Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

• US 9,632,697 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2014
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Morita, Keisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Ting
• Application Number:
  US14/204,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20140289662A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,141 Days
• Field of Search: 715769, 345173
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing apparatus comprises: a status change unit configured to change, if a drag operation required to drag an object is made by bringing an instruction member into contact with a screen which is configured to accept a multi-touch instruction, an object, for which the drag operation is made, of a first page to a drag state; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an instruction requested by bringing the instruction member into contact with the screen during dragging of the object is a page change instruction; a page change unit configured to change, if it is determined that the instruction is the page change instruction, a display target page from the first page to a second page during dragging of the object; and an arrangement unit configured to arrange the dragged object on the second page.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus having a screen that accepts multi-touch instructions, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a CPU; and

a memory storing a program that, when executed by the CPU, controls the information processing apparatus to;

displaying a document including an object on the screen;

perform a move operation when an instruction for a drop operation of the object is accepted at a second coordinate position after an instruction for a drag operation of the object at a first coordinate position, the move operation moving the object displayed on the screen from the first coordinate position to the second coordinate position; and

perform a change operation when a change instruction is accepted on the screen for a page change, the change operation changing a page displayed on the screen,

wherein, in the move operation, during execution of the drag operation to drag the object from a first page, when a change instruction is accepted to change a page displayed as a background of the dragged object on the screen from the first page to a second page, and then when an instruction is accepted for the drop operation to drop the object onto the second coordinate position on the second page after the change of the background page displayed on the screen to the second page, then the move operation and the change operation are performed so that the object is moved from the first coordinate position on the first page to the second coordinate position on the second page, and

wherein instructions for the drag operation and the change operation are made by different instruction members on the same screen.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, during the execution of the drag operation to drag the object from the first page, if a move instruction is accepted for a scrolling operation to scroll the first page, then the move operation is performed so that the object is arranged at a scrolled position on the first page.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the program, when executed by the CPU, further controls the information processing apparatus to, if the object is at a contact position of an instruction member, and if a size of a contact region of the instruction member is determined to be larger than a size of the object, display the object on the screen to be larger than the contact region during dragging of the object.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the different instruction members are different fingers of a user.

5. A control method of an information processing apparatus having a screen that accepts multi-touch instructions, the method comprising steps of:

displaying a document including an object on the screen;

moving the object displayed on the screen from a first coordinate position to a second coordinate position when an instruction for a drop operation of the object is accepted at the second coordinate position after an instruction for a drag operation of the object at the first coordinate position; and

changing a page displayed on the screen, when a change instruction is accepted on the screen for a page change,

wherein, during execution of the drag operation to drag the object from a first page, when a change instruction is accepted to change a page displayed as a background of the dragged object on the screen from the first page to a second page, and then when an instruction is accepted for the drop operation to drop the object onto the second coordinate position on the second page after the change of the background page displayed on the screen to the second page, then the object is moved from the first coordinate position on the first page to the second coordinate position on the second page, and

wherein instructions for the drag operation and the change operation are made by different instruction members on the same screen.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein, during the execution of the drag operation to drag the object from the first page, if a move instruction is accepted for a scrolling operation to scroll the first page, then the object is arranged at a scrolled position on the first page.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising a step of, if the object is at a contact position of an instruction member, and if a size of a contact region of the instruction member is determined to be larger than a size of the object, displaying the object on the screen to be larger than the contact region during dragging of the object.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the different instruction members are different fingers of a user.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that, when executed by a CPU of an apparatus having a screen that accepts multi-touch instruction, controls the apparatus to perform a method comprising she steps of:

displaying a document including an object on the screen;

moving the object displayed on the screen from a first coordinate position to a second coordinate position when an instruction for a drop operation of the object is accepted at the second coordinate position after an instruction for a drag operation of the object at the first coordinate position; and

changing a page displayed on the screen, when a change instruction is accepted on the screen for a page change,

wherein, during execution of the drag operation to drag the object from a first page, when a change instruction is accepted to change a page displayed as a background of the dragged object on the screen from the first page to a second page, and then when an instruction is accepted for the drop operation to drop the object onto the second coordinate position on the second page after the change of the background page displayed on the screen to the second page, then the object is moved from the first coordinate position on the first page to the second coordinate position on the second page, and

wherein instructions for the drag operation and the change operation are made by different instruction members on the same screen.