Information processing device and display information editing method of information processing device

• US 8,266,529 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2009
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Ooi, Noriko, Murakami, Keiichi, Endo, Kentaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHANTANA ANGKOOL, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US12/463,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20090287999A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,219 Days
• Field of Search: 715/702, 715/709
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0338 Fingerprint track pad, i.e. fingerprint sensor used as pointing device tracking the fingertip image
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• 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: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An information processing device of an aspect of the invention has display means having a display region; operation means, having a contact region, for outputting a position signal indicating the position of a contact operation in the contact region; range decision means for deciding a target range of the display region based on the position signals for two points from the operation means; processing menu display means for causing the display means to display a processing menu at a position corresponding to the target range of the display region; processing decision means for deciding the processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region; and processing execution means for executing the processing on the target range of the display region.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

display means for displaying information;

operation means, having a contact region corresponding to a display region of the display means, for detecting a contact operation in the contact region and outputting a position signal indicating the position of the contact operation in the contact region;

range decision means for deciding a target range of the display region, based on the position signals for two points from the operation means;

processing menu display means for causing a processing menu to appear on the display means at a position corresponding to the target range of the display region decided by the range decision means, the processing menu receiving selection of various processing;

processing decision means for deciding processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region, based on the position signal for a third point from the operation means; and

processing execution means for executing the processing decided by the processing decision means on the target range of the display region decided by the range decision means.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the processing menu display means causes the display means to display the processing menu at a position set in advance for the target range of the display region.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising identification means for identifying whether a hand performing the contact operation in the contact region is the right hand or the left hand, and for identifying two fingers of the contact operation, wherein the processing menu display means causes the display means to display the processing menu at a position relative to the target range of the display region associated with the combination of the hand and the two fingers, based on the hand and the two fingers identified by the identification means.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, further comprising:

an identification table including a plurality of gestures and used by the identification means for identifying for identifying the hand performing the contact.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, when the position of the contact operation indicated by the position signals for two points from the operation means changes, the range decision means re-decides the target range of the display region.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the range decision means decides the target range of the display region only when the position signals for two points are received simultaneously from the operation means.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the contact region is separate from the display region.

8. A display information editing method of an information processing device which has display means for displaying information and operation means having a contact region corresponding to a display region of the display means, comprising the steps of:

detecting a contact operation in the contact region, and generating a position signal indicating the position of the contact operation in the contact region;

deciding a target range of the display region based on the position signals for two points;

causing a processing menu to appear on the display means at a position corresponding to the decided target range of the display region, the processing menu receiving selection of various processing;

deciding processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region, based on the position signal for a third point; and

executing the decided processing on the decided target range of the display region.

9. An information processing device, comprising:

a display to display information;

an operation unit, having a contact region for interacting with a display region of the display, to detect a contact operation in the contact region and outputting a position signal indicating the position of the contact operation in the contact region;

range decision unit to determine a target range of the display region, based on the position signals for two points from the operation unit;

processing menu display unit to cause a processing menu to appear on the display, at a position corresponding to the target range of the display region decided by the range decision unit, the processing menu receiving selection of various processing;

processing decision unit to determine processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region, based on the position signal for a third point from the operation unit; and

processing execution unit to execute the processing decided by the processing decision unit on the target range of the display region decided by the range decision unit.

10. An information processing device, comprising:

display means for displaying information;

operation means, having a contact region corresponding to a display region of the display means, for detecting a contact operation in the contact region and outputting a position signal indicating the position of the contact operation in the contact region;

range decision means for deciding a target range of the display region, based on the position signals for two points from the operation means;

processing menu display means for causing the display means to display a processing menu for selection of various processing, at a position corresponding to the target range of the display region decided by the range decision means;

processing decision means for deciding processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region, based on the position signal for a third point from the operation means; and

processing execution means for executing the processing decided by the processing decision means on the target range of the display region decided by the range decision means,

wherein the range decision means decides the target range of the display region, based on the position signals for the two points from the operation means and based upon a table associating coordinates of the contact region to coordinates of the display region.

11. The information processing device according to claim 10, wherein the processing menu is displayed in a lower right portion of the target range.