ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20150089456A1
• Filed: 09/15/2014
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: NITTA, Ryuichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,747,022 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A display control unit executes a first control process if a swipe operation detected by an operation detection unit is a first swipe operation in which a finger is linearly moved, and executes a second control process differing from the first control process if the swipe operation detected by the operation detection unit is a second swipe operation in which the finger is moved along a route differing from the route of the finger in the first swipe operation.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch panel capable of displaying an image;

an operation detection unit configured to detect a swipe operation in which a finger is moved while touching the touch panel; and

a display control unit configured to control the display of the touch panel pursuant to the swipe operation detected by the operation detection unit,

wherein the display control unit is configured to execute a first control process if the swipe operation detected by the operation detection unit is a first swipe operation in which a finger is linearly moved, and to execute a second control process differing from the first control process if the swipe operation defected by the operation detection unit is a second swipe operation in which the finger is moved along a route differing from the route of the finger in the first swipe operation.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the second swipe operation is an operation in which a closed loop is formed in a movement route of the finger.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the second control process includes a plurality of different processes, and

wherein the display control unit is configured to, if the swipe operation detected by the operation detection unit is the second swipe operation, execute one of the plurality of different processes included in the second control process depending on a start position and an end position of the swipe operation.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the image includes a plurality of images,

wherein the display control unit is configured to display the plurality of images side by side in a predetermined order, and

wherein the plurality of different processes includes at least two of:

an image interchange process in which an image existing in the start position of the second swipe operation is interchanged with an image existing in the end position of the second swipe operation;

an image deletion process in which, if the end position of the second swipe operation lies in a background region where no image exists, an image existing in the start position of the second swipe operation is deleted;

a blank image insertion process in which, if the start position of the second swipe operation lies in the background region where no image exists, a blank image is inserted between an image existing in the end position of the second swipe operation and an image positioned just before the image existing in the end position of the second swipe operation; and

a non-action process in which, if the start position and the end position of the second swipe operation lie in the background region where no image exists, nothing is performed with respect to the plurality of images.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the first control process is a non-action process in which nothing is performed with respect to the image.