Input display apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium

• US 8,941,879 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Katsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brinich, Stephen M
• Application Number:
  US13/712,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169981A1
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.9, 358/2.1, 358/1.4, 358/406, 358/504, 358/468, 734/88, 734/89, 734/94, 734/96, 73/13.8, 73/14.1
• US Class Current: 358/1.4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1253 Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing

Abstract

An input display apparatus can communicate with a printing apparatus, and includes a display unit, a touch detection unit, and an orientation detection unit. The input display apparatus determines which screen components is touched by the operator touches, determines a type of an operation from the touch by the operator, and determines based on the orientation of the input display apparatus whether or not the input display apparatus has been rotated on a plane including a display screen. When the operation is a long press operation, and the input display apparatus has been rotated, the touched screen component determined to be touched is rotated and displayed in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the input display apparatus.

Claims

1. An input display apparatus configured to communicate with a printing apparatus, said apparatus further comprising:

a display unit configured to display a print setting screen;

a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch by an operator on the print setting screen displayed on the display unit;

an orientation detection unit configured to detect an orientation of an apparatus body,

a position determination unit configured to determine which screen components displayed on the print setting screen is touched by the operator based on a detected result by the touch detection unit;

an operation determination unit configured to determine a type of an operation from the touch by the operator detected by the touch detection unit;

a rotation determination unit configured to determine, based on the orientation of the input display apparatus detected by the orientation detection unit, whether or not said input display apparatus has been rotated on a plane including a display screen of the display unit; and

a display control unit configured to rotate, in a case that said operation determination unit determines that the operation is a long press operation, and said rotation determination unit determines that said input display apparatus has been rotated, the touched screen component determined by said position determination unit in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of said input display apparatus and display the rotated screen component.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a calculation unit configured to calculate a rotation angle of the rotation of said input display apparatus on the plane including the display screen of the display unit from the orientation detected by the orientation detection unit,

wherein said display control unit rotates the touched screen component on the print setting screen by the rotation angle calculated by said calculation unit in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of said input display apparatus.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a movement determination unit configured to determine from a detection result of the touch detection unit whether or not a touch position has been moved, after said operation determination unit determines the long press operation,

wherein in a case that said movement determination unit determines that the touch position has been moved, said display control unit moves the touched screen component on the print setting screen to the moved touch position.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the screen component is a thumbnail for each print page displayed in a case that print processing is executed in the printing apparatus, and

said apparatus further comprises a print setting unit configured to set, in a case that the touch detection unit detects a release of the touch by the operator, and in a case that said display control unit has rotated the thumbnail, to execute a rotation print operation of a print page corresponding to the rotated thumbnail.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein in a case that said print setting unit sets the rotation print operation, and after an elapse of a predetermined time since the touch detection unit detects the release of the touch by the operator, said display control unit rotates the print setting screen in the rotation direction of said input display apparatus.

6. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the screen component is a thumbnail for each print page displayed in a case that print processing is executed in the printing apparatus, and

said apparatus further comprises a print setting unit configured to set, in a case that the touch detection unit detects a release of the touch by the operator, and in a case that said display control unit has moved the thumbnail, to change a print order of a print page corresponding to the moved thumbnail or to delete the print page according to the moved position.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said input display apparatus and the printing apparatus communicate with each other via a wireless communication.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said operation determination unit determine whether an operation from the touch by the operator detected by the touch detection unit is a short press operation, a long press operation, or a flick operation corresponding to changes of touch positions.

9. A printing apparatus comprising:

a connector configured to connect an input display apparatus of claim 1; and

a power supply controller configured to supply a power to the input display apparatus connected via said connector.

10. A control method of an input display apparatus, which comprises a display unit configured to display a print setting screen, a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch by an operator on the print setting screen displayed on the display unit, and an orientation detection unit configured to detect an orientation of an apparatus body, and is configured to communicate with a printing apparatus, the method comprising:

determining, by the input display apparatus, which screen components displayed on the print setting screen is touched by the operator based on a detected result in the touch detection step;

determining, by the input display apparatus, a type of an operation from the touch by the operator detected by the touch detection unit;

determining, by the input display apparatus, based on the orientation of the input display apparatus detected by the orientation detection unit, whether or not the input display apparatus has been rotated on a plane including a display screen of the display unit; and

rotating, by the input display apparatus, in a case that it is determined in the determining by the operation determination unit that the operation is a long press operation, and it is determined in the determining by rotation determination unit that the input display apparatus has been rotated, the touched screen component determined in the determining by the position determination unit in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the input display apparatus; and

displaying the rotated screen component.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute respective steps in a control method of an input display apparatus of claim 10.

12. An input display apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch by an operator on a screen displayed on the display unit;

an orientation detection unit configured to detect an orientation of the input display apparatus;

a specify unit configured to specify a screen component selected by the operator on the screen displayed on the display unit based on a detected result by the touch detection unit;

a rotation determination unit configured to determine, based on the orientation of the input display apparatus detected by the orientation detection unit, whether or not the input display apparatus has been rotated on a plane including a display screen of the display unit; and

a display control unit configured to display, in a case that the rotation determination unit determines that the input display apparatus has been rotated, the screen component specified by the specify unit such that the specified screen component is rotated in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the input display apparatus.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising a calculation unit configured to calculate a rotation angle of the rotation of the input display apparatus on the plane including the display screen of the display unit from the orientation detected by the orientation detection unit,

wherein the display control unit displays the screen component specified by the specify unit such that the specified screen component is rotated, by the rotation angle calculated by the calculation unit in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of the input display apparatus.

14. The apparatus according claim 12, wherein the display control unit displays, after an elapse of a predetermined time since the touch detection unit detects the release of the touch by the operator, the screen such that the screen is rotated based on the rotation direction of the input display apparatus.

15. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein a plurality of screen components are displayed on the screen, and

the display control unit displays, in a case that the rotation determination unit determines that the input display apparatus has been rotated, the screen component specified by the specify unit such that the specified screen component is rotated in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the input display apparatus, and displays, without rotating, screen components other than the screen component specified by the specify unit.

16. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the screen component is a thumbnail of an image to be output.

17. A control method of an input display apparatus, which comprises a display unit, a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch by an operator on a screen displayed on the display unit, and an orientation detection unit configured to detect an orientation of the input display apparatus, comprising:

specifying, by the input display apparatus, a screen component selected by the operator on the screen displayed on the display unit based on a detected result by the touch detection unit;

determining, by the input display apparatus, based on the orientation of the input display apparatus detected by the orientation detection unit, whether or not the input display apparatus has been rotated on a plane including a display screen of the display unit; and

rotating and displaying, by the input display apparatus, in a case that it is determined that the input display apparatus has been rotated, the specified screen component such that the specified screen component is rotated in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the input display apparatus.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute respective steps in a control method of an input display apparatus of claim 17.