JP2002341991A - Information display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information display device by which operations of scroll of a screen and an instruction of transfer of a cursor are simply and easily performed. SOLUTION: The information processor is provided with an inclined direction detecting part 1 to detect the direction of inclination of the device and an inclination quantity detecting part 2 to detect size of the inclination of the device, and determines the scroll direction of information displayed on a display part 5 according to the inclination to be detected by the inclined direction detecting part 1 and determines scroll speed of the information displayed on the display 5 according to size of the inclination to be detected by an inclination quantity detecting part 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information display device, and more particularly to an information display device having improved scroll operation and cursor movement operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional information display devices, such as mobile phones, browser devices, and game machines, employ a system using a directional key or a rotary dial as an input device for giving an instruction to scroll a screen or move a cursor. ing.
These methods can provide a relatively simple method of scrolling the screen or giving an instruction to move the cursor.However, for display contents with a large amount of movement, the directional key method requires a long key press or a large number of key presses. Is required,
The rotary dial method requires a large number of dial rotations, all of which increase the operation time and the number of operations, and are troublesome for the user. In addition, since the rotary dial method does not correspond to four directions, up, down, left and right, in order to correspond to the four directions, it is necessary to switch a switch or two different dials.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional information display device, there is a problem that the user is troublesome in the operation for giving an instruction of scrolling the screen and moving the cursor with a large amount of movement. . The present invention
An object of the present invention is to solve this problem by a relatively simple method, and to realize an information display device in which the operation of scrolling the screen and instructing the movement of the cursor is simple and easy.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to an information display device having a display section for displaying information, a tilt direction detecting means for detecting a tilt direction of the device, and a tilt direction of the device. Tilt amount detecting means for detecting the size of the information, scroll direction determining means for determining a scroll direction of information displayed on the display unit according to the tilt direction detected by the tilt direction detecting means, and the tilt amount A scroll speed determining unit that determines a scroll speed of the information displayed on the display unit according to the magnitude of the inclination detected by the detecting unit. Thus, it is possible to realize an information display device that can easily give an instruction to scroll the screen by tilting the device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information display device having a display unit for displaying information, wherein a tilt direction detecting means for detecting a tilt direction of the device, and a tilt amount detecting means for detecting a magnitude of the tilt of the device. A cursor moving direction determining unit that determines a moving direction of a cursor displayed on the display unit according to a tilt direction detected by the tilt direction detecting unit;
According to the magnitude of the inclination detected by the inclination amount detection means,
And a cursor moving speed determining means for determining a moving speed of the cursor displayed on the display unit. Thus, it is possible to realize an information display device capable of easily instructing the movement of the cursor by tilting the device.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an information display device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the information display device of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a tilt direction detection unit,
Reference numeral 2 denotes a tilt amount detection unit, reference numeral 3 denotes an on / off switch,
Reference numeral 4 denotes a CPU, reference numeral 5 denotes a display unit (LCD), reference numeral 6 denotes a key switch, reference numeral 7 denotes a ROM, reference numeral 8 denotes a RAM, and reference numeral 10 denotes a gyro.

The tilt direction detecting section 1 and the tilt amount detecting section 2 are composed of a small gyro 10. The tilt direction detector 1 detects the tilt direction of the housing from the horizontal position, and notifies the CPU 4 of the detected tilt direction. On the other hand, the tilt amount detection unit 2 detects the magnitude of the tilt from the horizontal position of the housing, that is, the tilt amount, and notifies the CPU 4 of the detected tilt amount.

FIG. 2 shows how the tilt direction detecting unit 1 and the tilt amount detecting unit 2 detect. As shown in FIG. 2, if the other side of the surface of the device is lowered, the display device (LCD) 5 is moved upward,
When the front side is lowered, an instruction is given on the display unit (LCD) 5 downward, when the left side is down, the instruction is directed to the left side on the display unit (LCD) 5; Will be considered.

The on / off switch 3 has two stages of on states. Of the two stages of on-state, the first stage from the off-state to the first stage is on 1, the next second-stage is on 2, and the on / off switch 3 is the on-off switch 3. The state of ON 1 or ON 2 is notified to the CPU 4.

While the ON / OFF switch 3 is ON, the CPU 4 uses information from the tilt direction detecting unit 1 and the tilt amount detecting unit 2 as valid. First, the CPU 4
When the on / off switch 3 shifts from the off state to the on state 1, the inclination direction detected by the inclination direction detection unit 1 is regarded as pseudo horizontal, and the inclination amount detected by the inclination amount detection unit 2 is pseudo. Assume 0. Next, in response to a change in the tilt direction from the quasi-horizontal position detected by the tilt direction detection unit 1 while the ON / OFF switch 3 is in the ON state of the on / off switch 3, the display unit changes the display direction. (LCD) Scrolls the screen displayed on the screen 5 or moves the cursor. At this time,
The scrolling of the screen or the moving speed of the cursor is changed according to the amount of change in the amount of tilt from the pseudo zero position detected by the amount of tilt detection unit 2. Finally, when the on / off switch 3 is changed from the on state to the on state, the information displayed on the display unit (LCD) 5 is specified.

This operation will be described again with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the operation program starts in step 100, the state of the on / off switch 3 is checked in step 101. Step 10 if off
The process proceeds to 6 and waits without performing any processing. When the state of the on / off switch 3 changes from off to on 1, step 102
Then, the current tilt direction detected by the tilt direction detection unit 1 is set as a horizontal position, and the tilt amount detected by the tilt amount detection unit 2 is set as 0.

Next, in step 103, the state of the on / off switch 3 is checked again.
Proceeding to step 104, display control of the display unit (LCD) 5 is performed according to the tilt direction detected by the tilt direction detection unit 1 and the tilt amount detected by the tilt amount detection unit 2. When the state of the on / off switch 3 changes from on 1 to on 2, step 1
In step 05, the current screen or cursor position is specified, and the flow returns to step 101. Also, when the on / off switch 3 is turned off, the process returns to step 101.

As described above, according to the present invention, the scrolling of the screen and the moving direction and the moving speed of the cursor can be controlled by using the inclination of the apparatus housing, so that the scrolling and the moving of the cursor can be easily realized. The operation is easy, and the user's labor can be reduced.

[0014]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, in an information display device having a display section for displaying information, a tilt direction detecting means for detecting a tilt direction of the device, a tilt direction of the device, Tilt amount detecting means for detecting the size of
Scroll direction determining means for determining the scroll direction of the information displayed on the display unit in accordance with the tilt direction detected by the tilt direction detecting means; and display unit in accordance with the magnitude of the tilt detected by the tilt amount detecting means. And a scroll speed determining means for determining a scroll speed of the information displayed in (1). This makes it possible to realize an information display device that can easily instruct a screen scroll by tilting the device.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in an information display device having a display unit for displaying information, a tilt direction detecting means for detecting a tilt direction of the device, and a tilt for detecting a magnitude of the tilt of the device. An amount detecting unit, a cursor moving direction determining unit that determines a moving direction of a cursor displayed on the display unit according to the tilt direction detected by the tilt direction detecting unit, and a magnitude of the tilt detected by the tilt amount detecting unit. In response to the,
And a cursor moving speed determining means for determining a moving speed of the cursor displayed on the display unit. Thus, it is possible to realize an information display device capable of easily instructing the movement of the cursor by tilting the device.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a detecting operation performed by the tilt direction detecting means and the tilt amount detecting means by the tilt direction detecting means and the tilt amount detecting means, and a determination of the scroll direction determining means and the scroll speed determining means. A switch means for turning on / off a scroll operation based on the operation is provided. Thus, an information display device that can easily and easily control scrolling of the screen can be realized.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the detecting operation by the tilt direction detecting means and the tilt amount detecting means and the cursor moving operation based on the determining operations of the cursor moving direction determining means and the cursor moving speed determining means are turned on / off. It is characterized by having a switch means to perform. Thus, it is possible to realize an information display device capable of easily and easily controlling the movement of the cursor on the screen.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information display device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing how a tilt direction detecting unit and a tilt amount detecting unit of the information display device of the present invention detect.

FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart of the information display device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... tilt direction detector, 2 ... tilt amount detector, 3 ... ON
OFF switch, 4 CPU, 5 Display unit (LCD), 6
... key switch, 7 ... ROM, 8 ... RAM, 10 ... gyro.

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information display device having a display unit for displaying information, a tilt direction detecting means for detecting a tilt direction of the device, a tilt amount detecting means for detecting a magnitude of a tilt of the device, and the tilt direction. A scroll direction determining unit that determines a scroll direction of information displayed on the display unit according to a tilt direction detected by the detecting unit; and a scroll direction determining unit that determines a tilt direction detected by the tilt amount detecting unit.
An information display device comprising: a scroll speed determining means for determining a scroll speed of information displayed on the display unit. 2. An information display device having a display unit for displaying information, a tilt direction detecting means for detecting a tilt direction of the device, a tilt amount detecting means for detecting a magnitude of the tilt of the device, and the tilt direction. A cursor moving direction determining means for determining a moving direction of a cursor displayed on the display unit according to a tilt direction detected by the detecting means; and a magnitude of a tilt detected by the tilt amount detecting means,
An information display device comprising: a cursor moving speed determining unit that determines a moving speed of a cursor displayed on the display unit. 3. A switch means for turning on and off a detecting operation by the tilt direction detecting means and the tilt amount detecting means, and a scroll operation based on a determining operation by the scroll direction determining means and the scroll speed determining means. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein: 4. A switch means for turning on / off a detecting operation by said tilt direction detecting means and said tilt amount detecting means and a cursor moving operation based on a determining operation of said cursor moving direction determining means and said cursor moving speed determining means. The information display device according to claim 2, comprising: