OBJECT SELECTING DEVICE

• US 20140351758A1
• Filed: 05/12/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US14/274,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351758A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/823
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An object selecting device includes a display unit including a display screen that displays a plurality of objects; a touch panel; a candidate object extracting unit that, when the touch panel detects a touching operation using an indicator, extracts an object displayed within a predetermined range including a touch position as one or more candidate objects; a temporarily selected object extracting unit that, when the touch panel detects a sliding operation of the indicator on the touch panel, extracts one candidate object from among the candidate objects as a temporarily selected object; and a selecting unit that, when the selecting unit receives a determining operation by a user, selects the temporarily selected object as a selected object.

Claims

1. An object selecting device that selects, as a selected object, one object from among a plurality of objects displayed on a display screen, the object selecting device comprising:

a display unit including the display screen that displays the plurality of objects;

a touch panel that is overlaid on the display screen and detects a touch position touched by a user using an indicator;

a candidate object extracting unit configured to, when the touch panel detects a touching operation using the indicator, extract, as one or more candidate objects, an object displayed within a predetermined range including the touch position from among the plurality of objects;

a temporarily selected object extracting unit configured to, when the touch panel detects a sliding operation, extract, as a temporarily selected object, one candidate object from among the candidate objects, the sliding operation being an operation of sliding the indicator on the touch panel, and to display the extracted temporarily selected object on the display screen in a mode distinguished from other candidate objects; and

a selecting unit configured to, when the selecting unit receives a determining operation by the user, select, as the selected object, the temporarily selected object extracted by the temporarily selected object extracting unit.

2. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the candidate object extracting unit is further configured to assign a sequence to the candidate objects, and

the temporarily selected object extracting unit is configured to, when the touch panel detects the sliding operation of the indicator, extract the temporarily selected object while changing the one candidate object to be extracted from among the candidate objects with a movement of the indicator in an ascending order or a descending order of the assigned sequence, the ascending order and the descending order each being associated with a sliding direction of the indicator.

3. The object selecting device according to claim 2,

wherein the candidate object extracting unit is configured to assign the sequence to the candidate objects clockwise on the display screen, and

the temporarily selected object extracting unit is configured to, as the touch panel detects a clockwise sliding operation, sequentially extract the temporarily selected object clockwise on the display screen from among the candidate objects.

4. The object selecting device according to claim 2,

wherein the candidate object extracting unit is configured to assign the sequence to the candidate objects counterclockwise on the display screen, and

the temporarily selected object extracting unit is configured to, as the touch panel detects a counterclockwise sliding operation, sequentially extract the temporarily selected object counterclockwise on the display screen from among the candidate objects.

5. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the temporarily selected object extracting unit is configured to, when the touch panel detects the sliding operation of the indicator, extract, as the temporarily selected object, a candidate object displayed in a sliding direction of the indicator from among the candidate objects.

6. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the candidate object extracting unit is configured to, when the touch panel detects the touching operation using the indicator, extract, as the one or more candidate objects, an object whose entire display region is included within a range at a certain distance from the touch position from among the plurality of objects.

7. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the candidate object extracting unit is configured to, when the touch panel detects the touching operation using the indicator, extract, as the one or more candidate objects, an object whose display region is at least partially included within a range at a certain distance from the touch position from among the plurality of objects.

8. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the display screen is sectioned into a plurality of areas, and

the candidate object extracting unit is configured to, when the touch panel detects the touching operation using the indicator, extract, as the one or more candidate objects, an object whose entire display region is included within an area including the touch position from among the plurality of objects.

9. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the display screen is sectioned into a plurality of areas, and

the candidate object extracting unit is configured to, when the touch panel detects the touching operation using the indicator, extract, as the one or more candidate objects, an object whose display region is at least partially included within an area including the touch position from among the plurality of objects.

10. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the temporarily selected object extracting unit is configured to display on the display screen the extracted temporarily selected object in such a manner as to have different color, brightness, transparency, size, shape or texture from the other candidate objects.

11. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the temporarily selected object extracting unit is configured to display the extracted temporarily selected object on the display screen in such a manner as to be rimmed.

12. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the temporarily selected object extracting unit is configured to display the extracted temporarily selected object on the display screen in such a manner as to be in a foreground of a display tier.

13. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the selecting unit receives, as the determining operation, (i) an operation of moving the indicator off from the touch panel, (ii) a touching operation using the indicator at a single position for at least a certain period or (iii) an operation of depressing a predetermined button, the selecting unit is configured to select, as the selected object, the temporarily selected object extracted by the temporarily selected object extracting unit.

14. The object selecting device according to claim 1,

wherein the candidate object extracting unit is further configured to display the candidate objects in a mode distinguished from other objects.