Electronic device, display method and program

• US 8,787,981 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2012
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nomura, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Junpeng
• Application Number:
  US13/409,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20120225695A1
• Time in Patent Office: 873 Days
• Field of Search: 715/863, 715/810, 715/234, 455/566, 455/556.1
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04895 Guidance during keyboard input operation, e.g. prompting

Abstract

An electronic device includes an operation unit, a storage unit and a control unit. The operation unit selects a selected image. The storage unit stores selected data and peripheral data. The selected data corresponds to the selected image selected by the operation unit. The peripheral data corresponds to images around the selected image. In a case in which a second application is activated, the control unit reads the selected data from the storage unit so as to be developed in the second application, and displays the selected image. In a case in which a predetermined operation is performed for the selected image by the operation unit, the control unit reads the peripheral data from the storage unit, adds an image, which is based on corresponding data that corresponds to at least a part of the peripheral data, to the selected image, and displays a resultant image.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display unit that displays a first image that is based on data;

an operation unit that can select at least a part of the first image displayed on the display unit as a selected image;

a storage unit, wherein, in a case in which the first image is displayed on the display unit as a result of processing by a first application, and the selected image is selected by the operation unit, the storage unit stores selected data as data of the selected image, and peripheral data as data of peripheral images existing around the selected image from among the first image; and

a control unit,

wherein, in a case in which a second application different from the first application is activated after the selected data and the peripheral data are stored in the storage unit, the control unit reads the selected data stored in the storage unit so as to be developed in the second application, and displays a the selected image, which is based on the selected data, on the display unit,

wherein, in a case in which a predetermined operation is performed by the operation unit for the selected image developed in the second application and displayed on the display unit, the control unit reads the peripheral data stored in the storage unit, and displays at least a part of the peripheral images, around the selected image displayed on the display unit,

wherein data of at least a part of the peripheral images is corresponding data that is specified from the peripheral data in accordance with an operated variable of the predetermined operation, and

wherein the predetermined operation is an operation for an area on a right side of the selected image, or an operation for an area on a left side of the selected image.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case in which the control unit displays at least a part of the peripheral images, around the selected image displayed on the display unit, the control unit deletes the peripheral data from the storage unit.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit deletes the peripheral data from the storage unit in a case in which the second application is terminated.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case in which the control unit reads the selected data stored in the storage unit so as to be developed in the second application, the control unit arranges the selected image and the peripheral images in different display areas, and concurrently displays the selected image and the peripheral images on the display unit.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case in which an operation for an area on a left side of the selected image displayed on the display unit is performed as the predetermined operation, the control unit specifies an image arranged on the left side of the selected image from among the peripheral images, and displays the specified image on the left side of the selected image displayed on the display unit.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5,

wherein, in a case in which an operation for an area on the left side of the selected image displayed on the display unit is performed as the predetermined operation,

when the operation for the area on the left side of the selected image is an operation moving toward a left direction from the selected image, the control unit specifies an image arranged on the left side of the selected image from among the peripheral images, displays the specified image on the left side of the selected image displayed on the display unit, sets, from among the peripheral data stored in the storage unit, data that is arranged on the left side of the selected image as the corresponding data, adds an image, which is based on the corresponding data, on the left side of the selected image, and displays a resultant image on the display unit, and

when the operation for the area on the left side of the selected image is an operation moving toward a right direction from the selected image, the control unit deletes, from the display unit, an image arranged on the left side of the selected image displayed on the display unit.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case in which an operation for an area on a right side of the selected image displayed on the display unit is performed as the predetermined operation, the control unit specifies an image arranged on the right side of the selected image from among the peripheral images, and displays the specified image on the right side of the selected image displayed on the display unit.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7,

wherein, in a case in which the operation for the area on the right side of the selected image displayed on the display unit is performed as the predetermined operation,

when the operation for the area on the right side of the selected image is an operation moving toward a right direction from the selected image, the control unit specifies an image arranged on the right side of the selected image from among the peripheral images, and displays the specified image on the right side of the selected image displayed on the display unit, and

when the operation for the area on the right side of the selected image is an operation moving toward a left direction from the selected image, the control unit deletes, from the display unit, an image arranged on the right side of the selected image displayed on the display unit.

9. A display method for an electronic device that includes a display unit, an operation unit and a storage unit, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting at least a part of a first image, which is based on data displayed on the display unit as a result of processing by a first application, as a selected image by the operation unit;

storing selected data as data of the selected image selected by the operation unit, and peripheral data as data of peripheral images existing around the selected image from among the first image, in the storage unit;

reading the selected data stored in the storage unit so as to be developed in a second application different from the first application, and displaying the selected image, which is based on the selected data, on the display unit; and

in a case in which an operation is performed by the operation unit for an area on a right or left side of the selected image developed in the second application and displayed on the display unit, reading the peripheral data from the storage unit, and displaying an image of at least a part of the peripheral images, around the selected image displayed on the display unit.

10. A non-transitory recording medium for storing a program executed by an electronic device that includes a display unit, an operation unit and a storage unit, the program executing the steps of:

selecting at least a part of a first image, which is based on data displayed on the display unit as a result of processing by a first application, as a selected image by the operation unit;

storing selected data as data of the selected image selected by the operation unit, and peripheral data as data of peripheral images existing around the selected image from among the first image, in the storage unit;

reading the selected data stored in the storage unit so as to be developed in a second application different from the first application, and displaying the selected image, which is based on the selected data, on the display unit; and

in a case in which an operation is performed by the operation unit for an area on a right or left side of the selected image developed in the second application and displayed on the display unit, reading the peripheral data from the storage unit, and displaying an image of at least a part of the peripheral images, around the selected image displayed on the display unit.