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US 8,913,030 B2Granted
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.
Claims7
A pointer display apparatus comprising:
- touch point detecting means configured to detect a touch point when a touch operation is made on a display screen;
- mode switching means configured to, in a case where the touch point does not move for a predetermined period of time or longer from when the touch operation is made on the display screen, cause transition to a pointer mode in which a pointer is displayed, and in a case where the touch point moves within a predetermined period of time from when the touch operation is made on the display screen, cause transition to a scroll mode in which display content on the display screen is movably displayed in accordance with the move of the touch point;
- pointer displaying means configured to display the pointer in a region including the touch point in the pointer mode;
- indication point detecting means configured to detect, as an indication point, a position corresponding to a part of the pointer other than the touch point in the pointer mode;
- and
- screen controlling means configured to movably display the display content on the display screen in accordance with the move of the touch point in the scroll mode.
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A pointer display detecting method comprising:
- a touch point detecting step of detecting, by touch point detecting means, a touch point when a touch operation is made on a display screen;
- a mode switching step of, in a case where the touch point does not move for a predetermined period of time or longer from when the touch operation is made on the display screen, causing, by mode switching means, transition to a pointer mode in which a pointer is displayed, and in a case where the touch point moves within a predetermined period of time from when the touch operation is made on the display screen, causing, by the mode switching means, transition to a scroll mode in which display content on the display screen is movably displayed in accordance with the move of the touch point;
- a pointer displaying step of displaying, by pointer displaying means, the pointer in a region including the touch point in the pointer mode;
- an indication point detecting step of detecting, by indication point detecting means, as an indication point, a position corresponding to a part of the pointer other than the touch point in the pointer mode;
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- a screen controlling step of movably displaying, by screen controlling means, the display content on the display screen in accordance with the move of the touch point in the scroll mode.
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An information apparatus comprising:
- display means;
- a touch panel provided on a display screen of the display means;
- touch point detecting means configured to detect a touch point of a touch operation on the touch panel;
- mode switching means configured to, in a case where the touch point does not move for a predetermined period of time or longer from when the touch operation is made on the touch panel, cause transition to a pointer mode in which a pointer is displayed, and in a case where the touch point moves within a predetermined period of time from when the touch operation is made on the touch panel, cause transition to a scroll mode in which display content on the display screen is movably displayed in accordance with the move of the touch point;
- pointer displaying means configured to display the pointer in a region including the touch point in the pointer mode;
- indication point detecting means configured to detect, as an indication point, a position corresponding to a part of the pointer other than the touch point in the pointer mode;
- and
- screen controlling means configured to movably display the display content on the display screen in accordance with the move of the touch point in the scroll mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.