OPERATION SYSTEM, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20160132209A1
• Filed: 01/15/2016
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: ABE, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,528,247 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• 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 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An operation system includes a detector, an area designator, a selection item designator, and a display controller. The detector may be configured to detect an operation of touching a touch panel at a touch-position on the touch panel. The area designator may be configured to designate an area, which includes the touch-position at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected, from a plurality of areas of the touch panel. The selection item designator may be configured to designate an associated set of selection items which is associated with the area designated by the area designator. The display controller may be configured to control the touch panel to display an operator which includes the associated set of selection items at or in the vicinity of the touch-position, at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected by the detector.

Claims

1. An operation system comprising:

a detector configured to detect an operation of touching a touch panel at a touch-position on the touch panel;

an area designator configured to designate an area, which includes the touch-position at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected, from a plurality of areas of the touch panel;

a selection item designator configured to designate an associated set of selection items which is associated with the area designated by the area designator; and

a display controller configured to control the touch panel to display an operator which includes the associated set of selection items at or in the vicinity of the touch-position, at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected by the detector.

2. The operation system according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller is configured to control the touch panel to remove the display of the operator in a case that the detector has no longer detected the touch-position within the area in which the operator has been displayed.

3. The operation system according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller is configured to control the touch panel to display a plurality of guide images, each guide image indicating a range of a respective area of the plurality of areas of the touch panel.

4. The operation system according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller is configured to control the touch panel to display an operator which includes the set of selection items by the selection item designator, the set of selection items further including colored item images which are different in color depending upon different areas of the plurality of areas of the touch panel, and

wherein the display controller is configured to control the touch panel to display the plurality of guide images which are different in color depending upon different colors of the colored item images.

5. The operation system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a selection item changer configured to change the set of selection items into another set of selection items to be displayed on the pouch panel by the display controller, in a case that the detector has detected the touch-position on the touch panel continuously over a period of time.

6. The operation system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage that stores plural sets of selection items and respective identifiers identifying the plurality of areas of the pouch panel, each set of selection items being associated with a respective identifier which identifies a respective area of the plurality of areas of the pouch panel.

7. The operation system according to claim 6,

wherein the selection item designator is configured to read, out of the storage, a set of selection items, which is associated with an identifier identifying the area designated by the area designator, and

wherein the display controller is configured to control the touch panel to display, at or in the vicinity of the touch-position, an operator including the set of selection items that have been read out the storage by the selection item designator.

8. An operation control method comprising:

detecting, by an operation system, an operation of touching a touch panel at a touch-position on the touch panel;

designating, by the operation system, an area, which includes the touch-position at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected, from a plurality of areas of the touch panel;

designating, by the operation system, an associated set of selection items which is associated with the area designated; and

controlling, by the operation system, the touch panel to display an operator which includes the associated set of selection items at or in the vicinity of the touch-position, at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a computer program to be executed by a computer to perform a management method comprising:

detecting an operation of touching a touch panel at a touch-position on the touch panel;

designating an area, which includes the touch-position at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected, from a plurality of areas of the touch panel;

designating an associated set of selection items which is associated with the area designated; and

controlling the touch panel to display an operator which includes the associated set of selection items at or in the vicinity of the touch-position, at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected.