ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING PROGRAM AND DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140145960A1
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TAKEDA, Kentaro
• Application Number:
  US14/011,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20140145960A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1654 the display being detachable, e.g. for remote use
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser

Abstract

One embodiment provides an electronic apparatus comprising: an acquisition module and a display controller. The acquisition module acquires a proximity state between an edge portion of a touch screen and a pointing body. An image is displayed on the touch screen. A display controller which changes a display position of the image on the touch screen based on the proximity state.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an acquisition module which acquires a proximity state between an edge portion of a touch screen and a pointing body, an image being displayed on the touch screen; and

a display controller which changes a display position of the image on the touch screen based on the proximity state.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the proximity state comprises a proximity distance between the edge portion and the pointing body, and

wherein, when the proximity state indicates that the proximity distance is equal to or smaller than a threshold, the display controller changes the display position of the image in a direction to move the image away from the edge portion.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein, the display controller displays guidance information on the touch screen to guide a change of the display position of the image.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the acquisition module further acquires a contact state between the touch screen and the pointing body, and

wherein the display controller invalidates changing the display position of the image when the contact state indicates that the pointing body comes into contact with the touch screen, even if the proximity state indicates that the proximity distance is equal to or smaller than the threshold.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the acquisition module further acquires a contact state between the touch screen and the pointing body, and

wherein, in a state in which the display position of the image has been changed, the display controller restores the changed display position of the image into an initial display position when the contact state indicates that a contact between the pointing body and the touch screen is made and then cancelled.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the acquisition module acquires the proximity state between the pointing body and specific one of four sides forming vertical and horizontal edge portions of the touch screen, and

wherein the display controller changes the display position of the image in a direction to move the image away from the specific side when the proximity state indicates that a proximity distance between the specific side and the pointing body is equal to or smaller than a threshold.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 6, further comprising:

a keyboard disposed on the specific side of the touch screen.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a first unit having the touch screen; and

a second unit having a keyboard, the second unit being detachably attached to the first unit,

wherein the display controller invalidates changing the display position of the image when the second unit is detached from the first unit.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one sensor which outputs a signal corresponding to the proximity state.

10. A display processing program for causing a computer to function as:

an acquisition module which acquires a proximity state between an edge portion of a touch screen and a pointing body, an image being displayed on the touch screen; and

a display controller which changes a display position of the image on the touch screen based on the proximity state.

11. A display processing method comprising:

acquiring a proximity state between an edge portion of a touch screen and a pointing body, an image being displayed on the touch screen; and

changing a display position of the image on the touch screen based on the proximity state.