Display device, control method and program thereof

• US 8,922,514 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Nagasaka, Hidenori, Sugeda, Shigehiko
• Primary Examiner(s): SHENG, TOM V
• Application Number:
  US13/824,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20130181929A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/684, 715/784
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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

When a touching object has touched a touch panel, a reference point position RP, a dead zone DZ, and a scroll target position SP* are set based on a touch position TP (S110 to S130); when the touch position TP has moved outside the dead zone DZ, the scroll target position SP* is updated with the touch position TP (S200) and unit scroll control is executed to control a display such that the reference point position RP moves toward the scroll target position SP* (a displayed image is scrolled) (S220); wherein, when the touch position TP has moved outside the dead zone DZ, the dead zone DZ is updated such that the position between the touch position TP and the reference point position RP just before the unit scroll control is executed becomes the center position of the dead zone DZ (S230).

Claims

1. A display device including a display unit that displays an image on an image display surface and a touch panel that detects a touched position of a touching object, the touch panel being installed on the image display surface of the display unit, comprising:

a dead zone setting unit that, when the touching object has touched the touch panel, sets as a dead zone an area including a touched position of the touching object on the touch panel as a center position of the set area;

a scroll target position setting unit that,

when the touching object has not moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, holds a scroll target position serving as a target position of scroll of a displayed image that is an image displayed on the image display surface, and

when the touching object has moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, updates the scroll target position with the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel; and

a scroll controlling unit that controls the display unit such that the displayed image is scrolled according to the set scroll target position, wherein

the dead zone setting unit, when the touching object has moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, updates the dead zone such that an intermediate position becomes the center position of the dead zone, the intermediate position being a position between the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel and the center position of the set dead zone.

2. The display device according to claim 1, comprising

a display reference point setting unit that, when the touching object has touched the touch panel, sets as a display reference point a position in the displayed image corresponding to the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel, wherein

the scroll controlling unit is a unit that repeatedly executes unit scroll control to control the display unit such that a reference point position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the set display reference point is moved toward the set scroll target position by a distance shorter than a distance between the reference point position and the set scroll target position when scrolling the displayed image, and

the dead zone setting unit is a unit that updates the center position of the dead zone using the reference point position that was moved through an execution of the unit scroll control as the intermediate position.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the scroll control unit is a unit that controls the display unit, as the unit scroll control, such that the reference point position is moved toward the set scroll target position by a predetermined rate of the distance between the set scroll target position and the reference point position.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the dead zone setting unit is a unit that, after the touching object has moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, updates the dead zone such that the intermediate position that gradually moves toward the set scroll target position becomes the center position of the dead zone.

5. The display device according to claim 4, comprising

a display reference point setting unit that, when the touching object has touched the touch panel, sets as a display reference point a position in the displayed image corresponding to the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel, wherein

the scroll controlling unit is a unit that repeatedly executes unit scroll control to control the display unit such that a reference point position that is a position on the display unit corresponding to the set display reference point is moved toward the set scroll target position by a distance shorter than a distance between the reference point position and the set scroll target position when scrolling the displayed image.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein

the scroll controlling unit is a unit that controls the display unit, as the unit scroll control, such that the reference point position accords to the center position of the set dead zone.

7. A control method of a display device including a display unit that displays an image on an image display surface and a touch panel that detects a touched position of a touching object, the touch panel being installed on the image display surface of the display unit, comprising the steps of:

(a) when the touching object has touched the touch panel, setting as a dead zone an area including a touched position of the touching object on the touch panel as a center position of the set area;

(b) when the touching object;

has not moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, holding a scroll target position serving as a target position of scroll of a displayed image that is an image displayed on the image display surface, and

has moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, updating the scroll target position with the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel; and

(c) controlling the display unit such that the displayed image is scrolled according to the set scroll target position, wherein

the step (a) is a step of updating, when the touching object has moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, the dead zone such that an intermediate position becomes the center position of the dead zone, the intermediate position being a position between the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel and the center position of the set dead zone.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable display control program that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute the steps of:

(a) when the touching, object has touched the touch panel, setting as a dead zone an area including a touched position of the touching object on the touch panel as a center position of the set area;

(b) when the touching object;

has not moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, holding a scroll target position serving as a target position of scroll of a displayed image that is an image displayed on the image display surface, and

has moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, updating the scroll target position with the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel; and

(c) controlling the display unit such that the displayed image is scrolled according to the set scroll target position, wherein

the step (a) is a step of updating, when the touching object has moved outside the set dead zone with the touch panel being touched, the dead zone such that an intermediate position becomes the center position of the dead zone, the intermediate position being a position between the touched position of the touching object on the touch panel and the center position of the set dead zone.