DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140331132A1
• Filed: 04/29/2014
• Published: 11/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Kan
• Granted Patent: US 9,727,349 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

An apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an input operation from a user performed on an accepting unit displayed on a display unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the input operation received by the receiving unit, and at least one of a display state of the accepting unit and an input area of the input operation in the accepting unit; and a display control unit configured to control a display of the accepting unit displayed on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided by the determination unit.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an input operation from a user performed on an accepting unit displayed on a display unit;

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the input operation received by the receiving unit, and at least one of a display state of the accepting unit and an input area of the input operation in the accepting unit; and

a display control unit configured to control a display of the accepting unit displayed on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided by the determination unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit is a touch panel.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays, on the display unit, the detailed information set in the accepting unit by displaying a tooltip component on a display area of the display unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the tooltip component includes an execute button for executing a process set in the accepting unit.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a process of displaying the detailed information and a process of executing a function are set in the accepting unit.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the detailed information is a character string describing information on a function set in the accepting unit.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the determination unit determines whether the detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit or whether the function set in the accepting unit is executed.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein, if an input area of an input operation in the accepting unit is an area in which the process of displaying the detailed information is set, the determination unit determines that the detailed information set in the accepting unit is to be displayed on the display unit.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein, if an input area of an input operation in the accepting unit is an area in which the process of executing the function is set, the determination unit determines that the function set in the accepting unit is to be executed.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, if an input operation received by the receiving unit is an input operation performed on the accepting unit in which a display state of the accepting unit is a state in which a character string, in which part of the detailed information set in the accepting unit has been omitted, has been displayed, the determination unit determines that the detailed information set in the accepting unit is to be displayed on the display unit.

11. The apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein, in accordance with an input operation received by the receiving unit, at least one of a display state of the accepting unit and an input area of the input operation in the accepting unit, and a number of times the input operation received by the receiving unit has been performed on the accepting unit, the determination unit determines whether or not the detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit, and

wherein, if the number of times the input operation has been performed on the accepting unit in which a display state of the accepting unit is a state in which the detailed information set in the accepting unit has not been displayed is a predetermined number of times, the determination unit determines that the detailed information set in the accepting unit is to be displayed on the display unit.

12. A method comprising:

receiving an input operation from a user performed on an accepting unit displayed on a display unit;

determining whether or not detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the input operation received in the receiving, and at least one of a display state of the accepting unit and an input area of the input operation in the accepting unit; and

controlling a display of the accepting unit displayed on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided in the determining.

13. A storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method comprising:

receiving an input operation from a user performed on an accepting unit displayed on a display unit;

determining whether or not detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the input operation received in the receiving, and at least one of a display state of the accepting unit and an input area of the input operation in the accepting unit; and

controlling a display of the accepting unit displayed on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided in the determining.