Information processing apparatus and control method for information processing apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKAZUKI MORIMOTO, KIYOYUKI MIYAZAWA, YUHSUKE HIRANO
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Abstract
A shift from a scroll mode to a pointer mode is more securely caused with a simple operation. A mobile phone (10) includes: a display section (14); a touch pad (16) having a detection region at a location outside a display region, an event identifying section (21) configured to identify a type of a touch event based on location information received from the touch pad (16); and a mode switching section (23) configured to switch a scroll mode, in which a screen is scrollable, to a pointer mode, in which a displayed object is selectable, in a case where a single tap is inputted in the scroll mode.
Claims10
1-5. (canceled)
An information processing device, comprising:
- a display section;
- an object detecting section having, at a location outside a display region of the display section, a detection region in which the object detecting section detects an object in proximity to or in contact with the detection region;
- and
- a control section configured to identify at least one touch event based on a detection result received from the object detecting section,
- the information processing device having (a) a scroll mode in which scrolling of a screen displayed in the display region is executed but selection of a displayed object in the screen is not executed and (b) a pointer mode in which selection of the displayed object is executed,
- in a case here (i) the information processing device is in the scroll mode and (ii) the control section identifies a series of touch events which are caused by a single tap, the control section switching the scroll mode to the pointer mode.
An information processing device, comprising:
- a display section;
- an object detecting section having, at a location outside a display region of the display section, a detection region in which the object detecting section detects an object in proximity to or in contact with the detection region;
- and
- a control section configured to identify at least one touch event based on a detection result received from the object detecting section,
- the information processing device having (a) a scroll mode in which scrolling of a screen displayed in the display region is executed but selection of a displayed object in the screen is not executed and (b) a pointer mode in which selection of the displayed object is executed,
- in a case where (i) the information processing device is in the scroll mode and (ii) the control section determines based on the touch event that a single tap has been made, the control section switching the scroll mode to the pointer mode.
The information processing device as set forth in claim 2, wherein:
- the control section determines that a single tap is made in a case where the control section identifies one of the at least one touch event as a touch down event and then identifies another one of the at least one touch event as a touch up event without identification of a move event between the touch down event and the touch up event.
The information processing device as set forth in claim 3, wherein:
- the control section determines that a single tap is made in a case where the control section identifies one of the at least one touch events as a touch down event and then identifies another one of the at least one touch events as a touch up event without identification of a move event involving a move over a given distance or longer between the touch down event and the touch up event.
The information processing device as set forth in claim 2, wherein:
- in a case where (i) the information processing device is in the scroll mode and (ii) the control section identifies the touch event, the control section acquires location information indicative of a location at which the touch down event has occurred, and uses the location information in scrolling the screen.
The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:
- the control section executes scrolling of the screen in a case where (i) the information processing device is in the scroll mode and (ii) the control section identities the touch event as a move event.
The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:
- the control section switches the pointer mode to the scroll mode in a case where (i) the information processing device is in the pointer mode and (ii) the control section identifies a series of touch events which are caused by a long tap.
The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:
- the control section causes the display section to display a cursor which indicates that the information processing device is in the pointer mode, upon detection of a touch up event which is caused by a single tap intended for switching the scroll mode to the pointer mode.
A method of controlling an information processing device which includes a display section and an object detecting section having, at a location outside a display region of the display section, a detection region in which the object detecting section detects an object in proximity to or in contact with the detection region,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) identifying at least one touch event based on a detection result of the object detecting section;
- and
- (b) switching a scroll mode to a pointer mode in a case where (i) the information processing device is in the scroll mode and (ii) a series of touch events which are caused by a single tap is detected in the step (a),
- the scroll mode being a mode in which scrolling of a screen displayed in the display region is executed but selection of a displayed object in the screen is not executed
- the pointer mode being a mode in which selection of the displayed object is executed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.