INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20160196032A1
• Filed: 03/10/2016
• Published: 07/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamauchi, Kazunori
• Granted Patent: US 10,379,729 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause a display screen to display a plurality of objects which include an object to be processed according to a moving operation; a selection unit configured to select at least one of the plurality of objects which are displayed, based on a position on the display screen; a determining unit configured to, in a case where an object different from the object to be processed is selected and the moving operation for the selected object is executed, determine whether to execute the predetermined processing to the object to be processed according to the moving operation, based on the selected object; and a processing unit configured to execute the predetermined processing for the object according to the moving operation, in a case where the determining unit determines that the predetermined processing is executed to the object.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a memory configured to store a program; and

a processor configured to execute the program stored in the memory,

wherein the processor causes a touch panel to display a first image among a plurality of images, and a predetermined object,

wherein in a first case where the predetermined object is touched by a user on the touch panel and then a moving operation is performed from the predetermined object on the touch panel, the processor moves the first image with a movement distance corresponding to a distance of the moving operation on the touch panel, and causes the touch panel to display a second image among the plurality of images, and

wherein in a second case where the predetermined object is touched by the user on the touch panel and the moving operation is not performed while the predetermined object is being touched, the processor changes a display target image among the plurality of images from the first image to a third image among the plurality of images, the third image being determined in accordance with a time period in which the predetermined object is touched.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor determines whether the predetermined object is touched, based on a position that the predetermined object is arranged on the touch panel and a touch position on the touch panel which the user touches.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor changes the display target image in both of the first case and the second case, in accordance with a predetermined order of the plurality of images, and

wherein the second image is adjacent to the first image in the predetermined order.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the processor causes the touch panel to display a part of the first image and a part of the second image, in movement of the first image in the first case.

5. The apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein if the processor changes the display target image from the first image to the third image in the second case and the user performs the moving operation without a release operation from the predetermined object, the processor moves the third image in accordance with the moving operation and causes the touch panel to display an image adjacent to the third image.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor causes the touch panel to display the predetermined object on the first image.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in the first case, if the moving distance of the moving operation between a start touch point of the moving operation and an end touch point of the moving operation is longer than a predetermined distance, the processor causes the touch panel to display the second image and not to display the first image.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor detects a start touch point and an end touch point of the moving operation, and detects a halfway touch point where the user touches the touch panel after the start touch point and before the end touch point in the moving operation, and

wherein, in the first case, if each of a first direction from the start touch point to the halfway touch point and a second direction from the halfway touch point to the end touch point is a predetermined direction, the processor causes the touch panel to display the second image and not to display the first image, and

if the first direction is the predetermined direction and the second direction is not the predetermined direction, the processor causes the touch panel to display the first image and not to display the second image.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the moving operation is a flick operation or a drag operation on the touch panel.

10. A method comprising:

causing a touch panel to display a first image among a plurality of images, and a predetermined object;

in a first case where the predetermined object is touched by a user on the touch panel and then a moving operation is performed from the predetermined object on the touch panel, moving the first image with a movement distance corresponding to a distance of the moving operation on the touch panel, and causing the touch panel to display a second image among the plurality of images; and

in a second case where the predetermined object is touched by the user on the touch panel and the moving operation is not performed while the predetermined object is being touched, changing a display target image among the plurality of images from the first image to a third image among the plurality of images, the third image being determined in accordance with a time period in which the predetermined object is touched.

11. The method according to claim 10,

wherein a determination is made whether the predetermined object is touched, based on a position that the predetermined object is arranged on the touch panel and a touch position on the touch panel which the user touches.

12. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the display target image is changed in both of the first case and the second case, in accordance with a predetermined order of the plurality of images, and

wherein the second image is adjacent to the first image in the predetermined order.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the touch panel is caused to display a part of the first image and a part of the second image, in movement of the first image in the first case.

14. The method according to claim 12,

wherein if the display target image is changed from the first image to the third image in the second case and the user performs the moving operation without a release operation from the predetermined object, the third image is moved and the touch panel is caused to display an image adjacent to the third image.

15. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the touch panel is caused to display the predetermined object on the first image.

16. The method according to claim 10,

wherein in the first case, if the moving distance of the moving operation between a start touch point of the moving operation and an end touch point of the moving operation is longer than a predetermined distance, the touch panel is caused to display the second image and not to display the first image.

17. The method according to claim 10,

wherein a start touch point and an end touch point of the moving operation, and a halfway touch point where the user touches the touch panel after the start touch point and before the end touch point in the moving operation, are detected, and

wherein, in the first case, if each of a first direction from the start touch point to the halfway touch point and a second direction from the halfway touch point to the end touch point is a predetermined direction, the touch panel is caused to display the second image and not to display the first image, and

if the first direction is the predetermined direction and the second direction is not the predetermined direction, the touch panel is caused to display the first image and not to display the second image.

18. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the moving operation is a flick operation or a drag operation.

19. A non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method comprising:

causing a touch panel to display a first image among a plurality of images, and a predetermined object;

in a first case where the predetermined object is touched by a user on the touch panel and then a moving operation is performed from the predetermined object on the touch panel, moving the first image with a movement distance corresponding to a distance of the moving operation on the touch panel, and causing the touch panel to display a second image among the plurality of images; and

in a second case where the predetermined object is touched by the user on the touch panel and the moving operation is not performed while the predetermined object is being touched, changing a display target image among the plurality of images from the first image to a third image among the plurality of images, the third image being determined in accordance with a time period in which the predetermined object is touched.