Electronic apparatus, program, and control method

• US 8,839,130 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Tomohisa, Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi, Wang, Qihong, Komori, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): HAILU, TADESSE
• Application Number:
  US13/469,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 715769- 72, 715861- 64, 715/764, 715/767, 715/770, 715/772
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a sensor, and a controller. The display unit includes a screen. The sensor is configured to detect a user operation with respect to the screen and output a signal corresponding to the user operation. The controller is configured to cause a data icon to be displayed on the screen, judge a drag operation with respect to the data icon based on the signal from the sensor, judge, based on the signal from the sensor, a user operation different from the drag operation for one of copying and moving data related to the data icon based on the drag operation, and execute processing for one of copying and moving the data according to the user operation.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display unit including a screen;

a sensor configured to detect at least one operation made by a user with respect to the screen and output a signal corresponding to the detected at least one operation; and

a controller configured to cause a data icon to be displayed on the screen, judge a drag operation with respect to the data icon based on the signal from the sensor, judge, based on the signal from the sensor, a different user operation that is different from the drag operation for copying data related to the data icon based on the drag operation, and execute processing for copying the data according to the different user operation,

wherein the controller causes, while causing the data icon to be displayed at an original drag position, a copy of the data icon to be displayed at a drag position according to the drag operation with respect to the data icon, judges the different user operation with respect to a position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon, and executes the processing of copying the data when the different user operation is made and

wherein the controller judges, as the different user operation, a flick operation with respect to the position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon and executes the processing of copying the data when the flick operation is made.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller causes a closed curve surrounding the data icon and the copy of the data icon to be displayed according to the drag operation with respect to the data icon, judges whether the drag position is within an area on the screen where the data can be copied, and changes a display state of the closed curve when the drag position is within the area.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the controller judges the flick operation with respect to the position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon in the closed curve in a state where the display state of the closed curve is changed, and executes processing of copying the data to a location on a computer corresponding to the area when the flick operation is made.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the controller controls display such that, when the flick operation with respect to the position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon in the closed curve is made, the closed curve is separated into a first closed curve surrounding the data icon and a second closed curve surrounding the copy of the data icon.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the controller controls display such that the first closed curve and the second closed curve contract according to a progress state of the data copy.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the controller changes, when the drag position is within the area, the display state of the closed curve such that a crack is displayed in the closed curve at the position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller causes an access authority editing icon for editing an access authority with respect to data to be copied according to the drag operation with respect to the data icon, judges another user operation with respect to the access authority editing icon based on the signal from the sensor, the another user operation being different than the drag operation and the different user operation, and changes a state of the access authority with respect to the data to be copied according to the another user operation.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the controller judges whether a drag position of the drag operation with respect to the data icon is within an area on the screen where the data can be copied and causes the access authority editing icon to be displayed on the screen when the drag position is within the area.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the flick operation represents a cutting of a connection between the data icon and the copy of the data icon.

10. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display unit including a screen;

a sensor configured to detect at least one operation made by a user with respect to the screen and output a signal corresponding to the detected at least one operation; and

a controller configured to cause a data icon to be displayed on the screen, judge a drag operation with respect to the data icon based on the signal from the sensor, judge, based on the signal from the sensor, a different user operation that is different from the drag operation for moving data related to the data icon based on the drag operation, and execute processing for moving the data according to the different user operation,

wherein the controller causes, while causing the data icon to be displayed at an original drag position, a copy of the data icon to be displayed at a drag position according to the drag operation with respect to the data icon, judges the different user operation with respect to the data icon displayed at the original drag position, and executes the processing of moving the data when the different user operation is made, and

wherein the controller judges, as the different user operation, a flick operation with respect to the data icon displayed at the original drag position toward the copy of the data icon and executes the processing of moving the data when the flick operation is made.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the controller causes a closed curve surrounding the data icon and the copy of the data icon to be displayed according to the drag operation with respect to the data icon, judges whether the drag position is within an area on the screen where the data can be moved, and changes a display state of the closed curve when the drag position is within the area.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the controller judges the flick operation with respect to the data icon in a state where the display state of the closed curve is changed, and executes processing of moving the data to a location on a computer corresponding to the area when the flick operation is made.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the controller controls display on the screen such that, when the flick operation with respect to the data icon is made, the closed curve contracts while the data icon is moved to a position of the copy of the data icon.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the controller controls display such that the closed curve contracts while the data icon is moved according to a progress state of the data movement.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the flick operation represents a flicking of the data icon towards the copy of the data icon.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a processor of an electronic apparatus causes the electronic apparatus to execute a method, the method comprising:

detecting at least one operation made by a user with respect to a screen of a display unit;

outputting a signal corresponding to the detected at least one operation;

displaying a data icon on the screen;

judging a drag operation with respect to the data icon based on the signal;

judging, based on the signal, a different user operation that is different from the drag operation for one of copying and moving data related to the data icon based on the drag operation; and

executing processing for one of copying and moving the data according to the different user operation,

wherein, while the data icon is displayed at an original drag position, a copy of the data icon is displayed at a drag position according to the drag operation with respect to the data icon, and

when a flick operation is judged with respect to a position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon, the processing of copying the data is executed when the flick operation is made, and

when the flick operation is judged with respect to the data icon displayed at the original drag position, the processing of moving the data is executed when the flick operation is made.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 16,

wherein the flick operation that is judged with respect to the position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon represents a cutting of a connection between the data icon and the copy of the data icon, and the flick operation that is judged with respect to the data icon displayed at the original drag position represents a flicking of the data icon towards the copy of the data icon.

18. A control method, comprising:

detecting at least one operation made by a user with respect to a screen of a display unit;

outputting a signal corresponding to the detected at least one operation;

displaying a data icon on the screen;

judging a drag operation with respect to the data icon based on the signal;

judging, based on the signal, a different user operation that is different from the drag operation for one of copying and moving data related to the data icon based on the drag operation; and

executing processing for one of copying and moving the data according to the different user operation,

wherein, while the data icon is displayed at an original drag position, a copy of the data icon is displayed at a drag position according to the drag operation with respect to the data icon, and

when a flick operation is judged with respect to a position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon, the processing of copying the data is executed when the flick operation is made, and

when the flick operation is judged with respect to the data icon displayed at the original drag position, the processing of moving the data is executed when the flick operation is made.

19. The control method according to claim 18,

wherein the flick operation that is judged with respect to the position between the data icon and the copy of the data icon represents a cutting of a connection between the data icon and the copy of the data icon, and the flick operation that is judged with respect to the data icon displayed at the original drag position represents a flicking of the data icon towards the copy of the data icon.