Image processing device, non-transitory computer readable recording medium and operational event determining method

• US 9,088,678 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2013
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Komaba, Kenichi, Matsuda, Hideyuki, Kurumasa, Yoichi, Okada, Takuya, Tomiyasu, Kazuhiro, Narimatu, Eiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Allen H
• Application Number:
  US14/049,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20140098402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 650 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.13, 358/1.15, 358/442, 345/173, 715/773
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00381 Input by recognition or interpretation of visible user gestures manual input means, e.g. digitisers, writing tablets H04N1/00392; gesture input to computers G06F3/017; recognition algorithms G06V40/20

Abstract

An image processing device includes: a display part on which various types of screens are displayed; a manipulation detecting part for detecting an input by a user on the screen of the display part; a setting part for setting an event to detect in response to the user'"'"'s input among from multiple events by associating it with each screen displayed on the display part; an event determining part for running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated by the setting part with the screen being displayed on the display part of multiple operational event determining routines, each of which corresponds to the respective events, when the user'"'"'s input is detected by the manipulation detecting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input; and a controlling part for controlling operations based on the event specified by the event determining part.

Claims

1. An image processing device, comprising:

a display part on which various types of screens are displayed;

a manipulation detecting part for detecting an input by a user on the screen of said display part;

a setting part for setting an event for each of multiple displayable screens displayed on said display part by associating in advance the event which is possibly received on each screen among from multiple events that may be detected by said manipulation detecting part with each screen;

an event determining part for running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated by said setting part with the screen being displayed on said display part of multiple operational event determining routines, each of which corresponds to said respective events, when the user'"'"'s input is detected by said manipulation detecting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input; and

a controlling part for controlling operations based on the event specified by said event determining part.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein

said setting part, in response to being powered on, analyzes the various types of displayable screens on said display part, thereby specifying the event to detect on the respective screens and associating the specified event with each screen.

3. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein

said setting part selects the event to detect on each screen displayed on said display part among from flicking, dragging, single tapping, double tapping, long tapping and pinching, and associates the selected event with the screen.

4. The image processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the various types of screens displayed on said display part includes a scroll screen on which multiple pieces of information in a list form can be displayed by scrolling the information, and

said setting part associates only flicking, dragging, single tapping and double tapping with said scroll screen as the event to detect on said scroll screen.

5. The image processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the various types of screens displayed on said display part includes a thumbnail image screen on which multiple thumbnail images can be displayed by scrolling the thumbnail images, and

said setting part associates only flicking, dragging, single tapping, double tapping and long tapping with said thumbnail image screen as the event to detect on said thumbnail image screen.

6. The image processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the various types of screens displayed on said display part includes an operational key screen on which multiple operational keys can be displayed by scrolling the operational keys, and

said setting part associates only flicking, dragging and single tapping with said operational key screen as the event to detect on said operational key screen.

7. The image processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the various types of screens displayed on said display part includes a preview image screen on which a preview image is displayed and which allows zoom in or out the preview image, and

said setting part associates only dragging, double tapping and pinching with said preview image screen as the event to detect on said preview image screen.

8. The image processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the various types of screens displayed on said display part includes a group switching screen on which a group of multiple operational keys classified in multiple groups can be displayed by switching the group, and

said setting part associates only flicking and single tapping with said group switching screen as the event to detect on said group switching screen.

9. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein

said setting part, in response to associating a plurality of events to detect with one of the screens displayed on said display part, sets priorities on each of the plurality of events based on said screen, and

said event determining part, when said manipulation detecting part detects the user'"'"'s input with said screen being displayed, runs the operational event determining routines in descending order of said priorities of the events to which the operational event determining routines correspond.

10. The image processing device according to claim 9, wherein

said setting part, when said screen allows scrolling depending on how many pieces of information is displayed, gives lower priority to the event for scrolling than other events.

11. The image processing device according to claim 9, wherein

said setting part, when said screen allows scrolling by default, gives higher priority to the event for scrolling than other events.

12. The image processing device according to claim 9, wherein

said setting part, when said screen allows moving a displayed position of the preview image with the enlarged preview image being displayed, gives lower priority to the event for moving the displayed position of the preview image than other events.

13. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein

said event determining part, in response to receiving the user'"'"'s input on the screen of said display part, consecutively runs the operational event determining routine corresponding to said event for every event which may be detected by said manipulation detecting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input, and

said event determining part, in response to receiving the user'"'"'s input on the screen with which the event may be received is associated in advance by said setting part, consecutively runs the operational event determining routine corresponding to said event only for the event which is associated by said setting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input.

14. The image processing device according to claim 13, wherein

said event determining part, in response to receiving the user'"'"'s input on the screen with which the event may be received is associated in advance by said setting part, does not run the operational event determining routine except for the operational event determining routine corresponding to said event which is associated by said setting part.

15. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein

said display part displays only one out of said multiple displayable screens at one time without displaying any other of said multiple displayable screens.

16. An image processing device comprising:

a display part on which various types of screens are displayed;

a manipulation detecting part for detecting an input by a user on the screen of said display part;

a setting part for setting an event to detect in response to the user'"'"'s input among from multiple events by associating the event with each screen displayed on said display part;

an event determining part for running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated by said setting part with the screen being displayed on said display part of multiple operational event determining routines, each of which corresponds to said respective events, when the user'"'"'s input is detected by said manipulation detecting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input; and

a controlling part for controlling operations based on the event specified by said event determining part,

wherein said event determining part, in response to running the operational event determining routine corresponding to double tapping, terminates execution of the operational event determining routine corresponding to double tapping and starts running the next operational event determining routine when a release operation of a first tapped state is not detected after a first double tapping determining time elapses from the time the first tapping is detected by said manipulation detecting part or when a second tapping is not detected in a second double tapping determining time after the release operation of the first tapped state is detected.

17. An image processing device comprising:

a display part on which various types of screens are displayed;

a manipulation detecting part for detecting an input by a user on the screen of said display part;

a setting part for setting an event to detect in response to the user'"'"'s input among from multiple events by associating the event with each screen displayed on said display part;

an event determining part for running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated by said setting part with the screen being displayed on said display part of multiple operational event determining routines, each of which corresponds to said respective events, when the user'"'"'s input is detected by said manipulation detecting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input; and

a controlling part for controlling operations based on the event specified by said event determining part,

wherein said event determining part, in response to running the operational event determining routine corresponding to long tapping, terminates execution of the operational event determining routine corresponding to long tapping and starts running the next operational event determining routine when the release operation of a tapped state is detected in a long tapping determining time after the tapping is detected by said manipulation detecting part or when it is detected that a tapped position has moved equal to or longer than a predetermined distance after the tapping is detected by said manipulation detecting part.

18. An image processing device comprising:

a display part on which various types of screens are displayed;

a manipulation detecting part for detecting an input by a user on the screen of said display part;

a setting part for setting an event to detect in response to the user'"'"'s input among from multiple events by associating the event with each screen displayed on said display part;

an event determining part for running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated by said setting part with the screen being displayed on said display part of multiple operational event determining routines, each of which corresponds to said respective events, when the user'"'"'s input is detected by said manipulation detecting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input; and

a controlling part for controlling operations based on the event specified by said event determining part,

wherein said event determining part, in response to running the operational event determining routine corresponding to flicking, terminates execution of the operational event determining routine corresponding to flicking and starts running the next operational event determining routine when it is detected that a tapped position has moved at a speed equal to or slower than a flicking determining speed after the tapping is detected by said manipulation detecting part or when it is detected that the tapped position has moved equal to or shorter than a predetermined distance after the tapping is detected by said manipulation detecting part.

19. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium on which a program is recorded, said program executable on a computer including a display part on which various types of screens are displayed and a manipulation detecting part for detecting an input by a user on the screen of said display part, said program executed on said computer to function as a system comprising:

a setting part for setting an event for each of multiple displayable screens displayed on said display part by associating-the-event in advance the event which is possibly received on each screen among from multiple events that may be detected by said manipulation detecting part with each screen displayed on said display part;

an event determining part for running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated by said setting part with the screen being displayed on said display part of multiple operational event determining routines, each of which corresponds to said respective events, when the user'"'"'s input is detected by said manipulation detecting part, thereby specifying the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input; and

a controlling part for controlling operations based on the event specified by said event determining part.

20. An operational event determining method for determining an event corresponding to an input by a user with a display part on which various types of screens are displayed based on the user'"'"'s input, comprising the steps of:

(a) setting the event for each of multiple displayable screens displayed on said display part by associating the event in advance the event which is possibly received on each screen among from multiple events that may be input by the user with each screen displayed on said display part;

(b) detecting the input by the user with one of the screens being displayed on said display part; and

(c) running only an operational event determining routine corresponding to the event associated with said screen of multiple operational event determining routines, each of which corresponds to said respective events, thereby determining the event corresponding to the user'"'"'s input.