COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20150294645A1
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: TAGAYA, Masashi, KOBAYASHI, Shigeko, OKADA, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US14/647,615
• Publication Number:
  US 20150294645A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/22 Detection of presence or absence of input display information or of connection or disconnection of a corresponding information source
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A communication terminal includes: a screen; an operation acceptance unit; a communication establishment unit; a data transmitting unit that transmits determination image data currently being displayed on the local terminal to another terminal; a data receiving unit that receives determination image data from the other terminal; a relative position sensing unit; a data display region detection unit that acquires a user operation, senses a display position movement operation, and detects a data display region; and a display control unit that, when at least part of the data display region after the movement operation for the determination image data is included in a region that can be displayed on the screen of the local terminal, displays the determination image data in the data display region after the movement operation, only in the region that can be displayed on the screen of the local terminal.

Claims

1. A communication terminal including a screen that can display image data, where image data used to determine file contents is referred to as determination image data, the communication terminal comprising:

an operation acceptance unit that accepts a user operation;

a communication establishment unit that establishes communication with another terminal capable of communication;

a data transmitting unit that transmits, to the other terminal with which communication is established, determination image data that has not been transmitted to the other terminal with which communication is established and is currently being displayed on the local terminal;

a data receiving unit that receives the determination image data from the other terminal with which communication is established;

a relative position sensing unit that acquires a predetermined user operation and senses a relative position between the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established;

a data display region detection unit that acquires a user operation on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established, senses a display position movement operation for the determination image data currently being displayed on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established, and detects a data display region after movement operation for the determination image data on the basis of the relative position; and

a display control unit that, when at least part of the data display region after the movement operation for the determination image data is included in a region that can be displayed on the screen of the local terminal, displays the determination image data in the data display region after the movement operation, only in the region that can be displayed on the screen of the local terminal.

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

an acceleration sensor that measures an acceleration applied to a terminal,

wherein

the relative position sensing unit acquires, as the predetermined user operation, a change amount in an acceleration applied to the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established.

3. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the relative position sensing unit acquires, as the predetermined user operation, a screen touch operation on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established.

4. The communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein

the relative position sensing unit senses a relative position between the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established, on the basis of on which split region a screen touch operation is acquired, among split regions obtained by splitting the screen into a plurality of regions in advance.

5. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the data transmitting unit transmits, when a proportion of a region that can be displayed on the screen of the other terminal with which communication is established to a data display region of determination image data corresponding to file data that has not been transmitted to the other terminal with which communication is established is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, the file data corresponding to the determination image data to the other terminal with which communication is established;

and

the data receiving unit receives file data from the other terminal with which communication is established.

6. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the data display region detection unit acquires a drag operation for determination image data on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established and detects the drag operation as the display position movement operation.

7. The communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a tilt sensor that senses a tilt of a terminal,

wherein

the data display region detection unit acquires a tilt of the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established and detects the tilt as the display position movement operation.

16. A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for causing a communication terminal to function as a communication terminal according to claim 1.

8. (canceled)

9. A screen display method performed by a communication terminal including a screen that can display image data, where image data used to determine file contents is referred to as determination image data, the screen display method comprising:

an operation acceptance step of accepting a user operation;

a communication establishment step of establishing communication with another terminal capable of communication;

a relative position sensing step of acquiring a predetermined user operation and sensing a relative position between the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established;

a data transmitting step of transmitting, to the other terminal with which communication is established, determination image data that has not been transmitted to the other terminal with which communication is established and is currently being displayed on the local terminal;

a data receiving step of receiving the determination image data from the other terminal with which communication is established;

a data display region detection step of acquiring a user operation on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established, sensing a display position movement operation for the determination image data currently being displayed on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established, and detecting a data display region after movement operation for the determination image data on the basis of the relative position; and

a display control step of, when at least part of the data display region after the movement operation for the determination image data is included in a region that can be displayed on the screen of the local terminal, displaying the determination image data in the data display region after the movement operation, only in the region that can be displayed on the screen of the local terminal.

10. The screen display method according to claim 9, wherein

the communication terminal further comprises an acceleration sensor that measures an acceleration applied to a terminal;

and

the relative position sensing step is a step of acquiring, as the predetermined user operation, a change amount in an acceleration applied to the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established.

11. The screen display method according to claim 9, wherein

the relative position sensing step is a step of acquiring, as the predetermined user operation, a screen touch operation on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established.

12. The screen display method according to claim 11, wherein

the relative position sensing step is a step of sensing a relative position between the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established, on the basis of on which split region a screen touch operation is acquired, among split regions obtained by splitting the screen into a plurality of regions in advance.

13. The screen display method according to claim 9, wherein

the data transmitting step is a step of transmitting, when a proportion of a region that can be displayed on the screen of the other terminal with which communication is established to a data display region of determination image data corresponding to file data that has not been transmitted to the other terminal with which communication is established is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, the file data corresponding to the determination image data to the other terminal with which communication is established;

and

the data receiving step is a step of receiving file data from the other terminal with which communication is established.

14. The screen display method according to claim 9, wherein

the data display region detection step is a step of acquiring a drag operation for determination image data on the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established and detecting the drag operation as the display position movement operation.

15. The screen display method according to claim 9, wherein

the communication terminal further comprises a tilt sensor that senses a tilt of a terminal:

and

the data display region detection step is a step of acquiring a tilt of the local terminal and the other terminal with which communication is established and detects the tilt as the display position movement operation.