Device having touch panel, radar apparatus, plotter apparatus, ship network system, symbol specifying method and symbol specifying program

• US 9,891,728 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Furuno Electric Co, Ltd
• Original Assignee: Furuno Electric Co, Ltd
• Inventors: Okubo, Hiroki, Nishida, Keita
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huertas Torres, Ayesha
• Application Number:
  US14/349,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20140237409A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,325 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/203 Specially adapted for sailing ships
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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

Abstract

A touch panel device displays a nautical chart and symbols indicating waypoints arranged on the nautical chart. The touch panel device detects touch operations at two or more positions on the display screen and touched positions thereof. The touch panel device creates an area on the display screen based on the two or more detected touched positions, specifies one or more of the symbols located within the created area, and performs cut processing and the like on the one or more of the symbols.

Claims

1. A device having a touch panel that is touched by an operator, comprising:

a display unit configured to display, on a display screen, an image of a nautical chart and symbols arranged on the image;

a memory configured to store nautical chart information of the nautical chart; and

processing circuitry configured to;

detect touch operations from the operator on the touch panel at two or more positions on the display screen and touched positions thereof;

create a polygon on the image of the nautical chart on the display screen, the polygon coupling the two or more touched positions detected by the processing circuitry;

shift a state of the device based on the detected touch operations; and

specify one or more of the symbols located within the created polygon and perform different processing on the specified one or more of the symbols, in one action, according to the state.

2. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein among the one or more of the symbols within the created polygon, the processing circuitry specifies the symbol that is closest to a center of the polygon by differentiating the symbol from the other symbols.

3. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry sets the touched positions used in creating the polygon to be latest positions of the touch operations at the two or more positions respectively.

4. The device having the touch panel of claim 3, wherein even after the touch operations are no longer detected, the processing circuitry keeps the one or more of the symbols specified, the one or more of the symbols located within the polygon that is created based on the latest touched positions.

5. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry performs, on the specified one or more of the symbols, either one of cut processing in which the one or more of the symbols are removed and saved temporarily, and copy processing in which the one or more of the symbols are copied.

6. The device having the touch panel of claim 5, wherein when the touch operations are performed so that the two or more touched positions approach the one or more of the symbols, the processing circuitry performs either one of the cut processing and the copy processing on the one or more of the symbols.

7. The device having the touch panel of claim 6, wherein after the processing circuitry performs either one of the cut processing and the copy processing, when the touch operations are performed at the two or more touched positions so that the positions are separated from a predetermined position, the processing circuitry performs paste processing in which the one or more of the symbols are pasted to the predetermined position.

8. The device having the touch panel of claim 1, wherein when the touch operations are performed so that the two or more touched positions are separated from the one or more of the symbols, the processing circuitry performs processing in which only a surrounding of the one or more of the symbols is displayed enlarged on the display unit.

9. The device having the touch panel of claim 1,

wherein a position of a ship and the symbols on the nautical chart are displayed based on positional information received from a GNSS sensor.

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

11. A plotter apparatus, comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 9.

12. A ship network system, comprising the device having the touch panel of claim 9.

13. A symbol specifying method, comprising:

configuring a memory to store nautical chart information of a nautical chart;

displaying, on a display screen, an image of the nautical chart and symbols arranged on the image;

detecting touch operations from an operator on a touch panel at two or more positions on the display screen and touched positions thereof;

creating a polygon on the image of the nautical chart on the display screen, the polygon coupling the two or more touched positions detected by the detecting the touch operations, and shifting a state of the device based on the detected touch operations; and

specifying one or more of the symbols located within the created polygon and performing different processing on the specified one or more of the symbols, in one action, according to the state.

14. A device having a touch panel that is touched by an operator, comprising:

a display unit configured to display, on a display screen, an image of a nautical chart and symbols arranged on the image;

a memory configured to store nautical chart information of the nautical chart; and

processing circuitry configured to;

detect touch operations from the operator on the touch panel on the display screen and a touched position thereof;

create a polygon on the image of the nautical chart on the display screen, the polygon coupling to the touched position detected by the processing circuitry;

shift a state of the device based on the detected touch operations; and

specify one or more of the symbols located within the created polygon and perform different processing on the specified one or more of the symbols, in one action, according to the state.