Electronic device, method of selecting menu, and program for selecting menu

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9015625-B2
Application number	US-200913124239-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2009
Priority date	Oct 30, 2008
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

An electronic device includes a storage portion for storing a plurality of menus, a multi-point-acceptable display-integrated tablet, a display control unit for causing the display-integrated tablet to display a display screen including the plurality of menus, an input processing unit for outputting an indicated position in accordance with an input while the input is provided to the display-integrated tablet, a selection unit for selecting menus based on a plurality of simultaneously output indicated positions, and an output portion for outputting the selected menus.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic device, comprising:
a storage portion for storing a plurality of menus;
a multi-point-acceptable display-integrated tablet extending in horizontal and vertical directions;
a display control unit for causing said display-integrated tablet to display a display screen including said plurality of menus, wherein the menus are arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions;
an input processing unit for outputting an indicated position in accordance with an input while said input is provided to said display-integrated tablet;
a selection unit for selecting said menus based on a plurality of simultaneously output said indicated positions; and
an output portion for outputting selected said menus,
said selection unit selects said menus lying between two simultaneously output said indicated positions,
said selection unit selects said menus on a line segment having two simultaneously output said indicated positions at respective end points,
said storage portion stores timing of start of each said input,
said selection unit sequentially provides selected said menus with respective selection serial numbers from one said end point to the other said end point wherein the selection serial numbers are based on an order of said timing of start of said input corresponding to each said end point, and
said output portion outputs said menus based on the selection serial numbers.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
said storage portion stores timing of start of each said input, and
said selection unit selects said menus on a polygonal line formed by connecting the plurality of simultaneously output said indicated positions in an order of said timing of start of said input corresponding to each said indicated position.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein
said selection unit sequentially provides selected said menus with respective selection numbers from one end point of said polygonal line to the other end point of said polygonal line, and
said output portion outputs said menus based on said selection numbers.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
said storage portion stores an order of display of each said menu in said display screen, and
said selection unit selects the plurality of said menus having said menus corresponding to two simultaneously input said indicated positions at respective opposing ends and having consecutive said order of display.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4 , wherein
said selection unit provisionally selects one said menu simultaneously designated by the plurality of said indicated positions and selects the plurality of said menus having two provisionally selected said menus at respective opposing ends and having consecutive said order of display.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein
said display control unit causes said display screen to scroll in accordance with continuous transition of said indicated position.

7. The electronic device according to claim 4 , wherein
said output portion outputs said menus based on said order of display.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
said output portion includes a monitor.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8 , wherein
said monitor is a photosensor built-in liquid crystal panel.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
said display-integrated tablet is a photosensor built-in liquid crystal panel.

11. A method of selecting a menu with an electronic device having a multi-point-acceptable display-integrated tablet extending in horizontal and vertical directions, comprising:
displaying a display screen including a plurality of said menus on said display-integrated tablet, wherein the menus are arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions;
outputting an indicated position in accordance with an input while said input is provided to said display-integrated tablet; and
selecting said menus based on a plurality of simultaneously output said indicated positions,
said selecting step selecting said menus lying between two simultaneously output said indicated positions,
said selecting step selecting selects said menus on a line segment having two simultaneously output said indicated positions at respective end points,

said storage portion stores timing of start of each said input,
said selecting step sequentially providing selected said menus with respective selection serial numbers from one said end point to the other said end point wherein the selection serial numbers are based on an order of said timing of start of said input corresponding to each said end point, and
outputting said menus based on the selection serial numbers.

12. A non-transitory processor-readable medium having embodied thereon instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method of causing an electronic device having a multi-point-acceptable display-integrated tablet extending in horizontal and vertical directions displaying a plurality of menus to select a menu, wherein the menus are arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions, said electronic device including an input processing unit for outputting an indicated position in accordance with an input while said input is provided to said display-integrated tablet, the method comprising:
determining whether said input processing unit is simultaneously outputting a plurality of said indicated positions; and
selecting menus from among said plurality of menus displayed on said display-integrated tablet based on the plurality of simultaneously output said indicated positions when said electronic device has determined that said input processing unit is simultaneously outputting the plurality of said indicated positions,
said selecting step selecting said menus lying between two simultaneously output said indicated positions,
selecting step selecting said menus on a line segment having two simultaneously output said indicated positions at respective end points,

storing timing of start of each said input,
said selecting step sequentially providing selected said menus with respective selection serial numbers from one said end point to the other said end point wherein the selection serial numbers are based on an order of said timing of start of said input corresponding to each said end point, and
outputting said menus based on the selection serial numbers.

Assignees

• Kimura Mitsuhide
• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Kimura Mitsuhide

Classifications

• G06F3/044

  by capacitive means · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F3/0412

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title

• G06F3/04883

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F3/0488 Primary

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title