User Interface System, User Interface Apparatus, and Method of Controlling Electronic Device
First Claim
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- A user interface system for controlling an electronic device in any of a plurality of pieces of predetermined control content on the basis of an input operation of the user, comprising;
an operating device having an operation screen for accepting an input operation of the user by a touch;
a position detecting device which detects a user touch position in the operation screen;
a position change detecting device which detects a change in the touch position in the case where the user changes the touch position while maintaining the touch state with the operating device; and
a control device which determines the control content on the basis of the touch position in the operation screen and, when the touch position changes, controls the electronic device with the control content on the basis of a control amount according to an amount of the change in the touch position, wherein in the case where the control amount is a function of the present value of the control content, the control device changes the control amount according to the change amount in such a way that a shape of graph indicative of the function becomes to a smoothly-staircase-like, and monotonously increased shape in the case where the present value is indicated by a horizontal axis, and the control amount is indicated by a vertical axis.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a user interface apparatus capable of determining both control content and a control amount without increasing the number of buttons.
A remote controller RC is provided with a ring pad 121 as a ring-shaped operating element. The total range of the ring pad 121 is divided into a predetermined number of regions, and control content and a region number are defined for each of the regions. In the case of controlling a DVD/HD recorder DHR by using the remote controller RC, control content is specified on the basis of a region in the ring pad 121 touched by the user for the first time. In the case where the user performs an input operation of continuously tracing the ring pad 121, a control of a control amount according to the number of regions traced by the operation is performed.
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1. :
- A user interface system for controlling an electronic device in any of a plurality of pieces of predetermined control content on the basis of an input operation of the user, comprising;
an operating device having an operation screen for accepting an input operation of the user by a touch;
a position detecting device which detects a user touch position in the operation screen;
a position change detecting device which detects a change in the touch position in the case where the user changes the touch position while maintaining the touch state with the operating device; and
a control device which determines the control content on the basis of the touch position in the operation screen and, when the touch position changes, controls the electronic device with the control content on the basis of a control amount according to an amount of the change in the touch position, wherein in the case where the control amount is a function of the present value of the control content, the control device changes the control amount according to the change amount in such a way that a shape of graph indicative of the function becomes to a smoothly-staircase-like, and monotonously increased shape in the case where the present value is indicated by a horizontal axis, and the control amount is indicated by a vertical axis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12)
- A user interface system for controlling an electronic device in any of a plurality of pieces of predetermined control content on the basis of an input operation of the user, comprising;
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- A user interface system for outputting a control signal for controlling an electronic device in any of a plurality of pieces of predetermined control content on the basis of an input operation of the user, comprising;
an operating device having an operation screen for accepting an input operation of the user by a touch;
a position detecting device which detects a user touch position in the operation screen;
a position change detecting device which detects a change in the touch position in the case where the user changes the touch position while maintaining the touch state with the operating device; and
an output device which outputs a control signal corresponding to a control amount based on the touch position, and a change amount of the change in the touch position detected by the position change detecting device, wherein in the case where the control amount is a function of the present value of the control content, the output device changes the control amount according to the change amount in such a way that a shape of graph indicative of the function becomes to a smoothly-staircase-like, and monotonously increased shape in the case where the present value is indicated by a horizontal axis, and the control amount is indicated by a vertical axis, and the output device outputs a control signal corresponding to the changed control amount. - View Dependent Claims (13)
- A user interface system for outputting a control signal for controlling an electronic device in any of a plurality of pieces of predetermined control content on the basis of an input operation of the user, comprising;
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- An electronic device controlling method of controlling an electronic device in any of a plurality of pieces of predetermined control content on the basis of an input operation of the user, comprising;
a first process of detecting a touch position of a user in an operating element having an operation screen for accepting an input operation of the user by a touch;
a second process of detecting a change in the touch position in the case where the user changes the touch position while maintaining the touch state with the operating element; and
a third step of determining the control content on the basis of the touch position in the operating element and, when the touch position changes, controlling the electronic device with the control content on the basis of a control amount according to an amount of the change in the touch position, wherein the third process is a process of, in the case where the control amount is a function of the present value of the control content, changing the control amount according to the change amount in such a way that a shape of graph indicative of the function becomes to a smoothly-staircase-like, and monotonously increased shape in the case where the present value is indicated by a horizontal axis and the control amount is indicated by a vertical axis. - View Dependent Claims (14)
- An electronic device controlling method of controlling an electronic device in any of a plurality of pieces of predetermined control content on the basis of an input operation of the user, comprising;
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