Terminal apparatus and display control method

• US 9,570,045 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FCNT LLC
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tsutsui, Makiko, Watanabe, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Heffington, John M
• Application Number:
  US12/558,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20100070915A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,710 Days
• Field of Search: 715/800, 715/863
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/027 Arrangements and methods specific for the display of internet documents
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A terminal apparatus includes a display, a display control unit configured to display a screen on the display in a given display mode, a first selection operation detection unit configured to detect that a first selection operation concerning the given display mode has been performed in a given area of the screen, and a second selection operation detection unit configured to detect that a second selection operation concerning given processing has been performed in the given area of the screen. The display control unit displays a screen by changing to a second display mode based on detection of the first selection operation in the screen displayed in a first display mode, performs the given processing based on detection of the second selection operation, and performs display control processing for displaying a screen in the first display mode after the given processing.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a display;

a display control unit configured to perform display control processing for displaying pages on the display;

a first selection operation detection unit configured to detect that a first selection operation has been performed on a first page displayed on the display; and

a second selection operation detection unit configured to detect that a second selection operation has been performed on the first page,

wherein the display control unit performs display control processing for displaying the first page with a given scaling factor in a whole of a given area on the display, the first page includes a hyperlink to a second page,

performs display control processing for changing a scaling factor of the first page from the given scaling factor to a changed scaling factor in the whole of the given area without changing a size of the given area based on detection of the first selection operation, and

performs display control processing for displaying, after changing the scaling factor of the first page in the whole of the given area to the changed scaling factor in the whole of the given area, the second page with the given scaling factor in the whole of the given area based on detection of the second selection operation.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is capable of changing the scaling factor of the first page to any one of a plurality of given scaling factors and one of the plurality of given scaling factors is successively selected by consecutively performing the first selection operation.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first selection operation includes a double tap operation performed in an area of the first page, and

the second selection operation includes a single tap operation performed in an area of the first page.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control unit performs the display control processing for changing the scaling factor of the first page so as to zoom in on the first page.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit performs the display control processing for displaying the second page so as to open the second page at default size or in an overview.

3. A display control method for causing a display provided in an apparatus to display a plurality of pages, the display control method comprising:

displaying a first page, that includes a hyperlink to a second page, by changing a scaling factor of the first page from a given scaling factor to a changed scaling factor in a whole of a given area of the display without changing a size of the given area after detecting that a first selection operation has been performed in an area of the first page displayed on the display; and

opening, when detecting a second selection operation to the hyperlink in the first page for opening the second page instead of the first page, after a scaling factor of the first page has been changed from the given scaling factor to the changed scaling factor in the whole of the given area in response to a user operation for changing a scaling factor in the whole of the given area, the second page on the display so as to display the second page with the given scaling factor in the whole of the given area.

4. The display control method according to claim 3, further comprising:

accepting the first selection operation by a first selection operation unit that is arranged in a first area of the display; and

accepting the second selection operation by a second selection operation unit that is arranged in a second area of the display,

wherein a touch panel provided in the display is used as the first and second selection operation units.

5. The display control method according to claim 3, wherein consecutively performing the first selection operation is capable of changing the scaling factor of the first page to any one of a plurality of given scaling factors and one of the plurality of given scaling factors.

8. The display control method according to claim 3, wherein

the first selection operation includes a double tap operation performed in an area of the first page, and

the second selection operation includes a single tap operation performed in an area of the first page.

11. The display control method according to claim 3, wherein the changing changes the scaling factor of the first page so as to zoom in on the first page.

14. The display control method according to claim 3, wherein the displaying the second page displays the second page so as to open the second page at default size or in an overview.

6. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a program for causing a computer to perform display control processing for displaying a plurality of pages on a display, wherein the program causes the computer to perform the processes of:

detecting that a first selection operation has been performed in an area of a first page, that includes a hyperlink to a second page, displayed on the display;

changing a scaling factor of the first page from a given scaling factor to a changed scaling factor in a whole of a given area on the display without changing a size of the given area based on detection of the first selection operation;

detecting that a second selection operation has been performed in an area of the first page; and

displaying the second page with the given scaling factor in the whole of the given area after detecting that the second selection operation has been performed in an area of the first page and after the scaling factor of the first page has been changed from the given scaling factor to the changed scaling factor in the whole of the given area.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein

the first selection operation includes a double tap operation performed in an area of the first page, and

the second selection operation includes a single tap operation performed in an area of the first page.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the changing changes the scaling factor of the first page so as to zoom in on the first page.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the displaying the second page displays the second page so as to open the second page at default size or in an overview.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor configured to, by executing a procedure in the memory,

display a first page with a given scaling factor in a whole of a given area on a touch panel, the first page including a hyperlink to a second page, and

open, when detecting a touch operation to the hyperlink in the first page for opening the second page instead of the first page, after a scaling factor of the first page has been changed from the given scaling factor to a changed scaling factor in the whole of the given area without changing a size of the given area in response to a user operation for changing a scaling factor in the whole of the given area, the second page on the touch panel so as to display the second page with the given scaling factor in the whole of the given area.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the touch operation is a single tap operation.

18. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the first page and the second page are web pages.