Setting a display position of a pointer
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMasashi Miyazaki, Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shimizu, Tomonori Sugiura
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Abstract
A control apparatus includes: an operation reception unit receiving a reference setting operation, and a position designation operation after the reference setting operation, that are input by a user touching an input unit provided on a display surface of a display unit; a reference position setting unit setting a reference position at a position shifted toward a periphery of the input unit from the position of the reference setting operation on the input unit; and a display control unit setting, depending on the reference position and the position of the position designation operation, a display position of a pointer for selecting a position on the display unit.
Claims17
A control apparatus comprising:
- an operation reception unit receiving a reference setting operation and a position designation operation after the reference setting operation, wherein the reference setting operation and the position designation operation are input by a user touching an input unit provided on a display surface of a display unit;
- a reference position setting unit setting a reference position at a second position shifted toward a periphery of the input unit from a first position of the reference setting operation on the input unit;
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- a display control unit setting, depending on the reference position and the second position of the position designation operation, a display position of a pointer on the display unit;
- wherein the operation reception unit receives a second position designation operation input with another touch on the input unit coincident with the position designation operation, wherein the display control unit sets a display position on the display unit of a second pointer depending on a position of the second position designation operation, and wherein the display control unit sets the display position of the second pointer such that a distance between the display position of the pointer and the display position of the second pointer is not longer than a distance between the position of the position designation operation and the position of the second position designation operation.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors, a reference setting operation and a position designation operation after the reference setting operation, wherein the reference setting operation and the position designation operation are input by a user touching an input unit provided on a display surface of a display unit;
- setting, by one or more processors, a reference position at a second position shifted toward a periphery of the input unit from a first position of the reference setting operation on the input unit;
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- setting, by one or more processors and depending on the reference position and the second position of the position designation operation, a display position of a pointer on the display unit;
- wherein the operation reception unit receives a second position designation operation input with another touch on the input unit coincident with the position designation operation, wherein the display control unit sets a display position on the display unit of a second pointer depending on a position of the second position designation operation, and wherein the display control unit sets the display position of the second pointer such that a distance between the display position of the pointer and the display position of the second pointer is not longer than a distance between the position of the position designation operation and the position of the second position designation operation.
A computer program product for setting a display position of a pointer, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a reference setting operation and a position designation operation after the reference setting operation, wherein the reference setting operation and the position designation operation are input by a user touching an input unit provided on a display surface of a display unit;
- setting a reference position at a second position shifted toward a periphery of the input unit from a first position of the reference setting operation on the input unit;
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- setting, depending on the reference position and the second position of the position designation operation, a display position of a pointer on the display unit;
- wherein the operation reception unit receives a second position designation operation input with another touch on the input unit coincident with the position designation operation, wherein the display control unit sets a display position on the display unit of a second pointer depending on a position of the second position designation operation, and wherein the display control unit sets the display position of the second pointer such that a distance between the display position of the pointer and the display position of the second pointer is not longer than a distance between the position of the position designation operation and the position of the second position designation operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.