DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR ENHANCING VISIBILITY

• US 20140258903A1
• Filed: 09/26/2012
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kanbara, Masayoshi, Itoh, Megumi, Tabata, Masaki, Nakamoto, Shuhei, Uekane, Kentaro
• Application Number:
  US14/347,670
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258903A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• 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

Visibility of an icon which is on the edge of a display area which is hidden by a finger is enhanced.

When a distance between the movement base position and the movement destination position of the icon is short, the icon is displayed to be moved via a detour.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display unit; and

a display control unit that displays an icon so that the icon displayed on the display unit is moved from a first position to a second position,

wherein when a distance between the first position and the second position is shorter than a predetermined value, the icon is displayed to be moved from the first position to the second position via a detour.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the first position is an edge of a main area in which the icon is displayed before operation, and the second position is a position where the icon has disappeared from the display unit.

3. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein, when the icon is moved from the first position to the second position, the display control unit displays the main area to be moved or reduced in size in a direction from the second position to the first position, and sets an area generated outside the main area which is generated by the movement or the size reduction to be a virtual external area.

4. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein when the icon is dragged, the display control unit displays the main area to be moved or reduced in size in a direction opposite to that of the drag, and sets an area generated outside the main area to be a virtual external area.

5. The display device according to claim 4,

wherein the display control unit divides the virtual external area into a plurality of areas and changes an operation in accordance with where in the virtual external area the icon is dropped.

6. The display device according to claim 4 or 5,

wherein the display control unit performs control so that if a plurality of icons are dropped in the first position, the icons are displayed one by one as moving outside the display area of the display device.

7. The display device according to claim 4,

wherein the display control unit reduces the icon in accordance with the dragging of the icon when the icon is larger than a predetermined value.

8. The display device according to claim 3,

wherein the display control unit performs a virtual frame display in which a frame portion of the display device is virtually displayed between the virtual external area and the main area.

9. The display device according to claim 8,

wherein the display control unit divides the virtual frame display into a plurality of areas, and changes an operation in accordance with which area from among the divided areas of the virtual frame display the icon passes through.

10. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays the icon so that the icon moves to be moved from the first position to the second position like a piece of paper.

11. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit considers a drag operation performed in another display device as a drag operation performed on an icon of the display device itself.

12. A display method comprising:

a display control step of displaying an icon so that the icon displayed on the display unit is moved from a first position to a second position,

wherein when a distance between the first position and the second position is shorter than a predetermined value, the icon is displayed so as to be moved from the first position to the second position via a detour.