TERMINAL AND TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD

• US 20170075453A1
• Filed: 05/07/2015
• Published: 03/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2014
• 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: NAKAIZUMI, Mitsuhiro
• Application Number:
  US15/310,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20170075453A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• 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 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51

Abstract

A terminal includes: a detector that detects contact by a part of a finger at a prescribed location on a display of the terminal and that detects a shape of the finger held over the display; and an image controller that, based on a detection result detected by the detector, moves an image displayed on the display by parallel movement.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

a detector that detects contact by a part of a finger at a prescribed location on a display of the terminal and that detects a shape of the finger held over the display; and

an image controller that, based on a detection result detected by the detector, moves an image displayed on the display by parallel movement.

2. The terminal according to claim 1, comprising a converter that converts coordinates on the display after moving the image,

wherein the image controller, based on the coordinates converted by the converter, performs processing with respect to a selected image on the display.

3. The terminal according to claim 1, comprising a sensor that detects an attitude of the display,

wherein the image controller, in accordance with a result detected by the sensor, determines an amount to move the image.

4. The terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the image controller,

in a case that the display is in portrait format, calculates a point of intersection between a line of extension from a position of a base of the finger to a position of a tip of the finger with the display and controls a movement of the image based on a vector from the calculated point of intersection to a position of a tip of the finger, and

in a case that the display is in landscape format, controls a movement of the image based on a vector from the position of the tip of the finger to the position of the base of the finger.

5. A method of controlling a terminal, the method comprising:

detecting, by a detector, contact by a part of a finger at a prescribed location of a display of a terminal and detecting a shape of the finger held over the display; and

moving, by an image controller, based on a detection result detected by the detection step, an image displayed on the display by parallel movement.