Device having touch panel, radar apparatus, plotter apparatus, ship network system, information display method and information display program

• US 9,157,750 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Furuno Electric Co, Ltd
• Original Assignee: Furuno Electric Co, Ltd
• Inventors: Miichi, Tadahiro, Sato, Sadao
• Primary Examiner(s): CAMBY, RICHARD M
• Application Number:
  US14/349,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20140257689A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,471 Days
• Field of Search: 701/457
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 49/00 Arrangements of nautical instruments or navigational aids nautical measuring instruments G01C; radio navigation, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/203 Specially adapted for sailing ships
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/86 Combinations of radar systems with non-radar systems, e.g. sonar, direction finder
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 15/96 for locating fish
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/35 Constructional details or hardware or software details of the signal processing chain
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/12 Plan-position indicators, i.e. P.P.I.
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/6272 producing cursor lines and indicia by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

A touch panel device includes a display unit and a controller. The display unit displays, on a map or a nautical chart, a position acquired from a GNSS sensor and a symbol set on the map or the nautical chart. The controller controls, when an operation of specifying the symbol is detected, an auxiliary tool to appear on a display screen of the display unit, the auxiliary tool for recognizing a touch operation of moving the symbol.

Claims

1. A device having a touch panel, comprising:

a display unit for displaying, on a map or a nautical chart, a detected position acquired from a GNSS sensor and a symbol indicating a waypoint on the map or the nautical chart; and

a controller for controlling, when an operation of specifying the symbol is detected, an auxiliary tool to appear on a display screen of the display unit in a different position on the display screen than the position of the symbol, the auxiliary tool being configured to recognize a touch operation and move the symbol on the display screen according to the touch operation;

wherein the symbol and the auxiliary tool are displayed so as not to overlap each other on the display unit.

2. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the controller scrolls the map or the nautical chart to secure a display space for the auxiliary tool when displaying the auxiliary tool.

3. The device having the touch panel of claim 2, wherein an appearing position of the auxiliary tool is determined according to a displayed position of the specified symbol, and

wherein when at least a part of the auxiliary tool is detected to be out of the display screen, the controller scrolls the map or the nautical chart.

4. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the auxiliary tool to appear below a displayed position of the specified symbol.

5. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein at least two candidates for an appearing position of the auxiliary tool are set, and

wherein the controller determines the appearing position of the auxiliary tool according to the displayed position of the specified symbol.

6. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein an amount of movement on the display screen caused by the touch operation performed on the auxiliary tool is different from a moving amount of the symbol on the display screen.

7. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein a relation between a displayed position of the specified symbol and an appearing position of the auxiliary tool is fixed.

8. The device having the touch panel of claim 7, wherein the controller moves the auxiliary tool according to the touch operation input by a user and moves the symbol such as to follow the movement of the auxiliary tool.

9. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to be installed in a ship.

10. A radar apparatus comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 9.

11. A plotter apparatus comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 9.

12. A ship network system comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 9.

13. A method of displaying information, comprising:

displaying, on a map or a nautical chart, a detected position acquired from a GNSS sensor and a symbol indicating a waypoint on a navigation route from the detected position to a destination on the map or the nautical chart; and

controlling, when an operation of specifying the symbol is detected, an auxiliary tool to appear on a display screen of the display unit in a different position on the display screen than the position of the symbol, the auxiliary tool being configured to recognize a touch operation and move the symbol on the display screen according to the touch operation;

wherein the symbol and the auxiliary tool are displayed so as not to overlap each other on the display unit.

14. A device having a touch panel, comprising:

a display unit for displaying a symbol indicating a waypoint on a navigation route on a map or a nautical chart; and

a controller for controlling, when an operation of specifying the symbol is detected, an auxiliary tool to appear on a display screen of the display unit in a different position on the display screen than the position of the symbol, the auxiliary tool being configured to recognize a touch operation and move the symbol on the display screen according to the touch operation;

wherein the symbol and the auxiliary tool are displayed so as not to overlap each other on the display unit.