Navigation device and map scroll processing method

• US 8,791,956 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2011
• Issued: 07/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ando, Yuichi, Yamazaki, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): MANCHO, RONNIE M
• Application Number:
  US13/111,118
• Publication Number:
  US 20110219330A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,167 Days
• Field of Search: 715/781, 715/784, 715/800, 715/788, 715/786, 715/785, 701/200, 701/207, 701/212, 701/36, 701/211, 701/213, 701/431, 701/201, 701/400, 701/455, 345/173, 345/661, 345/684, 345/581, 345/619, 345/687, 345/531, 345/204, 345/682, 178/18.01, 340/995.16, 455/456.5
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B

Abstract

A navigation device that obtains the current position based on information from a satellite, and guides a travel path from the current position to the destination on a map image includes: a display unit that displays the map image; a touch sensor unit that is arranged on the front surface of the display unit; an icon generation unit that generates a smooth scroll operation icon which is available for continuous performs smooth scroll processing for the map image and displays the smooth scroll operation icon on the map image; and a scroll control unit that executes the smooth scroll processing when the touch sensor unit detects that the smooth scroll operation icon is touched to be operated, and executes a predetermined scroll processing when the touch sensor unit detects that a region other than the smooth scroll operation icon is touched to be operated on the screen of the display unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a touch panel display configured to display an image and receive a touch input;

a processor configured to;

control the touch panel display to display an icon;

execute smooth scroll processing when a touch input received at the touch panel display corresponds to the icon, the smooth scroll processing including scrolling the image displayed on the display at a distance corresponding to a duration of the touch input; and

execute drag scroll processing when a drag touch input is received at a region of the touch panel display other than a region corresponding to the icon, the drag scroll processing including scrolling the image displayed on the display a distance corresponding to a distance of the drag touch input.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the image displayed by the touch panel display is an image corresponding to a map.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the processor is configured to execute the drag scroll processing by shifting the displayed image in a direction corresponding to a trajectory of the drag touch input received at the touch panel display.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the processor is configured to execute touch scroll processing when a touch input is received at the region of the touch panel display other than the region corresponding to the icon by shifting the displayed image so that the center of the displayed image corresponds to a location of the touch input received at the touch panel display.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the processor is configured to execute the smooth scroll processing by shifting the displayed image in a direction corresponding to a touch input received in the region corresponding to the icon.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the icon includes regions representing up, down, right and left directions.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 6, wherein

the icon includes regions representing oblique upper right, oblique lower right, oblique upper left, and oblique lower left directions.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein

the processor is configured to execute the smooth scroll processing by shifting the displayed image in a direction corresponding to a region of the first icon at which a touch input was received.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the processor is configured to control the touch panel display to display the icon on a lower right or lower left of the touch panel display.

14. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

executing the smooth scroll processing includes shifting the displayed image in a direction corresponding to a touch input received in the region corresponding to the displayed icon.

10. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying, at a touch panel display of the information processing apparatus, an image and an icon;

executing smooth scroll processing when a touch input received at the touch panel display corresponds to the icon, the smooth scroll processing including scrolling the image displayed on the display at a distance corresponding to a duration of the touch input; and

executing drag scroll processing when a drag touch input is received at a region of the touch panel display other than a region corresponding to the icon, the drag scroll processing including scrolling the image displayed on the display a distance corresponding to a distance of the drag touch input.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein

the image displayed by the touch panel display is an image corresponding to a map.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein executing the drag scroll processing includes shifting the displayed image in a direction corresponding to a trajectory of the drag touch input received at the touch panel display.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

executing touch scroll processing when a touch input is received at the region of the touch panel display other than the region corresponding to the icon by shifting the displayed image so that the center of the displayed image corresponds to a location of the touch input received at the touch panel display.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein

the icon includes regions representing up, down, right and left directions.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein

the icon includes regions representing oblique upper right, oblique lower right, oblique upper left, and oblique lower left directions.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein

executing the smooth scroll processing includes shifting the displayed image in a direction corresponding to a region of the icon at which a touch input was received.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein

the displaying includes displaying the icon on a lower right or lower left of the touch panel display.

19. A computer-readable medium including computer program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform an information processing method comprising:

displaying, at a touch panel display of the information processing apparatus, an image and an icon;

executing smooth scroll processing when a touch input received at the touch panel display corresponds to the icon, the smooth scroll processing including scrolling the image displayed on the display at a distance corresponding to a duration of the touch input; and

executing drag scroll processing when a drag touch input is received at a region of the touch panel display other than a region corresponding to the icon, the drag scroll processing including scrolling the image displayed on the display a distance corresponding to a distance of the drag touch input.