Device having touch panel, radar apparatus, plotter apparatus, ship network system, information displaying method and information displaying program

• US 9,459,716 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Furuno Electric Co, Ltd
• Original Assignee: Furuno Electric Co, Ltd
• Inventors: Miichi, Tadahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): XAVIER, ANTONIO J
• Application Number:
  US14/349,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20140267125A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,828 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04801 Cursor retrieval aid, i.e. visual aspect modification, blinking, colour changes, enlargement or other visual cues, for helping user do find the cursor in graphical user interfaces
• 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 3/041 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 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles

Abstract

A touch panel device includes a detector, a display unit, and a controller. The detector detects one or more touches on a display screen. The display unit displays, on the display screen, one or more touch-detected marks at least around a position of the touch, each touch-detected mark indicating that the touch is detected. The controller controls a color of the touch-detected mark to be different between a case where the detector detects only a touch at a single position and a case where the detector detects touches at two positions.

Claims

1. A device having a touch panel, comprising:

a detector configured to detect a first touch and a second touch concurrent with the first touch on a display screen, detect a period of time that the display screen is touched during the first and second touches, and detect changes of position of the first and second touches;

a controller configured to determine a first display mark mode corresponding to the first touch, and to determine a second display mark mode corresponding to the second touch, different from the first display mark mode, after the detector detects the second touch; and

a display unit configured to display, on the display screen, respective touch-detected marks based on a corresponding one of the first display mark mode and the second display mark mode at a position around each of the first and second touches, wherein

the detector is able to detect that a predetermined touch operation is performed based at least on an order of the touches, and

the controller changes a display mode of the touch-detected marks according to the content of the touch operation.

2. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein when the detector detects the second touch, the controller changes a display mode of the touch-detected mark that is displayed when the first touch is detected, from the first display mark mode to the second display mark mode.

3. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein even when the detector detects the second touch, the controller keeps unchanged, a display mode of the touch-detected mark that is displayed when the first touch is detected at the first display mark mode.

4. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the controller controls a display mode to be different among the touch-detected mark for a case where only the first touch is detected, at least one of the touch-detected marks for a case where the first and second touches are detected, and at least one of the touch-detected marks for a case where the first touch, the second touch, and a third touch are detected.

5. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the controller displays, in addition to the touch-detected marks, at least one of a name of the content of the detected touch operation and processing that is performed according to the content.

6. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the touch-detected marks are at least partially semi-transparent.

7. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein when an operation in which the respective position of at least one of the touches is moved while the display screen is touched, the controller displays a track of the moved position.

8. The device having the touch panel of claim 7, wherein the device is installed in a ship, and

wherein information acquired from a ship instrument is displayed on the display unit.

9. A radar apparatus, comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 8.

10. A plotter apparatus, comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 8.

11. A ship network system, comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 8.

12. A device having a touch panel of claim 1, wherein the difference between the first display mark mode and the second display mark mode includes a difference of colors between the touch-detected marks.

13. An information displaying method, comprising:

detecting a first touch and a second touch on a display screen;

detecting a period of time that the display screen is touched during the first and second touches;

detecting changes of position of the first and second touches;

determining a first display mark mode corresponding to the first touch;

determining a second display mark mode corresponding to the second touch, different from the display mark mode, after detecting the second touch;

displaying, on the display screen, respective touch-detected marks based on the first display mode and the second display mark mode at a position around each of the first and second touches;

detecting that a predetermined touch operation is performed based at least on an order of the touches; and

changing a display mode of the touch-detected marks according to the content of the touch operation.

14. A device having a touch panel, comprising:

a detector configured to detect touches on a display screen to acquire a number and an order of the touches, detect a period of time that the display screen is touched during the touches, and detect changes of position of the touches;

a controller configured to determine a display mark mode to be different depending on the number of the touches; and

a display unit configured to display respective touch-detected marks based on the display mark mode at each position around the touches, the touch-detected marks being the same, wherein

the detector is able to detect that a predetermined touch operation is performed based at least on the order of the touches, and

the controller changes a display mode of the touch-detected marks according to the content of the touch operation.

15. The device having the touch panel of claim 14, wherein the detector is able to detect that a predetermined touch operation is performed, and

wherein the controller changes the display mode of the touch-detected marks according to the content of the touch operation.

16. The device having the touch panel of claim 15, wherein the controller displays, in addition to the touch-detected marks, at least one of a name of the content of the detected touch operation and processing that is performed according to the content.

17. The device having the touch panel of claim 14, wherein the touch-detected marks are at least partially semi-transparent.

18. The device having the touch panel of claim 14, wherein when an operation in which the respective position of at least one of the touches is moved while the display screen is touched, the controller displays a track of the moved position.