INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20130328804A1
• Filed: 05/06/2013
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Naya, Yuji, Oshima, Soshi
• Application Number:
  US13/887,537
• Publication Number:
  US 20130328804A1
• 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 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Provided is an information processing apparatus equipped with a display unit including a touch panel, and a method of controlling the same. In response to a plurality of fingers of a user that are in touch with a display object displayed on the display unit including the touch panel moving in the same direction, the touched display object is displayed such that they move, and the moving display object and a plurality of display objects displayed within a predetermined distance thereof are displayed as a grouped display object. With an operation performed by the user on the grouped display object, delete processing for deleting objects corresponding to a plurality of display objects included in the grouped display objects is executed.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus equipped with a display unit having a touch panel, comprising:

a grouping unit configured to display, in response to a plurality of touch points of at least one display object that is being touched among a plurality of display objects displayed on the display unit moving in the same direction, the touched display object so as to move in the direction, and to display the moving display object and a plurality of display objects displayed within a predetermined distance thereof, as a grouped display object; and

a deleting unit configured to execute delete processing for deleting objects that correspond to the plurality of display objects grouped by the grouping unit, by a user operation performed on the grouped display object displayed by the grouping unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a deletion displaying unit configured to reduce, at the time of the delete processing, a size of the grouped display object, and to perform display of a process of the delete processing.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the grouping unit includes:

a determination unit configured to determine, according to the number of touch points indicating positions of the display object that are being touched by fingers of the user, whether the operation is a two-handed operation or a one-handed operation by the user; and

a display control unit configured, if it is determined by the determination unit that the operation is the two-handed operation by the user, to display, in accordance with a gesture for moving two display objects that are touched and selected by fingers of the user in directions approaching each other, the grouped display object that includes display objects between the two display objects and includes the two display objects, and

if it is determined by the determination unit that the operation is the one-handed operation by the user, to display the grouped display object that includes one display object touched and selected by fingers of the user and a display object displayed within a predetermined distance thereof, in accordance with a gesture for moving the one display object.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the deleting unit is configured to execute the delete processing for deleting the grouped plurality of display objects and the objects that correspond to the plurality of display objects, by a gesture of a plurality of fingers of the user performed with respect to the grouped display object displayed by the grouping unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the gesture performed by the plurality of fingers of the user is a multipoint pinch-in.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the grouping unit is configured to group, when the plurality of touch points move in parallel to each other in a state in which a distance between each of the plurality of touch points and the centroid of the touched display object does not change, a plurality of display objects that are displayed in a region in which the display object moves.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the display control unit changes an object display mode between the grouped display object and another display object.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display objects are displayed so as to be arranged at a fixed interval from each other on a screen of the display unit.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the determination unit is configured to determine that the operation is the two-handed operation by the user when a number of the touch points of one display object that is touched by the user is three or more, and a number of the touch points of the touch panel that is touched by the user is six or more.

10. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus equipped with a display unit having a touch panel, the method comprising:

a grouping step of displaying, in response to a plurality of fingers of a user that touches a display object displayed on the display unit moving in the same direction, the display object so as to move in the direction, and grouping the moving display object and a plurality of display objects displayed within a predetermined distance thereof to display a grouped display object; and

a deleting step of executing delete processing for deleting objects corresponding to the grouped display object displayed in the grouping step, by a user operation performed on the grouped display object.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

a deletion displaying step of reducing, at the time of the delete processing, a size of the grouped display object, and performing display of a process of the delete processing.

12. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the grouping step includes:

a determination step of determining, according to the number of touch points indicating positions of the display object that are being touched by fingers of the user, whether the operation is a two-handed operation or a one-handed operation by the user; and

a display controlling step of displaying, if it is determined in the determination step that the operation is the two-handed operation by the user, the grouped display object including display objects between two display objects touched and selected by fingers of the user and the two display objects, in accordance with a gesture for moving the two display objects in directions approaching each other, and

if it is determined in the determination step that the operation is the one-handed operation by the user, displaying the grouped display object including one display object touched and selected by fingers of the user and a display object displayed within a predetermined distance thereof, in accordance with a gesture for moving the one display object.

13. The method according to claim 10,

wherein in the deleting step, the delete processing for deleting objects corresponding to a plurality of display objects included in the grouped display object is executed, by a gesture of a plurality of fingers of the user performed with respect to the grouped display object displayed in the grouping step.

14. The method according to claim 13,

wherein the gesture performed by the plurality of fingers of the user is a multipoint pinch-in.

15. The method according to claim 10,

wherein in the grouping step, a plurality of display objects that are displayed in a region in which the display object moves are grouped, when the plurality of touch points move in parallel to each other in a state in which a distance between each of the plurality of touch points and the centroid of the touched display object does not change.

16. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the steps of the control method according to claim 10.