JP2015090649A - Information terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information terminal device capable of, in the case where information provided is larger than a display area of a screen, and the whole information cannot be displayed at one time, automatically detecting a content of the information, and displaying it on the screen.SOLUTION: An information terminal device 1 includes: a display part 2; a screen scroll part 11 for vertically scrolling the display of a screen 2a of the display part 2; a display information acquisition part 12 for acquiring information displayed on the screen 2a; a display content detection part 13 for determining whether or not a content is present in the information displayed on the screen 2a; a non-display content detection part 14 for determining, in the case where no content is confirmed in a content section in a vertical direction, whether or not a content is present in a lateral direction crossing the vertical direction; and a display position determination part 15 for determining a display position of the screen 2a by stopping the scroll of the display of the screen 2a when a content is confirmed to be present.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information terminal device.

  In recent years, information terminal devices such as smartphones, tablet terminals, and personal computers have become widespread. These information terminal apparatuses can display contents such as documents and images provided by using an information service such as the Internet or starting an application.

  On the other hand, there is a case where the information including the contents is larger than the display area of the screen of the information terminal device and the entire information cannot be displayed at a time. Therefore, for example, when searching for content in a browser application (hereinafter referred to as a browser) used for browsing Web pages on the Internet, the user has to search while scrolling the display area of the screen. In some cases, the scrolling operation is very troublesome. An example of a conventional technique proposed to solve such a problem is disclosed in Patent Document 1.

  In the prior art described in Patent Document 1, priorities are set in advance and stored in conditions (for example, character strings, images, buttons, etc.) that the information terminal device wants to display on the Web page. When a Web page is displayed on the screen, a high priority item that matches the stored condition is detected and displayed at a predetermined position on the screen.

JP 2006-209553 A

  However, in the above prior art, prior to displaying information on the screen of the information terminal device, priorities must be set in advance for the conditions to be displayed on the Web page. Further, for example, a search using a keyword (character string) cannot be performed unless the keyword is known in advance, and the display may not move if the keyword does not exist in the provided information. Furthermore, the display may not move even when there are no images, buttons, or the like on the Web page. As a result, there is a concern that the user needs to scroll through the display area of the screen and search for desired content.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points. When the provided information is larger than the display area of the screen and the entire information cannot be displayed at once, the content of the information is automatically detected. An object is to provide an information terminal device that can be displayed on a screen.

  In order to solve the above problems, an information terminal device according to the present invention acquires a display unit, a screen scroll unit that scrolls the display of the screen of the display unit in a predetermined first direction, and information displayed on the screen. A display information acquisition unit that performs a display content detection unit that determines whether or not content exists in the information displayed on the screen, and the presence of the content in one screen in the first direction cannot be confirmed. A non-display content detection unit that determines whether or not the content exists in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and when the presence of the content can be confirmed, the scrolling of the display of the screen is stopped to And a display position determining unit that determines the display position of the screen.

  According to the configuration of the present invention, when the provided information is larger than the display area of the screen and the entire information cannot be displayed at once, the content of the information can be automatically detected and displayed on the screen. An information terminal device can be provided.

It is a block diagram of the information terminal device concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is a front view of the information terminal device concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a display of the browser screen in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the prior art example of the content search operation | movement of the browser in an information terminal device. It is a flowchart which shows the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation example of the content detection process of the browser in the information terminal device which concerns on 3rd Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

<First Embodiment>
First, the configuration of the information terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the information terminal device, and FIG. 2 is a front view of the information terminal device.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the information terminal device 1 includes a display unit 2, an operation unit 3, a communication unit 4, a control unit 10, and a storage unit 5.

  The display unit 2 includes a liquid crystal display, an organic EL (Electro-Luminescence) display, and the like. The display unit 2 displays information such as documents, images, icons, menus, input windows, and the like on the screen 2a based on the processing of the program executed by the information terminal device 1. The display unit 2 displays information such as characters and numerical values input by the user, menus selected by the user, selection results of other selectable items, and the like based on the operation of the operation unit 3 by the user.

  The operation unit 3 is a component that accepts operations related to display of the screen 2a by the user, such as input of characters and numerical values, selection of menus and other selectable items, execution and cancellation of processing, and the like. Based on the operation of the operation unit 3 by the user, the control unit 10 executes various processes on programs, data, and files stored in the storage unit 5 and the like, and executes display processes on the display unit 2. To do. The operation unit 3 includes keys that operate mechanically, and the display unit 2 may include a touch panel 3a. The touch panel 3a is arranged so as to overlap the screen 2a of the display unit 2, and detects a detection target object such as a user's finger or a touch pen.

  The communication unit 4 can obtain various information by connecting to a network such as the Internet by wire or wireless. Further, the communication unit 4 can communicate with other information terminal devices, and can transmit and receive information such as electronic mail. Further, when the information terminal device 1 is, for example, a mobile phone, the communication unit 4 transmits and receives voice and packets using the mobile phone network.

  The control unit 10 includes a calculation unit (not shown) and other electronic components, and controls the operation of the components incorporated in the information terminal device 1. For example, the control unit 10 executes various processes by controlling components such as the display unit 2 and the communication unit 4 based on programs, data, and files stored and input in the storage unit 5 or the like. As a program activated by the information terminal device 1, for example, there is a browser used for browsing Web pages on the Internet.

  The control unit 10 includes a screen scroll unit 11, a display information acquisition unit 12, a display content detection unit 13, a non-display content detection unit 14, and a display position determination unit 15. Here, the control unit 10 is configured to include five elements such as the screen scroll unit 11, but may be configured to include five elements such as the screen scroll unit 11 separately from the control unit 10.

  The screen scroll unit 11 scrolls the display of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 in a predetermined first direction. Here, the first direction is the vertical direction, and scrolling is performed downward in FIG.

  The display information acquisition unit 12 acquires information displayed on the screen 2 a of the display unit 2. Note that “information” described here means, for example, the Web page itself displayed on the screen 2a when the information terminal device 1 starts a browser. For example, when no content is described on the Web page, the display information acquisition unit 12 acquires information as blank paper. Various articles, images, and the like described on the Web page are acquired as Web page contents.

  The display content detection unit 13 determines whether or not content exists in the information displayed on the screen 2a of the display unit 2 acquired by the display information acquisition unit 12. The “content” described here means, for example, a character string (document) or an image described on a Web page. If the display content detection unit 13 can confirm the presence of the content on the screen, the processing is taken over by the display position determination unit 15. If the display content detection unit 13 cannot confirm the presence of the content on the screen, the process is taken over by the non-display content detection unit 14.

  The non-display content detection unit 14 is a horizontal direction that intersects the vertical direction when the display content detection unit 13 cannot confirm the presence of content on the screen, that is, when the presence of content cannot be confirmed for one screen in the vertical direction ( It is determined whether or not content exists in the right direction in FIG. The detection of the content in the horizontal direction is executed for one screen in the vertical direction. For example, it may be repeatedly executed with a length (width) of a predetermined dot unit of several dots in the vertical direction, or in the vertical direction. It may be repeatedly executed with the length (width) of the character size unit. At this time, the display of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 does not change, and the non-display content detection unit 14 tries to detect content in the non-display region on the right side.

  The display position determination unit 15 determines the display position of the screen 2a by stopping scrolling of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 when the presence of the content can be confirmed by the display content detection unit 13 and the non-display content detection unit 14. . Based on this, the control unit 10 displays the detected content at a suitable position in the screen 2a of the display unit 2.

  Next, an outline of browser processing in the information terminal device 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 in addition to FIGS. 1 and 2. 3 and 4 are explanatory diagrams showing a conventional example of browser content search operation in the information terminal device.

  When the user instructs execution of the browser in the information terminal device 1, the control unit 10 activates a browser stored in advance in the storage unit 5 or the like and executes processing related thereto.

  For example, a browser screen as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the display unit 2. According to FIG. 2, scroll buttons 6 for scrolling the screen 2a in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction are arranged at the right end and the lower end of the browser screen. Also, for example, a display enlargement / reduction button 7 for enlarging or reducing the display is arranged at the lower part of the browser screen.

  The display area 8 of the Web page on the browser screen of the information terminal device 1 shown in FIG. 2 has the configuration shown in FIG. According to FIG. 3, the display unit 2 can partially enlarge the original Web page P and display it as the display area 8 of the browser screen. In this case, generally, the upper left corner of the entire Web page P is displayed as a starting point. Note that the display unit 2 enlarges or reduces information so that the entire page is displayed on the screen 2a with respect to the original Web page P, or enlarges or reduces information so that the page width matches the screen width. It is also possible to do.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 3, when the content C1 consisting of “A” is written at a specific location on the Web page P, and no content is displayed on the screen 2a at the time of starting the browser, the conventional user is shown on the screen 2a. It was necessary to search while scrolling the display area 8. That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the user must find the content C <b> 1 consisting of “that” by scrolling manually input. This scrolling operation sometimes felt very annoying.

  Therefore, the information terminal device 1 according to the present embodiment automatically provides information, that is, when the Web page P is larger than the display area 8 of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 and the entire information cannot be displayed at once. The content of the information is detected and displayed on the screen 2a.

  Next, browser content detection processing in the information terminal device 1 configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 6 to 13 along the flow shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing browser content detection processing, and FIGS. 6 to 13 are explanatory diagrams showing operation examples of browser content detection processing.

  When the browser is activated in the information terminal device 1 (start of FIG. 5), the control unit 10 enlarges a part of the Web page P as shown in FIG. 6 and displays the browser screen display area 8 on the display unit 2, for example. Display as. Then, the control unit 10 causes the screen scroll unit 11 to start scrolling the display area 8 of the screen 2a (step # 101). The screen scroll unit 11 scrolls the display of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 in the vertical direction, that is, downward in FIG.

  Next, the control unit 10 causes the display information acquisition unit 12 to acquire information displayed on the screen 2a of the display unit 2 (step # 102). The display information acquisition unit 12 acquires information described in a part corresponding to the display area 8 of the display unit 2 in the Web page P.

  Next, the control unit 10 causes the display content detection unit 13 to determine whether content exists in the information displayed on the screen 2a of the display unit 2 acquired by the display information acquisition unit 12 (step # 103). The display content detection unit 13 detects content such as a character string (document) or an image described in a portion corresponding to the display area 8 of the display unit 2 in the Web page P, for example.

  When the display content detection unit 13 cannot confirm the presence of the content in the display area 8 of the display unit 2 (No in Step # 103), the control unit 10 causes the non-display content detection unit 14 to display the horizontal content as shown in FIG. The presence / absence of non-displayed content with respect to the direction is checked (step # 104). At this time, as described above, the display of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 does not change, and the non-display content detection unit 14 tries to detect the content in the non-display region on the right side. Then, the control unit 10 causes the non-display content detection unit 14 to determine whether or not there is non-display content in the horizontal direction (step # 105).

  When the non-display content detection unit 14 cannot confirm the presence of content in the non-display area on the right side of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 (No in Step # 105), the control unit 10 displays the display unit 2 on the Web page P. It is determined whether or not the display area 8 has been scrolled to the bottom of the Web page P (step # 106).

  If the scrolling of the display area 8 of the display unit 2 has not been completed to the bottom of the Web page P (No in Step # 106), the process returns to Step # 101, and the control unit 10 causes the screen scroll unit 11 to display the display area of the screen 2a. Resume scrolling 8. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 8, the display area 8 of the screen 2a is scrolled vertically by one screen.

  Next, the control unit 10 performs the processing of step # 102 to step # 105 again to detect the content on the web page P. Then, as shown in FIG. 9, when the non-display content detecting unit 14 can confirm the presence of the content C1 in the non-display area on the right side of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 (Yes in Step # 105), the control unit 10 causes the display position determination unit 15 to stop scrolling the display of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 to determine the display position of the screen 2a (step # 107).

  Then, the control unit 10 displays the detected content C1 at a suitable position in the display area 8 of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 as shown in FIG. 10 (step # 108), and ends the browser content detection process (step # 108). FIG. 5 end). Note that the browser content detection process is also ended when the scrolling of the display area 8 of the display unit 2 is finished up to the bottom of the Web page P in Step # 106 (Yes in Step # 106). In addition, a user operation may interrupt and the browser content detection process may end.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 11, when the display content detection unit 13 can confirm the presence of the content C2 in the display area 8 of the display unit 2 (Yes in Step # 103), the non-display content detection unit 14 The detected content C2 is displayed at a suitable position in the display area 8 of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 as in the case where the existence can be confirmed.

  Then, when the user performs a scrolling operation by manual input so that the content C2 disappears from the display area 8 of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 as shown in FIG. 12, the information terminal device 1 again displays the content of the browser shown in FIG. Start the detection process. Subsequently, when the content C3 shown in FIG. 12 is detected, the detected content C3 is displayed at a suitable position in the display area 8 of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 as shown in FIG.

  As described above, the information terminal device 1 includes the display unit 2, the screen scroll unit 11, the display information acquisition unit 12, the display content detection unit 13, the non-display content detection unit 14, and the display position determination unit 15. . According to this configuration, the information terminal device 1 detects the content in the display area 8 by scrolling the display of the screen 2 a of the display unit 2 in the vertical direction. When content does not exist in one screen in the vertical direction, the information terminal device 1 tries to detect content in a non-display area in the horizontal direction. The information terminal device 1 can automatically detect the content in the entire Web page P by the content detection operation in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.

Second Embodiment
Next, the configuration of the information terminal device according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation example of browser content detection processing in the information terminal device. Since the basic configuration of this embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment described above, the same components as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as before, and the description of the drawings and the description thereof. Shall be omitted.

  In the information terminal device 1 according to the second embodiment, after the browser is started, the operation unit 3 receives and identifies a flick operation as a predetermined first operation by the user as shown in FIG. When the operation unit 3 accepts a flick operation, the information terminal device 1 starts executing the browser content detection process shown in FIG. When the display content detection unit 13 or the non-display content detection unit 14 can confirm the presence of the content C1, the display position of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 is displayed so that the display position determination unit 15 displays the content in the screen 2a. To decide. As a result, the information terminal device 1 displays the detected content C1 at a suitable position in the display area 8 of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 as shown in FIG.

  According to this configuration, the information terminal device 1 starts executing the browser content detection process shown in FIG. Therefore, the user can start automatic detection of the content of the Web page P by the information terminal device 1 at a desired timing.

<Third Embodiment>
Next, the configuration of the information terminal device according to the third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation example of browser content detection processing in the information terminal device. Since the basic configuration of this embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment described above, the same components as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as before, and the description of the drawings and the description thereof. Shall be omitted.

  In the information terminal device 1 according to the third embodiment, after the browser is activated, the operation unit 3 receives and identifies a drag operation as a predetermined second operation by the user as shown in FIG. When the operation unit 3 accepts a drag operation, the information terminal device 1 starts executing the browser content detection process shown in FIG. When the non-display content detection unit 14 can confirm the presence of the content C1, the display position determination unit 15 sets the display position of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 so that the display of the screen stops on the extension line of the vertical scroll. decide. Thereby, the information terminal device 1 displays the information in the middle of the vertical scrolling without displaying the content C1 in the display area 8 of the screen 2a of the display unit 2 as shown in FIG.

  According to this configuration, the information terminal device 1 starts executing the browser content detection process shown in FIG. 5 in response to a drag operation by the user. Then, when causing the information terminal device 1 to automatically detect the content of the Web page P, it is possible to execute only vertical scrolling. Therefore, it is effective when the user desires not to change the display position of the horizontal screen 2a.

  According to the configuration of the above embodiment of the present invention, when the information of the provided web page P is larger than the display area 8 of the screen 2a and the entire information cannot be displayed at once, the information of the information is automatically displayed. The information terminal device 1 capable of detecting the contents C1, C2, and C3 and displaying them on the screen 2a can be provided.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the scope of the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

  For example, in the above embodiment, the application started on the information terminal device 1 is “browser”, the information displayed on the screen is “Web page itself”, and the content is “character string ( However, the scope of application of the present invention is not limited to browsing web pages using a browser. For example, the application is “e-mail software, word processor software, game, etc.”, the information displayed on the screen is “operation window”, and the content is “character string (document)” or the operation target described in the operation window. Button, text box, menu, etc. "

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the 1st direction which concerns on the scroll of the display of the screen 2a of the display part 2 was made into the vertical direction and the 2nd direction was made into the horizontal direction, a 1st direction and a 2nd direction are limited to these directions. I don't mean. For example, the first direction may be the horizontal direction and the second direction may be the vertical direction.

  In the second embodiment, the predetermined first operation by the user is a flick operation, and in the third embodiment, the predetermined second operation by the user is a drag operation. It is not limited. For example, the flick operation and the drag operation may be interchanged, and other operations may be set for the first operation and the second operation.

  The present invention can be used in an information terminal device.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information terminal device 2 Display part 2a Screen 3 Operation part 3a Touch panel 4 Communication part 5 Storage part 8 Display area 10 Control part 11 Screen scroll part 12 Display information acquisition part 13 Display content detection part 14 Non-display content detection part 15 Display position determination Part

Claims (3)

A display unit;
A screen scroll unit that scrolls the display of the screen of the display unit in a predetermined first direction;
A display information acquisition unit for acquiring information displayed on the screen;
A display content detection unit for determining whether or not content exists in the information displayed on the screen;
A non-display content detection unit that determines whether or not the content is present in a second direction intersecting the first direction when the presence of the content cannot be confirmed in one screen of the first direction;
A display position determination unit that determines the display position of the screen by stopping scrolling the display of the screen when the presence of the content can be confirmed;
An information terminal device comprising: An operation unit for receiving an operation related to display of the screen;
When the operation unit receives a predetermined first operation and confirms the presence of the content, the display position determination unit determines the display position of the screen so that the content is displayed in the screen. The information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein: An operation unit for receiving an operation related to display of the screen;
The display position of the screen so that the display position determination unit stops displaying the screen on the extension line in the first direction when the operation unit accepts a predetermined second operation and confirms the presence of the content. The information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the information terminal device is determined.

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