INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140327805A1
• Filed: 07/21/2014
• Published: 11/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Oyama, Yasufumi
• Granted Patent: US 10,365,760 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0048 Indicating an illegal or impossible operation or selection to the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/634 Warning indications

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a touching detection unit configured to detect a touching operation and a touch-up operation for the display unit, a time counting unit configured to count a time period of continuous touching on a specific area of the display unit, and a control unit configured, when a touch-up operation from the specific area is detected and a counted time period of continuous touching has not reached a predetermined time period, to execute a function assigned to the specific area while when the touch-up operation from the specific area is detected and the counted time period of continuous touching has reached the predetermined time period, not to execute the function assigned to the specific area in relation only to the detected touch-up operation.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a touching detection unit configured to detect a touching operation for touching a display unit;

a time counting unit configured to count a time period of continuous touching in a specific display item to which a function is assigned and which is displayed on the display unit;

a control unit configured to perform control to cause the function assigned to the specific display item to be executed in response to a touching operation to the specific display item; and

a display control unit configured to, in response to a touching operation for touching the specific display item displayed in a first display form being started, change a display form of the specific display item to a second display form and, in response to the time period of continuous touching in the specific display item counted by the time counting unit having reached a predetermined time period, change the display form of the touched specific display item to the first display form.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to perform the control to cause the function assigned to the specific display item to be executed in a case where, when a releasing from the specific display item is detected in a state in which the touching operation for touching the specific display item has been detected, the time period of continuous touching counted by the time counting unit has not reached the predetermined time period, and perform the control not to cause the function assigned to the specific display item to be executed in a case where, when a releasing from the specific display item is detected in a state in which the touching operation for touching the specific display item has been detected, the time period of continuous touching counted by the time counting unit has reached the predetermined time period.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a shutter operation member configured to receive a user instruction for imaging by an imaging unit,

wherein the specific display item is an area of a button icon displayed on the display unit at a position that is closest to a vertex of the display unit that is closest to the shutter operation member.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an attitude detection unit configured to detect an attitude of the information processing apparatus,

wherein a different display item on the display unit is set as the specific display item according to an attitude detected by the attitude detection unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to, in response to a touching operation for touching a second display item which is different from the specific display item, change a display form of the second display item from a first display form to a second display form, and not change the display form of the second display item from the second display form to the first display form in a case where the touching operation for touching the second display item is continuing even after a time period of continuous touching in the second display item has reached the predetermined time period.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the control unit is configured to perform the control to cause the function assigned to the second display item to be executed in a case where, even if the time period of continuous touching for the second display item has reached the predetermined time period, a touch-up operation for the second display item is detected in a state in which the touching operation for touching the second display item has been detected by the touching detection unit.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a shutter operation member configured to receive a user instruction for imaging by an imaging unit,

wherein the specific display item is an area of a button icon displayed on the display unit at a position that is closer to a vertex of the display unit that is closest to the shutter operation member than a position of the second display item.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the function assigned to the specific display item is a function related to imaging by an imaging unit included in the information processing apparatus.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured, in response to the time period of continuous touching for the specific display item counted by the time counting unit having reached the predetermined time period, to perform control to cause the display unit to display a first warning.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the first warning indicates that the specific display item has been touched.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a multi-point touching determination unit configured to determine whether an area other than the specific display item has been touched simultaneously with a touching operation for touching the specific display item,

wherein the display control unit is further configured, if the multi-point touching determination unit determines that the area other than the specific display item has been touched simultaneously with the touching operation for touching the specific display item in a state in which the first warning has been displayed on the display unit, to perform control to cause the display unit to display a second warning.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the second warning indicates, on the display unit, that an operation instructed by the touching in the area other than the specific display item cannot be executed.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the touching detection unit is capable of detecting a touching operation for touching a single touch position on the display unit only, and

wherein the multi-point touching determination unit is configured, if a touching operation for touching a position within a predetermined range on the display unit is detected without a touch-up operation for the specific display item being detected in a state in which the touching operation for touching the specific display item has been detected, to determine that a position included in an area other than the specific display item has been touched simultaneously with the touching operation for touching the specific display item.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the second warming message indicates that a function assigned to a position in point symmetry with a position touched through the detected touching operation for touching the specific display item around the touched position within the predetermined range cannot be executed.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second time counting unit configured to count a time period of continuous touching in a second display item which is on the display unit and is different from the specific display item,

wherein the control unit is configured to perform control, when a touch-up operation for the second display item is detected in a state in which a touching operation for touching the second display item has been detected by the touching detection unit, and if the time period of continuous touching counted by the second time counting unit has not reached a second time period which is longer than the predetermined time period, to cause a function assigned to the second display item to be executed while when the touch-up operation for the second display item is detected in a state in which the touching operation for touching the second area has been detected by the touching detection unit, and if the time period of continuous touching counted by the second time counting unit has reached the second time period, not to cause the function assigned to the second display item to be executed.

16. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

detecting a touching operation for touching a display unit;

counting a time period of continuous touching in a specific display item to which a function is assigned and which is displayed on the display unit;

performing control to cause the function assigned to the specific display item to be executed in response to a touching operation to the specific display item;

performing a display control to, in response to a touching operation for touching the specific display item displayed in a first display form being started, change a display form of the specific display item to a second display form and, in response to the time period of continuous touching in the specific display item counted by the counting having reached a predetermined time period, change the display form of the touched specific display item from to the first display form.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a method for controlling an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

detecting a touching operation for touching a display unit;

counting a time period of continuous touching in a specific display item to which a function is assigned and which is displayed on the display unit;

performing control to cause the function assigned to the specific display item to be executed in response to a touching operation to the specific display item;

performing a display control to, in response to a touching operation for touching the specific display item displayed in a first display form being started, change a display form of the specific display item to a second display form and, in response to the time period of continuous touching in the specific display item counted by the counting having reached a predetermined time period, change the display form of the touched specific display item from to the first display form.