Image-display control system, image-display control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing image-display control program

• US 9,671,948 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2013
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Urakawa, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): CHOI, DAVID E
• Application Number:
  US14/025,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20140173505A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• 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

Abstract

An image-display control system including: a display having a display area; a touch panel; a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: display object images arranged in a first direction in the display area; determine a touch and a position of the touch; define, in the display area, first and second operation regions arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first operation region being not defined in the identical position to the second operation region, at least a part of each object image being displayed in the two operation regions; when determined the touch in the first operation region, execute a unique process assigned for one of the object images displayed at a position of the touch; and when determined the touch in the second operation region and when determined that a position of the touch is moving in the first direction while keeping the touch, scroll the object images in the first direction.

Claims

1. An image-display control system comprising:

a display including a display area;

a touch panel disposed over the display;

a processor coupled with the display and the touch panel; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the image-display control system;

to display a plurality of object images arranged in a first direction in the display area of the display, each of the plurality of object images having a unique process assigned;

to determine a touch operation and a touch position of the touch operation while a pointer touches the display area;

to execute a certain process when the determined touch operation is a touch-and-release operation and the determined touch position of the touch-and-release operation is in a first operation region of a certain object image of the plurality of object images, not to execute the certain process when the determined touch operation is the touch-and-release operation and the determined touch position of the touch-and-release operation is in a second operation region, of the certain object image, that is next to the first operation region in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, not to scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch operation is a drag operation in the first direction and the determined touch position of the drag operation is in the first operation region of the certain object image, and to scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch operation is the drag operation and the determined touch position of the drag operation is in the second operation region of the certain object image;

display the certain object image in a first display manner that is different from a display manner of other object images of the plurality of object images except for the certain object image when the touch position of the touch operation is in the first operation region, and not to display the certain object image in the first display manner when the touch position of the touch operation is in the second operation region;

to determine a touch-start-position and a touch-moved-position of the drag operation, the touch-moved-position being the touch position moved from the touch-start-position by the drag operation; and

to scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch-start-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region and the determined touch-moved-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region, and not scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the touch-start-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region and the touch-moved-position of the drag operation is in the first operation region.

2. The image-display control system according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the image-display control system:

when it is determined the touch operation is in the at least one of the first operation region and the second operation region, to execute the unique process that can be enlarged or reduced in the second direction, and

when it is determined the touch operation is in one of the first operation region or the second operation region and it is determined that a position of the touch operation is moving in the other of the first operation region or the second operation region while keeping the touch operation, to enlarge one of the first operation region or the second operation region and reduce the other of the first operation region or the second operation region.

3. The image-display control system according to claim 2, wherein the instructions further cause the image-display control system:

when it is determined the touch operation is in the first operation region and it is determined that a position of the touch operation is moving in the second direction while keeping the touch operation, to enlarge the first operation region in the second direction; and

when it is determined the touch operation is in the second operation region and it is determined that a position of the touch operation is moving in the first direction while keeping the touch operation, to reduce the first operation region in the second direction.

4. The image-display control system according to claim 2, wherein the instructions further cause the image-display control system:

to define a third operation region different from the first operation region and the second operation region in the display area, wherein the third operation region is not defined in the identical position to the first operation region and the second operation region and wherein at least a part of each of the plurality of object images is not included in the third operation region; and

when it is determined the touch operation is in the third operation region and it is determined that a position of the touch operation is moving in the second direction while keeping the touch operation, only the one of the first operation region and the second operation region is enlarged or reduced.

5. The image-display control system according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the image-display control system:

to determine whether or not a state of the touch operation on the display area by the pointer has satisfied a particular region-switching condition, based on the determination result of the touch operation and the position of the touch operation; and

when it is determined that the state has satisfied the particular region-switching condition, to switch the first operation region and the second operation region with each other.

6. The image-display control system according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the image-display control system:

to define character strings in each of the plurality of object images, in which characters are arranged from one end of the object image to another end thereof;

to dispose the first operation region nearer to the one end than the second operation region, wherein the first operation region includes at least one of the characters of the character strings of said each of the plurality of object images, which one of the characters is the closest to the one end among the characters of the character strings; and

to define the first operation region and the second operation region, in an initial state, wherein the first operation region and the second operation region border each other along a boundary, wherein a dimension of the first operation region is equal to a dimension in accordance with a maximum number of the characters in the character strings in the second direction.

7. The image-display control system according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the image-display control system to display the first operation region and the second operation region in the display area of the display in different colors.

10. The image-display control system according to claim 1, wherein the display area comprises (a) a first display area including the first operation region and the second operation region and (b) a second display area,

wherein the instructions cause the image-display control system:

to display at least two of the plurality of object images in the first display area;

to display a scroll-position-indication bar, in the second display area, indicating a relative position of the at least two object images, displayed in the first display area, of the plurality of object images displayed in the first direction;

when it is determined the touch operation is on the scroll-position-indication bar in the second display area, to scroll the plurality of object images in the first direction such that the at least two object images, that are at least two object images corresponding to the position of the touch operation on the scroll-position-indication bar, are displayed in the first display area.

8. A method of controlling an image to be displayed on a display including a display area, comprising the steps of:

displaying a plurality of object images arranged in a first direction in the display area of the display, each of the plurality of object images having a unique process assigned;

determining a touch operation and a touch position of the touch operation while a pointer touches the display area;

executing a certain process when the determined touch operation is a touch-and-release operation and the determined touch position of the touch-and-release operation is in a first operation region of a certain object image of the plurality of object images, not executing the certain process when the determined touch operation is the touch-and-release operation and the determined touch position of the touch-and-release operation is in a second operation region, of the certain object image, that is next to the first operation region in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, not scrolling the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch operation is a drag operation in the first direction and the determined touch position of the drag operation is in the first operation region of the certain object image, and scrolling the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch operation is the drag operation and the determined touch position of the drag operation is in the second operation region of the certain object image;

display the certain object image in a first display manner that is different from a display manner of other object images of the plurality of object images except for the certain object image when the touch position of the touch operation is in the first operation region, and not to display the certain object image in the first display manner when the touch position of the touch operation is in the second operation region;

to determine a touch-start-position and a touch-moved-position of the drag operation, the touch-moved-position being the touch position moved from the touch-start-position by the drag operation; and

to scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch-start-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region and the determined touch-moved-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region, and not scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the touch-start-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region and the touch-moved-position of the drag operation is in the first operation region.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in which is stored an image-display control program to be executed by a computer of an image-control system comprising:

a display including a display area;

a touch panel disposed over the display;

a processor provided in the computer and coupled with the display and the touch panel; and

a memory storing instructions included in the image-display control program that, when executed by the processor, cause the image-display control system;

to display a plurality of object images arranged in a first direction in the display area of the display, each of the plurality of object images having a unique process assigned;

to determine a touch operation and a touch position of the touch operation while a pointer touches the display area;

to execute a certain process when the determined touch operation is a touch-and-release operation and the determined touch position of the touch-and-release operation is in a first operation region of a certain object image of the plurality of object images, not to execute the certain process when the determined touch operation is the touch-and-release operation and the determined touch position of the touch-and-release operation is in a second operation region, of the certain object image, that is next to the first operation region in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, not to scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch operation is a drag operation in the first direction and the determined touch position of the drag operation is in the first operation region of the certain object image, and to scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch operation is the drag operation and the determined touch position of the drag operation is in the second operation region of the certain object image;

display the certain object image in a first display manner that is different from a display manner of other object images of the plurality of object images except for the certain object image when the touch position of the touch operation is in the first operation region, and not to display the certain object image in the first display manner when the touch position of the touch operation is in the second operation region;

to determine a touch-start-position and a touch-moved-position of the drag operation, the touch-moved-position being the touch position moved from the touch-start-position by the drag operation; and

to scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the determined touch-start-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region and the determined touch-moved-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region, and not scroll the plurality of object images including the certain object image when the touch-start-position of the drag operation is in the second operation region and the touch-moved-position of the drag operation is in the first operation region.