Display control apparatus, display control method, and storage medium

• US 9,727,349 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2014
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Kan
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitaro, Ryan
• Application Number:
  US14/265,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20140331132A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• 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 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

An apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an input operation from a user performed on an accepting unit displayed on a display unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the input operation received by the receiving unit, and at least one of a display state of the accepting unit and an input area of the input operation in the accepting unit; and a display control unit configured to control a display of the accepting unit displayed on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided by the determination unit.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

an obtaining unit configured to obtain a notification based on a touch operation of a user performed on an accepting item displayed on a display unit;

a determination unit configured to determine a display state of a character string set in the accepting item; and

a display control unit configured to control a display on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided by the determination unit,

wherein, if the entire character string has been displayed, a process set in the accepting item is performed for executing a function in accordance with the touch operation, and if the character string has been displayed with a part of the character string omitted, the display control unit displays, on the display unit, the entire character string in accordance with the touch operation,

wherein the process for executing the function is different from a process for displaying the entire character string,

wherein the touch operation is performed on the accepting item,

wherein the display control unit has a function to display the character string in any of a state that the character string is displayed with a part of the character string omitted, and a state that the entire character string is displayed, and

wherein the obtaining unit, the determination unit, and the display control unit are implemented by at least one processor.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit is a touch panel.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays, on the display unit, the entire character string set in the accepting item by displaying a tooltip component on a display area of the display unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the tooltip component includes an execute button in order to perform the process for executing a function set in the accepting item.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the process of displaying the entire character string and the process of executing a function are set in the accepting item.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the character string describes information on the process for executing a function set in the accepting item.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein, if the number of times the touch operation has been performed on the accepting item in which a display state of the accepting item is a state in which a part of the character string set in the accepting item has not been displayed is a predetermined number of times, the entire character string set in the accepting item is to be displayed on the display unit.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the determination unit determines whether the entire character string is displayed on the display unit.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, if the obtaining unit obtains information based on a touch operation performed on the accepting item in a display state that a part of the character string set in the accepting item has been omitted, the entire character string is to be displayed on the display unit, and

if the obtaining unit obtains information based on a touch operation performed on the accepting item in a display state that the entire character string set in the accepting item has been displayed, the process set in the accepting item for executing the function is to be performed.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, if a touch operation is a touch operation performed on the accepting item in which a display state of the accepting item is a state in which a character string, in which a part of the character string set in the accepting item has been omitted, has been displayed, the entire character string set in the accepting item is to be displayed on the display unit.

11. A method performed by at least one processor, the method comprising:

obtaining notification based on a touch operation of a user performed on an accepting item displayed on a display unit;

determining a display state of a character string set in the accepting item; and

controlling a display on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided in the determining,

wherein, if the entire character string has been displayed, a process set in the accepting item is performed for executing a function in accordance with the touch operation, and if the character string has been displayed with a part of the character string omitted, the display is controlled to display, on the display unit, the entire character string in accordance with the touch operation,

wherein the process for executing the function is different from a process for displaying the entire character string,

wherein the touch operation is performed on the accepting item, and

wherein the display is controlled to have a function to display the character string in any of a state that the character string is displayed with a part of the character string omitted, and a state that the entire character string is displayed.

12. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the display unit is a touch panel.

13. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the display unit is controlled to display the entire character string set in the accepting item by displaying a tooltip component on a display area of the display unit.

14. The method according to claim 13,

wherein the tooltip component includes an execute button in order to perform the process for executing a function set in the accepting item.

15. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the process of displaying the entire character string and the process of executing a function are set in the accepting item.

16. The method according to claim 15,

wherein the character string describes information on the process for executing a function set in the accepting item.

17. The method according to claim 15,

wherein, if the number of times the touch operation has been performed on the accepting item in which a display state of the accepting item is a state in which a part of the character string set in the accepting item has not been displayed is a predetermined number of times, the entire character string set in the accepting item is to be displayed on the display unit.

18. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the determining determines whether the entire character string is displayed on the display unit.

19. The method according to claim 11,

wherein, if the obtaining obtains information based on a touch operation performed on the accepting item in a display state that a part of the character string set in the accepting item has been omitted, the entire character string is to be displayed on the display unit, and

if the obtaining obtains information based on a touch operation performed on the accepting item in a display state that the entire character string set in the accepting item has been displayed, the process set in the accepting item for executing the function is to be performed.

20. The method according to claim 11,

wherein, if a touch operation is a touch operation performed on the accepting item in which a display state of the accepting item is a state in which a character string, in which a part of the character string set in the accepting item has been omitted, has been displayed, the entire character string set in the accepting item is to be displayed on the display unit.

21. The method according to claim 11, wherein the function is a downloading function for downloading software.

22. The method according to claim 11, wherein the function is a downloading function for downloading an instruction manual.

23. The method according to claim 11, wherein the function is any of a printing function, a scanning function and a fax function.

24. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method comprising:

obtaining notification based on a touch operation of a user performed on an accepting item displayed on a display unit;

determining a display state of a character string set in the accepting item; and

controlling a display displayed on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided in the determining,

wherein, if the entire character string has been displayed, a process set in the accepting item is performed for executing a function in accordance with the touch operation, and if the character string has been displayed with a part of the character string omitted, the display is controlled to display, on the display unit, the entire character string in accordance with the touch operation,

wherein the process for executing the function is different from a process for displaying the entire character string,

wherein the touch operation is performed on the accepting item, and

wherein the display is controlled to have a function to display the character string in any of a state that the character string is displayed with a part of the character string omitted, and a state that the entire character string is displayed.

25. An apparatus comprising:

an obtaining unit configured to obtain notification based on a touch operation of a user performed on an accepting item displayed on a display unit;

a determination unit configured to determine a display state of a character string set in the accepting item; and

a display control unit configured to control a display on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided by the determination unit,

wherein, if the entire character string has been displayed, a process set in the accepting item is performed for executing a function in accordance with the touch operation, and if the character string has been displayed with a part of the character string omitted, the display control unit displays, on the display unit, the entire character string in accordance with the touch operation,

wherein the touch operation is performed on the accepting item,

wherein the display control unit has a function to display the character string in any of a state that the character string is displayed with a part of the character string omitted, and a state that the entire character string is displayed, and

wherein the obtaining unit, the determination unit, and the display control unit are implemented by at least one processor.

26. The apparatus according to claim 25,

wherein, if a touch area of a touch operation in the accepting item is an area in which the process of displaying the entire character string set in the accepting item, the determination unit determines that the entire character string set in the accepting item is to be displayed on the display unit.

27. The apparatus according to claim 25,

wherein, if a touch area of a touch operation in the accepting item is an area in which the process of executing the function is set, the determination unit determines that the function set in the accepting item is to be executed.

28. A method performed by at least one processor, the method comprising:

obtaining notification based on a touch operation of a user performed on an accepting item displayed on a display unit;

determining a display state of a character string set in the accepting item; and

controlling a display on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided in the determining,

wherein, if the entire character string has been displayed, a process set in the accepting item is performed for executing a function in accordance with the touch operation, and if the character string has been displayed with a part of the character string omitted, the display is controlled to display, on the display unit, the entire character string in accordance with the touch operation,

wherein the touch operation is performed on the accepting item, and

wherein the display is controlled to have a function to display the character string in any of a state that the character string is displayed with a part of the character string omitted, and a state that the entire character string is displayed.