ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION DISPLAY METHOD OF OPERATION TERMINAL

• US 20140078084A1
• Filed: 09/10/2013
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: KAWAI, Junya, IIDA, Yuji
• Application Number:
  US14/022,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20140078084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic device comprising at least one operation portion, a touch panel, a detecting portion, a memory, a trajectory determination processing portion, an operation control portion, a start point determining portion, a display control portion. The operation portion executes a predetermined processing operation. The detecting portion detects an operational input to the touch panel portion. The memory stores correlation between contact trajectories with predetermined patterns and the processing operations. The operation control portion, when it is determined that a contact trajectory with the predetermined pattern has been operationally input, refers to the correlation and control the operation portion so as to perform the processing operation. The display control portion, when it is determined that can become the start point has been made, refers to the correlation and control the display portion so as to perform guide display corresponding to the contact trajectory.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

at least one operation portion which is configured to be capable of executing a predetermined processing operation and includes a display portion configured to perform a desired display;

a touch panel portion provided above said display portion and capable of executing an operational input in a state where display on the display portion can be seen through;

a detecting portion configured to detect the operational input by contact to said touch panel portion;

a memory configured to store correlation between contact trajectories with a plurality of predetermined patterns in said touch panel portion and a plurality of said processing operations corresponding to the plurality of predetermined patterns, respectively;

a trajectory determination processing portion configured to determine whether or not a contact trajectory with any of said predetermined patterns has been operationally input in said touch panel portion on the basis of a detection result of said detecting portion;

an operation control portion configured, when it is determined by said trajectory determination processing portion that a contact trajectory with said predetermined pattern has been operationally input, to refer to said correlation stored in said memory and control said operation portion corresponding to the contact trajectory with the predetermined pattern so as to perform said processing operation corresponding to the predetermined pattern;

a start point determining portion configured to determine whether or not contact that can become a start point of the contact trajectory with at least one of said predetermined pattern has been made in said touch panel portion, on the basis of the detection result of said detecting portion; and

a display control portion configured, when it is determined by said start point determining portion that contact that can become said start point has been made, to refer to said correlation stored in said memory and control said display portion so as to perform guide display of at least one of said processing operations corresponding to the contact trajectory with at least one of said predetermined pattern including the start point, respectively.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein:

said start point determining portion determines whether or not contact that can become a start point of the contact trajectory with said predetermined pattern has been made in accordance with which portion in said touch panel portion the contact point detected by said detecting portion corresponds to.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein:

said display control portion controls said display portion so as to perform guide trajectory display equivalent to contact trajectory with at least one of said predetermined pattern including said start point as said guide display, respectively.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein:

said display control portion controls said display portion so as to further display a name of said at least one processing operation corresponding to said at least one said predetermined pattern as said guide display, respectively.

5. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein:

said trajectory determination processing portion determines whether or not a contact trajectory with said predetermined pattern along any one of the plurality of said guide trajectory displays displayed by the control of said display control portion on said display portion has been operationally input on the basis of the detection result of said detecting portion; and

said display control portion, when it is determined by said trajectory determination processing portion that the contact trajectory with said predetermined pattern along said one guide trajectory display has been operationally input, controls said display portion so as to display a part of said one guide trajectory display corresponding to said operationally input contact trajectory among said plurality of guide trajectory displays in a mode different from the other parts than the part of said one guide trajectory display.

6. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein:

said trajectory determination processing portion has;

an end point determining portion configured to determine whether or not separation from said touch panel portion that can become an end point of contact trajectory with at least one of said predetermined pattern has been made on the basis of the detection result of said detecting portion; and

a trajectory fixing portion configured to fix the contact trajectory from said start point determined by said start point determining portion to said end point determined by said end point determining portion as an operationally input contact trajectory when it is determined by said end point determining portion that the separation from said touch panel portion has been made, and

said operation control portion refers to said correlation stored in said memory for the contact trajectory fixed by said trajectory fixing portion and control said operation portion corresponding to the contact trajectory with said predetermined pattern equivalent to the fixed contact trajectory so as to perform said processing operation corresponding to the predetermined pattern.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein:

said trajectory determination processing portion determines whether or not, after a forward contact trajectory in the same direction as a guide direction along a part of said guide trajectory display, a backward contact trajectory in a direction opposite to said guide direction has been operationally input along the forward contact trajectory in said touch panel portion on the basis of the detection result of said detecting portion; and

said trajectory fixing portion fixes the contact trajectory from said start point to said end point as an operationally input contact trajectory by excluding said forward contact trajectory and said backward contact trajectory when it is determined by said trajectory determination processing portion that said backward contact trajectory has been operationally input.

8. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein:

said trajectory determination processing portion has an out-of-range determining portion configured to determine whether or not an out-of-range contact trajectory deviating out of a contact trajectory effective range set in advance has been operationally input in said touch panel portion on the basis of the detection result of said detecting portion;

said start point determining portion invalidates a determination result regarding said start point having been executed so far when it is determined by said trajectory determination processing portion that said out-of-range contact trajectory has been operationally input; and

said display control portion controls said display portion so as to stop the guide display of said processing operation having been executed so far.

9. The electronic device according to claim 3, further comprising a contact mode determining portion configured to determine whether or not a contact in a predetermined mode for displaying all the patterns has been made in said touch panel portion on the basis of the detection result of said detecting portion, wherein

said display control portion controls said display portion so as to perform said guide trajectory display equivalent to the contact trajectories with all of said predetermined patterns stored in said memory, respectively, when it is determined by said contact mode determining portion that the contact in the predetermined mode for displaying all the patterns has been made.

10. An operation display method for an operation terminal which is configured to be capable of being connected to an electronic device including at least one operation portion executing a predetermined processing operation, the operation terminal having a display portion configured to perform a desired display, a touch panel portion provided above said display portion and capable of executing an operational input in a state where display on the display portion can be seen through, and a memory configured to store correlation between contact trajectories with a plurality of predetermined patterns in said touch panel portion and a plurality of said processing operations executed by said operation portion or said display portion in accordance with the plurality of predetermined patterns, respectively, the operation display method comprising the steps of:

a detection step for detecting the operational input by contact to said touch panel portion;

a trajectory determination processing step for determining whether or not a contact trajectory with any of said predetermined patterns has been operationally input in said touch panel portion on the basis of a detection result in said detection step;

an operation control step, when it is determined in said trajectory determination processing step that the a contact trajectory with said predetermined pattern has been operationally input, for referring to said correlation stored in said memory and for controlling said operation portion or said display portion in accordance with the contact trajectory with the predetermined pattern so as to perform said processing operation corresponding to the predetermined pattern;

a start point determining step for determining whether or not contact that can become a start point of the contact trajectory with at least one of said predetermined pattern has been made in said touch panel portion on the basis of the detection result in said detection step; and

a display control step, when it is determined in said start point determination step that contact that can become said start point has been made, for referring to said correlation stored in said memory and for controlling said display portion so as to perform guide display of at least one of said processing operations corresponding to the contact trajectory with at least one of said predetermined pattern including the start point, respectively.