Information display device and program storing medium

• US 8,711,103 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2008
• Issued: 04/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Sagou, Yuuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, PREMAL R
• Application Number:
  US12/208,964
• Publication Number:
  US 20090066666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,056 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-176, 178/18.1
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/014 Force feedback applied to GUI
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• 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

Abstract

A CPU determines whether or not the display position of a link character string is finger-touched when a touch sensor on a screen constituting a display unit is finger-touched, and when the link character string is touched, a user is informed that a jump to a link destination is possible through screen vibration or the like.

Claims

1. An information display device that displays various information on a display screen having a finger touch sensor, the information display device comprising:

a detection unit that detects an indicated position indicated by a finger touch to the display screen;

a determination unit that determines whether a display of link indication information is included within a display range having a predetermined size on the display screen and being defined by the indicated position detected by the detection unit, wherein the link indication information indicates a jump to a link destination;

an informing unit which informs a user that the link indication information is included within the display range when the determination unit determines that the link indication information is included within the display range; and

a display control unit that displays the link indication information within the display range at another display position different from the display position in the display screen when the determination unit determines that the link indication information is included within the display range and that enlarges the link indication information when displaying the link indication information at the another display position;

wherein the determination unit determines whether there is at least one additional link indication information included within the display range when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range, and the informing unit provides an indication that the jump to the link destination is possible when the determination unit determines that there is at least one additional link indication information included within the display range; and

wherein the informing unit informs the user that the jump to the link destination, based on the link indication information, is possible by vibrating the display screen so that the user feels the vibration through the finger that touches the display screen.

2. The information display device according to claim 1, further comprising a link execution unit that executes the jump to the link destination when a further predetermined operation is performed in addition to the finger touch to said display position of the link indication information.

3. The information display device according to claim 2, wherein when the user releases the touching to the display position of the link indication information and the display position is touched again, the link execution unit executes the jump to the link destination.

4. The information display device according to claim 2, wherein when the further predetermined operation is performed with the display position of the link indication information being finger-touched, the link execution unit executes the jump to the link destination.

5. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines whether there are plural of link indication information included within the display range when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range, and the information display device further comprises the display control unit that changes over a content of the display screen to an enlarged display screen around the indicated position when the determination unit determines that there are plural of link indication information included within the display range.

6. The information display device according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit returns the content of the display screen to an original display size when the finger touch is released after the enlargement of the display.

7. The information display device according to claim 5, wherein changing the display range to the enlarged display range includes the indicated position when the determination unit determines that the link indication information is not included within the display range, and wherein the determination unit determines whether the link indication information is included within the enlarged display range.

8. A non-transitory program storing medium storing a program that allows a computer executing the program to realize:

a function of detecting an indicated position indicated by a finger touch to a display screen having a finger touch sensor;

a function of determining whether a display of link indication information is included within a display range having a predetermined size on the display screen and being defined by the detected indicated position, wherein the link indication information indicates a jump to a link destination;

a function of informing a user that the link indication information is included within the display range when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range; and

a function of displaying the link indication information within the display range at another display position different from the display position in the display screen when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range and of enlarging the link indication information when displaying the link indication information at the another display position;

wherein the determination function determines whether there is at least one additional link indication information included within the display range when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range, and the informing function provides an indication that the jump to the link destination is possible when the determination function determines that there is at least one additional link indication information included within the display range; and

wherein the informing function informs the user that the jump to the link destination, based on the link indication information, is possible by vibrating the display screen so that the user feels the vibration through the finger that touches the display screen.