Apparatus and program for a touch input tracking figure for operation

• US 9,921,669 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2013
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Imai, Tomikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Azari, Sepehr
• Application Number:
  US14/406,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20150177860A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,841 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 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: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/10 Controlling the light source

Abstract

Operation display device includes a display, an operation part, and an arithmetic and control part. The arithmetic and control part includes: an analysis processing part analyzing an operation content of an operation object; and a display processing part determining a shape and a position of a figure for operation displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analysis processing part. The analysis processing part has a function of classifying the operation content of the operation object into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting a control amount. When a contact position to the operation part is out of a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation, the display processing part displaces the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is within the tracking range.

Claims

1. An operation display device comprising:

a display on which a figure for operation for adjusting a control amount instructed to a load is displayed, the load being external and distinct from the operation display device;

an operation part disposed on a screen of the display, the operation part being configured to output a signal indicating a contact position of an operation object;

an analyzing processing part configured to analyze an operation content of the operation object by receiving the signal from the operation part and associating the contact position of the operation object to the operation part with the figure for operation;

a display processing part configured to determine a form and a position of the figure for operation to be displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analyzing processing part; and

a load control part configured to adjust the control amount according to the operation content analyzed by the analyzing processing part,

wherein the analyzing processing part has a function of classifying the operation content into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting the control amount, the analyzing processing part being configured to determine that the operation content is the moving operation when the contact position of the operation object to the operation part is deviated from a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation,

wherein the display processing part is configured to displace the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is positioned within the tracking range when the analyzing processing part determines that the operation content is the moving operation, and

wherein upon detecting that the operation object contacts the operation part in an operation area, the analyzing processing part detects if the operation object moves within a prescribed determination period after contact, and

(i) if the operation object moves within the prescribed determination period after contact, the analyzing processing part allows for displacement of the figure for operation, and

(ii) if the operation object does not move within the prescribed determination period after contact, the analyzing processing part prevents displacement of the figure for operation, regardless of whether the operation object is moved, until the analyzing processing part detects the operation object being separated from the operation part.

2. The operation display device according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in an operation area set in the figure for operation, in a time period until the operation object separates from the operation part, the analyzing processing part is configured to determine that the operation content is the adjustment operation while the contact position of the operation object is in the tracking range, the analyzing processing part being configured to determine that the operation content is the moving operation while the contact position of the operation object is out of the tracking range.

3. The operation display device according to claim 2, wherein when a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in the tracking range, the analyzing processing part is configured to instruct the display processing part so that the control amount instructed to the load control part is made to correspond to the position and the form of the figure for operation.

4. The operation display device according to claim 2,

wherein the figure for operation is a rectilinear operating part comprising a slider moving in a straight line, and

wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the slider, a whole area of the moving track.

5. The operation display device according to claim 2,

wherein the figure for operation is a rotation operation part comprising a dot indicating a dial, which rotates around a center of rotation, and a rotary of the dial, and

wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the dot, a whole area of the moving track.

6. The operation display device according to claim 1, wherein when a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in the tracking range, the analyzing processing part is configured to instruct the display processing part so that the control amount instructed to the load control part is made to correspond to the position and the form of the figure for operation.

7. The operation display device according to claim 6,

wherein the figure for operation is a rectilinear operating part comprising a slider moving in a straight line, and

wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the slider, a whole area of the moving track.

8. The operation display device according to claim 6,

wherein the figure for operation is a rotation operation part comprising a dot indicating a dial, which rotates around a center of rotation, and a rotary of the dial, and

wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the dot, a whole area of the moving track.

9. The operation display device according to claim 1,

wherein the figure for operation is a rectilinear operating part comprising a slider moving in a straight line, and

wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the slider, a whole area of the moving track.

10. The operation display device according to claim 1,

wherein the figure for operation is a rotation operation part comprising a dot indicating a dial, which rotates around a center of rotation, and a rotary of the dial, and

wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the dot, a whole area of the moving track.

11. The operation display device according to claim 10, wherein the analyzing processing part is configured to set a rotating ratio so that an angle of rotation of the dial is smaller than an angle of rotation of the operation object.

12. The operation display device according to claim 11, wherein, in a time period until the operation object separates from the operation part after the analyzing processing part determines that the operation content is the adjustment operation, the analyzing processing part is configured to forbid displacement of the figure for operation and adjust the control amount according to the angle of rotation of the operation object while the operation object continues rotating.

13. The operation display device according to claim 1, wherein the analyzing processing part, if the operation object separates from the operation part after contacting to the operation part, is configured to instruct the display processing part so that the figure for operation is returned to an initial position.

14. A non-transitory readable medium recording a program causing a computer to function as an apparatus,

the apparatus comprising:

an display on which a figure for operation for adjusting a control amount instructed to a load is displayed, the load being external and distinct from the computer;

an operation part disposed on a screen of the display, the operation part being configured to output a signal indicating a contact position of an operation object;

an analyzing processing part configured to analyze an operation content of the operation object by receiving the signal from the operation part and associating the contact position of the operation object to the operation part with the figure for operation; and

a display processing part configured to determine a form and a position of the figure for operation to be displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analyzing processing part,

wherein the analyzing processing part has a function of classifying the operation content into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting the control amount,

wherein the display processing part, when the contact position of the operation object to the operation part is out of a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation, is configured to displace the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is positioned within the tracking range, and

wherein upon detecting that the operation object contacts the operation part in an operation area, the analyzing processing part detects if the operation object moves within a prescribed determination period after contact, and

(i) if the operation object moves within the prescribed determination period after contact, the analyzing processing part allows for displacement of the figure for operation, and

(ii) if the operation object does not move within the prescribed determination period after contact, the analyzing processing part prevents displacement of the figure for operation, regardless of whether the operation object is moved, until the analyzing processing part detects the operation object being separated from the operation part.

15. An operation display device comprising:

a display on which a figure for operation for adjusting a control amount instructed to a load is displayed, the load being external and distinct from the operation display device;

an operation part disposed on a screen of the display, the operation part being configured to output a signal indicating a contact position of an operation object; and

an arithmetic and control part configured to analyze an operation content of the operation object by receiving the signal from the operation part and associating the contact position of the operation object to the operation part with the figure for operation;

wherein the arithmetic and control part, when the contact position of the operation object to the operation part is deviated from a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation, is configured to displace the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is positioned within the tracking range, and

wherein upon detecting that the operation object contacts the operation part in an operation area, the arithmetic and control part detects if the operation object moves within a prescribed determination period after contact, and

(i) if the operation object moves within the prescribed determination period after contact, the arithmetic and control part allows for displacement of the figure for operation, and

(ii) if the operation object does not move within the prescribed determination period after contact, the arithmetic and control prevents displacement of the figure for operation, regardless of whether the operation object is moved, until the arithmetic and control part detects the operation object being separated from the operation part.