INPUT/OUTPUT CONTROLLER AND INPUT/OUTPUT CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20160154572A1
• Filed: 11/18/2015
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 138 East LCD Advancements Limited (Vector Capital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Tomohiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,788,950 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Provided is an input/output controller including: a touch panel display; and a control section configured to cause the touch panel display to display a first icon at a first position on the touch panel display and, when one or more other positions are touched while the first position is touched, perform a process associated with the first icon and the one or more other positions.

Claims

1. An input/output controller comprising:

a touch panel display; and

a control section configured to cause the touch panel display to display a first icon at a first position on the touch panel display and, when one or more other positions are touched while the first position is touched, perform a process associated with the first icon and the one or more other positions.

2. The input/output controller according to claim 1, wherein

the control section is configured to, when a second position is touched while the first position is touched, move the first icon to the second position.

3. The input/output controller according to claim 1, wherein

the control section is configured to cause the touch panel display to display a second icon at a second position that is distinct from the first position and, when the second position is touched while the first position is touched, swap positions of the first icon and the second icon.

4. The input/output controller according to claim 1, wherein

the control section is configured to:

cause the touch panel display to display respective different icons at the one or more other positions;

determine, on the basis of an order in which the first position and the one or more other positions are touched, positions into which the first icon and the respective different icons are to be rearranged; and

rearrange the first icon and the respective different icons into the determined positions.

5. The input/output controller according to claim 1, wherein

the control section is configured to determine, on the basis of an order in which touch operations on the touch panel display have ended, whether to perform or cancel the process.

6. The input/output controller according to claim 5, wherein

the control section is configured to start the process in response to the determination that the process is to be performed, the determination being made on the basis of the order in which the touch operations on the touch panel display have ended.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon an input/output control program causing a computer to perform a function of controlling input/output via a touch panel display,

the input/output control program causing a computer to perform a function of causing the touch panel display to display a first icon at a first position on the touch panel display and, when one or more other positions are touched while the first position is touched, perform a process associated with the first icon and the one or more other positions.