ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20120137236A1
• Filed: 04/19/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kouyama, Masanori, Naito, Eiichiro, Akiba, Yoko, Osuka, Kyosuke, Tokioka, Eigo, Abe, Mitsuo, Yoshizaki, Aya
• Application Number:
  US13/089,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20120137236A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/763
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An electronic device disclosed herein includes a display unit and an operation unit. The display unit is configured to display a customized screen. The customized screen is configured to display a settings item area and a customized item area. The setting item area is configured to include a plurality of objects that corresponds to a plurality of settings items. The customized item area is configured to include one or more objects that correspond to one or more customized items selected by a user from among the plurality of settings items. The operation unit is configured to receive a customization operation from the user in which an object is selected from among the plurality of objects disposed in the settings item area and moved to the customized item area while the customized screen is being displayed in the display unit.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display unit configured to display a customized screen, the customized screen being configured to display a settings item area and a customized item area, the setting item area being configured to include a plurality of objects that corresponds to a plurality of settings items, and the customized item area being configured to include one or more objects that corresponds to one or more customized items selected by a user from among the plurality of settings items; and

an operation unit configured to receive a customization operation from the user in which an object is selected from among the plurality of objects disposed in the settings item area and moved to the customized item area while the customized screen is being displayed in the display unit.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

at least one of the objects disposed in the customized item area has an appearance indicating a current value of the customized item.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

at least one of the objects disposed in the settings item area has an appearance indicating a current value of the settings item.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage unit configured to store information about the one or more customized items; and

a registration unit configured to store information in the storage unit about one of the settings items, the stored information about one of the settings items corresponding to the object moved to the customized item area via the customization operation and being stored in the storage unit as information about one of the customized items.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the display unit is further configured to display a customized settings screen configured to receive a setting for current values of the one or more customized items.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the display unit is further configured to display a settings screen configured to receive settings for current values of the plurality of settings items.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the operation unit includes a touch panel arranged to overlap the display unit, and

the customization operation includes an operation to drag and drop the object disposed in the settings item area to the customized item area.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic device is an imaging device.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein

the one or more customized items relate to at least one of shooting conditions and reproduction conditions.