Electronic device, control method, and control program

• US 9,609,108 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2013
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Miura, Saya
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Wesley
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHAKRABORTY, RAJARSHI
• Application Number:
  US14/431,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20150249733A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,280 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions

Abstract

An electronic device according to one of aspects includes: a display for displaying a notification screen that includes a notification area for notifying information; and a controller for shifting, when detecting an operation, the notification screen displayed on the display to an editing screen for editing the notification screen.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display configured to display a notification screen that includes a notification area for notifying information; and

a controller configured to shift, in response to detecting an operation, the notification screen displayed on the display to an editing screen for editing the notification screen,

wherein, while an editable notification is being edited on the editing screen, other editable notifications remain displayed on the editing screen,

wherein the notification screen includes an edit button, and other areas different from the notification area, and

wherein, in response to a gesture on the edit button, the controller is configured to shift the notification screen displayed on the display to the editing screen,

arrange, in the editing screen, individual editing buttons in the other areas, wherein the individual editing buttons are for starting editing the other areas corresponding to said individual editing buttons, and

not arrange any of the individual editing buttons in the notification area.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein,

in response to detecting an operation of adding at least one other area different from the notification area in the editing screen,

the controller is configured to reflect the addition of the at least one other area in the notification screen.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein,

in response to detecting an operation of deleting the at least one other area in the editing screen,

the controller is configured to reflect the deletion of the at least one other area in the notification screen.

4. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein,

in response to detecting an operation of mutually changing a display position of the notification area and a display position of the at least one other area in the editing screen,

the controller is configured to reflect the change of the display positions of the notification area and the at least one other area in the notification screen.

5. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein,

in response to detecting an operation of changing a component included in the at least one other area in the editing screen,

the controller is configured to reflect the change of the component in the notification screen.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein,

in response to detecting an operation of deleting the notification area in the editing screen,

the controller is configured to not reflect the deletion of the notification area in the notification screen.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising an operating unit, wherein

the controller is configured to display a text created through the operating unit on the notification screen.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein

the controller is configured to display a creation screen for accepting a creation operation of the text on the display.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to display the edited notification screen upon completion of the editing of the notification screen.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the notification screen displays a plurality of editable notifications, and the editing screen displays more than one editable notifications among the plurality of editable notifications.

11. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the display is configured to further display, simultaneously with and outside the notification screen, a status bar.

12. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the status bar includes an icon,

the notification area includes notifying information associated with the icon, and

while the editing screen is being displayed, the controller is configured to cause the display to maintain displaying the icon on the status bar.

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein

the notification screen further includes a notification deleting button arranged in the notification area,

while the notification screen is being displayed and in response to detecting a gesture on the notification deleting button, the controller is configured to delete the icon from the status bar.

14. The electronic device according to claim 13, wherein the controller is configured to

not display the notification deleting button, in response to the notification screen being shifted to the editing screen, and

display the notification deleting button, in response to the editing screen being shifted to the notification screen.

15. A control method for controlling an electronic device that includes a display, the control method comprising:

displaying, on the display, a notification screen that includes a notification area for notifying information; and

shifting, in response to detecting an operation, the notification screen displayed on the display to an editing screen for editing the notification screen,

wherein, while an editable notification is being edited on the editing screen, other editable notifications remain displayed on the editing screen,

wherein the notification screen includes an edit button, and other areas different from the notification area, and

wherein, in response to a gesture on the edit button, the control method comprises shifting the notification screen displayed on the display to the editing screen,

arranging, in the editing screen, individual editing buttons in the other areas, wherein the individual editing buttons are for starting editing the other areas corresponding to said individual editing buttons, and

not arranging any of the individual editing buttons in the notification area.

16. The control method according to claim 15, further comprising:

accepting creation of a text through an operating unit of the electronic device; and

displaying the created text on the notification screen.

17. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a control program that causes, when executed by an electronic device that includes a display, the electronic device to execute a control method comprising:

displaying, on the display, a notification screen that includes a notification area for notifying information ; and

shifting, in response to detecting an operation, the notification screen displayed on the display to an editing screen for editing the notification screen,

wherein, while an editable notification is being edited on the editing screen, other editable notifications remain displayed on the editing screen,

wherein the notification screen includes an edit button, and other areas different from the notification area, and

wherein, in response to a gesture on the edit button, the control method comprises shifting the notification screen displayed on the display to the editing screen,

arranging, in the editing screen, individual editing buttons in the other areas, wherein the individual editing buttons are for starting editing the other areas corresponding to said individual editing buttons, and

not arranging any of the individual editing buttons in the notification area.

18. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 17, wherein the control program further causes, when executed by the electronic device, the electronic device to execute:

accepting creation of a text through an operating unit of the electronic device; and

displaying the created text on the notification screen.