Operation display device and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2015177860-A1
Application number	US-201314406943-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 5, 2013
Priority date	Jun 13, 2012
Publication date	Jun 25, 2015
Grant date	—

Abstract

Operation display device includes a display, an operation part, and an arithmetic and control part. The arithmetic and control part includes: an analysis processing part analyzing an operation content of an operation object; and a display processing part determining a shape and a position of a figure for operation displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analysis processing part. The analysis processing part has a function of classifying the operation content of the operation object into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting a control amount. When a contact position to the operation part is out of a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation, the display processing part displaces the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is within the tracking range.

First claim

1 . An operation display device comprising:
a display on which a figure for operation for adjusting a control amount instructed to a load is displayed; an operation part putted on a screen of the display, the operation part being configured to output a signal indicating a contact position of an operation object; an analyzing processing part configured to analyze an operation content of the operation object by receiving the signal from the operation part and associating the contact position of the operation object to the operation part with the figure for operation; a display processing part configured to determine a form and a position of the figure for operation to be displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analyzing processing part; and a load control part configured to adjust the control amount according to the operation content analyzed by the analyzing processing part, wherein the analyzing processing part has a function of classifying the operation content into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting the control amount, the analyzing processing part being configured to determine that the operation content is the moving operation when the contact position of the operation object to the operation part is deviated from a tracking range set n accordance with the position of the figure for operation, and wherein the display processing part is configured to displace the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is positioned within the tracking range when the analyzing processing part determines that the operation content is the moving operation.

2 . The operation display device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in an operation area set in the figure for operation, in a time period until the operation object separates from the operation part, the analyzing processing part is configured to determine that the operation content is the adjustment operation while the contact position of the operation object is in the tracking range, the analyzing processing part being configured to determine that the operation content is the moving operation while the contact position of the operation object is out of the tracking range.

3 . The operation display device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in an operation area set in the figure for operation, unless the operation object moves until a prescribed determination time period passes after the operation object starts contacting to the operation part, the analyzing processing part is configured to forbid displacement of the figure for operation in a time period until the operation object separates from the operation part.

4 . The operation display device according to claim 1 , wherein when a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in the tracking range, the analyzing processing part is configured to instruct the display processing part so that the control amount instructed to the load control part is made to correspond to the position and the form of the figure for operation is made to correspond to the control amount.

5 . The operation display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the figure for operation is a rectilinear operating part comprising a slider moving in a straight line, and wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the slider, a whole area of the moving track.

6 . The operation display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the figure for operation is a rotation operation part comprising a dot indicating a dial, which rotates around a center of rotation, and a rotary of the dial, and wherein the tracking range is set so as to contain, along a moving track of the dot, a whole area of the moving track.

7 . The operation display device according to claim 6 , wherein the analyzing processing part is configured to set a rotating ratio so that an angle of rotation of the dial is smaller than an angle of rotation of the operation object.

8 . The operation display device according to claim 7 , wherein, in a time period until the operation object separates from the operation part after the analyzing processing part determines that the operation content is the adjustment operation, the analyzing processing part is configured to forbid displacement of the figure for operation and adjust the control amount according to the angle of rotation of the operation object while the operation object continues rotating.

9 . The operation display device according to claim 1 , wherein the analyzing processing part, if the operation object separates from the operation part after contacting to the operation part, is configured to instruct the display processing part so that the figure for operation is returned to an initial position.

10 . A readable medium recording a program causing a computer to function as an apparatus,
the apparatus comprising: an display on which a figure for operation for adjusting a control amount instructed to a load is displayed; an operation part putted on a screen of the display, the operation part being configured to output a signal indicating a contact position of an operation object; an analyzing processing part configured to analyze an operation content of the operation object by receiving the signal from the operation part and associating the contact position of the operation object to the operation part with the figure for operation; and a display processing part configured to determine a form and a position of the figure for operation to be displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analyzing processing part, wherein the analyzing processing part has a function of classifying the operation content into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting the control amount, and wherein the display processing part, when the contact position of the operation object to the operation part is out of a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation, is configured to displace the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is positioned within the tracking range.

11 . The operation display device according to claim 2 , wherein, in a case where a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in the operation area set in the figure for operation, unless the operation object moves until a prescribed determination time period passes after the operation object starts contacting to the operation part, the analyzing processing part is configured to forbid displacement of the figure for operation in the time period until the operation object separates from the operation part.

12 . The operation display device according to claim 2 , wherein when a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in the tracking range, the analyzing processing part is configured to instruct the display processing part so that the control amount instructed to the load control part is made to correspond to the position and the form of the figure for operation is made to correspond to the control amount.

13 . The operation display device according to claim 3 , wherein when a position at which the operation object starts contacting to the operation part is in the tracking range, the analyzing

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Imai Tomikazu

Classifications

• G06T11/10

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• G06F3/0486 Primary

  Drag-and-drop · CPC title

• G06F3/04847 Primary

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• H05B47/10

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• G06F3/04883

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