Operation display apparatus, portable terminal, programs therefor, and operation display system
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorYasuaki Sugimoto
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Abstract
An operation display apparatus includes: an operating unit; a display unit; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a predetermined portable terminal; a free region detecting unit configured to detect a free region on a display screen of at least one of the display unit and the portable terminal; and an operation control unit configured to display an image of the operating unit in the free region when the position of the portable terminal detected by the position detecting unit is in front of a front side of the operating unit, and accept an operation performed on the image, as an operation received by the operating unit, the free region being detected by the free region detecting unit.
Claims35
An operation display apparatus comprising:
- an operating unit possessing a front side, the operating unit comprising at least one hard key on the front side;
- a display unit;
- a camera configured to communicate with a hardware processor to detect a position of a predetermined portable terminal;
- and
- the hardware processor being configured to:
- detect a free region on a display screen of at least one of the display unit and the portable terminal,
- display an image of a blocked portion of the front side of the operating unit in the free region when the position of the portable terminal detected by the hardware processor overlaps the blocked portion of the front side of the operating unit, the image of the blocked portion of the front side including at least one substitute button corresponding to the at least one hard key, and
- accept an operation performed on the image of the blocked portion of the operating unit as an operation received by the operating unit.
An operation display system including a portable terminal and an operation display apparatus including an operating unit and a display unit, the operating unit possessing a front side, the operating unit comprising at least one hard key on the front side, the system comprising:
- a camera configured to communicate with a hardware processor to detect a position of the portable terminal relative to the operation display apparatus;
- and
- the hardware processor being configured to:
- detect a free region on a display screen of at least one of the display unit and the portable terminal,
- display an image of a blocked portion of the front side of the operating unit in the free region when the position of the portable terminal detected by the hardware processor overlaps the blocked portion of the front side of the operating unit, the image of the blocked portion of the front side including at least one substitute button corresponding to the at least one hard key, and
- accept an operation performed on the image of the blocked portion of the operating unit as an operation received by the operating unit.
A portable terminal comprising:
- an operation input unit;
- a display unit;
- a camera configured to communicate with a hardware processor to detect a position of the terminal;
- and
- the hardware processor being configured to:
- detect a free region on a display screen of at least one of a predetermined operation display apparatus and the display unit, the operation display apparatus including an operating unit which possesses a front side, the operating unit comprising at least one hard key on the front side,
- display an image of a blocked portion of the front side of the operating unit in the free region when the position of the terminal detected by the hardware processor overlaps the blocked portion of the front side of the operating unit, the image of the blocked portion of the front side including at least one substitute button corresponding to the at least one hard key, and
- accept an operation performed on the image of the blocked portion of the operating unit as an operation received by the operating unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.