Display device and screen display method

• US 8,525,854 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2011
• Issued: 09/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Murakami, Keiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, Kee M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Russell, Richard M
• Application Number:
  US13/039,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20110216094A1
• Time in Patent Office: 915 Days
• Field of Search: 345/661
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

It is intended to enable enlarging or reducing a screen with a simple operation. A mobile phone 1 includes a touch panel 11 that displays a screen and receives a predetermined input, a detection unit 12 that detects a start point and an end point of a physical touch on the touch panel 11, and a display control unit 13 that calculates a moving direction of the touch on the basis of the detection result, enlarges the screen displayed on the touch panel 11 when the moving direction is in a predetermined first range, and reduces the screen when the moving direction is in a predetermined second range different from the first range.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a touch panel that displays a screen and receives a predetermined input;

a detection unit that detects a start point and an end point of a physical touch on the touch panel; and

a display control unit that calculates a moving direction of the touch on the basis of the detection result from the detection unit, wherein

the display control unit calculates a vector extending from the start point to the end point as the moving direction, enlarges the screen displayed on the touch panel when the moving direction is in a predetermined first range, and reduces the screen when the moving direction is in a predetermined second range different from the first range,

the first and second ranges are obtained by dividing a surrounding area of the start point, and

the display control unit calculates the moving speed of the touch on the basis of the detection result from the detection unit, enlarges the screen displayed on the touch panel when the moving speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value and the moving direction is in the first range, and reduces the screen when the moving speed is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value and the moving direction is in the second range.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first range is a section obtained by dividing the surrounding area of the start point into three or more sections and the second range is another section different from the section obtained.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the first range is a section obtained by dividing the surrounding area of the start point into eight sections and the second range is another section different from the section obtained,

each of the section and the other section extends in an oblique direction from the start point in the screen, and

at least a part of the other section is opposed to the section obtained.

4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit scrolls the screen in the moving direction when the moving direction is out of the first and second ranges.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit scrolls the screen in the moving direction when the moving speed is less than the predetermined threshold value.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the first range is obtained by dividing the surrounding area of the start point within a first section inclined from the X axis by a first predetermined angular range.

7. The display device according to claim 6, wherein

the second range is obtained by dividing the surrounding area of the start point within a second section inclined from the X axis by a second predetermined angular range that is different from the first predetermined angular range.

8. The display device according to claim 7, wherein

a first center of the first predetermined angular range is 180 degrees different from a second center of the second predetermined angular range.

9. A screen display method executed by a display device including a touch panel that displays a screen and receives a predetermined input, the screen display method comprising:

a detection step of detecting a start point and an end point of a physical touch on the touch panel; and

a display control step of calculating a moving direction of the touch on the basis of the detection result in the detection step, wherein

the display control step includes;

calculating a vector extending from the start point to the end point as the moving direction;

calculating the moving speed of the touch;

enlarging the screen displayed on the touch panel when the moving speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value and when the moving direction is in a predetermined first range; and

reducing the screen when the moving speed is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value and when the moving direction is in a predetermined second range different from the first range, wherein

the first and second ranges are obtained by dividing a surrounding area of the start point.