Information Display Device and Program Storing Medium

• US 20090066666A1
• Filed: 09/11/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Company Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: SAGOU, Yuuichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,711,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/014 Force feedback applied to GUI
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• 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

A CPU determines whether or not the display position of a link character string is finger-touched when a touch sensor on a screen constituting a display unit is finger-touched, and when the link character string is touched, a user is informed that a jump to a link destination is possible through screen vibration or the like.

Claims

1. An information display device that displays various information on a display screen having a finger touch sensor, the information display device comprising:

a detection unit that detects an indicated position indicated by a finger touch to the display screen;

a determination unit that determines whether or not a display of link indication information is included within a display range having a predetermined size on the display screen and being defined by the indicated position detected by the detection unit, wherein the link indication information indicates a jump to a link destination; and

an informing unit which informs a user that the link indication information is included within the display range when the determination unit determines that the link indication information is included within the display range.

2. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the informing unit informs the user that a jump to a link destination is possible by at least one of notification by vibration, notification through a screen state, notification by a sound, and notification by a lamp state.

3. The information display device according to claim 1, further comprising a display control unit that displays link indication information within a display range at another display position different from the display position in the display screen when the determination unit determines that the link indication information is included within the display range.

4. The information display device according to claim 3, wherein the display control unit enlarges the link indication information when displaying the link indication information at another display position.

5. The information display device according to claim 1, further comprising a link execution unit that executes a jump to a link destination when a further predetermined operation is performed in addition to a finger touch to a display position of the link indication information.

6. The information display device according to claim 5, wherein when the user releases a touching to the display position of the link indication information and the display position is touched again, the link execution unit executes a jump to the link destination.

7. The information display device according to claim 5, wherein when a further predetermined operation is performed with the display position of the link indication information being finger-touched, the link execution unit executes a jump to the link destination.

8. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the determination unit determines whether or not there is one or more link indication information included within the display range when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range, and

the informing unit informs the user that a jump to the link destination is possible when the determination unit determines that there is one link indication information included within the display range.

9. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the determination unit determines whether or not there are plural of link indication information included within the display range when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range, and

the information display device further comprises a display control unit that changes over the content of the display screen to an enlarged display screen around the indicated position when the determination unit determines that there are plural of link indication information included within the display range.

10. The information display device according to claim 9, wherein the display control unit returns the content of the display screen to an original display size when a finger touch is released after the enlargement of the display.

11. The information display device according to claim 1, further changing the display range to an enlarged display range including the indicated position when the determination unit determines that the link indication information is not included within the display range, and wherein

the determination unit determines whether or not the link indication information is included within the enlarged display range.

12. A program storing medium storing a program that allows a computer to realize:

a function of detecting an indicated position indicated by a finger touch to a display screen having a finger touch sensor;

a function of determining whether or not a display of link indication information is included within a display range having a predetermined size on the display screen and being defined by the detected indicated position, wherein the link indication information indicates a jump to a link destination; and

a function of informing a user that the link indication information is included within the display range when it is determined that the link indication information is included within the display range.