ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140152586A1
• Filed: 02/15/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TERUNUMA, Yoshikazu
• Application Number:
  US13/769,009
• Publication Number:
  US 20140152586A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an acquirer and a display controller. The acquirer is configured to acquire a contact area on a touchscreen display. The display controller is configured to execute display control of a first object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is less than a first value. The display controller is further configured to execute display control of a second object different from the first object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is not less than the first value.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an acquirer configured to acquire a contact area on a touchscreen display; and

a display controller configured to execute display control of a first object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is less than a first value, and to execute display control of a second object different from the first object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is not less than the first value.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to display the first object with a first size if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is less than the first value, and to display the second object with a second size larger than the first size if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is not less than the first value.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the first object and the second object comprise a menu comprising text data; and

the display controller is configured to display the menu with a first font size if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is less than the first value, and to display the menu with a second font size larger than the first font size if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is not less than the first value.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the acquirer is configured to determine that an area of a target region is less than the first value if the target region of the gesture comprises only a display region of a third object on the touchscreen display, and to determine that the area of the target region is not less than the first value if the target region comprises the display region of the third object and extends over a display region of a fourth object on the touchscreen display beside the third object.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the acquirer is configured to determine that an area of a target region is less than the first value if the target region of the gesture comprises only a display region of a third object on the touchscreen display, and to determine that the area of the target region is not less than the first value if the target region comprises the display region of the third object and extends over a display region of a fourth object on the touchscreen display beside the third object.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to display the first object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is less than the first value, and to display the second object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is not less than the first value.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the acquirer is configured to determine that an area of a target region is less than the first value if the target region of the gesture comprises only a display region of a third object on the touchscreen display, and to determine that the area of the target region is not less than the first value if the target region comprises the display region of the third object and extends over a display region of a fourth object on the touchscreen display beside the third object.

8. A display control method of an electronic apparatus with a touchscreen display, the method comprising:

acquiring a contact area on the touchscreen display;

executing display control of a first object if the acquired contact area is less than a first value; and

executing display control of a second object different from the first object if the acquired contact area is not less than the first value.

9. A computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which is executable by a computer, the computer program controlling the computer to function as:

an acquirer configured to acquire a contact area on a touchscreen display; and

a display controller configured to execute display control of a first object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is less than a first value, and to execute display control of a second object different from the first object if the contact area acquired by the acquirer is not less than the first value.