Rotatable input display device, method of controlling the same, storage medium, and printing apparatus

• US 9,013,748 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2013
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Naya, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Popovici, Dov
• Application Number:
  US13/899,997
• Publication Number:
  US 20130329249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• Field of Search: 358 113- 115, 345/649
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• 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 3/125 Page layout or assigning input pages onto output media, e.g. imposition
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1258 by updating job settings at the printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1271 Job submission at the printing node, e.g. creating a job from a data stored locally or remotely G06F3/1238 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/005 only locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00493 Particular location of the interface or console
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00503 Customising to a particular machine or model, machine function or application

Abstract

An input display device, a method of controlling the same, a program, and a printing apparatus that enable an intuitive change in page layout order without reducing the display area of a preview screen in a preview display of an image to be printed are provided. To accomplish this, when pages of held original data are aggregated and displayed at one time as a preview of multiple pages, if a predetermined rotation operation has been detected, the input display device changes the layout order of the displayed pages according to a combination of the orientation of the input display device and the predetermined rotation operation, and reflects the changed page layout order on the held original data.

Claims

1. An input display device comprising:

a holding unit configured to hold print target data;

a display unit configured to aggregate pages of the print target data held by the holding unit and display a plurality of pages at one time as a preview;

a rotation detection unit configured to detect a rotation operation performed on the input display device by a user; and

a change unit configured to, when the plurality of pages are aggregated and displayed by the display unit, if a predetermined rotation operation has been detected by the rotation detection unit, change a layout order of the plurality of pages displayed by the display unit,

wherein the predetermined rotation operation is a return operation in which the input display device is rotated by the user in a predetermined direction from an original base state indicating a state before being operated by the user, and subsequently returned to the original base state.

2. The input display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an orientation detection unit configured to detect whether an orientation of the input display device is a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation,

wherein the change unit changes the layout order of the plurality of pages that are displayed by the display unit according to a combination of the orientation of the input display device detected by the orientation detection unit and the predetermined rotation operation.

3. The input display device according to claim 1, wherein the rotation detection unit detects that the input display device was rotated in the predetermined direction if the input display device has been rotated by an angle in a predetermined range from the original base state.

4. The input display device according to claim 1, wherein if the input display device has been rotated by the user in the predetermined direction and subsequently returned to the original base state in a certain amount of time, the rotation detection unit detects that the return operation was performed.

5. The input display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a press detection unit configured to detect a press by the user on the preview that includes the plurality of pages displayed by the display unit; and

a control unit configured to, if the press by the user has been detected by the press detection unit, exclude a page displayed in a pressed position from a target of the layout order change in a subsequent user operation.

6. The input display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a designation unit configured to transmit to a printing apparatus a printing instruction in accordance with the layout order of the plurality of pages of the print target data that is held in the holding unit.

7. The input display device according claim 2, wherein the orientation detection unit detects the orientation using an acceleration sensor, and the rotation detection unit detects the rotation operation using a gyro sensor.

8. A method of controlling an input display device, comprising:

aggregating pages of print target data and displaying a plurality of pages at one time as a preview;

detecting a rotation operation performed on the input display device by a user; and

changing, when the plurality of pages are aggregated and displayed in the displaying step, if a predetermined rotation operation has been detected in the detecting step, a layout order of the plurality of pages displayed in the displaying step,

wherein the predetermined rotation operation is a return operation in which the input display device is rotated by the user in a predetermined direction from an original base state indicating a state before being operated by the user, and subsequently returned to the original base state.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute steps in the method of controlling the input display device according to claim 8.

10. A printing apparatus comprising:

an input display device; and

a printing unit configured to execute printing according to data received from the input display device,

wherein the input display device comprises;

a holding unit configured to hold print target data;

a display unit configured to aggregate pages of the print target data held by the holding unit and display a plurality of pages at one time as a preview;

a rotation detection unit configured to detect a rotation operation performed on the input display device by a user; and

a change unit configured to, when the plurality of pages are aggregated and displayed by the display unit, if a predetermined rotation operation has been detected by the rotation detection unit, change a layout order of the plurality of pages displayed by the display unit,

wherein the predetermined rotation operation is a return operation in which the input display device is rotated by the user in a predetermined direction from an original base state indicating a state before being operated by the user, and subsequently returned to the original base state.