DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING TOUCH PANEL

• US 20130265596A1
• Filed: 03/21/2013
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Norie
• Granted Patent: US 8,964,252 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.9
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A display input device includes a display portion and a touch panel portion. The display portion displays a screen and an image and displays an object which is an image to be cut or copied. The touch panel portion is provided for the display portion, accepts an input from a user, detects a plurality of positions that are touched, and accepts a first operation of narrowing the interval between two points touched at the same time. In addition, the touch panel portion accepts an input of designating, as a designated object, the object displayed at one or both of the positions of the two touched points, and accepts the first operation as an input of giving an instruction to cut or copy the designated object.

Claims

1. A display input device comprising:

a display portion that displays a screen and an image and displays an object which is an image to be cut or copied; and

a touch panel portion that is provided for the display portion and that accepts an input from a user, detects a plurality of positions that are touched, and accepts a first operation of narrowing the interval between two points touched at the same time,

wherein the touch panel portion accepts an input of designating, as a designated object, the object displayed at one or both of the positions of the two touched points, and accepts the first operation as an input of giving an instruction to cut or copy the designated object.

2. The display input device according to claim 1, wherein

the touch panel portion

if the interval between the two points narrowed by the first operation is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value, accepts the first operation as an input of giving an instruction to cut the designated object, and if the interval between the two points narrowed by the first operation exceeds the predetermined threshold value, accepts the first operation as an input of giving an instruction to copy the designated object, or

if the interval between the two points narrowed by the first operation is equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold value, accepts the first operation as an input of giving an instruction to copy the designated object, and if the interval between the two points narrowed by the first operation exceeds the predetermined threshold value, accepts the first operation as an input of giving an instruction to cut the designated object.

3. The display input device according to claim 2, wherein

the display portion displays an object which is an image to be pasted,

the touch panel portion accepts a second operation of broadening the interval between the two points touched at the same time, and accepts the second operation as an instruction to paste the designated object, and

the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on a screen being displayed when the pasting instruction is given.

4. The display input device according to claim 3, wherein

when the second operation is performed, the display portion displays a dialogue screen that allows confirmation of whether or not to paste the designated object,

when the touch panel portion has accepted an input of pasting the designated object, the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on the screen being displayed, and

when the touch panel portion has accepted an input of not pasting the designated object, the display portion does not display the designated object on the screen being displayed.

5. The display input device according to claim 4, wherein when the second operation is allocated for an operation other than pasting of the designated object, the display portion displays the dialogue screen.

6. The display input device according to claim 4, wherein when the second operation is performed, within a predetermined time after the designated object is designated, the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on the screen being displayed without displaying the dialogue screen.

7. The display input device according to claim 3, wherein in the state where a plurality of the designated objects to be cut or copied are designated, when an instruction to paste the designated object is given by the second operation, the display portion pastes and displays the designated object that has been designated last, on the screen being displayed.

8. The display input device according to claim 3, wherein in the state where a plurality of the designated objects to be cut or copied are designated, when an instruction to paste the designated object is given by the second operation, the display portion displays a selection screen that allows designation of the designated object to be pasted among the plurality of designated objects, and pastes and displays, on the screen being displayed, the designated object for which, on the selection screen, the touch panel portion has accepted an input of pasting.

9. The display input device according to claim 3, wherein

when the display portion pastes and displays the designated object based on the second operation,

the touch panel portion accepts, as an input of determining pasting of the designated object, that the two points touched by the second operation are both no longer touched, and

the display portion displays the designated object determined to be pasted, every time a screen on which the designated object is pasted is displayed.

10. The display input device according to claim 3, wherein when the display portion pastes and displays the designated object based on the second operation, the display portion moves a display position of the designated object that are pasted and displayed, in accordance with a movement amount and a movement direction of the two points touched by the second operation.

11. The display input device according to claim 1, wherein

the display portion displays an object which is an image to be pasted,

the touch panel portion accepts a second operation of broadening the interval between the two points touched at the same time, and accepts the second operation as an instruction to paste the designated object, and

the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on a screen being displayed when the pasting instruction is given.

12. A display input device comprising:

a display portion that displays a screen and an image and displays an object which is an image to be pasted; and

a touch panel portion that is provided for the display portion and that accepts an input from a user, detects a plurality of positions that are touched, and accepts a second operation of broadening the interval between two points touched at the same time, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts the second operation as an instruction to paste a designated object that has been cut or copied by being designated from the object displayed on the display portion, and

the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on a screen being displayed when the pasting instruction is given.

13. The display input device according to claim 12, wherein

when the second operation is performed, the display portion displays a dialogue screen that allows confirmation of whether or not to paste the designated object,

when the touch panel portion has accepted an input of pasting the designated object, the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on the screen being displayed, and

when the touch panel portion has accepted an input of not pasting the designated object, the display portion does not display the designated object on the screen being displayed.

14. The display input device according to claim 13, wherein when the second operation is allocated for an operation other than pasting of the designated object, the display portion displays the dialogue screen.

15. The display input device according to claim 13, wherein when the second operation is performed, within a predetermined time after the designated object is designated, the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on the screen being displayed without displaying the dialogue screen.

16. The display input device according to claim 12, wherein in the state where a plurality of the designated objects to be cut or copied are designated, when an instruction to paste the designated object is given by the second operation, the display portion pastes and displays the designated object that has been designated last, on the screen being displayed.

17. The display input device according to claim 12, wherein in the state where a plurality of the designated objects to be cut or copied are designated, when an instruction to paste the designated object is given by the second operation, the display portion displays a selection screen that allows designation of the designated object to be pasted among the plurality of designated objects, and pastes and displays, on the screen being displayed, the designated object for which, on the selection screen, the touch panel portion has accepted an input of pasting.

18. The display input device according to claim 12, wherein

when the display portion pastes and displays the designated object based on the second operation,

the touch panel portion accepts, as an input of determining pasting of the designated object, that the two points touched by the second operation are both no longer touched, and

the display portion displays the designated object determined to be pasted, every time a screen on which the designated object is pasted is displayed.

19. The display input device according to claim 12, wherein when the display portion pastes and displays the designated object based on the second operation, the display portion moves a display position of the designated object that are pasted and displayed, in accordance with a movement amount and a movement direction of the two points touched by the second operation.

20. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a display portion that displays a screen and an image and displays an object which is an image to be cut, copied, or pasted; and

a touch panel portion that is provided for the display portion and that accepts an input from a user, detects a plurality of positions that are touched, and accepts a first operation of narrowing the interval between two points touched at the same time and a second operation of broadening the interval between two points touched at the same time, wherein

the touch panel portion accepts an input of designating, as a designated object, the object displayed at one or both of the positions of the two touched points, accepts the first operation as an input of giving an instruction to cut or copy the designated object, and accepts the second operation as an instruction to paste the designated object, and

the display portion pastes and displays the designated object on a screen being displayed when the pasting instruction is given.