Information display device, display mode switching method and display mode switching program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9671935-B2
Application number	US-201214379274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 16, 2012
Priority date	Feb 16, 2012
Publication date	Jun 6, 2017
Grant date	Jun 6, 2017

Abstract

A touch panel device includes a display unit, a detector, and a controller. The display unit displays, on a display screen, a nautical chart (map), and a touch panel device symbol indicating a position of the ship on the nautical chart. The detector detects rotating operation that is touch operation of rotating around the touch panel device symbol over a predetermined angle while touching the touch panel device symbol. When the detector detects the rotating operation, the controller switches a display mode to a different display mode in which a reference azimuth defining a displaying orientation of the nautical chart is different.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information display device, comprising:
a display screen configured to display, on the display screen, a nautical chart and an information display device symbol indicating a position of the information display device on the nautical chart, the information display device being arranged on a ship;
a touch detector configured to detect rotating operation and pinch operation, the rotating operation being touch operation in which a position of one of a touch on the information display device symbol and a touch on other than the information display device symbol is rotated centering on a position of the other touch over a predetermined angle without changing the position of the other touch, the pinch operation being touch operation in which at least one of the two touches on the display screen is separated from or brought closer to the other touch; and
a controller having a processor, the controller configured, when the touch detector detects the rotating operation, to switch a display mode to a different display mode in which a reference azimuth defining a displaying orientation of the nautical chart is different, and when the touch on the information display device symbol is detected, not to perform processing that is associated with the pinch operation even in a case where the touch detector detects the pinch operation.

2. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein when the touch detector detects the rotating operation, the controller switches to the different display mode by rotating the nautical chart in the same direction as a rotating direction of the rotating operation.

3. The information display device of claim 2 , wherein the controller switches to the different display mode by rotating the nautical chart centering on the position of the information display device symbol.

4. The information display device of claim 2 , wherein the controller switches to the different display mode by rotating the nautical chart centering on a center part of the display screen.

5. The information display device of claim 2 , wherein when the information display device symbol is touched, the controller displays a rotational center of the nautical chart used when switching to the different display mode.

6. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein the display mode includes at least one of north up in which the north direction is an upward direction of the display screen, head up in which a direction to which the information display device is oriented is the upward direction of the display screen, course up in which a direction of a set course is the upward direction of the display screen, and a fixed point mode in which a direction set in advance is the upward direction of the display screen.

7. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein the rotating operation is the touch operation in which while the information display device symbol is touched, the position of the touch on other than the information display device symbol is rotated centering on the information display device symbol over the predetermined angle.

8. The information display device of claim 1 , wherein the rotating operation is the touch operation in which while other than the information display device symbol is touched, the position of the touch on the information display device symbol is rotated centering on the position of the touch on other than the information display device symbol over the predetermined angle.

9. An information display device, comprising:
a display screen configured to display, on the display screen, a nautical chart and an information display device symbol indicating a position of the information display device on the nautical chart, the information display device being arranged on a ship;
a touch detector configured to detect rotating operation that is touch operation in which a position of one of a touch on the information display device symbol and a touch on other than the information display device symbol is rotated centering on a position of the other touch over a predetermined angle without changing the position of the other touch; and
a controller having a processor, the controller configured, when the touch detector detects the rotating operation, to switch a display mode to a different display mode, in which a reference azimuth defining a displaying orientation of the nautical chart is different.

10. The information display device of claim 9 , wherein the touch detector is able to detect the pinch operation that is touch operation in which at least one of the two touches on the display screen is separated from or brought closer to the other touch.

11. The information display device of claim 9 , wherein when the touch detector detects the rotating operation, the controller switches to the different display mode by rotating the nautical chart in the same direction as a rotating direction of the rotating operation.

12. The information display device of claim 11 , wherein the controller switches to the different display mode by rotating the nautical chart centering on the position of the information display device symbol.

13. The information display device of claim 11 , wherein the controller switches to the different display mode by rotating the nautical chart centering on a center part of the display screen.

14. The information display device of claim 9 , wherein when the information display device symbol is touched, the controller displays a rotational center of the nautical chart used when switching to the different display mode.

15. The information display device of claim 9 , wherein the display mode includes at least one of north up in which the north direction is an upward direction of the display screen, head up in which a direction to which the information display device is oriented is the upward direction of the display screen, course up in which a direction of a set course is the upward direction of the display screen, and a fixed point mode in which a direction set in advance is the upward direction of the display screen.

16. The information display device of claim 9 , wherein the rotating operation is the touch operation in which while the information display device symbol is touched, the position of the touch on other than the information display device symbol is rotated centering on the information display device symbol over the predetermined angle.

17. The information display device of claim 9 , wherein the rotating operation is the touch operation in which while other than the information display device symbol is touched, the position of the touch on the information display device symbol is rotated centering on the position of the touch on other than the information display device symbol over the predetermined angle.

18. A method of switching a display mode, comprising:
displaying, on a display screen, a nautical chart and an information display device symbol indicating a position of the information display device on the nautical chart, the information display device being arranged on a ship;
detecting rotating operation that is touch operation in which a position of one of a touch on the information display device symbol and a touch on other than the information display device symbol is rotated centering on a position of the other touch over a predetermined angle without changing the position of the other touch; and
switching the display mode to a different display mode in which a reference azimuth defining a displaying orientation of the nautical chart is different, when the rotating operation is detected by the detectin

Assignees

• Miichi Tadahiro
• Asahara Tatsuya
• Furuno Electric Co

Inventors

• Miichi Tadahiro
• Asahara Tatsuya

Classifications

• G06F3/0488

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

• G01C21/367

  Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker · CPC title

• B63B49/00

  Arrangements of nautical instruments or navigational aids (nautical measuring instruments G01C; radio navigation, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) · CPC title

• G09B29/10

  Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids (optical projection apparatus per se G03B) · CPC title

• G09B29/007

  using computer methods · CPC title