Display device that can be divided into multiple sections by user input and program for achieving the division
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsHidekazu Kano, Hiroaki Kitada, Takafumi Inoue, Masato Saito, Kenichi Mori
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Abstract
A mobile terminal device detects a touch position on a display screen, and detects that the display screen has been pressed and sets a boundary line based on the touch position. The mobile terminal device divides the display screen into first and second screens separated by the boundary line and displays images corresponding to different functions of the mobile terminal device on the first and second screens.
Claims17
A non-transitory computer readable memory containing a program which, when ran on one or more processors connected to a display device having a display screen, a touch sensor for detecting a position on the display screen that is touched by a user of the display device and for generating a touch signal as a function thereof and a press sensor for detecting the force with which the user touches the display screen and for generating a press force signal as a function thereof, will allow the one or more computers to:
- (1) cause the display screen to display one or more images at respective locations of the display screen;
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- (2) determine, as a function of the touch signal, that the user has touched the touch screen and:
- (a) if the press force signal indicates that the force with which the user has touched the display is less than a first predetermined value, carrying out an operation to change one or more of the images displayed on the display screen;
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- (b) when the press force signal indicates that the force with which the user has touched the display is greater than a second predetermined value, carrying out a screen dividing function by dividing the display into first and second sections along a dividing line and displaying separate content in the first and second sections.
A display device comprising:
- (a) a display screen;
- (b) a touch sensor for detecting a position on the display screen that is touched by a user of the display device and for generating a touch signal as a function thereof;
- (c) a press sensor for detecting the force with which the user touches the display screen and for generating a press force signal as a function thereof;
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- (d) a display screen controller for controlling the display screen by:
- (1) causing the display screen to display one or more images at respective locations of the display screen;
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- (2) determining, as a function of the touch signal, that the user has touched the touch screen and:
- (a) if the press force signal indicates that the force with which the user has touched the display is less than a first predetermined value, carrying out an operation to change one or more of the images displayed on the display screen;
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- (b) when the press force signal indicates that the force with which the user has touched the display is greater than a second predetermined value which is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value, carrying out a screen dividing function by dividing the display into first and second sections along a dividing line and displaying separate content in the first and second sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.