a touch pad or is connected to the touch panel. A display control unit displays a list of items on a display device. A first reception unit receives a first touch operation in a selection area of an item. A second reception unit receives a second touch operation for moving the list of items. A selection control unit selects one or more items in accordance with a specified position on a front touch pad specified by the first touch operation and with the movement of the list of items by the display control unit.

Claims

1. An electronic device that is configured to be provided with a touch panel including a display device and a touch pad or that is configured to be connected to the touch panel, comprising:

a display control unit configured to display a list of items on the display device;

a first reception unit configured to receive a first touch operation in a selection area of an item;

a second reception unit configured to receive a second touch operation for moving the list of items; and

a selection control unit configured to select one or more items in accordance with the first touch operation,

wherein the display control unit moves the list of items in accordance with the second touch operation, and

wherein the selection control unit selects one or more items in accordance with a position on the touch pad specified by the first touch operation and with the movement of the list of items by the display control unit.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the display control unit scrolls the list of items in accordance with the second touch operation.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the selection control unit performs selection control, including selection or deselection of an item, when the first reception unit continues to receive a first touch operation,

and wherein the selection control unit ends the selection control when the first reception unit ceases to receive a first touch operation.

4. A touch operation processing method comprising:

displaying a list of items on a display device;

receiving a first touch operation in a selection area of an item;

receiving a second touch operation for moving the list of items;

moving the list of items in accordance with the second touch operation; and

selecting one or more items in accordance with a specified position on a touch pad specified by the first touch operation and with the movement of the list of items.

5. A computer program embedded on a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, comprising:

a module configured to display a list of items on a display device;

a module configured to receive a first touch operation in a selection area of an item;

a module configured to receive a second touch operation for moving the list of items;

a module configured to move the list of items in accordance with the second touch operation; and

a module configured to select one or more items in accordance with a position on a touch pad specified by the first touch operation and with the movement of the list of items.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon the program according to claim 5.