Electronic apparatus

• US 9,417,724 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2014
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nishigaki, Atsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kohlman, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/582,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20150109229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 601 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a detection module configured to detect an operation for the electronic apparatus, and a process execution module configured to execute a process corresponding to an operation detected by the detection module. When the detection module detects a first operation, the process execution module executes a predetermined process corresponding to the first operation. The first operation comprises an operation in which a contact module moves in a state of touching a display surface of the electronic apparatus. When the detection module detects a second operation after detecting the first operation, the process execution module re-executes the predetermined process. The second operation comprises an operation of a contact module for the electronic apparatus without being accompanied by a movement of the contact module along a display surface.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a detection module configured to detect an operation for the electronic apparatus; and

a process execution module configured to execute a process corresponding to an operation detected by the detection module, wherein

when the detection module detects a first operation, the process execution module executes a predetermined process corresponding to the first operation, wherein the first operation comprises an operation in which a contact module moves in a state of touching a display surface of the electronic apparatus and

when the detection module detects a second operation after detecting the first operation, the process execution module re-executes the predetermined process, wherein the second operation comprises an operation of a contact module for the electronic apparatus without being accompanied by a movement of the contact module along a display surface.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second operation comprises any one of an operation in which a contact module touches the display surface, an operation in which a contact module is released from the display surface at a touched position after touching the display surface, and an operation on a hardware key disposed on the electronic apparatus.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second operation comprises an operation on an operation button displayed on the display surface of the electronic apparatus.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein whenever the detection module detects the second operation after detecting the first operation, the process execution module executes the predetermined process.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

when the detection module detects the second operation in a state where a contact module touch the display snake without being released from the display surface after detecting the first operation, the process execution module re-executes the predetermined process, and

when the detection module detects the second operation in a state where a contact module is released from the display surface after detecting the first operation, the process execution module does not re-execute the predetermined process.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

when the detection module detects the second operation within a first predetermined period of time from when a contact module is released from the display surface after detecting the first operation, the process execution module re-executes the predetermined process, and

when the detection module detects the second operation after a lapse of the first predetermined period of time from when a contact module is released from the display surface after detecting the first operation, the process execution module does not re-execute the predetermined process.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

when the detection module detects the second operation within the first predetermined period of time from when a contact module is released from the display surface after detecting the first operation, the process execution module re-executes the predetermined process,

when the detection module detects the new second operation within a second predetermined period of time from the time of detecting the second operation, the process execution module further executes the predetermined process,

when the detection module detects the second operation within the first predetermined period of time from when a contact module is released from the display surface after detecting the first operation, the process execution module re-executes the predetermined process, and

when the detection module detects the new second operation after a lapse of the second predetermined period of time from the time of detecting the second operation, the process execution module does not execute the predetermined process.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first operation comprises an operation in which two contact modules approach to each other in a state where the two contact modules touch the display surface, or an operation in which two contact modules move away from each other in a state where the two contact modules touch the display surface.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

when the first operation comprises an operation in which the two contact modules approach to each other in a state where the two contact modules touch the display surface, the predetermined process is a process configured to reduce the display on the display surface, and

when the first operation comprises an operation in which two contact modules move away from each other in a state where the two contact modules touch the display surface, the predetermined process comprises a process configured to enlarge the display on the display surface.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first operation comprises an operation in which two contact modules rotate in a state of touching the display surface.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the predetermined process comprises a process of rotating a display on the display surface.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first operation comprises an operation in which one contact module moves in a state of touching the display surface.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the predetermined process comprises a process configured to scroll a display on the display surface in a moving direction of a contact module in the first operation, or a process configured to turn pages displayed on the display surface.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the contact module comprises a finger.