Tablet device, and operation receiving method

• US 9,952,690 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Taguchi, Akinori, Nakashima, Satoshi, Shimizu, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Moon, Seokyun
• Application Number:
  US13/925,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20140015778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,765 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A tablet device 100 according to an embodiment specifies a target area on a touch panel in which an operation is performed and determines the content of the touch operation performed in the target area. For example, the tablet device specifies the target area on the basis of the eye gaze position detected by a eye gaze detecting unit. Then, the tablet device creates a menu image that includes an option associated with the content of the touch operation, displays the created menu image in the default area, and receives the touch operation.

Claims

1. A tablet device comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a first process comprising;

detecting an eye gaze position on a touch panel;

first determining whether a first touch operation has been performed on the touch panel;

second determining an area including an eye gaze position detected a predetermined time before the first touch operation;

third determining a content of a second touch operation corresponding to the area determined by the second determining;

creating an option associated with the content of the second touch operation determined by the third determining; and

displaying the created option in a predetermined area of the touch panel, the predetermined area being reached by a thumb which is being used to support the tablet device while a user is holding the tablet device;

performing a second process in accordance with the second touch operation detected from the created option;

allowing the created option to remain displayed on a screen that has been changed by the second process,

wherein the second determining corrects the eye gaze position at a time of the first touch operation to an eye gaze position at a predetermined time before the first touch operation, and determines an area including the corrected eye gaze position.

2. The tablet device according to claim 1, wherein, when the number of the options associated with the content of the touch operation is equal to or greater than a predetermined number, the displaying, in the predetermined area, some of the options from among the multiple options.

3. The tablet device according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the option in the predetermined area of the touch panel by associating a target touch operation in the area specified by the specifying with the option.

4. The tablet device according to claim 1, wherein the third determining acquires source code corresponding to the area determined by the second determining and determines a touch operation among multiple touch operations based on the source code.

5. An operation receiving method executed by a computer, the operation receiving method comprising:

detecting an eye gaze position on a touch panel;

first determining whether a first touch operation has been performed on the touch panel;

second determining an area including an eye gaze position detected a predetermined time before the first touch operation;

third determining a content of a second touch operation corresponding to the area determined by the second determining performed in the specified area;

creating an option associated with the content of the second touch operation; and

displaying the created option in a predetermined area of the touch panel, the predetermined area being reached by a thumb which is being used to support the tablet panel while a user is holding the tablet panel;

performing a process in accordance with the second touch operation detected from the created option;

allowing the created option to remain displayed on a screen that has been changed by the process,

wherein the second determining corrects the eye gaze position at a time of the first touch operation to an eye gaze position at a predetermined time before the first touch operation, and determines an area including the corrected eye gaze position.

6. The operation receiving method according to claim 5, wherein, when the number of the options associated with the content of the touch operation is equal to or greater than a predetermined number, the displaying includes displaying, in the predetermined area, some of the options from among the multiple options.

7. The operation receiving method according to claim 5, wherein the displaying includes displaying the option in the predetermined area of the touch panel by associating a target touch operation in the specified area with the option.

8. A computer-readable non-transitory medium having stored therein an operation receiving program causing a computer to execute a first process comprising:

detecting an eye gaze position on a touch panel;

first determining whether a first touch operation has been performed on the touch panel;

second determining an area including an eye gaze position detected a predetermined time before the first touch operation;

third determining a content of a second touch operation corresponding to the area determined by the second determining performed in the specified area;

creating an option associated with the content of the second touch operation; and

displaying the created option in a predetermined area of the touch panel, the predetermined area being reached by a thumb which is being used to support the tablet panel while a user is holding the tablet panel;

performing a second process in accordance with the second touch operation detected from the created option;

allowing the created option to remain displayed on a screen that has been changed by the second process,

wherein the second determining corrects the eye gaze position at a time of the first touch operation to an eye gaze position at a predetermined time before the first touch operation, and determines an area including the corrected eye gaze position.

9. The computer-readable non-transitory medium according to claim 8, wherein, when the number of the options associated with the content of the touch operation is equal to or greater than a predetermined number, the displaying includes displaying, in the predetermined area, some of the options from among the multiple options.

10. The computer-readable non-transitory medium according to claim 8, wherein the displaying includes displaying the option in the predetermined area of the touch panel by associating a target touch operation in the specified area with the option.