Portable terminal and control method therefor

• US 9,836,214 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2015
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kinoshita, Kenta
• Primary Examiner(s): Tillery, Rashawn
• Application Number:
  US14/633,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20150220267A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,013 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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

When it is discriminated by an input-means determining unit that an input to display unit is a first input by a pen, a function of an application allocated in advance to an area on a screen of the application specified by an input coordinate of first input means determined by an input-position determining unit is executed on the basis of the first input. When it is discriminated that the input to the display unit is a second input by a finger, the execution of the function of the application allocated in advance on the screen of the application is prohibited and a predetermined function not allocated to the area on the screen of the application is executed on the basis of the second input.

Claims

1. A portable device comprising:

a storing unit configured to store various applications including a first application;

a display unit configured to display a screen of each of the applications;

an input detecting unit configured to detect each of plural inputs touched onto the screen, the plural inputs including a first single input by a first input means and a second single input by a second input means; and

a control unit configured to execute a function in response to one of the plural inputs, wherein

the control unit executes a first function in response to the first single input touched onto a link object displayed on a first screen of the first application,

the first function is assigned to the link object,

the control unit executes, when the first single input is not detected, a second function in response to the second single input by the second input means touched onto the link object displayed on the first screen,

the control unit does not execute, when the first single input is detected, the second function in response to the second single input touched onto the link object displayed on the first screen, and

the second function is not assigned to the link object.

2. The portable terminal according to claim 1 wherein the first input means is a finger, and the second input means is a pen.

3. A control method for a portable device including:

a storing unit configured to store various applications including a first application;

a display unit configured to display a screen of each of the applications; and

an input detecting unit configured to detect each of plural inputs touched onto the screen, the plural inputs including a first single input by a first input means and a second single input by a second input means;

wherein,

the control method comprises;

executing a first function in response to the first single input by the first input means touched onto a link object displayed on a first screen of the first application, the first function being assigned to the link object;

executing, when the first single input is not detected, a second function in response to the second single input by the second input means touched onto the link object displayed on the first screen; and

not executing, when the first single input is detected, the second function in response to the second single input touched onto the link object displayed on the first screen, the second function not being assigned to the link object.

4. A portable device comprising:

a storing unit configured to store various applications including a first application;

a display unit configured to display a screen of each of the applications;

an input detecting unit configured to detect each of plural inputs touched onto the screen, the plural inputs including a first single input by a first input means and a second single input by a second input means; and

a control unit configured to execute a function in response to one of the plural inputs, wherein

the control unit executes a first function in response to the first single input touched onto a link object displayed on a first screen of the first application,

the first function is assigned to the link object,

the control unit executes, when the first single input is not detected, a second function in response to the second single input by the second input means touched onto the link object displayed on the first screen,

the control unit does not execute, when the first single input is being detected, the second function in response to the second single input touched onto the link object displayed on the first screen, and

the second function is not assigned to the link object.