Input display apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8941879-B2
Application number	US-201213712884-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2012
Priority date	Dec 28, 2011
Publication date	Jan 27, 2015
Grant date	Jan 27, 2015

Abstract

An input display apparatus can communicate with a printing apparatus, and includes a display unit, a touch detection unit, and an orientation detection unit. The input display apparatus determines which screen components is touched by the operator touches, determines a type of an operation from the touch by the operator, and determines based on the orientation of the input display apparatus whether or not the input display apparatus has been rotated on a plane including a display screen. When the operation is a long press operation, and the input display apparatus has been rotated, the touched screen component determined to be touched is rotated and displayed in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the input display apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An input display apparatus configured to communicate with a printing apparatus, said apparatus further comprising:
a display unit configured to display a print setting screen;
a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch by an operator on the print setting screen displayed on the display unit;
an orientation detection unit configured to detect an orientation of an apparatus body,
a position determination unit configured to determine which screen…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Takahashi Katsuyuki

Classifications

• G06F3/1253

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1256

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1292

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1205 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0488 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic