Display device, display method, and display program

• US 8,830,190 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2011
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Nagasaka, Hidenori
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, PREMAL R
• Application Number:
  US13/271,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20120098770A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,063 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-179, 178 1801- 1809
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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: 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

Abstract

Display devices, methods, and programs display an image on a touch panel. The devices, methods, and programs detect a start position, which is a detected position where a user'"'"'s finger starts to contact the touch panel, calculate a moving amount by multiplying a distance between the detected start position and a detected second position of the user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined coefficient of less than one, and update the display position of the image in a direction moving from the detected start position toward the detected second position until the moving amount is equal to or less than a minimum moving amount.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a display unit that displays an image;

a touch panel that is provided on a front surface of the display unit; and

a controller that;

detects a start position, which is a detected position where a user'"'"'s finger starts to contact the touch panel;

specifies a position on the image corresponding to the detected start position; and

in a predetermined cycle;

detects a current position of the user'"'"'s finger;

calculates a moving amount by multiplying a distance between a first position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the specified position on the image and a second position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the detected current position of the user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined coefficient of less than one; and

updates a display position of the image by moving a distance equal to the calculated moving amount in a direction from the first position toward the second position.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the controller:

when the moving direction of the display position of the image is limited to a specific direction, calculates the moving amount based on a distance of a vector component of a vector between the detected start position and the detected second position.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein:

the image is a list formed of a plurality of items; and

when the calculated moving amount does not exceed one of a display width and a display height per list item, the controller does not update the display position.

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

the image is a list formed of a plurality of items; and

when the calculated moving amount does not exceed one of a display width and a display height per list item, the controller does not update the display position.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the image is a map; and

the controller sets the predetermined coefficient to a value that varies depending on a scale of the map.

6. A navigation device comprising the display device of claim 1.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the controller:

determines whether the calculated moving amount is greater than a minimum moving amount; and

when the calculated moving amount is greater than the minimum moving amount, updates the display position by moving the image the distance equal to the calculated moving amount in the direction from the first position toward the second position.

8. A display method, comprising:

displaying an image on a display unit;

providing a touch panel on a front surface of the display unit;

detecting a start position, which is a detected position where a user'"'"'s finger starts to contact the touch panel;

specifying a position on the image corresponding to the detected start position; and

in a predetermined cycle;

detecting a current position of the user'"'"'s finger;

calculating a moving amount by multiplying a distance between a first position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the specified position on the image and a second position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the detected current position of the user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined coefficient of less than one; and

updating a display position of the image by moving a distance equal to the calculated moving amount in a direction from the first position toward the second position.

9. The display method according to claim 8, further comprising:

when the moving direction of the display position of the image is limited to a specific direction, calculating the moving amount based on a distance of a vector component of a vector between the detected start position and the detected second position.

10. The display method according to claim 9, wherein:

the image is a list formed of a plurality of items; and

when the calculated moving amount does not exceed one of a display width and a display height per list item, the display position is not updated.

11. The display method according to claim 8, wherein:

the image is a list formed of a plurality of items; and

when the calculated moving amount does not exceed one of a display width and a display height per list item, the display position is not updated.

12. The display method according to claim 8, wherein:

the image is a map; and

the method further comprises setting the predetermined coefficient to a value that varies depending on a scale of the map.

13. The display method according to claim 8, further comprising:

determining whether the calculated moving amount is greater than a minimum moving amount; and

when the calculated moving amount is greater than the minimum moving amount, updating the display position by moving the image the distance equal to the calculated moving amount in the direction from the first position toward the second position.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable display program, the program comprising:

instructions for displaying an image on a display unit;

instructions for providing a touch panel on a front surface of the display unit;

instructions for detecting a start position, which is a detected position where a user'"'"'s finger starts to contact the touch panel;

instructions for specifying a position on the image corresponding to the detected start position; and

instructions for, in a predetermined cycle;

detecting a current position of the user'"'"'s finger;

calculating a moving amount by multiplying a distance between a first position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the specified position on the image and a second position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the detected current position of the user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined coefficient of less than one; and

updating a display position of the image by moving a distance equal to the calculated moving amount in a direction from the first position toward the second position.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 14, the program further comprising:

instructions for determining whether the calculated moving amount is greater than a minimum moving amount; and

instructions for, when the calculated moving amount is greater than the minimum moving amount, updating the display position by moving the image the distance equal to the calculated moving amount in the direction from the first position toward the second position.