Display input device, and image forming apparatus including touch panel portion

• US 9,164,611 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2013
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Arakawa, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): EURICE, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US13/853,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20130265251A1
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A display input device includes a display portion and a touch panel portion. When an object to be transferred is determined by touching two points on the touch panel portion, the display portion displays transfer destination designation information indicating which object is designated as a transfer destination among objects that can be a transfer destination of the object to be transferred. When the touch panel portion has accepted a transfer destination switching operation performed while one or more of the two touched points keep being touched, the display portion switches the object designated as a transfer destination by the transfer destination designation information. After the display portion has displayed the transfer destination designation information, when the touching operation has been released, the touch panel portion accepts the object designated as a transfer destination when the touching operation has been released, as a transfer destination of the object to be transferred.

Claims

1. A display input device comprising:

a display portion that displays a screen on which a plurality of objects are provided, the plurality of objects including an object to be transferred, and an object having a hierarchic structure such that the object to be transferred can be transferred and located thereunder; and

a touch panel portion that is provided on the display portion and detects a plurality of touched positions that a user is touching, wherein

the display portion, while displaying the plurality of objects,

when two points are touched at a display position of the object on the touch panel portion the object to be transferred has been determined, displays transfer destination designation information indicating which object is designated as a transfer destination among the objects that can be a transfer destination of the object to be transferred, and

when the touch panel portion has accepted a transfer destination switching operation which is a touching operation performed while one or more of the two touched points keep being touched, switches the object to be designated as a transfer destination by the transfer destination designation information,

the touch panel portion, after the display portion has displayed the transfer destination designation information, when the touching operation has been released, accepts that the object having been designated as a transfer destination by the transfer destination designation information at the time when the touching operation has been released, has been determined as a transfer destination of the object to be transferred,

the object to be transferred is a file icon,

the object having the hierarchic structure is a folder icon,

the display portion, after displaying the transfer destination designation information,

continues displaying the transfer destination designation information until the touching operation on the touch panel portion is released, and

switches the object to be designated as a transfer destination by the transfer destination designation information, every time the touch panel portion accepts the transfer destination switching operation, and

the display portion

displays arrow images respectively indicating the objects that can be a transfer destination, as the transfer destination designation information, and

causes a display manner of the arrow image corresponding to the object to be designated as a transfer destination among the objects that can be a transfer destination, to differ from a display manner of the arrow images corresponding to the other objects.

2. The display input device according to claim 1, wherein

the display portion

when a predetermined time set in advance has elapsed while the two points keep being touched at the display position of the object on the touch panel portion, displays the transfer destination designation information, and

unless the predetermined time has elapsed while the two points keep being touched at the display position of the object on the touch panel portion, does not display the transfer destination designation information.

3. The display input device according to claim 1, wherein

the display portion, after displaying the transfer destination designation information, when the touching operation on the touch panel portion has been released, displays an animation of gradually moving the display position of the object to be transferred toward a display position of the object determined as a transfer destination.

4. The display input device according to claim 1, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts, as the transfer destination switching operation, a touching operation of, while keeping one of the two touched points being touched, tapping another position on the touch panel portion with a finger.

5. The display input device according to claim 1, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts, as the transfer destination switching operation, a touching operation of, while keeping one of the two touched points being touched, flicking a finger at another position on the touch panel portion.

6. The display input device according to claim 1, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts, as the transfer destination switching operation, a touching operation of, while keeping the two points being touched, moving the touched position of one of the two touched points.

7. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a display portion that displays a screen on which a plurality of objects are provided, the plurality of objects including an object to be transferred, and an object having a hierarchic structure such that the object to be transferred can be transferred and located thereunder; and

a touch panel portion that is provided on the display portion and detects a plurality of touched positions that a user is touching, wherein

the display portion, while displaying the plurality of objects,

when two points are touched at a display position of the object on the touch panel portion the object to be transferred has been determined, displays transfer destination designation information indicating which object is designated as a transfer destination among the objects that can be a transfer destination of the object to be transferred, and

when the touch panel portion has accepted a transfer destination switching operation which is a touching operation performed while one or more of the two touched points keep being touched, switches the object to be designated as a transfer destination by the transfer destination designation information,

the touch panel portion, after the display portion has displayed the transfer destination designation information, when the touching operation has been released, accepts that the object having been designated as a transfer destination by the transfer destination designation information at the time when the touching operation has been released, has been determined as a transfer destination of the object to be transferred,

the object to be transferred is a file icon,

the object having the hierarchic structure is a folder icon,

the display portion, after displaying the transfer destination designation information,

continues displaying the transfer destination designation information until the touching operation on the touch panel portion is released, and

switches the object to be designated as a transfer destination by the transfer destination designation information, every time the touch panel portion accepts the transfer destination switching operation, and

the display portion

displays arrow images respectively indicating the objects that can be a transfer destination, as the transfer destination designation information, and

causes a display manner of the arrow image corresponding to the object to be designated as a transfer destination among the objects that can be a transfer destination, to differ from a display manner of the arrow images corresponding to the other objects.

8. The image forming apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the display portion

when a predetermined time set in advance has elapsed while the two points keep being touched at the display position of the object on the touch panel portion, displays the transfer destination designation information, and

unless the predetermined time has elapsed while the two points keep being touched at the display position of the object on the touch panel portion, does not display the transfer destination designation information.

9. The image forming apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the display portion, after displaying the transfer destination designation information, when the touching operation on the touch panel portion has been released, displays an animation of gradually moving the display position of the object to be transferred toward a display position of the object determined as a transfer destination.

10. The image forming apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts, as the transfer destination switching operation, a touching operation of, while keeping one of the two touched points being touched, tapping another position on the touch panel portion with a finger.

11. The image forming apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts, as the transfer destination switching operation, a touching operation of, while keeping one of the two touched points being touched, flicking a finger at another position on the touch panel portion.

12. The image forming apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts, as the transfer destination switching operation, a touching operation of, while keeping the two points being touched, moving the touched position of one of the two touched points.