Display method and program of a terminal device

• US 9,501,166 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2015
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shikama, Mari, Ogita, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): MARINELLI, PATRICK
• Application Number:
  US14/672,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20160291744A1
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• 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 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• 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

Abstract

An electronic device, including circuitry to detect, based on an output of a touch panel, a kind of finger that operates the touch panel; determine, based on the detected kind of the finger, an arrangement of display elements on a display formed on or integrally with the touch panel; and control the display to display the elements in accordance with the determined arrangement.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

circuitry configured to

detect, based on an output of a touch panel, a kind of finger that operates the touch panel;

determine, based on the detected kind of the finger, an arrangement of display elements on a display formed on or integrally with the touch panel;

control the display to display the elements in accordance with the determined arrangement;

detect that only one hand is used to operate the terminal device when two connected peaks in a scanning direction of the touch panel are in a detected electrostatic capacity distribution signal; and

detect that two hands are used to operate the electronic device when one peak in the scanning direction of the touch panel is in the detected electrostatic capacity distribution signal.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to arrange displayed content at a first position that is out of reach of the finger when only one hand is detected to operate the electronic device.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the content is at least one of a still image, a moving image, and a screenshot that is shown in various applications.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the first position is at an upper portion of display.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to arrange operation content at a position that is within reach of the finger.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the operation content is an operation button for at least one of a still image, a moving image, and a keyboard.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the position is at a lower portion of the display on a side of the detected finger.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to arrange view content on a position that is out of a reach of both hands when both hands are detected to operate the electronic device.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the position is at an upper portion of the display.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to detect that the finger that operates the touch panel is a thumb of a user'"'"'s left hand, and control the display to arrange operation content at a position that is within reach of a thumb of the left hand.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the position is at a left lower portion of the display.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to detect that the finger the operates the touch panel is a thumb of a user'"'"'s left hand, and control the display to arrange operation content at a position that is within reach of a thumb of the left hand.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the position is at a right lower portion of the display.

14. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to divide the display elements into a left half portion and a right half portion, and generate a first operation content from the divided left half portion and a second operation content from the divided right half portion when it is detected that a user is operating the touch panel with both hands.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program instructions, which when executed by an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

detect, based on an output of a touch panel, a kind of finger that operates the touch panel;

determine, based on the detected kind of the finger, an arrangement of display elements on a display formed on or integrally with the touch panel;

control the display to display the elements in accordance with the determined arrangement;

detect that only one hand is used to operate the terminal device when two connected peaks in a scanning direction of the touch panel are in a detected electrostatic capacity distribution signal; and

detect that two hands are used to operate the electronic device when one peak in the scanning direction of the touch panel is in the detected electrostatic capacity distribution signal.

16. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting, based on an output of a touch panel, a kind of finger that operates the touch panel;

determining, based on the detected kind of the finger, an arrangement of display elements on a display formed on or integrally with the touch panel;

controlling the display to display the elements in accordance with the determined arrangement;

detecting that only one hand is used to operate the terminal device when two connected peaks in a scanning direction of the touch panel are in a detected electrostatic capacity distribution signal; and

detecting that two hands are used to operate the electronic device when one peak in the scanning direction of the touch panel is in the detected electrostatic capacity distribution signal.