DISPLAY DEVICE, USER INTERFACE METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130305186A1
• Filed: 07/19/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Hashida, Naoki, Murakami, Keiichi, Kawano, Natsuko, Tsuge, Yuki, Shimoo, Kousei, Takayama, Fukiko, Sasahara, Yuko, Hamatsu, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US13/946,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20130305186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A display device includes a display and a display controller that controls the display to display any of a plurality of screens and an input unit that receives a user'"'"'s operation. The display controller displays one or more images corresponding to one or more software programs at positions, which correspond to the operation received by the input unit, in a customized area scrollable in the horizontal direction and adjacent to the left or right side of the initial screen, and displays a predetermined type of information at a predetermined position in a non-customized area scrollable in the vertical direction and adjacent to the initial screen at a position other than the customized area. The display controller scrolls the customized area using the size of the screen as the unit of scrolling.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A display device comprising:

a display that has a screen displaying an image thereon;

a display controller that controls the display to display any of a plurality of screens including an initial screen on the screen; and

an input unit that receives a user'"'"'s operation,

wherein the display controller displays one or more images corresponding to one or more software programs at positions, which correspond to the operation received by the input unit, in a customized area scrollable in the horizontal direction and adjacent to the left or right side of the initial screen, and displays a predetermined type of information at a predetermined position in a non-customized area scrollable in the vertical direction and adjacent to the initial screen at a position other than the customized area, and

wherein the display controller scrolls the customized area using the size of the screen as the unit of scrolling when a scrolling operation of scrolling the customized area is received by the input unit, and scrolls the non-customized area in the unit of scrolling smaller than the size of the screen when a scrolling operation of scrolling the non-customized area is received by the input unit.

13. The display device according to claim 12, wherein the display controller displays a first list area, in which a list of one or more executable software programs is displayed, on the screen instead of the customized area when an upward or downward scrolling operation on the customized area is received by the input unit, and displays the customized area on the screen instead of the first list area when an upward or downward scrolling operation on the first list area is received by the input unit.

14. The display device according to claim 13, wherein the display controller controls the display to display the part of the customized area, which has been displayed on the screen before a display of the screen is changed to the first list area, on the screen when the display of the screen is changed from the customized area to the first list area and is then changed to the customized area again.

15. The display device according to claim 13, wherein the input unit receives a starting operation of starting any of the one or more software programs in a state where the first list area is displayed on the screen, and

wherein the display controller displays a part in which an image corresponding to the software program started through the starting operation is disposed in the customized area on the screen when the display of the screen is changed from the first list area to the customized area after the starting operation.

16. The display device according to claim 13, wherein the input unit receives an instructing operation of instructing a vertical direction or an inclined direction which is a direction directed to the customized area in a state where the first list area is displayed on the screen, and

wherein the display controller displays a part corresponding to the direction instructed through the instructing operation in the customized area on the screen when the instructing operation is received by the input unit.

17. The display device according to claim 13, wherein the display controller displays a second list area, in which a list of the one or more software programs corresponding to one or more images is displayed in the customized area, on the screen when a scrolling operation in a direction other than the scrolling operation of displaying the first list area is received as the upward or downward scrolling operation by the input unit in a state where the customized area is displayed on the screen.

18. The display device according to claim 12, wherein the one or more software programs have predetermined attributes, respectively,

wherein the customized area has a size corresponding to plural screens in the horizontal direction and has attributes determined for the screens, and

wherein the display controller displays images corresponding to the software programs in the screens having attributes corresponding to the attributes of the software programs in the customized area.

19. The display device according to claim 12, wherein the input unit receives an enlarging operation enlarging the size of the customized area, and

wherein the display controller enlarges the customized area to be longer in the horizontal direction than that before performing the enlarging operation when the enlarging operation is received by the input unit.

20. A display device comprising:

a display that has a screen displaying an image thereon;

a display controller that controls the display to display any of a plurality of screens including an initial screen on the screen; and

an input unit that receives a user'"'"'s operation,

wherein the display controller displays one or more images corresponding to one or more software programs at positions, which correspond to the operation received by the input unit, in a customized area scrollable in the horizontal direction and adjacent to the left or right side of the initial screen, and displays a predetermined type of information at a predetermined position in a non-customized area scrollable in the vertical direction and adjacent to the initial screen at a position other than the customized area, and

wherein the display controller changes the unit of scrolling depending on which of a scrolling operation of scrolling the customized area and a scrolling operation of scrolling the non-customized area is received by the input unit.

21. A user interface method in a display device having a display that has a screen displaying an image thereon and an input unit that receives a user'"'"'s operation, comprising:

a first step of displaying an initial screen on the screen;

a second step of displaying one or more images corresponding to one or more software programs at positions corresponding to the user'"'"'s operation on the basis of the operation received by the input unit in a state where the initial screen is displayed on the screen, and displaying any of a customized area scrollable in the horizontal direction and a non-customized area, which is scrollable in the vertical direction, in which a predetermined type of information is displayed at a predetermined position on the screen; and

a third step of scrolling the customized area using the size of the screen as the unit of scrolling when a scrolling operation of scrolling the customized area is received by the input unit, and scrolling the non-customized area in the unit of scrolling smaller than the size of the screen when a scrolling operation of scrolling the non-customized area is received by the input unit.

22. A program causing a computer of a display device, which includes a display that has a screen displaying an image thereon and an input unit that receives a user'"'"'s operation, to perform:

a first step of displaying an initial screen on the screen;

a second step of displaying one or more images corresponding to one or more software programs at positions corresponding to the user'"'"'s operation on the basis of the operation received by the input unit in a state where the initial screen is displayed on the screen, and displaying any of a customized area scrollable in the horizontal direction and a non-customized area, which is scrollable in the vertical direction, in which a predetermined type of information is displayed at a predetermined position on the second screen; and

a third step of scrolling the customized area using the size of the screen as the unit of scrolling when a scrolling operation of scrolling the customized area is received by the input unit, and scrolling the non-customized area in the unit of scrolling smaller than the size of the screen when a scrolling operation of scrolling the non-customized area is received by the input unit.