INFORMATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20130246973A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: KURUMASA, Yoichi, KOMABA, Kenichi, HOSONO, Masao, TOMIYASU, Kazuhiro, OKADA, Takuya
• Granted Patent: US 10,579,246 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00472 using a pop-up window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An information device having a touch-sensitive panel for displaying an operating screen having a scrolled display region is provided. The information device includes sets of data classified into at least three groups arranged in accordance with a predetermined order; a list display control portion for displaying, in the scrolled display region, a data list in which the sets of data classified into any one of the groups are listed; a scroll control portion for, when the data list is displayed, scrolling through the data list in accordance with touch operation of touching a position in the scrolled display region; and a support display control portion for displaying, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, icons in a manner to appear in the predetermined order on the operating screen along one direction. The icons function as indicators corresponding to groups that are a part of the three groups.

Claims

1. An information device provided with a touch-sensitive panel, the touch-sensitive panel displaying an operating screen having a scrolled display region, the information device comprising:

a data storage portion configured to store therein a plurality of sets of data classified into at least three groups arranged in accordance with a predetermined order;

a list display control portion configured to display, in the scrolled display region, a data list in which the plurality of sets of data classified into any one of the groups are listed;

a scroll control portion configured to, when the data list is displayed, scroll through the data list in accordance with touch operation, the touch operation being to touch a position in the scrolled display region in a touch input screen of the touch-sensitive panel and to move the position touched in one direction; and

a support display control portion configured to display, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, a plurality of icons in a manner to appear in the predetermined order on the operating screen along one direction, the plurality of icons functioning as indicators corresponding to groups that are a part of said at least three groups and include a group corresponding to data displayed in the scrolled display region.

2. The information device according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of sets of data stored in the data storage portion are data classified into “

N”

(N≧

3) groups,

the list display control portion displays, as the data list, at least a part of a list in which the plurality of sets of data are listed on a group-by-group basis,

the touch operation for causing the scroll control portion to scroll through the data list displayed is operation to move the position touched in a direction along which the plurality of sets of data are listed, and

the support display control portion displays, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, “

n”

icons on the operating screen in a manner to appear in the predetermined order along a direction in which the data list is scrolled through, the “

n”

icons functioning as indicators corresponding to “

n”

(n≧

2, and n<

N) groups that are a part of the “

N”

groups and include a currently-displayed group corresponding to a part displayed in the data list.

3. The information device according to claim 2, wherein, in addition to the “

n”

icons, the support display control portion displays, as pop-up, one icon in a vicinity of the “

n”

icons, said one icon having a design different from designs of the “

n”

icons and corresponding to the currently-displayed group.

4. The information device according to claim 2, wherein the “

n”

icons displayed as pop up in a manner to appear along the direction in which the data list is scrolled through include an icon that corresponds to a top group of the “

N”

groups and an icon that corresponds to a bottom group of the “

N”

groups, the top group being arranged at a top of the data list, and the bottom group being arranged at a bottom of the data list.

5. The information device according to claim 2, wherein the support display control portion sets the “

n”

groups in accordance with a control table, the control table defining which group of icons to be displayed as pop-up for a case where each of the “

N”

groups corresponds to the currently-displayed group.

6. The information device according to claim 4, wherein the support display control portion sets, as the “

n”

groups, the top group, a group arranged between the top group and the currently-displayed group in arrangement order in the data list, the currently-displayed group, a group arranged between the currently-displayed group and the bottom group in the arrangement order in the data list, and the bottom group.

7. The information device according to claim 2, wherein the support display control portion sets, as the “

n”

groups, the currently-displayed group, and one or more groups whose arrangement orders in the data list are continuous with an order of the currently-displayed group.

8. The information device according to claim 7, wherein the support display control portion sets, as the “

n”

groups, the currently-displayed group, a group whose arrangement order in the data list is higher than that of the currently-displayed group, and a group whose arrangement order in the data list is lower than that of the currently-displayed group.

9. The information device according to claim 2, further comprising an operational speed analysis portion configured to determine whether the touch operation corresponds to high-speed operation in which a rate of change at the position touched is greater than a threshold or corresponds to low-speed operation in which the rate of change is smaller than the threshold;

wherein

if the operational speed analysis portion determines that the touch operation corresponds to the high-speed operation, then the support display control portion sets at least three groups as the “

n”

groups, said at least three groups including a top group, of the “

N”

groups, arranged at a top of the data list, a bottom group, of the “

N”

groups, arranged at a bottom of the data list, and a group arranged between the top group and the bottom group in the arrangement order in the data list, and

if the operational speed analysis portion determines that the touch operation corresponds to the low-speed operation, then the support display control portion sets, as the “

n”

groups, at least the currently-displayed group, and one or more groups whose arrangement orders in the data list are continuous with an order of the currently-displayed group.

10. The information device according to claim 2, wherein

the plurality of sets of data classified into the “

N”

groups are also classified into “

M”

sets (M≧

3), the “

M”

sets being different from the “

N”

groups, and

the support display control portion displays, in accordance with second-direction touch operation, as pop-up, “

m”

second icons on the operating screen, the “

m”

second icons corresponding to “

m”

(m≧

2, and m<

M) sets that are a part of the “

M”

sets and include a set corresponding to a part displayed in the data list, the second-direction touch operation being to touch a position in the scrolled display region in the touch input screen and to move the position touched in a second direction orthogonal to the direction along which the plurality of sets of data are listed.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon a computer program used in an information device, the information device being provided with a touch-sensitive panel for displaying an operating screen having a scrolled display region, the computer program causing a computer provided in the information device to perform processes comprising:

a list display control process for displaying, in the scrolled display region, a data list in which a plurality of sets of data classified into any one of at least three groups arranged in accordance with a predetermined order are listed;

a scroll control process for, when the data list is displayed, scrolling through the data list in accordance with touch operation, the touch operation being to touch a position in the scrolled display region in a touch input screen of the touch-sensitive panel and to move the position touched in one direction; and

a support display control process for displaying, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, a plurality of icons in a manner to appear in the predetermined order on the operating screen along one direction, the plurality of icons functioning as indicators corresponding to groups that are a part of said at least three groups and include a group corresponding to data displayed in the scrolled display region.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein

the plurality of sets of data stored in a data storage process are data classified into “

N”

(N≧

3) groups,

the list display control process includes displaying, as the data list, at least a part of a list in which the plurality of sets of data are listed on a group-by-group basis,

the touch operation for scrolling through the data list displayed in the scroll control process is operation to move the position touched in a direction along which the plurality of sets of data are listed, and

the support display control process includes displaying, in accordance with the touch operation, as pop-up, “

n”

icons on the operating screen in a manner to appear in the predetermined order along a direction in which the data list is scrolled through, the “

n”

icons functioning as indicators corresponding to “

n”

(n≧

2, and n<

N) groups that are a part of the “

N”

groups and include a currently-displayed group corresponding to a part displayed in the data list.