Terminal Device And Recording Medium

• US 20190317617A1
• Filed: 06/28/2019
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: KOGURE, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US16/456,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20190317617A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04807 Pen manipulated menu
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0383 Signal control means within the pointing device
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A terminal device is provided including a reception unit that receives an operation performed on a window by a hovering stylus pen; an identification unit that, based on a position of the stylus pen and a position of the window when the operation is received, identifies an edge or a corner of the window that is to be an operation target of the stylus pen; and an operation control unit that applies the operation performed by the stylus pen to the identified edge or corner.

Claims

1. A terminal device comprising:

a reception unit that receives an operation performed on a window by a hovering stylus pen;

an identification unit that, based on a position of the stylus pen and a position of the window when the operation is received, identifies an edge or a corner of the window that is to be an operation target of the stylus pen; and

an operation control unit that applies the operation performed by the stylus pen to the identified edge or corner.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:

if the position of the stylus pen when the operation is received is near an edge or a corner of the window, then the identification unit identifies the nearby edge or corner of the window as the edge or the corner of the window that is to be the operation target of the stylus pen.

3. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:

if multiple windows are displayed when the operation is received, then the identification unit prefers an active window over an inactive window, and identifies the edge or the corner of the preferred window based on the position of the stylus pen and the position of the preferred window.

4. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:

if multiple windows are displayed so as to overlap when the operation is received, and there is no active window, then the identification unit, among the windows that are inactive, makes a window in the foreground active, and identifies the edge or the corner of the window that has been made active based on the position of the stylus pen and the position of the window that has been made active.

5. A computer readable non-transitory recording medium having a program recorded therein, the program causing a computer to execute:

a process for receiving an operation performed on a window by a hovering stylus pen;

a process for identifying, based on a position of the stylus pen and a position of the window when the operation is received, an edge or a corner of the window that is to be an operation target of the stylus pen; and

a process for applying the operation performed by the stylus pen to the identified edge or corner.

6. The recording medium according to claim 5, wherein:

if the position of the stylus pen when the operation is received is near an edge or a corner of the window, then the nearby edge or corner of the window is identified as the edge or the corner of the window that is to be the operation target of the stylus pen.

7. The recording medium according to claim 5, wherein:

if multiple windows are displayed when the operation is received, then an active window is preferred over an inactive window, and the edge or the corner of the preferred window is identified based on the position of the stylus pen and the position of the preferred window.

8. The recording medium according to claim 5, wherein:

if multiple windows are displayed so as to overlap when the operation is received, and there is no active window, then among the windows that are inactive, a window in the foreground is made active, and the edge or the corner of the window that has been made active is identified based on the position of the stylus pen and the position of the window that has been made active.