Display input device, and image forming apparatus including touch panel portion

• US 9,317,148 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2013
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Arakawa, Hiroki, Sekiguchi, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): EURICE, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US13/853,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20130271402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00432 using tabs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00472 using a pop-up window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A display input device includes a display portion and a touch panel portion. The display portion displays a screen having an object thereon. The touch panel portion is provided on the display portion and detects a plurality of touched positions touched by a user. The display portion, while displaying the screen having the object thereon, when an operation of touching two points on the touch panel portion has been performed, displays transfer destination information indicating a transfer destination candidate that can be a transfer destination of the object. The touch panel portion, when an object transfer operation including an operation of touching a display position of the transfer destination information and then releasing the touched state has been performed, accepts that the transfer destination candidate corresponding to the transfer destination information displayed at the last touched position has been determined as an actual transfer destination of the object.

Claims

1. A multifunctional peripheral, comprising:

a display input device including;

a display portion that displays a screen on which an object is provided, the object being a graphical element displayed on the display portion of the multifunctional peripheral that can be associated with at least one of the plurality of functions of the multifunctional peripheral; and

a touch panel portion that is provided on the display portion and detects a plurality of touched positions that a user is touching, wherein

the screen is a setting screen on which a plurality of tab keys respectively associated with a plurality of setting items related to a designated function of the plurality of functions are displayed, and accepts a setting instruction for a setting item associated with a display position of a tab key designated from among the plurality of tab keys,

the display portion, while displaying the screen on which the object is provided, when an operation of touching two points on the touch panel portion has been performed, displays the setting item as transfer destination information indicating a transfer destination candidate that can be a transfer destination of the object,

the touch panel portion, when an object transfer operation including an operation of touching a display position of the transfer destination information and then releasing the touched state has been performed, accepts that the transfer destination candidate corresponding to the transfer destination information displayed at a last touched position has been determined as an actual transfer destination of the object,

the touch panel portion, when an operation of touching two points at a display position of the object and varying an interval between the two points while keeping touching the two points has been performed, accepts that the object displayed at the touched position has been determined to be transferred,

the display portion displays the transfer destination information at a time when a predetermined time set in advance has elapsed while the two points keep being touched on the touch panel portion since the object to be transferred is determined, and when a touched state at the display position of the object to be transferred has been released before the predetermined time elapses, accepts an operation for determining a movement destination of the object to be transferred on the same screen, and moves the object to be transferred to the movement destination on the same screen,

the display portion, if there are a plurality of transfer destination candidates that can be a transfer destination of the object to be transferred, displays, as a list, a plurality of pieces of the transfer destination information respectively indicating the plurality of transfer destination candidates that can be the transfer destination, and

the touch panel portion, after the display portion has displayed the transfer destination information, when an object transfer operation of, while keeping touching one or more points at the display position of the object to be transferred, moving the touched position to a display position of the transfer destination information and then releasing the touched state has been performed, accepts that the transfer destination candidate corresponding to the transfer destination information displayed at the last touched position has been determined as an actual transfer destination of the object.

2. The multifunctional peripheral according to claim 1, wherein

the display portion, when the transfer destination candidates include a plurality of setting items related to a plurality of types of functions, displays, as a list, the transfer destination candidates on a function by function basis in a tree-like fashion.

3. A multifunctional peripheral, comprising:

a display input device including;

a display portion that displays a screen on which an object is provided, the object being a graphical element displayed on the display portion of the multifunctional peripheral that can be associated with at least one of a plurality of functions of the multifunctional peripheral; and

a touch panel portion that is provided on the display portion and detects a plurality of touched positions that a user is touching, wherein

the screen is a setting screen on which a plurality of tab keys respectively associated with a plurality of setting items related to a designated function of the plurality of functions are displayed, and accepts a setting instruction for a setting item associated with a display position of a tab key designated from among the plurality of tab keys,

the display portion, while displaying the screen on which the object is provided, when an operation of touching two points on the touch panel portion has been performed, displays the setting item as transfer destination information indicating a transfer destination candidate that can be a transfer destination of the object,

the touch panel portion, when an object transfer operation including an operation of touching a display position of the transfer destination information and then releasing the touched state has been performed, accepts that the transfer destination candidate corresponding to the transfer destination information displayed at a last touched position has been determined as an actual transfer destination of the object,

the touch panel portion, when an operation of touching two points at a display position of the object and varying an interval between the two points while keeping touching the two points has been performed, accepts that the object displayed at the touched position has been determined to be transferred,

the display portion displays the transfer destination information at a time when a predetermined time set in advance has elapsed while the two points keep being touched on the touch panel portion since the object to be transferred is determined, and when a touched state at the display position of the object to be transferred has been released before the predetermined time elapses, accepts an operation for determining a movement destination of the object to be transferred on the same screen, and moves the object to be transferred to the movement destination on the same screen,

the display portion, if there are a plurality of transfer destination candidates that can be a transfer destination of the object to be transferred, displays, as a list, a plurality of pieces of the transfer destination information respectively indicating the plurality of transfer destination candidates that can be the transfer destination, and

the touch panel portion, after the display portion has displayed the transfer destination information, when an object transfer operation of releasing the touched state at the display position of the object, touching a display position of the transfer destination information, and then releasing the touched state, has been performed, accepts that the transfer destination candidate corresponding to the transfer destination information displayed at the last touched position has been determined as an actual transfer destination of the object.

4. The multifunctional peripheral according to claim 3, wherein

the display portion, when the transfer destination candidates include a plurality of setting items related to a plurality of types of functions, displays, as a list, the transfer destination candidates on a function by function basis in a tree-like fashion.

5. An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a paper sheet;

an image fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the paper sheet; and

a display input device including;

a display portion that displays a screen on which an object is provided, the object being a graphical element displayed on the display portion of the image forming apparatus that can be associated with at least one of a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus; and

a touch panel portion that is provided on the display portion and detects a plurality of touched positions that a user is touching, wherein

the screen is a setting screen on which a plurality of tab keys respectively associated with a plurality of setting items related to a designated function of the plurality of functions are displayed, and accepts a setting instruction for a setting item associated with a display position of a tab key designated from among the plurality of tab keys,

the display portion, while displaying the screen on which the object is provided, when an operation of touching two points on the touch panel portion has been performed, displays the setting item as transfer destination information indicating a transfer destination candidate that can be a transfer destination of the object,

the touch panel portion, when an object transfer operation including an operation of touching a display position of the transfer destination information and then releasing the touched state has been performed, accepts that the transfer destination candidate corresponding to the transfer destination information displayed at a last touched position has been determined as an actual transfer destination of the object,

the touch panel portion, when an operation of touching two points at a display position of the object and varying an interval between the two points while keeping touching the two points has been performed, accepts that the object displayed at the touched position has been determined to be transferred,

the display portion displays the transfer destination information at a time when a predetermined time set in advance has elapsed while the two points keep being touched on the touch panel portion since the object to be transferred is determined, and when a touched state at the display position of the object to be transferred has been released before the predetermined time elapses, accepts an operation for determining a movement destination of the object to be transferred on the same screen, and moves the object to be transferred to the movement destination on the same screen,

the display portion, if there are a plurality of transfer destination candidates that can be a transfer destination of the object to be transferred, displays, as a list, a plurality of pieces of the transfer destination information respectively indicating the plurality of transfer destination candidates that can be the transfer destination, and

the touch panel portion, after the display portion has displayed the transfer destination information, when an object transfer operation of, while keeping touching one or more points at the display position of the object to be transferred, moving the touched position to a display position of the transfer destination information and then releasing the touched state has been performed, accepts that the transfer destination candidate corresponding to the transfer destination information displayed at the last touched position has been determined as an actual transfer destination of the object.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the display portion, when the transfer destination candidates include a plurality of setting items related to a plurality of types of functions, displays, as a list, the transfer destination candidates on a function by function basis in a tree-like fashion.