Input device and computer-readable storage medium storing input program for the input device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9513717-B2
Application number	US-201313767203-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 14, 2013
Priority date	Mar 12, 2012
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

An input device, including: an input acceptance portion configured to accept an input with respect to a display; and a controller configured to perform: a processing selecting process in which at least one processing is selected from among a plurality of executable processing on the basis of a movement direction of a continuous input from a start position, where the input acceptance portion accepts the continuous input; a processing-range setting process in which a range specified by the start position and an end position in the continuous input is set as a processing range for the at least one processing selected in the processing selecting process, where the input acceptance portion accepts the continuous input; and a processing executing process in which the at least one processing selected in the processing selecting process is executed with respect to data in the processing range set in the processing-range setting process.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An input device, comprising:
an input acceptance portion configured to accept an input with respect to an image displayed on a display;
a storage configured to store a first direction and a second direction with respect to the image displayed on the display, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction; and
a controller configured to perform:
a position determining process in which a start position and an end position on the display are determined based on a continuous input accepted by the input acceptance portion, the start position being a position of the earliest detected input in the continuous input, the end position being a position of the latest detected input in the continuous input;
a processing region setting process in which a rectangular region having two apexes of opposite angles respectively corresponding to the start position and the end position in the continuous input is set as a processing region, when the start position and the end position are detected in the position determining process;
a copying-processing executing process in which a copying processing is executed with respect to a part of the image included in the processing region set in the processing region setting process when a movement direction of the continuous input from the start position to the end position is a first oblique direction that is oblique to the first direction and the second direction; and
a deletion-processing executing process in which a deletion processing is executed with respect to the part of the image included in the processing region when the movement direction of the continuous input from the start position to the end position is a second oblique direction that is an opposite direction of the first oblique direction.

2. The input device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, where the input acceptance portion accepts the continuous input, the processing region is updated in the processing region setting process in accordance with a position at which the continuous input is accepted by the input acceptance portion,
wherein the controller is configured to further perform a storage control process in which the updated processing region is stored every time the processing region is updated in the processing region setting process,
wherein data corresponding to a difference between: the processing region according to a current position at which the continuous input is being currently accepted; and the processing region according to a preceding position at which the continuous input has been immediately precedingly accepted is deleted in the deletion-processing executing process, in an instance where the processing region according to the current position is larger than the processing region according to the preceding position, and
wherein the data that has been deleted and that corresponds to the difference is displayed in the deletion-processing executing process, in an instance where the processing region according to the current position is smaller than the processing region according to the preceding position.

3. The input device according to claim 2 , wherein, in the processing region setting process, the processing region according to the current position is set so as to be smaller than the processing region according to the preceding position, where the movement direction of the continuous input from the previous position is changed to the first oblique direction.

4. The input device according to claim 2 , wherein the data that has been deleted and that corresponds to the difference is displayed in the deletion-processing executing process from the preceding position in order toward the first oblique direction, in an instance where the processing region according to the current position is smaller than the processing region according to the preceding position.

5. The input device according to claim 1 , wherein the part of the image included in the processing region is deleted in the deletion-processing executing process when acceptance of the continuous input by the input acceptance portion is ended.

6. The input device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the deletion-processing executing process, the data corresponding to the part of the image included in the processing region is stored in the storage as deletion data and
wherein the controller is configured to further perform another processing executing process in which the deletion data corresponding to the part of the image included in the processing region is displayed at a certain position of the display, when the input acceptance portion accepts an input that corresponds to paste processing of the deletion data with respect to the certain position.

7. The input device according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one of: a reading portion configured to form image data by reading a document; and a transmission and reception portion configured to transmit and receive image data via a public network,
wherein, in the deletion-processing executing process, image data is added such that an image in a prescribed color is displayed in the processing region as a result of deletion of the data corresponding to the part of the image included in the processing region.

8. The input device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the copying-processing executing process, the data corresponding to the part of the image included in the processing region is stored in the storage as copy data, and
wherein the controller is configured to further perform another processing executing process in which the copy data is displayed at a certain position of the display, when the input acceptance portion accepts an input that corresponds to paste processing of the copy data with respect to the certain position.

9. The input device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the deletion-processing executing process, the data corresponding to the part of the image included in the processing region is stored as deletion data in the storage,
wherein, in the copying-processing executing process, the data corresponding to the part of the image included in the processing region is stored as copy data in the storage,
wherein the controller is configured to further perform:
a second processing executing process in which the deletion data is displayed at a certain position of the display, when the input acceptance portion accepts an input that corresponds to paste processing of the deletion data at the certain position; and
a third processing executing process in which the copy data is displayed at a certain position of the display, when the input acceptance portion accepts an input that corresponds to paste processing of the copy data with respect to the certain position, and

wherein the input that corresponds to the paste processing of the deletion data and the input that corresponds to the paste processing of the copy data are carried out in mutually different manners.

10. The input device according to claim 1 , wherein, in the copying-processing executing process and in the deletion-processing executing process, the part of the image included in the processing region is displayed in a display mode that changes depending upon the copying processing and the deletion processing.

11. The input device according to claim 1 , further comprising a touch panel overlaid on the display,
wherein the input acceptance portion is configured to accept an input from the touch panel.

12. The input device according to claim 11 , wherein the continuous input is an input in which a position of the touch panel on which a touch is made is moved after detection of the touch, in a state in which the touch is kept detec

Assignees

• Urakawa Yutaka
• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Urakawa Yutaka

Classifications

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04N1/00411

  the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen · CPC title

• G06F3/033 Primary

  Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user {, e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks}; Accessories therefor (digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041) · CPC title

• H04N2201/0094

  Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception · CPC title

• G06F3/04883 Primary

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