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US 10,592,097 B2Granted
Electronic apparatus equipped with a touch operation section
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorMasanori Ishihara
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Abstract
In order to achieve comfortable operations while appropriately preventing incorrect operations by unintentional touch operations on a touch operation section, when a touch operation performed on the touch operation section such as a selfie pad is a predetermined touch operation such as a double tap operation different from a touch operation such as a single tap or slide operation for giving an instruction to perform a predetermined function, switching is performed between a first state that is a selfie pad restricted state for restricting the predetermined function capable of being performed by the touch operation on the selfie pad and a second state that is a selfie pad restriction released state for releasing the restriction of the predetermined function.
Claims8
An electronic apparatus equipped with a touch operation section and a display section, the electronic apparatus comprising:
- a processor that is configured to:
- judge a type of a touch operation performed on the touch operation section, the type of the touch operation being one of a first touch operation on the touch operation section and a second touch operation on the touch operation section that is different from the first touch operation;
- perform switching between a first state where a predetermined function capable of being performed by the touch operation performed on the touch operation section is restricted from being performed and a second state where restriction of the predetermined function is released;
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- determine whether a state of the electronic apparatus is the first state or the second state,
- wherein the switching includes (i) first switching in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the first state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the first touch operation, the state of the electronic apparatus is switched from the first state to the second state, and in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the first state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the second touch operation, the electronic apparatus does not perform the predetermined function associated with the second touch operation, and (ii) second switching in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the second state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the first touch operation, the state of the electronic apparatus is switched from the second state to the first state, and in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the second state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the second touch operation, the electronic apparatus performs the predetermined function associated with the second touch operation,
- wherein the processor selects the predetermined function associated with the second touch operation from among a plurality of functions,
- wherein some of the plurality of selectable functions can be operated only by the touch operation section, and remaining ones of the functions can be operated by the touch operation section and another operation section, and
- wherein the processor controls whether or not display of an icon, which indicates that restriction of a function operable by the touch operation section is released and which is temporarily not displayed in response to detection of a predetermined operation by the touch operation section, is performed on the display section in order to identify whether a current state of the electronic apparatus is the first state or the second state.
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A touch operation control method for an electronic apparatus equipped with a touch operation section and a display section, the method comprising:
- judging a type of a touch operation performed on the touch operation section, the type of the touch operation being one of a first touch operation on the touch operation section and a second touch operation on the touch operation section that is different from the first touch operation;
- performing switching between a first state where a predetermined function capable of being performed by the touch operation performed on the touch operation section is restricted from being performed and a second state where restriction of the predetermined function is released;
- determining whether a state of the electronic apparatus is the first state or the second state;
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- controlling whether or not display of an icon, which indicates that restriction of a function operable by the touch operation section is released and which is temporarily not displayed in response to detection of a predetermined operation by the touch operation section, is performed on the display section in order to identify whether a current state of the electronic apparatus is the first state or the second state,
- wherein the switching includes (i) first switching in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the first state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the first touch operation, the state of the electronic apparatus is switched from the first state to the second state, and in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the first state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the second touch operation, the electronic apparatus does not perform the predetermined function associated with the second touch operation, and (ii) second switching in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the second state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the first touch operation, the state of the electronic apparatus is switched from the second state to the first state, and in which, when the state of the electronic apparatus is determined to be the second state and a type of a touch operation is judged to be the second touch operation, the electronic apparatus performs the predetermined function associated with the second touch operation,
- wherein the predetermined function associated with the second touch operation is selected from among a plurality of functions, and
- wherein some of the plurality of selectable functions can be operated only by the touch operation section, and remaining ones of the functions can be operated by the touch operation section and another operation section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.