US 7,010,756 B2Granted

Display operating system

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

InventorsChikao Nagasaka, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kouichi Masamura

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Abstract

A display operating system which can freely set numbers of rows and columns in an arrangement of selection buttons displayed on a monitoring screen with immediate selection of a desired selection button being made possible. A position corresponding to that of a fingertip interrupting two of a plurality of light beams projected in a lattice on a panel of a controller at an intersection thereof is set as a first-touch position, on the basis of which an active area is established. This makes, of a plurality of selection buttons, selection buttons in the active area become selectable. Further, when the active area is changed by changing the first-touch position with a change in fingertip position to change light beams that are interrupted, selection buttons in the changed active area become selectable.

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Dependent claims

A display operating system comprising:

a detecting section for detecting a plurality of unique positions of an operating body on an operating plane;
an inputting section for inputting one of a position detection signal and a determined candidate selection signal, the inputting section being provided with the detecting section, and the position detection signal corresponding to only one of said unique positions of the operating body on the operating plane detected by the detecting section, and the determined candidate selection signal corresponding to only one of said unique positions of the operating body on the operating plane detected by the detecting section;
a monitoring section for displaying a plurality of groups of selection elements displayed on a screen provided thereat wherein a total number of displayed selection elements is greater than a total number of position detection signals that can be generated by said inputting section;
and
a controlling section for controlling such that, of the plurality of groups of selection elements displayed on the screen of the monitoring section, at least one group of selection elements at a position corresponding to the position of the operating body on the operating plane is set to a selectable state on the basis of the received position detection signal, and, of the at least one group of selection elements in the selectable state, one selection element at a position corresponding to the position of the operating body on the operating plane is set to a determined candidate on the basis of the determined candidate selection signal, wherein, if, between a time of reception of the position detection signal and a time of reception of the determined candidate selection signal, the controlling section receives a different position detection signal satisfying a specified condition, a different group of selection elements, from the first selected group of selection element, is set to the selectable state by the controlling section, wherein the different group of selection elements corresponds to the new position of the operating body on the operating plane, such that said inputting section is capable of sequentially generating either a position detection signal and a determined candidate selection signal, or first and second position detection signals.

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A display operating system comprising:

a detecting section for detecting a plurality of unique positions of an operating body on an operating plane, the operating plane including a plurality of unique detection positions corresponding to intersections between a predetermined number of rows and a predetermined number of columns;
an inputting section for inputting one of a position detection signal and a determined candidate selection signal, the inputting section being provided with the detecting section, and the position detection signal corresponding to only one of said plurality of unique positions of the operating body on the operating plane detected by the detecting section, and the determined candidate selection signal corresponding to only one of said plurality of unique positions of the operating body on the operating plane detected by the detecting section;
a monitoring section for displaying a plurality of selection elements displayed on a screen provided thereat, the plurality of selection elements being structured of one of more rows as the predetermined number of rows or more columns as the predetermined number of columns;
and
a controlling section for controlling such that, of the plurality of selection elements displayed on the screen of the monitoring section, one group of selection elements at a position corresponding to the first position of the operating body on the operating plane is set to a selectable state on the basis of the received position detection signal, and, of the group of selection elements in the selectable state, a selection element at a position corresponding to the second position of the operating body on the operating plane is set to a determined candidate on the basis of the determined candidate selection signal.

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A display operating system comprising:

a detecting section for detecting a plurality of unique positions of an operating body on an operating plane;
an inputting section for inputting one of a position detection signal and a determined candidate selection signal,
the position detection signal corresponding to only one of said unique positions of the operating body on the operating plane detected by the detecting section and
the determined candidate selection signal corresponding to only one of said unique positions of the operating body on the operating plane detected by the detecting section;
a monitoring section for displaying a plurality of groups of selection elements displayed on a screen provided thereat where a total number of displayed selection elements is greater than a total number of position detection signals that can be generated by said inputting section;
and
a controlling section for controlling such that,
in said plurality of groups selection elements displayed on the screen of the monitoring section, on the basis of the received position detection signal, one group of selection elements which corresponds to the position of the operating body on the operating plane is set to an operable state among different groups of selection elements, the group comprising at least one row and at least one column to include a plurality of selection elements, and
among the selection elements in said one group of selection elements set to operable state, one selection element at a position corresponding to the position of the operating body on the operating plane is set to a determined candidate on the basis of the received determined candidate selection signal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/983,535Filed 24 Oct 2001
Priority: JP 2000-32879027 Oct 2000
Published: US 2002/0051014 A12 May 2002
Granted: 7 Mar 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

G01C 21/3679
Input/output arrangements for on-board computers: retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling…
B60K 35/10
Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles: input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle,…
B60K 35/22
Using visual output, e.g. blinking lights or matrix displays: display screens
B60K 35/28
Output arrangements, i.e. from vehicle to user, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor: characterised by the type of the…