INPUT CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, INPUT CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140298251A1
• Filed: 02/15/2013
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ohtsuka, Kiyofumi, Ishikawa, Hirokazu, Nagasawa, Tadao, Yokogawa, Megumi, Satoh, Shinya, Kishimoto, Tatsuo, Yabuki, Yuhichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,495,090 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A touch control section (5) includes: an operation accepting section (51) which accepts a touch operation conducted with respect to an icon or the like; and an accepting operation control section (52) which controls the operation accepting section (51) to forbid an accepting operation in a case where screen scroll is started. In a case where screen scroll is started, the accepting operation control section (52) controls the accepting operation control section (52) to lift the forbiddance of an accepting operation before the screen scroll automatically stops.

Claims

1. An input control device for use in an electronic device including a display device by which a screen is displayed so as to be scrolled, on which screen a display element, to be subjected to an operation conducted via a touch panel, is displayed, the input control device controlling an acceptance of the operation,

said input control device comprising:

operation accepting means for accepting the operation to be conducted with respect to the display element; and

accepting operation control means for controlling the operation accepting means to forbid an accepting operation, in a case where scrolling of the screen is started,

in a case where the scrolling of the screen is started, the accepting operation control means controlling the operation accepting means to lift forbiddance of the accepting operation before the scrolling of the screen automatically stops.

2. The input control device as set forth in claim 1, wherein, in a case where the scrolling of the screen is started, the accepting operation control means controls the operation accepting means to lift the forbiddance of the accepting operation a predetermined time before the scrolling of the screen automatically stops.

3. The input control device as set forth in claim 1, wherein, in a case where the scrolling of the screen is started, the accepting operation control means controls the operation accepting means to lift the forbiddance of the accepting operation when a scroll amount, remaining until the scrolling of the screen automatically stops, becomes equal to a predetermined amount.

4. The input control device as set forth in claim 1, wherein, in a case where the scrolling of the screen is started, the accepting operation control means controls the operation accepting means to lift the forbiddance of the accepting operation when a speed of the scrolling of the screen automatically decreases and reaches a predetermined speed.

5. An electronic device comprising:

a display device by which a screen is displayed so as to be scrolled, on which screen a display element, to be subjected to an operation conducted via a touch panel, is displayed; and

an input control device for controlling an acceptance of the operation conducted via the touch panel,

the input control device being an input control device recited in claim 1.

6. The electronic device as set forth in claim 5, wherein the electronic device is a mobile phone.

9. A computer readable recording medium storing therein a program for causing a computer to operate as each means of an input control device recited in claim 1.

10. A computer readable recording medium storing therein a program for causing a computer to operate as each means of an input control device recited in claim 2.

11. A computer readable recording medium storing therein a program for causing a computer to operate as each means of an input control device recited in claim 3.

12. A computer readable recording medium storing therein a program for causing a computer to operate as each means of an input control device recited in claim 4.

7. A method of carrying out input control, comprising the steps of:

accepting an operation to be conducted with respect to a display element, while a screen on which the display element, to be subjected to the operation conducted via a touch panel, is being displayed;

forbidding an acceptance of the operation conducted with respect to the display element, in a case where scrolling of the screen is started; and

lifting forbiddance of the acceptance of the operation before the scrolling of the screen automatically stops, in a case where the scrolling of the screen is started.

8. (canceled)