Pointer display device, pointer display/detection method, pointer display/detection program and information apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsEijiro Mori, Takuo Ikeda, Ken Yano
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a pointer display device, including, a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section, a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point in a touch operation on the touch panel and to display a pointer in an area containing the contact point, and a hotspot detection section configured to detect as a hotspot a position corresponding to one part of the pointer exclusive of the contact point.
Claims14
A pointer display device, comprising:
- a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section;
- a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point of a touch operation on the touch panel and to display, in a portion of the display screen, a pointer icon whose boundary encloses a continuous area that includes the contact point;
- a hotspot detection section configured to detect, as a hotspot, a position pointed to by one part of the pointer icon that is exclusive of the contact point;
- and
- an operation element display section configured to display an operable operation element on the display screen,
- wherein the pointer display section is configured, when the spacing between the operation element and the pointer icon becomes not more than a predetermined value, to enlarge the pointer icon so that the one part of the pointer icon is attracted onto the operation element.
A pointer display/detection method, comprising:
- detecting a contact point of a touch operation on a touch panel provided over a display screen of a display section;
- displaying, in a portion of the display screen, a pointer icon whose boundary encloses a continuous area that includes the contact point;
- detecting, as a hotspot, a position pointed to by one part of the pointer icon that is exclusive of the touch point;
- and
- displaying an operable operation element on the display screen,
- wherein when the spacing between the operation element and the pointer icon becomes not more than a predetermined value, the pointer icon is enlarged so that the one part of the pointer icon is attracted onto the operation element.
A non-transitory recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program for carrying out a pointer display/detection method, the method comprising:
- detecting a contact point of a touch operation on a touch panel provided over a display screen of a display section;
- displaying, in a portion of the display screen, a pointer icon whose boundary encloses a continuous area that includes the contact point;
- detecting, as a hotspot, a position pointed to by one part of the pointer icon that is exclusive of the touch point;
- and
- displaying an operable operation element on the display screen,
- wherein when the spacing between the operation element and the pointer icon becomes not more than a predetermined value, the pointer icon is enlarged so that the one part of the pointer icon is attracted onto the operation element.
An information apparatus, comprising:
- a display section;
- a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section;
- a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point of a touch operation on the touch panel and to display, in a portion of the display screen, a pointer icon whose boundary encloses a continuous area that includes the contact point;
- a hotspot detection section configured to detect, as a hotspot, a position pointed to by one part of the pointer icon that is exclusive of the contact point;
- and
- an operation element display section configured to display an operable operation element on the display screen,
- wherein the pointer display section is configured, when the spacing between the operation element and the pointer icon becomes not more than a predetermined value, to enlarge the pointer icon so that the one part of the pointer icon is attracted onto the operation element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.