Pointer display apparatus and pointer operation control method
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsChiharu Shiratori, Shuto Oikawa, Tomoki Ishikawa, Hitoshi Tanaka
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Abstract
A pointer display apparatus includes a pointer which operates in an operation range; and at least one processor which controls an operation of the pointer. In a first display mode in which the processor displays display contents with the pointer, the processor sets an evacuation state of the pointer in an evacuation operation in which the pointer is temporarily evacuated from a pointing range to be different from an evacuation state of the pointer in a mode other than the first display mode.
Claims12
A pointer display apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of pointers configured to rotate around a first rotating axis and point to first information in a first pointing range;
- a small pointer that is different from the plurality of pointers, and configured to rotate around a second rotating axis different from the first rotating axis, and to point to second information different from the first information in a second pointing range different from the first pointing range;
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- at least one processor configured to control an operation of the plurality of pointers and the small pointer, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
- move one or more of the plurality of pointers in an overlapped state in a first display mode;
- move the plurality of pointers separately in a second display mode;
- in a case in which the one or more of the plurality of pointers are temporarily evacuated from the second pointing range of the small pointer in a state in which the pointer display apparatus is operating in the first display mode, a first number of pointers which is one or more pointers is evacuated;
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- in a case in which the one or more of the plurality of pointers are temporarily evacuated from the second pointing range of the small pointer in a state in which the pointer display apparatus is operating in the second display mode, a second number of pointers which is one or more pointers is evacuated, wherein the second number of pointers is different from the first number of pointers.
A pointer operation control method in a pointer display apparatus which includes a plurality of pointers that rotate around a first rotating axis and that points to first information in a first pointing range, and a small pointer that is different from the plurality of pointers, that rotates around a second rotating axis different from the first rotating axis, and that points to second information different from the first information in a second pointing range different from the first pointing range, and which operates according to a first display mode and a second display mode, the pointer operation control method comprising:
- moving one or more of the plurality of pointers in an overlapped state in the first display mode;
- moving the plurality of pointers separately in the second display mode;
- in a case in which the one or more of the plurality of pointers are temporarily evacuated from the second pointing range of the small pointer in a state in which the pointer display apparatus is operating in the first display mode, evacuating a first number of pointers which is one or more pointers;
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- in a case in which the one or more of the plurality of pointers are temporarily evacuated from the second pointing range of the small pointer in a state in which the pointer display apparatus is operating in the second display mode, evacuating a second number of pointers which is one or more pointers, wherein the second number of pointers is different from the first number of pointers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.