TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM

• US 20160313884A1
• Filed: 06/30/2016
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Katsuyama, Yutaka, Uehara, Yusuke
• Application Number:
  US15/198,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20160313884A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• 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
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

A terminal device includes a display unit; a memory; and a processor. The processor is configured to extract one or more strings from a character area included in image data by units of lines; to determine whether a position specified in a specified line among the strings extracted by units of lines has been moved by a first threshold or greater in a first axis direction that represents a line direction; and to enlarge and display, if it has been determined that the position in the first axis direction has been moved by the first threshold or greater, a string at and around a position in the first axis direction in the specified line.

Claims

1. A terminal device, comprising:

a display unit;

a memory; and

a processor configured

to extract one or more strings from a character area included in image data by units of lines,

to determine whether a position specified in a specified line among the strings extracted by units of lines has been moved by a first threshold or greater in a first axis direction that represents a line direction, and

to enlarge and display, if it has been determined that the position in the first axis direction has been moved by the first threshold or greater, a string at and around a position in the first axis direction in the specified line.

2. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor enlarges and displays the string at and around the position in the first axis direction in the specified line until specification of the position is released.

3. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor determines, in response to release of the specification of the position, whether there is a line next to the specified line,

wherein if it has been determined that there is a line next to the specified line, the processor enlarges and displays a string at and around a head of the next line.

4. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor separates movement of the position into a component on the first axis, and a component on a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis, and if the component on the second axis is greater than the component on the first axis, determines whether a position in the second axis direction represented by the component of the second axis has been moved by a second threshold or greater,

wherein if it has been determined that the position in the second axis direction has been moved by the second threshold or greater, the processor enlarges and displays a string at and around a head of a line at or around the position in the second axis direction.

5. The terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor enlarges and displays the string at and around the specified position, by units of words in the specified line.

6. A display control method, executed by a computer, the method comprising:

extracting one or more strings from a character area included in image data by units of lines;

determining whether a position specified in a specified line among the strings extracted by units of lines has been moved by a first threshold or greater in a first axis direction that represents a line direction; and

enlarging and displaying, if it has been determined that the position in the first axis direction has been moved by the first threshold or greater, a string at and around a position in the first axis direction in the specified line.

7. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display the string at and around the position in the first axis direction in the specified line until specification of the position is released.

8. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the determining determines, in response to release of the specification of the position, whether there is a line next to the specified line,

wherein if it has been determined that there is a line next to the specified line, the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display a string at and around a head of the next line.

9. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the determining separates movement of the position into a component on the first axis, and a component on a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis, and if the component on the second axis is greater than the component on the first axis, determines whether a position in the second axis direction represented by the component of the second axis has been moved by a second threshold or greater,

wherein if it has been determined that the position in the second axis direction has been moved by the second threshold or greater, the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display a string at and around a head of a line at or around the position in the second axis direction.

10. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display the string at and around the specified position, by units of words in the specified line.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program stored therein for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

extracting one or more strings from a character area included in image data by units of lines;

determining whether a position specified in a specified line among the strings extracted by units of lines has been moved by a first threshold or greater in a first axis direction that represents a line direction; and

enlarging and displaying, if it has been determined that the position in the first axis direction has been moved by the first threshold or greater, a string at and around a position in the first axis direction in the specified line.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 11, wherein the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display the string at and around the position in the first axis direction in the specified line until specification of the position is released.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 11, wherein the determining determines, in response to release of the specification of the position, whether there is a line next to the specified line,

wherein if it has been determined that there is a line next to the specified line, the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display a string at and around a head of the next line.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 11, wherein the determining separates movement of the position into a component on the first axis, and a component on a second axis that, is orthogonal to the first axis, and if the component on the second axis is greater than the component on the first axis, determines whether a position in the second axis direction represented by the component of the second axis has been moved by a second threshold or greater,

wherein if it has been determined that the position in the second axis direction has been moved by the second threshold or greater, the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display a string at and around a head of a line at or around the position in the second axis direction.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 11, wherein the enlarging and displaying enlarge and display the string at and around the specified position, by units of words in the specified line.