Display operating device operating display of 3D object, and image forming apparatus with display operating device

A display operating device comprising:

• a position detecting section including a touch surface and configured to detect three positions on the touch surface which fingertips of three fingers are touching;
• an axis decision section configured to, using first and second positions, which are two of the three positions detected by the position detecting section, decide a first axis which is parallel in an imaginary three-dimensional space to a first imaginary line passing through the first and second positions and passes through a predetermined position of a 3D object located in the imaginary three-dimensional space;
• a movement determining section configured to determine whether or not a third position, which is a remaining one of the three positions, is moving;
• a display section;
• and
• a first rotation processing section configured to, when with the 3D object displayed on the display section the position detecting section detects the three positions and the movement determining section determines that the third position is moving, perform processing to rotate the 3D object displayed on the display section about the first axis decided by the axis decision section,
• wherein when the fingertips of two of the three fingers are touching the touch surface but the fingertip of the remaining one finger is not touching the touch surface, the position detecting section detects two positions on the touch surface which the fingertips of the two fingers are touching, and
• wherein the display operating device further comprises:
• a rotation determining section configured to determine whether or not a second imaginary line passing through the two positions is rotating;
• and
• a second rotation processing section configured to, when the rotation determining section determines that the second imaginary line is rotating, perform processing to rotate the 3D object displayed on the display section about a second axis which is perpendicular to a screen containing the 3D object displayed on the display section and passes through the predetermined position of the 3D object.

A display operating device comprising:

• a position detecting section including a touch surface and configured to detect three positions on the touch surface which fingertips of three fingers are touching;
• an axis decision section configured to, using first and second positions, which are two of the three positions detected by the position detecting section, decide a first axis which is parallel in an imaginary three-dimensional space to a first imaginary line passing through the first and second positions and passes through a predetermined position of a 3D object located in the imaginary three-dimensional space;
• a movement determining section configured to determine whether or not a third position, which is a remaining one of the three positions, is moving;
• a display section,
• a first rotation processing section configured to when with the 3D object displayed on the display section the position detecting section detects the three positions and the movement determining section determines that the third position is moving, perform processing to rotate the 3D object displayed on the display section about the first axis decided by the axis decision section;
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• a position decision section configured to calculate distances between each pair of the three positions and decide the two positions having the maximum distance as the first and second positions and the remaining one position as the third position.

A display operating device comprising:

• a position detecting section including a touch surface and configured to detect three positions on the touch surface which fingertips of three fingers are touching;
• an axis decision section configured to, using first and second positions, which are two of the three positions detected by the position detecting section, decide a first axis which is parallel in an imaginary three-dimensional space to a first imaginary line passing through the first and second positions and passes through a predetermined position of a 3D object located in the imaginary three-dimensional space;
• a movement determining section configured to determine whether or not a third position, which is a remaining one of the three positions, is moving;
• a display section,
• a first rotation processing section configured to when with the 3D object displayed on the display section the position detecting section detects the three positions and the movement determining section determines that the third position is moving, perform processing to rotate the 3D object displayed on the display section about the first axis decided by the axis decision section;
• and
• a rotational angle decision section previously storing a table in which various amounts of movement of the third position are associated with respective angles of rotation of the 3D object, the rotational angle decision section being configured to calculate the amount of movement of the third position and decide the angle of rotation associated with the amount of movement obtained by the calculation as the angle of rotation of the 3D object,
• wherein the first rotation processing section is configured to perform processing to rotate the 3D object by the angle of rotation decided by the rotational angle decision section.