Information processing device

• US 9,588,603 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Issued: 03/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shiomi, Takuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Tzeng, Fred
• Application Number:
  US14/543,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20150138117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing device includes a memory, a display device that displays information on a screen, a detection device that detects a tip position of an indicator body on the display device in a state in which the information processing device is held, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to change a display area displayed on the screen of the display device to an operation area whose vertex is the tip position of the indicator body and which is operable by the indicator body in a state in which the information processing device is held.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a memory;

a display device that includes a screen and that displays information in a display area of the screen;

a detection device that detects a tip position of an indicator body on the screen when the information processing device is in a state in which the information processing device is being held; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to change the display area from an initial area of the screen to an operation area of the screen, the operation area including a vertex at the detected tip position and being operable by the indicator body in the state in which the information processing device is being held.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the operation area is a first operation area formed according to a first position indicated by a tip of the indicator body at a first timing and when the first position is different from a second position indicated by the tip of the indicator body at a second timing that is different from the first timing, the processor is configured to change the display area from the first operation area to a second operation area formed according to the second position.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the processor is configured to reduce and display the operation area in a first direction when either an approach or a touch is detected in the first direction with respect to the second position on a display surface of the display device and reduce and display the operation area in a second direction when either an approach or a touch is detected in the second direction, which is different from the first direction, with respect to the second position on the display surface.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the first direction is a direction toward a lower right corner of the screen and the second direction is a direction toward a lower left corner of the screen.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is configured to calculate a scale ratio at a position indicated by a tip of the indicator body with respect to a reference position that forms the screen, identify a changed position of an icon in the operation area based on a position of the icon displayed on the screen and the scale ratio, arrange the icon at the changed position, and causes the display device to display the icon.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein when the tip position of the indicator body is not on a diagonal line of the screen, the processor is configured to cause the display device to size the operation area such that the operation area has the same ratio of vertical and horizontal sizes as that of the screen according to the tip position of the indicator body with respect to the screen.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is configured to move the display area based on a first position indicated by a tip of the indicator body at a first timing and a second position indicated by the tip of the indicator body at a second timing that is different from the first timing.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is configured to enlarge the display area based on a first position indicated by a tip of the indicator body at a first timing and a second position indicated by the tip of the indicator body at a second timing that is different from the first timing.

9. A machine readable medium storing a program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

detecting a tip position of an indicator body on a screen of a display device of an information processing device when the information processing device is in a state in which information processing device is being held; and

changing a display area of the screen from an initial area of the screen to an operation area of the screen, the operation area including a vertex at the tip position and being operable by the indicator body in the state in which the information processing device is being held.

10. The machine readable medium storing the program according to claim 9,

wherein the operation area is a first operation area formed according to a first position indicated by a tip of the indicator body at a first timing and when the first position is different from a second position indicated by the tip of the indicator body at a second timing that is different from the first timing, the program causes the information processing device to perform changing the display area from the first operation area to a second operation area formed according to the second position.