INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20110115737A1
• Filed: 07/15/2009
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Fuyuno, Tetsuya, Takikawa, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 8,451,243 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• 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 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04162 for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser sensing hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing device includes a plurality of display screens, a display control means that controls a display operation with respect to each of the display screens, a touch panel attached to the surface of at least one display screen, and an operation reception means that receives a depression input externally applied to the touch panel by a predetermined pressing means. When the operation reception means receives a slide operation sliding the pressing means on the touch panel, the display control means moves and displays display data of one display screen on another display screen.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a plurality of display screens;

a display control means that controls a display operation on each of the display screens;

a touch panel that is attached to a surface of at least one display screen; and

an operation reception unit that receives a depression input externally applied to the touch panel with a pressing means,

wherein when the operation reception means receives a slide operation sliding the pressing means on the touch panel, the display control means moves and displays display data of one display screen having the touch panel on another display screen.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on the touch panel from one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein a touch panel is attached to a surface of another display screen, and wherein the operation reception means receives the slide operation on the touch panel from one display screen to another display screen, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein when the operation reception means receives a slide operation on a predetermined region of the display data of one display screen having the touch panel toward another display screen, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a position detection means that detects a position of the information processing device, wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on condition that the position detection means detects a predetermined position of the information processing device, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein the position detection means further comprises an opening detection means that detects an opening between one display screen and another display screen which are engaged in a free open/close manner, and wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on condition that the opening detection means detects a predetermined angle of opening between one display screen and another display screen, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on condition that the opening detection means detects an opened state in which one display screen and another display screen are opened and placed on a same plane, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

8. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein the position detection means further comprises a direction detection means that detects a direction of the display screens, and wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on condition that the direction detection means detects a predetermined direction of the display screens, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein one display screen and another display screen are engaged to adjoin in a simultaneously readable manner, and wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on condition that the direction detection means detects a vertical position of the display screens in a gravitational direction, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

10. The information processing device according to claim 9, wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on condition that the opening detection means detects an opened state in which one display screen and another display screen are opened and placed on a same plane and on condition that the direction detection means detects a vertical position of the display screens in a gravitational direction, the display control means moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on condition that display data disposed in an uppermost layer, within a plurality of display data layered and overlapped on one display screen, is displayed, the display control means moves and displays the display data of the uppermost layer of one display screen on another display screen.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a data processing means which receives a predetermined operator command with respect to display data on one display screen and which performs processing based on the content of the display data on one display screen and the content of the operator command received by the operation reception means, wherein the display control means displays data representing a processing result of the data processing means on another display screen instead of one display screen.

13. The information processing device according to claim 12, wherein the data processing means accesses a data storage area suited to the content of the operator command so as to fetch data corresponding to the display data on one display screen, and wherein the display control means displays the data fetched by the data processing means on another display screen.

14. An information processing program adapted to an information processing device including a plurality of display screens and a touch panel attached to a surface of at least one display screen, comprising:

controlling a display operation with respect to each of the display screen;

receiving a depression input externally applied to the touch panel by a predetermined pressing means; and

upon receiving a slide operation sliding the pressing means on the touch panel, moving and displaying display data of one display screen having the touch panel on another display screen.

15. The information processing program according to claim 14, wherein the display data of one display screen is moved and displayed on another display screen upon receiving the slide operation from one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen.

16. A display control method comprising:

an operation reception process that receives a depression input externally applied to a touch panel attached to a surface of at least one of a plurality of display screens by a predetermined pressing means; and

a display control process that controls a display operation with respect to each of the display screens in response to the depression input received by the operation reception process,

wherein when the operation reception process receives a slide operation sliding the predetermined pressing means on the touch panel, the display control process moves and displays display data of one display screen having the touch panel on another display screen.

17. The display control method according to claim 16, wherein when the operation reception means receives the slide operation on the touch panel from one display screen to another display screen, the display control process moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.

18. The display control method according to claim 16, wherein when the operation reception process receives the slide operation on condition that the display control process detects a predetermined position of an information processing device, the display control process moves and displays the display data of one display screen on another display screen.