ELECTRONIC DEVICE, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20120218208A1
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: SATO, Takayuki, HOSHIKAWA, Makiko, SHIMAZU, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US13/404,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20120218208A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a display unit, a contact detecting unit, a control unit. The display unit displays a first image. The contact detecting unit detects a contact. when the contact detecting unit detects an operation in which a plurality of contacts including at least a first contact and a second contact are made and thereafter the first contact is moved in a direction approaching to the second contact, the control unit causes the first image displayed on the display unit to be distorted.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display unit for displaying a first image;

a contact detecting unit for detecting a contact; and

a control unit for causing the first image displayed on the display unit to be distorted when the contact detecting unit detects an operation in which a plurality of contacts including at least a first contact and a second contact are made and thereafter the first contact is moved in a direction approaching to the second contact.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a housing having a first face, on which the display unit is arranged, and second and third faces interposing the first face therebetween,

wherein the contact detecting unit is arranged on the second face.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2,

wherein the contact detecting unit includes a first detecting unit arranged on the second face and a second detecting unit arranged on the third face,

the plurality of contacts includes:

the first contact made on the second face;

the second contact made on the second face;

a third contact made on the third face; and

a fourth contact made on the third face; and

the control unit is configured to cause the first image to be distorted when the contact detecting unit detects the operation in which the first contact is moved in the direction approaching to the second contact on the second face and the third contact is moved in a direction approaching to the fourth contact on the third face.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3,

wherein a line obtained by connecting the first contact and the third contact is substantially perpendicular to the second and third faces.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is configured to cause the first image to be more significantly distorted in a first direction that the first contact approaches to the second contact than in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is configured to create a distorted image by bending or curving outer circumference of the first image while maintaining a total length of the outer circumference of the first image and causes the distorted image to be displayed on the display unit instead of the first image when causing the first image to be distorted.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the contact detecting unit is configured to detect pressure applied by a contact, and

the control unit is configured to cause the first image to be more significantly distorted as the pressure of the contacts detected by the contact detecting unit increases.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is configured to stop displaying the first image displayed on the display unit when a distance by which the first contact approaches to the second contact is larger than a threshold value.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is configured to execute a plurality of applications including a first application for displaying the first image and a second application for displaying a second image by multitasking, and

the control unit causes the first image displayed on the display unit to be distorted and causes the second image to be displayed behind the distorted first image when the operation is detected while the first application is executed in foreground and the second application is executed in background.

10. An operation control method executed by an electronic device including a display unit and a contact detecting unit, the operation control method comprising:

displaying an image on the display unit;

detecting, by the contact detecting unit, an operation in which a plurality of contacts including at least a first contact and a second contact are made and thereafter the first contact is moved in a direction approaching to the second contact; and

distorting the image displayed on the display unit when the operation is detected.

11. A non-transitory storage medium that stores an operation control program causing, when executed by an electronic device which includes a display unit and a contact detecting unit, the electronic device to execute:

displaying an image on the display unit;

detecting, by the contact detecting unit, an operation in which a plurality of contacts including at least a first contact and a second contact are made and thereafter the first contact is moved in a direction approaching to the second contact; and

distorting the image displayed on the display unit when the operation is detected.