Display device and screen display method
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorKeiichi Murakami
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Abstract
It is intended to enable enlarging or reducing a screen with a simple operation. A mobile phone 1 includes a touch panel 11 that displays a screen and receives a predetermined input, a detection unit 12 that detects a start point and an end point of a physical touch on the touch panel 11, and a display control unit 13 that calculates a moving direction of the touch on the basis of the detection result, enlarges the screen displayed on the touch panel 11 when the moving direction is in a predetermined first range, and reduces the screen when the moving direction is in a predetermined second range different from the first range.
Claims7
A display device comprising:
- a touch panel that displays a screen and receives a predetermined input;
- a detection unit for detecting a start point and an end point of a physical touch on the touch panel;
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- a display control unit for calculating a moving direction of the touch on the basis of the detection result from the detection unit, enlarging the screen displayed on the touch panel when the moving direction is in a predetermined first range, and reducing the screen when the moving direction is in a predetermined second range different from the first range.
A screen display method executed by a display device including a touch panel that displays a screen and receives a predetermined input, the screen display method comprising:
- a detection step of detecting a start point and an end point of a physical touch on the touch panel;
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- a display control step of calculating a moving direction of the touch on the basis of the detection result in the detection step, enlarging the screen displayed on the touch panel when the moving direction is in a predetermined first range, and reducing the screen when the moving direction is in a predetermined second range different from the first range.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.