DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD

• US 20170315619A1
• Filed: 11/05/2015
• Published: 11/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: HONDA, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,353,479 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• 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

Abstract

A display apparatus, which improves operability in a case where operations are performed by plural indicators, and a display apparatus control method. A detection unit that detects an operation performed by a first indicator on a screen and an operation performed by a second indicator on the screen, and an invalid determination unit that receives an indication which causes the operations to be invalid are included. In a case where the indication is received after the detection unit detects the operation performed by the second indicator, and, thereafter, detects the operation performed by the first indicator, the invalid determination unit causes the operation performed by the second indicator to be invalid.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a detection unit that detects an operation performed by a first indicator on an operation surface, and an operation performed by a second indicator on the operation surface; and

a control unit that receives an indication which causes the operations to be invalid,

wherein, in a case where the indication is received after the detection unit detects the operation performed by the second indicator and, thereafter, detects the operation performed by the first indicator, the control unit causes the operation performed by the second indicator to be invalid.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit performs a first process and a second process by switching between the first process and the second process,

wherein the first process is a process that causes the operation performed by the second indicator to be invalid in the case where the indication is received after the detection unit detects the operation performed by the second indicator, and, thereafter, detects the operation performed by the first indicator, and

wherein the second process is a process that causes the operation performed by the first indicator to be invalid in the case where the indication is received after the detection unit detects the operation performed by the second indicator, and, thereafter, detects the operation performed by the first indicator.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the detection unit detects the operation performed by the first indicator in association with an operator who operates the first indicator, and detects the operation performed by the second indicator in association with an operator who operates the second indicator,

wherein, in a case where the detection unit detects a first operation performed by the second indicator, detects the operation performed by the first indicator, detects a second operation performed by the second indicator, and the second operation is an operation that shows the indication, the control unit causes the first operation to be invalid if it is determined that an operator of the second operation is the same as an operator of the first operation, and the control unit does not cause the first operation to be invalid if it is determined that the operator of the second operation is not the same as the operator of the first operation.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein, in the case where the operator of the second operation is the same as the operator of the first operation, the control unit causes the first operation to be invalid until preset time elapses after the detection unit detects the first operation, and

wherein, in a case where a third operation detected by the detection unit and performed by the second indicator is an operation that shows the indication which causes the first operation to be invalid, the control unit causes the first operation to be invalid even though an operator of the third operation is not the same as the operator of the first operation after the preset time elapses.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a storage unit that stores operation history information in which the operation detected by the detection unit and performed by the second indicator is associated with the operator who performs the operation,

wherein the control unit deletes information of the operator who performs the operation from the operation history information in a case where the preset time elapses.

6. A display apparatus control method comprising:

detecting an operation performed by a first indicator on an operation surface, and an operation performed by a second indicator on the operation surface; and

receiving an indication that causes the operations to be invalid,

wherein the operation performed by the second indicator is caused to be invalid in a case where the indication is received after the operation performed by the second indicator is detected, and, thereafter, the operation performed by the first indicator is detected.