ELECTRONIC DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20160378333A1
• Filed: 06/03/2016
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: ARAKI, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US15/172,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20160378333A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• 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: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An electronic device includes a touch panel and a control unit. The control unit executes an application program. The control unit executes the application program to be functioned as: a setting acquiring circuit that acquires a software key setting as a setting of an on-screen keyboard displayed on the touch panel; and a software key display circuit that displays the on-screen keyboard on the touch panel corresponding to the software key setting acquired by the setting acquiring circuit. The software key setting includes a timing setting that indicates a timing when the on-screen keyboard is displayed on the touch panel.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a touch panel; and

a control unit that executes an application program,

wherein the control unit executes the application program to be functioned as;

a setting acquiring circuit that acquires a software key setting as a setting of an on-screen keyboard displayed on the touch panel; and

a software key display circuit that displays the on-screen keyboard on the touch panel corresponding to the software key setting acquired by the setting acquiring circuit,

wherein the software key setting includes a timing setting that indicates a timing when the on-screen keyboard is displayed on the touch panel.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the timing setting indicates that the on-screen keyboard is displayed on the touch panel at a timing of an activation of the application program.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the timing setting indicates that the on-screen keyboard is displayed on the touch panel at a specific timing other than the timing of the activation of the application program, and

the specific timing includes a timing other than a timing when a dedicated operation for displaying the on-screen keyboard on the touch panel is input on the touch panel.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the software key setting includes an arrangement setting that indicates an arrangement of the on-screen keyboard on the touch panel.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein a hardware keyboard is installable,

the software key setting includes a hardware key setting that indicates an installation state of the hardware keyboard, and

the software key display circuit displays the on-screen keyboard on the touch panel only when the hardware key setting indicates that the hardware keyboard is not installed.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an application program that causes an electronic device with a touch panel to function as:

a setting acquiring circuit that acquires a software key setting as a setting of an on-screen keyboard displayed on the touch panel; and

a software key display circuit that displays the on-screen keyboard on the touch panel corresponding to the software key setting acquired by the setting acquiring circuit,

wherein the software key setting includes a timing setting that indicates a timing when the on-screen keyboard is displayed on the touch panel.

7. A method for controlling an electronic device that includes a touch panel, comprising:

acquiring a software key setting as a setting of an on-screen keyboard displayed on the touch panel; and

displaying the on-screen keyboard on the touch panel corresponding to the software key setting acquired by the acquiring,

wherein the software key setting includes a timing setting that indicates a timing when the on-screen keyboard is displayed on the touch panel.