Mobile terminal device, method for controlling mobile terminal device, and program

• US 9,600,163 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2014
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kimura, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, M Good
• Application Number:
  US14/487,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20150012851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 917 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0239 Sliding mechanism with two degree of freedom, e.g. translation in two different directions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0247 comprising more than two body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• 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 mobile phone includes a first display 11, a second display 21 arranged juxtaposed with the first display 11, and touch panels 12, 22 disposed on the displays 11, 21 for detecting that an icon has been dragged. In response to user'"'"'s dragging an icon, a CPU 100 executes a reduced screen display processing of reducing in size a display screen of each of the displays 11, 21 to display the reduced display screens on the display on which the dragging operation is being performed. When the dragging operation has finished, the reduced display screens are returned to the display screens having the original size. Then, the CPU 100 displays the icon at a position, on the display screen having the original size, corresponding to the position of the icon on the reduced display screen at a time when the dragging operation has finished.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device, comprising:

a display;

a touch panel configured to detect a start of a dragging operation on an object displayed on a first display screen, displayed on the display, and an end of the dragging operation; and

at least one central processing unit (CPU) that

generates a reduced-size image of a second display screen, which is different from the first display screen, wherein the reduced-size image visually represents the second display screen but at a smaller size than the second display screen,

displays the reduced-size image of the second display screen on the display in response to the detection of the start of the dragging operation, and

moves the object from the first display screen to the second display screen in response to the detection of the end of the dragging operation, wherein the location of the object at the end of the dragging operation is on the reduced-size image.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the object to be moved is an icon.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the reduced image is a vertically and horizontally reduced-size image of the second display screen.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one CPU reduces in size the object in response to the detection of the start of the dragging operation.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 4, wherein the at least one CPU reduces in size the object in vertical and horizontal directions.

6. A display control method comprising:

displaying a first display screen on a display;

detecting a start of a dragging operation on an object displayed on the first display screen;

generating a reduced-size image of a second display screen, which is different from the first display screen, wherein the reduced-size image visually represents the second display screen but at a smaller size than the second display screen;

displaying the reduced-size image of the second display screen on the display in response to detecting the start of the dragging operation;

detecting an end of the dragging operation on the object, wherein the location of the object at the end of the dragging operation is on the reduced-size image; and

moving the object from the first display screen to the second display screen in response to detecting the end of the dragging operation.