ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140026096A1
• Filed: 04/10/2012
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Xiaoxue, Khokhlov, Vladimir
• Granted Patent: US 10,140,009 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

According to an illustrative embodiment, an electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a display and an input apparatus operable to detect a gesture on the display. When the display is displaying a first page and the input apparatus detects a drag operation, the display displays a second page in response to the drag operation.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display; and

an input apparatus operable to detect a gesture on the display,

wherein when the display is displaying a first page and the input apparatus detects a drag operation, the display displays a second page in response to the drag operation.

2. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the display and the input apparatus comprise a touch screen, and the input apparatus comprises a touch panel of the touch screen.

3. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the first page is a web page and the second page is a web page.

4. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein when the drag operation is a drag operation in a left-hand direction with respect to a user facing the display, the second page is a page to the right of the first page.

5. The apparatus as recited in claim 4, wherein when there is no usable page to the right of the first page, the display does not display a second page.

6. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein when the drag operation is a drag operation in a right-hand direction with respect to a user facing the display, the second page is a page to the left of the first page.

7. The apparatus as recited in claim 6, wherein when there is no usable page to the left of the first page, the display does not display a second page.

8. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein when the drag operation is a drag operation in a downward direction with respect to a user facing the display, the second page is a page above the first page.

9. The apparatus as recited in claim 8, wherein when there is no usable page above the first page, the display does not display a second page.

10. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein when the drag operation is a drag operation in an upward direction with respect to a user facing the display, the second page is a page below the first page.

11. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein when there is no usable page below the first page, the display does not display a second page.

12. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein when the drag operation is a drag operation in any one of a left-hand direction, a right-hand direction, a downward direction, or an upward direction, with respect to a user facing the display, the second page is a page considered, relative to the first page, in a direction opposite to the direction of the drag operation.

13. The apparatus as recited in claim 12, wherein when there is no usable page in the direction opposite to the direction of the drag operation, the display does not display a second page.

14. The apparatus as recited in claim 12, wherein the drag operation is considered a drag operation in a respective one of the left-hand, right-hand, downward, and upward directions when an angle between a direction of the drag and the respective one of the left-hand, right-hand, downward, and upward directions is equal to or smaller than a predetermined angle.

15. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the first page includes one or more hyperlinks and the second page is a page associated with one of the hyperlinks.

16. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the first page disappears from the display during a period of time when the drag operation is performed.

17. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein when the drag operation ends prior to disappearance of the first page from the display, the second page is not displayed.

18. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein when a direction of the drag operation is reversed prior to ending the drag operation, the second page is not displayed.

19. A page display method, comprising:

displaying a first page on a display;

detecting a gesture on the display; and

when the gesture is a drag operation, displaying a second page in response to the drag operation.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer-readable program for implementing a page display method, the method comprising:

displaying a first page on a display;

detecting a gesture on the display; and

when the gesture is a drag operation, displaying a second page in response to the drag operation.