US 10,120,471 B2Granted

Operation display apparatus, operation display method and tangible computer-readable recording medium

AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.

InventorsMasao Takahashi, Yasuaki Sugimoto

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Abstract

Disclosed in an operation display apparatus including: a display unit; a touch panel to detect a touch position on which a display face of the display unit is touched; and a control unit to control display contents of the display unit and to switch a specific area provided in a part of the display face, between an operable state in which display of information and a detection of a touch action for the touch panel are operated and a non-operable state in which the display and the detection are not operated, wherein the control unit sets a part of the specific area, which is arranged in a boundary with another operation display apparatus disposed with the operation display apparatus side by side, to the operable state.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An operation display apparatus comprising:

a display device;
a touch panel configured to detect touch operation in which a display face of the display device is touched;
and
a hardware processor configured to:
control display contents of the display device,
switch a specific area provided in a part of the display face between a first state in which a display on the display device is performed and touch operation is detected on the touch panel and a second state in which a display on the display device is not performed and touch operation is not detected on the touch panel, and
in response to arranging another operation display apparatus adjacent to the operation display apparatus, set a first part of the specific area, the first part being a boundary part with the other operation display apparatus arranged adjacent to the operation display apparatus, to the first state, and set a second part which is other than the first part of the specific area to the second state.

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A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program, wherein the program causes an operation display apparatus to execute:

detecting touch operation in which a display face of a display device of the operation display apparatus is touched;
and
controlling display contents of the display device and switching a specific area provided in a part of the display face between a first state in which a display on the display device is performed and touch operation is detected on the display face and a second state in which a display on the display device is not performed and touch operation is not detected on the display face,
wherein in response to arranging another operation display apparatus adjacent to the operation display apparatus, a first part of the specific area, the first part being a boundary part with the other operation display apparatus arranged adjacent to the operation display apparatus, is set to the first state, and a second part which is other than the first part of the specific area, is set to the second state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/863,853Filed 16 Apr 2013
Priority: JP 2012-09955225 Apr 2012
Published: US 2013/0285954 A131 Oct 2013
Granted: 6 Nov 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display
G06F 1/3265
Power saving in peripheral device: power saving in display device
G06F 3/0488
Using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of…:…
G06F 3/1446
Controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display: display composed of modules, e.g. video walls

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US 2013/0285954 A1Pre-grant publication · published 31 Oct 2013
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