Portable terminal, input control program and input control method

• US 9,477,335 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2015
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Kazuto, Izumi, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): GIESY, ADAM
• Application Number:
  US14/717,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20150253892A1
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1633 Constructional details or arrangements of portable computers not specific to the type of enclosures covered by groups G06F1/1615 - G06F1/1626
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• 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: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Claims

1. A portable terminal comprising:

a display unit configured to display at least a first display object and a second display object, the first display object corresponding to first information, the second display object corresponding to second information, the first display object and the second display object being directly adjacent to each other in a predetermined direction;

a touch panel provided on a display screen of the display unit and configured to detect a contacted area of the touch panel to which contact is made;

a calculation unit configured to calculate a first contacted area and a second contacted area, the first contacted area being a portion of the first display object and overlapping the detected contacted area, the second contacted area being a portion of the second display object and overlapping the detected contacted area; and

a determination unit configured to, when the first contacted area is larger in size than the second contacted area and a size difference between the first contacted area and the second contacted area is equal to or less than a predetermined value, determine processing relating to the second information as processing to be performed.

2. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein

the determination unit manages display objects each representing a key that are arranged on areas of the touch panel in a matrix, and

a key representing the second display object is arranged directly above, directly to the left of, or directly to the right of a key representing the first display object.