Layout method for operation key group in portable terminal apparatus and portable terminal apparatus for carrying out the layout method

• US 8,869,059 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2007
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Aono, Tomotake, Ujii, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kells, Asher
• Application Number:
  US12/443,452
• Publication Number:
  US 20100127994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,589 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 715/773
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A layout method for an operation key group in a portable terminal apparatus 1 that displays an operation key group on a display unit 4 to perform input operation via a touch panel 5, the layout method including: determining, on the basis of user operation for drawing a line figure on the touch panel 5, a display position and a range of an operation key group displayed on the display unit 4; and displaying the operation key group on the display unit 4 on the basis of the determined display position and the range.

Claims

1. A portable terminal apparatus, comprising:

a display unit that displays an operation key group, and

a touch panel, wherein

the portable terminal apparatus can determine whether an operation of drawing a line figure on the touch panel is input by right hand or left hand operation, and

the portable terminal apparatus can change the operation key group displayed on the display unit into an operation key group for left hand operation and into an operation key group for right hand operation.

2. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, characterized by, after displaying the operation key group on the display unit, moving a display position of the operation key group according to continuous input starting from one point of the operation key group to adjust the display position of the operation key group.

3. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 2, characterized by prohibiting, in moving the display position of the operation key group according to the continuous input starting from the one point of the operation key group, at least a part of the operation key group from not being displayed on the display unit.

4. A portable terminal apparatus, comprising:

a display unit that displays an operation key group, and

a touch panel,

wherein, when the operation key group displayed on the display unit is changed on the basis of a drag operation on the touch panel, the portable terminal apparatus changes at least two keys of the operation key group at at least two different expansion or reduction ratios.

5. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 4, characterized by changing the at least two keys of the operation key group to expand an area including a starting point of the drag operation more than an area including another key of the operation key group.

6. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 4, characterized by, after displaying the operation key group on the display unit, moving a display position of the operation key group according to continuous input starting from one point of the operation key group to adjust the display position of the operation key group.

7. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 6, characterized by prohibiting, in moving the display position of the operation key group according to the continuous input starting from the one point of the operation key group, at least a part of the operation key group from not being displayed on the display unit.

8. A portable terminal apparatus, comprising:

a display unit that displays an operation key group, and

a touch panel, wherein

the portable terminal apparatus can determine whether an operation of drawing a line figure on the touch panel is input by right hand or left hand operation, and

the portable terminal apparatus can switch to a mode for setting a layout of the operation key group by operation input on the touch panel, and wherein the portable terminal apparatus can expand or reduce a display of an operation key group for left hand operation and can expand or reduce a display of an operation key group for right hand operation, in the mode for setting a layout of the operation key group.

9. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 8, characterized by, after displaying the operation key group on the display unit, moving a display position of the operation key group according to continuous input starting from one point of the operation key group to adjust the display position of the operation key group.

10. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 9, characterized by prohibiting, in moving the display position of the operation key group according to the continuous input starting from the one point of the operation key group, at least a part of the operation key group from not being displayed on the display unit.

11. A method for controlling a portable terminal apparatus, comprising:

a display unit that displays an operation key group, and

a touch panel, wherein

the portable terminal apparatus can determine whether an operation of drawing a line figure on the touch panel is input by right hand or left hand operation, and

the portable terminal apparatus can change the operation key group displayed on the display unit into an operation key group for left hand operation and into an operation key group for right hand operation.

12. A method for controlling a portable terminal apparatus, comprising:

a display unit that displays an operation key group, and

a touch panel,

wherein, when the operation key group displayed on the display unit is changed on the basis of a drag operation on the touch panel, the portable terminal apparatus changes at least two keys of the operation key group at at least two expansion or reduction ratios.

13. A method for controlling a portable terminal apparatus, comprising:

a display unit that displays an operation key group, and

a touch panel, wherein

the portable terminal apparatus can determine whether an operation of drawing a line figure on the touch panel is input by right hand or left hand operation, and

the portable terminal apparatus can switch to a mode for setting a layout of the operation key group by operation input on the touch panel, and wherein the portable terminal apparatus can expand or reduce a display of an operation key group for left hand operation and can expand or reduce a display of an operation key group for right hand operation, in the mode for setting a layout of the operation key group.