OPERATION RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING OPERATION ON PAGE IMAGE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR USE WITH OPERATION RECEPTION DEVICE

• US 20140313140A1
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Imine, Ryotaro
• Granted Patent: US 9,594,445 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An operation reception device capable of detecting and receiving an intuitive operation that resembles an operation of pinching a sheet or sheets between fingers. If it is determined that coordinate positions where operations on the operation reception device that are respectively detected by touch sensors of first and second touch panels provided on the front and back faces of the device are the same as each other, the operation reception device receives designation of at least one selected page on the first touch panel, receives an editing operation on the selected page, and performs, on the selected page, predetermined editing such as deletion and extraction corresponding to the editing operation.

Claims

1. An operation reception device including a display panel having a display screen, a first touch panel having a first touch sensor for detecting an operation on the display screen, and a display control unit for controlling display on the display screen, comprising:

a second touch panel provided on a face of the operation reception device opposite from a face on which the display panel and the first touch panel are provided, said second touch panel having a second touch sensor for detecting an operation on an outer face of said second touch panel;

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a coordinate position where the operation on the display screen is detected by the first touch sensor and a coordinate position where the operation on the outer face of said second touch panel is detected by said second touch sensor are same as each other;

a designation unit configured, in a case where it is determined by said determination unit that the coordinate positions respectively detected by the first and second touch sensors are the same as each other, to receive designation of at least one page image;

an operation reception unit configured to receive an editing operation on the at least one page image whose designation has been received by said designation unit; and

an edition unit configured to perform predetermined editing corresponding to the editing operation received by said operation reception unit on the at least one page image whose designation has been received by said designation unit.

2. The operation reception device according to claim 1, wherein in a case where it is determined by said determination unit that the coordinate positions respectively detected by the first and second touch sensors are the same as each other, said designation unit receives designation of start and end pages in plural pages.

3. The operation reception device according to claim 1, wherein the editing operation on the at least one page image whose designation has been received by said designation unit is any at least one of a delete operation, an extract operation, an insert operation, a copy operation, and a print operation, and

the predetermined editing is any at least one of deletion, extraction, insertion, copying, and printing of the designated at least one page image.

4. An image forming apparatus configured to be connected for communication with the operation reception device and configured to execute the predetermined editing performed on the at least one page image by the operation reception device, wherein said operation reception device including a display panel having a display screen, a first touch panel having a first touch sensor for detecting an operation on the display screen, and a display control unit for controlling display on the display screen, comprises:

a second touch panel provided on a face of the operation reception device opposite from a face on which the display panel and the first touch panel are provided, said second touch panel having a second touch sensor for detecting an operation on an outer face of said second touch panel;

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a coordinate position where the operation on the display screen is detected by the first touch sensor and a coordinate position where the operation on the outer face of said second touch panel is detected by said second touch sensor are same as each other;

a designation unit configured, in a case where it is determined by said determination unit that the coordinate positions respectively detected by the first and second touch sensors are the same as each other, to receive designation of at least one page image;

an operation reception unit configured to receive an editing operation on the at least one page image whose designation has been received by said designation unit; and

an edition unit configured to perform predetermined editing corresponding to the editing operation received by said operation reception unit on the at least one page image whose designation has been received by said designation unit.

5. An operation reception method for an operation reception device including a display panel having a display screen, a first touch panel having a first touch sensor for detecting an operation on the display screen, and a display control unit for controlling display on the display screen, comprising:

a determination step of determining whether or not a coordinate position where an operation on the display screen is detected by the first touch sensor and a coordinate position where an operation on an outer face of a second touch panel that is provided on a face of the operation reception device opposite from a face on which the display panel and the first touch panel are provided is detected by a second touch sensor of the second touch panel are same as each other;

a designation step, in a case where it is determined in said determination step that the coordinate positions respectively detected by the first and second touch sensors are the same as each other, of receiving designation of at least one page image;

an operation reception step of receiving an editing operation on the at least one page image whose designation has been received in said designation step; and

an edition step of performing predetermined editing corresponding to the editing operation received in said operation reception step on the at least one page image whose designation has been received in said designation step.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the operation reception method for an operation reception device including a display panel having a display screen, a first touch panel having a first touch sensor for detecting an operation on the display screen, and a display control unit for controlling display on the display screen, wherein said operation reception method, comprises:

a determination step of determining whether or not a coordinate position where an operation on the display screen is detected by the first touch sensor and a coordinate position where an operation on an outer face of a second touch panel that is provided on a face of the operation reception device opposite from a face on which the display panel and the first touch panel are provided is detected by a second touch sensor of the second touch panel are same as each other;

a designation step, in a case where it is determined in said determination step that the coordinate positions respectively detected by the first and second touch sensors are the same as each other, of receiving designation of at least one page image;

an operation reception step of receiving an editing operation on the at least one page image whose designation has been received in said designation step; and

an edition step of performing predetermined editing corresponding to the editing operation received in said operation reception step on the at least one page image whose designation has been received in said designation step.