MOBILE TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MOBILE TERMINAL CONTROLLING PROGRAM

• US 20110102357A1
• Filed: 06/26/2009
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kajitani, Ichiro
• Application Number:
  US13/001,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20110102357A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0241 using relative motion of the body parts to change the operational status of the telephone set, e.g. switching on/off, answering incoming call
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A mobile terminal 10 is provided with a touch panel 36. The touch panel 36 is provided on a top surface of an LCD monitor 26 for displaying an operation area (R2) including a plurality of keys. When a user performs a sliding operation within the operation area (R2), a CPU 20 determines whether or not the sliding operation is a specific operation. Then, the CPU 20 sets an insensitive section on a touch sensitive area of the touch panel 36 when determining that the sliding operation is a specific operation.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display portion which displays an operation key;

a touched position detecting portion which is provided on said display portion, and detects a touched position within a touch sensitive area corresponding to a display area of said display portion;

a specific operation determining portion which determines whether or not a specific operation is performed on the basis of information from a starting position to a current position of the touch input detected by said touched position detecting portion; and

an insensitive section setting portion which sets an insensitive section making an operation with respect to said operation key invalid to said touch sensitive area when said specific operation determining portion determines that said specific operation is performed.

2. A mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein

said specific operation determining portion further includes:

a first sliding operation determining portion which determines whether or not a sliding operation is performed on the basis of the information from said starting position to said current position; and

a deciding portion which decides a specific operation is performed when said first sliding operation determining portion determines that a sliding operation is performed.

3. A mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein

said specific operation determining portion further includes a first sliding direction detecting portion which detects a sliding direction on the basis of the information from said starting position to said current position, and

said deciding portion decides that said specific operation is performed when said first sliding operation determining portion determines that a sliding operation is performed, and said first sliding direction detecting portion detects that the detected sliding direction is a first specific direction.

4. A mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein

said specific operation determining portion further includes a first attitude detecting portion which detects a terminal attitude of said mobile terminal,

said deciding portion decides that said specific operation is performed when said first sliding operation determining portion determines that a sliding operation is performed, and the sliding direction detected by said first sliding direction detecting portion has a first specific relationship with the terminal attitude detected by said first attitude detecting portion.

5. A mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein

said display area further includes a specific position,

said first sliding operation determining portion further includes a starting position determining portion which determines whether or not said starting position is coincident with said specific position, and

said deciding portion decides that said sliding operation is said specific operation on condition that said starting position determining portion determines that said starting position is coincident with said specific position.

6. A mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein

said display area further includes a specific section,

said first sliding operation determining portion further includes a specific section determining portion which determines whether or not said sliding operation is performed within said specific section, and

said deciding portion decides that said sliding operation is said specific operation on condition that said specific section determining portion determines that said sliding operation is performed within said specific section.

7. A mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a insensitive section cancelling portion which cancels said insensitive section when said touched position detecting portion detects an end position of the touch input.

8. A mobile terminal according to claim 7, further comprising:

a time counting portion which counts a time when said touched position detecting portion detects the end position of the touch input, and

a time determining portion which determines whether or not the time counted by said time counting portion is equal to or more than a predetermined time, wherein

said insensitive section cancelling portion cancels said insensitive section on condition that said time determining portion determines to be equal to or more than said predetermined time.

9. A mobile terminal according to claim 7, further comprising an end position determining portion which determines whether or not said end position is coincident with said specific position when said end position by the touch input is detected by said touched position detecting portion, wherein

said insensitive section cancelling portion cancels said insensitive section when said end position determining portion determines that said starting position and said specific position are coincident with each other.

10. A mobile terminal according to claim 9, further comprising

a second sliding operation determining portion which determines whether or not a sliding operation is performed on the basis of the information from the starting position to the current position of the touch input detected by said touched position detecting portion, and

said end position determining portion determines whether or not said end position is coincident with said specific position when said sliding operation determining portion determines that a sliding operation is performed.

11. A mobile terminal according to claim 10, further comprising:

a second sliding direction detecting portion which detects a sliding direction on the basis of the information from said starting position to said current position, wherein

said end position determining portion determines whether or not said end position is coincident with said specific position when a sliding operation is performed by said sliding operation determining portion, and the sliding direction detected by said second sliding direction detecting portion is the second specific direction.

12. A mobile terminal according to claim 11, further comprising a second attitude detecting portion which detects a terminal attitude of said mobile terminal,

said end position determining portion determines whether or not said end position is coincident with said specific position when said sliding operation determining portion determines that the sliding operation is performed, and the sliding direction detected by said second sliding direction detecting portion has a second specific relationship with the terminal attitude detected by said second attitude detecting portion.

13. A mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a feed back portion which performs a feedback operation when said touched position detecting portion detects the touch input; and

a prohibiting portion which prohibits said feedback operation by said feed back portion when said insensitive section setting portion sets said insensitive section.

14. A mobile terminal according to claim 13, further comprising:

a feedback prohibition cancelling portion which cancels the prohibition of said feedback operation prohibited by said prohibiting portion when said insensitivity cancelling portion cancels said insensitive section.

15. A mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said insensitive section is the same size as said touch sensitive area.

16. A mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said insensitive section is smaller than said touch sensitive area.

17. A storage medium storing a mobile terminal controlling program of a mobile terminal including a display portion for displaying an operation key so as to be read by a processor of said mobile terminal, said mobile terminal controlling program causes said processor to execute:

a touched position detecting step for detecting a touched position within a touch sensitive area corresponding to a display area of said display portion;

a specific operation determining step for determining whether or not a specific operation is performed on the basis of information from a starting position to a current position of the touch input detected by said touched position detecting step; and

an insensitive section setting step for setting an insensitive section making an operation with respect to said operation key invalid to said touch sensitive area when said specific operation determining step determines that said specific operation is performed.

18. A storage medium storing a mobile terminal controlling program according to claim 17, further comprising an insensitive section cancelling step which cancels said insensitive section when said touched position detecting step detects the end position of the touch input.