TABLET DEVICE, AND OPERATION RECEIVING METHOD

• US 20140015778A1
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: TAGUCHI, Akinori, NAKASHIMA, Satoshi, SHIMIZU, Masayoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,952,690 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A tablet device 100 according to an embodiment specifies a target area on a touch panel in which an operation is performed and determines the content of the touch operation performed in the target area. For example, the tablet device specifies the target area on the basis of the eye gaze position detected by a eye gaze detecting unit. Then, the tablet device creates a menu image that includes an option associated with the content of the touch operation, displays the created menu image in the default area, and receives the touch operation.

Claims

1. A tablet device comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising;

specifying an area, on a touch panel, in which a touch operation is performed;

first determining the content of the touch operation performed in the area specified by the specifying; and

creating an option associated with the content of the touch operation determined by the determining

displaying the created option in a predetermined area of the touch panel.

2. The tablet device according to claim 1, wherein the process further comprises detecting an eye gaze position on the touch panel and the specifying specifies an area that includes the eye gaze position.

3. The tablet device according to claim 2, wherein the process further comprises second determining whether the touch operation has been performed on the touch panel and when the touch operation has been performed on the touch panel, the specifying corrects the position of the area that includes the eye gaze position.

4. The tablet device according to claim 1, wherein, when the number of the options associated with the content of the touch operation is equal to or greater than a predetermined number, the displaying, in the predetermined area, some of the options from among the multiple options.

5. The tablet device according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the option in the predetermined area of the touch panel by associating a target touch operation in the area specified by the specifying with the option.

6. An operation receiving method executed by a computer, the operation receiving method comprising:

specifying an area, on a touch panel, in which a touch operation is performed;

determining the content of the touch operation performed in the specified area;

creating an option associated with the content of the determined touch operation; and

displaying the created option in a predetermined area of the touch panel.

7. The operation receiving method according to claim 6, further comprising detecting a eye gaze position on the touch panel, wherein the specifying includes specifying an area that includes the eye gaze position.

8. The operation receiving method according to claim 7, further comprising determining whether the touch operation has been performed on the touch panel, wherein, when the touch operation has been performed on the touch panel, the specifying includes correcting the position of the area that includes the eye gaze position.

9. The operation receiving method according to claim 6, wherein, when the number of the options associated with the content of the touch operation is equal to or greater than a predetermined number, the displaying includes displaying, in the predetermined area, some of the options from among the multiple options.

10. The operation receiving method according to claims 6, wherein the displaying includes displaying the option in the predetermined area of the touch panel by associating a target touch operation in the specified area with the option.

11. A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an operation receiving program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

specifying an area, on a touch panel, in which a touch operation is performed;

determining the content of the touch operation performed in the specified area;

creating an option associated with the content of the determined touch operation; and

displaying the created option in a predetermined area of the touch panel.

12. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, further comprising detecting a eye gaze position on the touch panel, wherein the specifying includes specifying an area that includes the eye gaze position.

13. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 12, further comprising determining whether the touch operation has been performed on the touch panel, wherein, when the touch operation has been performed on the touch panel, the specifying includes correcting the position of the area that includes the eye gaze position.

14. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein, when the number of the options associated with the content of the touch operation is equal to or greater than a predetermined number, the displaying includes displaying, in the predetermined area, some of the options from among the multiple options.

15. The computer-readable recording medium according to claims 11, wherein the displaying includes displaying the option in the predetermined area of the touch panel by associating a target touch operation in the specified area with the option.