PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20140351742A1
• Filed: 08/07/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: ISHIHARA, Tomohiro, Gomyo, Kazumasa, Iino, Satoshi, Hashimoto, Yuji
• Granted Patent: US 10,684,755 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/02 Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0233 Character input methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/18 including more than one keyboard unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user'"'"'s finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.

Claims

1. A portable terminal device comprising:

an enclosure; and

a display section provided on the enclosure, a touch panel being overlapped on the display section,

wherein the display section is configured to display contents and an icon which is located at a lower side of the contents; and

wherein the icon is assigned a function of scrolling an upper part of the displayed contents to downward in a vertical direction.

2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an another enclosure, the enclosure and the another enclosure being slidable relative to each other, wherein the enclosure and the another enclosure are enabled to occupy a contracted state or an extended state,

wherein the display section displays the icon which is located at the lower side of the contents when the enclosure and the another enclosure are in the extended state.

3. A display control method of a portable terminal device including an enclosure, a display section which is provided on the enclosure, and a touch panel being overlapped on the display section, the display control method comprising:

displaying contents and an icon which is located at a lower side of the contents; and

scrolling an upper part of the displayed contents to downward in a vertical direction when a function assigned to the icon is activated.

4. The display control method according to claim 3, wherein the portable terminal device further includes an another enclosure, the enclosure and the another enclosure being slidable relative to each other;

wherein the enclosure and the another enclosure are enabled to occupy a contracted state or an extended state; and

wherein the icon which is located at the lower side of the contents is displayed when the enclosure and the another enclosure are in the extended state.