INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, INFORMATION INPUT CONTROL PROGRAM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20160246500A1
• Filed: 05/03/2016
• Published: 08/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: KAJIYAMA, Kunihiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,684,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/70 methods for entering alphabetical characters, e.g. multi-tap or dictionary disambiguation methods for entering alphabetical characters per se G06F3/0237

Abstract

The present invention provides an information input device, in which information is inputted by easy operations, even if a display unit size is limited. An information input device of the present invention has: a display unit displaying a plurality of figures; a detecting unit arranged in front of the display unit or behind the display unit, and detecting whether a physical contact from an outside exists or not and a contacted position at which the physical contact exists; and a control unit deciding a figure displayed on the display unit and a position at which the figure is displayed, and inputting information based on a signal from the detecting unit, and when the detecting unit detects the physical contact exists, the control unit determines a first figure displayed at a nearest position to the contacted position in the plurality of figures based on the contacted position and decides a second figure displayed at a position surrounding the contacted position based on a kind of the first figure.

Claims

1. A mobile phone device:

having a touch panel, wherein a display of the touch panel includes a plurality of input boxes, and wherein a plurality of first information are allocated into the plurality of input boxes and are displayed; and

displaying second information in the input box adjacent to a pushed input box instead of the first information displayed in the input box adjacent to the pushed input box, when one of the plurality of input boxes is pushed, wherein the second information is associated with the first information displayed in the pushed input box.

2. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of second information are displayed in spite of presence or absence of already displayed information in the other input box adjacent to the one of the plurality of input boxes.

3. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of second information are displayed in at least two sides among upper, lower, left or right sides of the pushed input box.

4. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of second information are displayed in each side among upper, lower, left or right sides of the pushed input box.

5. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein only one of the plurality of second information are displayed in one or plural side among upper, lower, left or right sides of the pushed input box, respectively.

6. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein the display of the second information adjacent to the pushed input box is continued, while the input box displaying the first information is pushed.

7. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein the second information belongs to the same “

column”

comprising the first information displayed in the pushed input box.

8. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein information is input based on the first information displayed in the input box, when contact to the pushed input box is released during the second information is displayed.

9. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein information is input based on the second information displayed in the input box, when contact to the pushed input box is released during the second information is displayed.

10. The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein information is input based on information corresponding to a pushed position in the touch panel at a time just before when the contact is released after the touch panel is pushed.

11. A display method comprising:

displaying a plurality of first information by allocating the plurality of first information into the plurality of input boxes, respectively, wherein a display of a touch panel includes the plurality of input boxes;

displaying second information in the input box adjacent to a pushed input box instead of the first information displayed in the input box adjacent to the pushed input box, when one of the plurality of input boxes is pushed, wherein the second information is associated with the first information displayed in the pushed input box.

12. The display method according to claim 11, wherein the plurality of second information are displayed in at least two sides among upper, lower, left or right sides of the pushed input box.

13. The display method according to claim 11, wherein the plurality of second information are displayed in each side among upper, lower, left or right sides of the pushed input box.

14. The display method according to claim 11, wherein only one of the plurality of second information are displayed in one or plural side among upper, lower, left or right sides of the pushed input box, respectively.

15. The display method according to claim 11, wherein the display of the second information adjacent to the pushed input box is continued while the input box displaying the first information is pushed.

16. The display method according to claim 11, wherein the second information belongs to the same “

column”

comprising the first information displayed in the pushed input box.

17. The display method according to claim 11, wherein information is input based on the first information displayed in the input box, when contact to the pushed input box is released during the second information is displayed.

18. The display method according to claim 11, wherein information is input based on the second information displayed in the input box, when contact to the pushed input box is released during the second information is displayed.

19. The display method according to claim 11, wherein information is input based on the first or the second information corresponding to a pushed position in the touch panel at a time just before when the contact is released after the touch panel is pushed.