Display apparatus for displaying images in different mannersand non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable by the display apparatus

• US 9,965,167 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2014
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Sadaaki, Kadota, Dai, Takahashi, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shih, Haoshian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gattew, Asteway T
• Application Number:
  US14/176,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20140237428A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,548 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A display apparatus includes: a display device; a touch panel for sensing movement of an input object; a storage storing data representating images; and a controller. Images are displayed on the display device so as to be arranged in an arrangement order. The controller calculates a moving amount for moving the images, in response to movement of the input object. When the images are movable by the calculated moving amount in a moving direction commanded, the controller moves the images displayed on the display device, by the calculated moving amount in the moving direction. When the images are not movable in the moving direction by the calculated moving amount, the controller changes a display manner of the images and display the images in the changed display manner.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display device;

a touch panel superposed on the display device and configured to detect a touch operation of an input object in a state in which the touch panel is touched or approached by the input object;

a storage configured to store a plurality of sets of data respectively representative of a plurality of images; and

a controller configured to control the display device to display at least two images of the plurality of images in a state in which the at least two images are arranged in a first direction in an arrangement order and a second direction being opposed to the first direction,

wherein the display device comprises a plurality of display positions, on each of which at least one of the at least two images is displayable,

wherein the plurality of display positions comprise a designated display position, a designated image being an image positioned at the designated display position,

wherein the plurality of images comprise a first-side end image and a second-side end image in the arrangement order,

wherein the first-side end image is to be displayed last on the display device among the plurality of images when the plurality of images are moved in the first direction in a state in which the first-side end image is not displayed on the display device while the second-side end image is to be displayed last on the display device among the plurality of images when the plurality of images are moved in the second direction in a state in which the second-side end image is not displayed on the display device, and

wherein the controller is configured to;

calculate a moving distance based on a moving operation when the moving operation is received by the touch panel, the moving operation being an operation for moving the at least two images in one of the first direction and the second direction, the moving distance being a distance of movement of the plurality of images;

compare the calculated moving distance with a first-end distance when the plurality of images are moved in the first direction;

compare the calculated moving distance with a second-end distance when the plurality of images are moved in the second direction, the first-end distance being a distance between the designated image positioned at the designated display position and the first-side end image, the second-end distance being a distance between the designated image positioned at the designated display position and the second-side end image;

move the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order and displayed on the display device, by the calculated moving distance in a first display manner in the first direction, when the calculated moving distance is less than or equal to the first-end distance;

move the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order and displayed on the display device, by the calculated moving distance in the first display manner in the second direction, when the calculated moving distance is less than or equal to the second-end distance;

change a display manner of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order to a second display manner different from the first display manner and display the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the second display manner, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the first-end distance; and

change the display manner of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order to the second display manner and display the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the second display manner, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the second-end distance.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of ordinal numbers are sequentially assigned to the plurality of images which are moved according to a moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction, and the plurality of images comprise a first ordinal number image, as the first-side end image, whose ordinal number is first in the arrangement order,

wherein the display device comprises a display region on which the first ordinal number image is displayable, and the display region comprises a designated area, as the designated display position,

wherein the controller is capable of displaying the first ordinal number image on the designated area when having received the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction, and

wherein the controller is configured to:

compare, when the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction is received by the touch panel, the calculated moving distance with the first-end distance by which the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order need to be moved to display the first ordinal number image on the designated area; and

determine that the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable by the calculated moving distance, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the first-end distance.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to display the first ordinal number image on the designated area in the second display manner when the calculated moving distance is greater than the first-end distance.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the designated area is located at a center of the display device in the first direction.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of ordinal numbers are sequentially assigned to the plurality of images which are moved according to a moving operation for moving the at least two images in the second direction, and the plurality of images comprise a last ordinal number image, as the second-side end image, whose ordinal number is the last in the arrangement order,

wherein the display device comprises a display region on which the last ordinal number image is displayable, and the display region comprises a designated area, as the designated position,

wherein the controller is capable of displaying the last ordinal number image on the designated area when having received the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the second direction, and

wherein the controller is configured to:

compare, when the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the second direction is received by the touch panel, the calculated moving distance with the second-end distance by which the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order need to be moved to display the last ordinal number image on the designated area; and

determine that the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable by the calculated moving distance, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the second-end distance.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of ordinal numbers are sequentially assigned to the plurality of images which are moved according to a moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction, and the plurality of images comprise a first ordinal number image, as the first-side end image, whose ordinal number is first in the arrangement order,

wherein the display device comprises a display region on which a plurality of images that are moved according to the moving operation are displayable, and the display region comprises a designated area, as the designated position, which is an end portion of the display region in the second direction,

wherein the controller is capable of displaying the first ordinal number image on the designated area when having received the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction, and

wherein the controller is configured to:

compare, when the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction is received by the touch panel, the calculated moving distance with the first-end distance by which the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order need to be moved to display the first ordinal number image on the designated area; and

determine that the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable by the calculated moving distance, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the first-end distance.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of ordinal numbers are sequentially assigned to the plurality of images which are moved according to a moving operation for moving the at least two images in the second direction, and the plurality of images comprise a last ordinal number image, as the second-side end image, whose ordinal number is the last in the arrangement order,

wherein the display device comprises a display region on which a plurality of images that are moved according to the moving operation are displayable, and the display region comprises a designated area, as the designated position, which is an end portion of the display region in the first direction,

wherein the controller is capable of displaying the last ordinal number image on the designated area when having received the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the second direction, and

wherein the controller is configured to:

compare, when the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the second direction is received by the touch panel, the calculated moving distance with the second-end distance by which the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order need to be moved to display the last ordinal number image on the designated area; and

determine that the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable by the calculated moving distance, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the second-end distance.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to increase transparency of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order after the at least two images are moved, when the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable in the moving direction by the calculated moving distance.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to increase the transparency such that the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order after the movement thereof are not completely transparent.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to increase the transparency of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order, with increase in difference between the calculated moving distance and the first-end distance, when the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable in the moving direction by the calculated moving distance.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

when the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable in the first direction by the calculated moving distance,

display the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the second display manner for a predetermined period of time;

change the display manner of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order to an original display manner when the predetermined period of time ends;

display the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the original display manner;

when the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are not movable in the second direction by the calculated moving distance,

display the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the second display manner for the predetermined period of time;

change the display manner of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order to the original display manner when the predetermined period of time ends; and

display the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the original manner.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a function executing device configured to execute a preset function,

wherein each of the plurality of images is associated with at least one of (i) first setting data constituted by at least one set value which is used when the preset function is executed by the function executing device and (ii) second setting data associated with the first setting data, and

wherein the controller is configured to:

control the display device to display the at least two images of the plurality of images and display at least one of (a) at least one of the at least one set value represented by the first setting data corresponding to one image of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order and displayed on the display device and (b) a set value represented by the second setting data corresponding to the one image; and

control the display device not to display at least one of (c) the at least one of the at least one set value represented by the first setting data and (d) the set value represented by the second setting data throughout a period in which the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are moved in the second display manner based on the moving operation.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to:

control the display device to display the at least two images of the plurality of images and display at least one set value which is used when the preset function is executed by the function executing device and which is shared by the plurality of images; and

control the display device to continue displaying the at least one set value shared by the plurality of images throughout the period in which the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order are moved in the second display manner based on the moving operation.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to control the display device not to display the set value represented by the second data, in a state in which the one image corresponding to the second setting data is located on the designated display position and displayed in the first display manner, during movement of the at least two images.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display device comprises a plurality of display areas, on each of which one of the plurality of images is displayable, and the plurality of display areas comprises a first display area,

wherein the controller is configured to control the display device to display a set value assigned to one of the at least two images which is being displayed on the first display area, and

wherein the controller is configured to control the display device not to display the set value during display of the at least two images in the second display manner.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein the display device comprises a plurality of display areas, on each of which one of the plurality of images is displayable, and the plurality of display areas comprises a first display area as the designated display position,

wherein the plurality of display areas comprise:

a second display area located on a first-direction side of the first display area in the first direction; and

a third display area located on a second-direction side of the first display area in the second direction, and one of the plurality of images is displayable on each of the second display area and the third display area,

wherein the plurality of images comprise a first ordinal number image, as the first-side end image, located farthest in the second direction from a center of the plurality of images in the second direction among the plurality of images,

wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the first ordinal number image is moved, by a moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction, to a position located farther from the third display area than from the first display area,

wherein the controller is configured to move the at least two images on the display device in the second display manner when the controller determines that the first ordinal number image is moved, by the moving operation for moving the at least two images in the first direction, to the position located farther from the third display area than from the first display area.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the first-end distance, change the display manner of the at least two images to the second display manner after the first-side end image has reached the designated display position.

18. A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable by a computer of a display apparatus, the display apparatus comprising:

a display device; and

a touch panel superposed on the display device and configured to detect a touch operation of an input object in a state in which the touch panel is touched or approached by the input object,

the instructions, when executed, causing the computer to;

control the display device to display at least two images of a plurality of images respectively based on a plurality of sets of data stored in a storage, in a state in which the at least two images are arranged in a first direction in an arrangement order and a second direction being opposed to the first direction,

wherein the display device comprises a plurality of display positions, on each of which at least one of the at least two images is displayable,

wherein the plurality of display positions comprise a designated display position, a designated image being an image positioned at the designated display position,

wherein the plurality of images comprise a first-side end image and a second-side end image in the arrangement order,

wherein the first-side end image is to be displayed last on the display device among the plurality of images when the plurality of images are moved in the second direction in a state in which the first-side end image is not displayed on the display device, while the second-side end image is to be displayed last on the display device among the plurality of images when the plurality of images are moved in the first direction in a state in which the second-side end image is not displayed on the display device, and

wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computer to;

calculate a moving distance based on a moving operation when the moving operation is received by the touch panel, the moving operation being an operation for moving the at least two images in one of the first direction and the second direction, the moving distance being a distance of movement of the plurality of images;

compare the calculated moving distance with a first-end distance when the plurality of images are moved in the first direction;

compare the calculated moving distance with a second-end distance when the plurality of images are moved in the second direction, the first-end distance being a distance between the designated image position at the designated display position and the first-side end image, the second-end distance being a distance between the designated image position at the designated display position and the second-side end image;

move the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order and displayed on the display device, by the calculated moving distance in a first display manner in the first direction, when the calculated moving distance is less than or equal to the first-end distance;

move the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order and displayed on the display device by the calculated moving distance in the first display manner in the second direction, when the calculated moving distance is less than or equal to the second-end distance;

change a display manner of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order to a second display manner different from the first display manner and display the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the second display manner, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the first-end distance; and

change the display manner of the at least two images arranged in the arrangement order in the second display manner, when the calculated moving distance is greater than the second-end distance.