DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATING DEVICE

• US 20150067586A1
• Filed: 03/25/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Nishihashi, Shigeaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,996,242 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/786
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 display system that is configured to select one of multiple display regions as an active region and which can avoid complicated operations for selecting an icon is provided. In the display system, one of the display regions is selected as an active region by an input operation to an input screen, and an icon in the active region is selected by another input operation to the input screen. The display system stores a specific input operation in advance as a switching operation, and determines whether an input operation is the switching operation. When the input operation is determined as the switching operation, the display region corresponding to the switching operation is selected as the active region, and the icon in the active region is displayed in a selectable state.

Claims

1. A display system comprising:

a display screen that defines thereon a plurality of display regions each displaying a plurality of selective image sections which are to be selected by an operation inputted into an input screen

the display screen displaying, as an active region, one display region selected from among the plurality of display regions in a manner that the selective image sections on the active region are selectable based on a selection operation inputted to the input screen;

the input screen that is located apart from the display screen and inputs the selection operation for selecting the selective image section;

a determination unit in which a specific operation to be inputted to the input screen is pre-stored as a switching operation, the determination unit determining whether the switching operation is inputted to the input screen; and

a switching unit that switches the active region from the one display region to another display region of the plurality of display regions when the determination unit determines that the switching operation is inputted.

2. The display system according to claim 1, wherein:

an operation to the input screen by plurality of operation bodies is stored as the switching operation in the determination unit; and

the switching unit switches the active region from the one display region to another display region when the determination unit determines that the switching operation by the plurality of operation bodies is inputted.

3. The display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the display system is provided with an input coordinate system defined on the input screen and a corresponding display coordinate system defined on the display screen;

an operation of moving the plurality of operation bodies in a specific direction in the input coordinate system is stored as the switching operation in the determination unit; and

when the determination unit determines that the switching operation is inputted, the switching unit defines a direction in the display coordinate system corresponding to the specific direction as the corresponding direction and switches the active region to another display region located in the corresponding direction with respect to the one display region.

4. The display system according to claim 1, wherein:

a flick operation to the input screen by an operation body is stored as the switching operation in the determination unit; and

the switching unit switches the active region from the one display region to another display region when the determination unit determines that the flick operation is inputted.

5. The display system according to claim 1, wherein:

an operation of moving an operation body so as to draw a specific locus is stored as the switching operation in the determination unit; and

the switching unit switches the active region from the one display region to another display region when the determination unit determines that the switching operation drawing the specific locus is inputted.

6. The display system according to claim 5, wherein:

the display system is provided with an input coordinate system defined on the input screen and a corresponding display coordinate system defined on the display screen; and

when the determination unit determines that the switching operation drawing the specific locus is inputted, the switching unit acquires, after said switching operation, the move operation to move the operation body in the specific direction in the input coordinate system, defines a direction in the display coordinate system corresponding to the specific direction as the corresponding direction, and switches the active region into the another display region located in the corresponding direction with respect to the one display region.

7. The display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the determination unit stores multiple tap operations inputted to the input screen by the operation body within a prescribed time, as the switching operation; and

the switching unit switches the active region from the one display region to the other display region, when the determination unit determines that the multiple tap operations have been inputted.

8. A display device for the display system of claim 1, the display device forming the display screen and comprising:

the determination unit; and

the switching unit.

9. An operation device for the display system of claim 1, the operation device forming the input screen and comprising:

the determination unit; and

the switching unit.

11. The display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the input screen is a single input screen formed in a specific region of a touchpad; and

the same single input screen of the touchpad receives both of the switching operation and the selection operation, the switching operation being an input operation for selecting the active region, the selection operation being an input operation for selecting the selective image section in the active region and being different in input gesture manner from the switching operation.

10. A display system selecting as an active region one display region of a plurality of display regions defined on a display screen by an input operation to an input screen provided apart from the display screen and selecting a selective image section in the selected active region by another input operation to the input screen, the display system comprising:

a detection unit that detects an input operation to the input screen;

a memory unit in which a plurality of specific input operations corresponding to the plurality of display regions are stored as switching operations, respectively;

a determination unit that determines which of the switching operations corresponds to the input operation detected by the detection unit;

a switching unit that selects the display region corresponding to the switching operation as the active region and displaying the selective image section in the active region as being in a selectable state when the determination unit determines that the input operation is one of the switching operations; and

an image selection unit that, when the determination unit determines that the input operation is not any of the switching operations, selects the selective image section in the presently-selected active region on the basis of the input operation.