Portable Terminal Apparatus, Portable Terminal Control Method, And Program

• US 20140204063A1
• Filed: 06/22/2012
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaida, Soh
• Application Number:
  US14/342,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20140204063A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/184
• 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 3/0227 Cooperation and interconnection of the input arrangement with other functional units of a computer G06F3/023 - G06F3/037 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0393 Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/32 with means for controlling the display position see provisionally G09G5/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A portable terminal apparatus includes object display section which causes at least one operation target object to be displayed on a display unit, gripping force detecting section which detects a gripping force added to a casing, and display position control section which controls a display position of the operation target object on the display unit according to the gripping force detected by the gripping force detecting section. Accordingly, when a fingertip of a hand gripping the casing cannot reach an operation target object, the display position of the object is controlled to allow the fingertip to reach the object.

Claims

1. A portable terminal apparatus comprising:

an object display section which causes at least one operation target object to be displayed on a display unit;

gripping force detecting section which detects a gripping force added to a casing; and

display position control section which controls a display position of the operation target object on the display unit according to the gripping force detected by the gripping force detecting section.

2. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display position control section moves the display position of the operation target object on the display unit to a position where an operation with one hand can be performed when the gripping force exceeds a predetermined threshold, and moves the display position of the operation target object for return to an original position when a state in which the gripping force exceeds the predetermined threshold is changed to a state in which the gripping force becomes below the predetermined threshold.

3. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display position control section moves the display position of the operation target object to the position where the operation with one hand can be performed, at a constant speed or a variable speed.

4. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the display position control section changes a movement characteristic of the display position of the operation target object correspondingly to the gripping force detected by the gripping force detecting section.

5. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display position control section changes a position of a move destination of the display position of the operation target object correspondingly to the gripping force detected by the gripping force detecting section.

6. A portable terminal control method comprising:

an object display step of causing at least one operation target object to be displayed on a display unit;

a gripping force detecting step of detecting a gripping force added to a casing; and

a display position control step of controlling a display position of the operation target object on the display unit according to the gripping force detected in the gripping force detecting step.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored thereon that is executable by a computer in a portable terminal apparatus to perform functions comprising:

object display section which causes at least one operation target object to be displayed on a display unit;

gripping force detecting section which detects a gripping force added to a casing; and

display position control section which controls a display position of the operation target object on the display unit according to the gripping force detected by the gripping force detecting section.