Information processing device, information processing program, and display control method

• US 8,451,243 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2009
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Fuyuno, Tetsuya, Takikawa, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US13/054,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20110115737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,413 Days
• Field of Search: 345 11- 13, 345156-158, 345/168, 345/173, 345/179, 345/180, 178/18.01, 178/19.01, 715/761, 715/773, 715/863, 715/864
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04162 for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser sensing hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing device includes a plurality of display screens, a display control unit that controls a display operation with respect to each of the display screens, a touch panel attached to the surface of at least one display screen, and an operation reception unit that receives a depression input externally applied to the touch panel by a predetermined pressing member. When the operation reception unit receives a slide operation sliding the pressing member on the touch panel, the display control unit moves and displays display data of one display screen on another display screen.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a plurality of display screens;

a display control unit that controls a display operation on each of the display screens;

a touch panel that is attached to a surface of at least one display screen; and

an operation reception unit that receives a depression input externally applied to the touch panel with a pressing member; and

a position detection unit that detects a position of the information processing device,

wherein when the operation reception unit receives a slide operation sliding the pressing member on the touch panel, the display control unit determines whether a movement permitted condition has been satisfied based on the detected position of the information processing device, and when the display control unit determines that the movement permitted condition has been satisfied, the display control unit moves display data of one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein when the operation reception unit receives the slide operation on the touch panel indicating a transition from one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen, the display control unit moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein a touch panel is attached to a surface of another display screen, and wherein the operation reception unit receives the slide operation on the touch panel indicating a transition from one display screen to another display screen, the display control moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein when the operation reception unit receives a slide operation on a predetermined region of the display data of one display screen having the touch panel toward another display screen, the display control unit moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the position detection unit includes an opening detection sensor that detects an opening between one display screen and another display screen which are engaged in a free open/close manner, and wherein when the operation reception unit receives the slide operation while the opening detection sensor detects a predetermined angle of opening between one display screen and another display screen, the display control unit moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein when the operation reception unit receives the slide operation while the opening detection sensor detects an opened state in which one display screen and another display screen are opened and placed on a same plane, the display control unit moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the position detection unit includes a direction detection sensor that detects a direction of the display screens, and wherein when the operation reception unit receives the slide operation the direction detection sensor detects a predetermined direction of the display screens, the display control unit moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein one display screen and another display screen adjoin to concurrently show their contents, and wherein when the operation reception unit receives the slide operation while the direction detection sensor detects a vertical position of the display screens, the display control unit moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein when the operation reception unit receives the slide operation while the opening detection sensor detects an opened state in which one display screen and another display screen are opened and placed on a same plane and while the direction detection sensor detects a vertical position of the display screens, the display control unit moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein when the operation reception unit receives the slide operation with respect to display data displayed in an uppermost layer among a plurality of display data which are layered and overlapped on one display screen, the display control unit moves the display data of the uppermost layer of one display screen to another display screen.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a data processing unit which receives a predetermined operator command with respect to display data on one display screen and which performs processing based on the display data on one display screen and the operator command received with the operation reception unit, wherein the display control unit displays data representing a processing result of the data processing unit on another display screen instead of one display screen.

12. The information processing device according to claim 11, wherein the data processing unit accesses a data storage area corresponding to the operator command so as to fetch data corresponding to the display data on one display screen, and wherein the display control unit displays the data fetched by the data processing unit on another display screen.

13. An information processing program adapted to an information processing device including a plurality of display screens and a touch panel attached to a surface of at least one display screen, comprising the steps of:

controlling a display operation with respect to each of the display screen;

receiving a depression input externally applied to the touch panel by a predetermined pressing member;

detecting a position of the information processing device;

determining whether a movement permitted condition is satisfied based on the detected position of the information processing device; and

when the movement permitted condition has been determined to have been satisfied, upon receiving a slide operation sliding the pressing member on the touch panel, moving display data of one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen.

14. The information processing program according to claim 13, further comprising the step of:

moving the display data of one display screen to another display screen upon receiving the slide operation indicating a transition from one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen.

15. A display control method comprising:

an operation reception process that receives a depression input externally applied to a touch panel attached to a surface of at least one of a plurality of display screens by a predetermined pressing member; and

a display control process that controls a display operation with respect to each of the display screens in response to the depression input received by the operation reception process, the display operation including detecting a position of the at least one of the plurality of display screens and determining whether a movement permitted condition has been satisfied based on the detected position of the at least one of the plurality of display screens,

wherein when the movement permitted condition has been determined to have been satisfied and when the operation reception process receives a slide operation sliding the predetermined pressing member on the touch panel, the display control process moves display data of one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen.

16. The display control method according to claim 15, wherein when the operation reception process receives the slide operation on the touch panel indicating a transition from one display screen to another display screen, the display control process moves the display data of one display screen to another display screen.

17. The display control method according to claim 15, wherein when the operation reception process receives the slide operation while the display control process detects a predetermined position of an information processing device, the display control process moves the display data of one display screen on to another display screen.

18. An information processing device comprising:

a plurality of display screens which are arbitrarily opened or closed;

a display control unit that controls a display operation on each of the display screens;

a touch panel that is attached to a surface of at least one display screen;

an operation reception unit that receives a depression input externally applied to the touch panel with a pressing member; and

a determination unit that determines whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied based on a physical position and an opening between one display screen and another display screen,

wherein when the operation reception unit receives a slide operation indicating a transition from one display screen to another display screen, the display control unit moves display data of one display screen having the touch panel to another display screen based on the predetermined condition.

19. The information processing device according to claim 18, wherein the display control unit allows display data of one display screen to move to another display screen for each tab or for each page.