Operation display device

• US 9,158,428 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Shimizu, Hideaki, Fukuoh, Chohiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Pervan, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/781,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20130229370A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: 715700-866
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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: 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00472 using a pop-up window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

Disclosed is an operation display device including: a touch panel unit to detect a touch position; a display unit; and a display control unit to execute a display according to a first display process on the display unit when a first operation is received on the touch panel unit, and to execute both of the display according to the first display process and a display according to a second display process when a second operation including an element of the first operation is received on the touch panel unit.

Claims

1. An operation display device comprising:

a touch panel unit to detect a touched position;

a display unit; and

a display control unit,

wherein when a first operation in which the touch panel unit is touched on a specific position is received on the touch panel unit, the display control unit executes a display for displaying information corresponding to the touched position according to a first display process on the display unit, and

wherein when a second operation which includes an element of the first operation and in which an action for moving the touched position is added is received on the touched panel unit, the display control unit executes a display to be executed when the touched position is moved according to a second display process and the display for displaying the information corresponding to the touched position which is touched before the touched position is moved according to the first display process, on the touch panel unit at a same timing.

2. The operation display device of claim 1, wherein after the display control unit executes both of the display according to the first display process and the display according to the second display process, when an operation for affirming one of the first display process and the second display process is received from a user, the display control unit finishes the other display process or returns the display according to the other display process to an original display.

3. The operation display device of claim 1, wherein the first operation is a selection operation in which the touch panel unit is touched on a specific position, and

the second operation is an operation in which an action for moving the touched position after the touch panel unit is touched is added.

4. The operation display device of claim 3, wherein in case that a movement distance of the touched position is less than a first threshold value, the display control unit judges that the first operation is received and executes the display according to the first display process without executing the display according to the second display process;

in case that the movement distance of the touched position is not less than the first threshold value and less than a second threshold value which is larger than the first threshold value, the display control unit judges that the second operation is received and executes both of the display according to the first display process and the display according to the second display process; and

in case that the movement distance of the touched position is not less than the second threshold value, the display control unit judges that the third operation is received and executes the display according to the second display process without executing the display according to the first display process.

5. The operation display device of claim 1, wherein the first display process is a process for displaying a pop-up window,

the second display process is a process for scrolling and displaying objects, and

in case that the display control unit executes both of the display according to the first display process and the display according to the second display process, the display control unit displays the pop-up window by the first display process so as to show at least a part of the objects to be scrolled by the second display process.

6. The operation display device of claim 5, wherein when an operation for the objects scrolled by the second display process is received in a state that the display control unit executes both of the display according to the first display process and the display according to the second display process, the display control unit closes the pop-up window which is displayed by the first display process.

7. The operation display device of claim 1, wherein the first display process is a process for changing a window displayed on the display unit to another window,

the second display process is a process for scrolling and display objects, and

in case that the display control unit executes both of the display according to the first display process and the display according to the second display process, the display control unit calculates and stores a position of the objects scrolled by the second display process and executes the change of the window to the another window by the first display process, and when the another window is returned to an original window, the display control unit executes a display in which the objects are moved to the stored position.

8. An operation display device comprising:

a touch panel unit to detect a touched position;

a display unit; and

a display control unit,

wherein the display control unit judges a type of an operation in accordance with a predetermined index,

in case that a value of the predetermined index is less than a first threshold value, the display control unit judges that a first operation is received on the touch panel unit,

in case that the value of the predetermined index is not less than the first threshold value and is less than a second threshold value which is more than the first threshold value, the display control unit judges that a second operation is received on the touch panel unit,

in case that the value of the predetermined index is not less than the second threshold value, the display control unit judges that a third operation is received on the touch panel unit,

when the first operation is received on the touch panel unit, the display control unit executes a display according to a first display process on the display unit,

when the second operation is received on the touch panel unit, the display control unit executes both of the display according to the first display process and a display according to a second display process on the display unit, and

when the third operation is received on the touch panel unit, the display control unit does not execute the display according to the first display process and executes the display according to the second display process.

9. An operation display device comprising:

a touch panel unit to detect a touched position;

a display unit; and

a display control unit to execute a display according to a first display process which is a process for displaying a pop-up window on the display unit, when a first operation is received on the touch panel unit, and to execute both of the display according to the first display process and a display according to a second display process which is a process for scrolling and displaying objects on the display unit, when a second operation including an element of the first operation is received on the touch panel unit,

wherein in the case that the display control unit executes both of the display according to the first display process and the display according to the second display process, the display control unit displays the pop-up window by the first display process so as to show at least a part of the objects to be scrolled by the second display process and the display control unit stores a display position of the objects to be scrolled by the second display process, the display position being positioned before the objects are scrolled, and

when an operation for affirming the displaying of the pop-up window displayed by the first display process is received, the display control unit displays the objects so as to return the objects scrolled by the second display process to the stored display position.