JP3866584B2 - Terminal device, scroll start method, and program - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a terminal device such as a mobile phone, a PHS, a PDA, an electronic notebook, a personal computer, a scroll start method, and a program, and more particularly to a terminal device that can quickly start a scroll operation of a cursor, a page, and the like on a screen. The present invention relates to a scroll start method and a program.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In the conventional terminal device, when the cursor scroll operation or the page scroll operation is performed, there are only two kinds of operations of short press and long press of the button. That is, for example, when the lower button of the cross button is short-pressed, the cursor moves down by one line, and when the upper button of the cross button is short-pressed, the cursor moves up by one line. In addition, the cursor scrolling is started by pressing and holding the lower button or the upper button of the cross button.
[0003]
If the right button of the cross button is short pressed, the page moves forward by one page, and if the left button of the cross button is short pressed, the page moves backward by one page. The page scrolling is started by long pressing the right button or the left button of the cross button.
[0004]
In JP-A-10-229440, it is determined whether the operation of the ascending button and the descending button provided on the remote unit is “long press” or “short press”, and long press Discloses a mobile telephone system that sequentially reads out only the memory number by voice and, in the case of a short press, reads out the memory number, name, and telephone number by voice.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
In a conventional terminal device, in order to perform a scroll operation of a cursor, a page, or the like, a long press must be performed. In order to determine “long press”, a certain time (for example, about 1 second) is required. You have to keep pressing the operation button. Therefore, the scroll operation cannot be started quickly.
[0006]
The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a terminal device, a scroll start method, and a program that can quickly start a scroll operation of a cursor, a page, and the like.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The terminal device of the present invention is a terminal device including a movement operation button for starting a movement operation on a screen, and a first determination unit that determines whether the movement operation button is pressed shortly or longly. The moving operation button is short-pressed by the second determining means for determining whether or not the moving operation button is pressed within a predetermined time after the moving operation button is short-pressed and the first determining means. A short movement execution means for executing a short movement operation when the movement operation button is determined to be long pressed by the first determination means and a second movement And a scroll execution means for executing a scrolling operation when it is determined by the determination means that the movement operation button is pressed within a predetermined time after the movement operation button has been pressed for a short time. is there.
[0008]
The scroll execution means may continue scrolling when the movement operation button is kept pressed, and stop scrolling when the movement operation button is released.
[0009]
The scroll execution means may stop the scroll when there is some button input when the movement operation button is short-pressed within a predetermined time and the scroll operation is executed. .
[0010]
You may have a means to set and change the time used as a judgment standard by the second judgment means.
[0011]
The movement operation button may start a cursor movement operation, may start a page movement operation, or may start a cursor movement operation and a page movement operation.
[0012]
The scroll start method of the present invention is a method of starting scrolling by a terminal device having a movement operation button for starting a movement operation on a screen.
Determining whether the operation button for movement is short-pressed or long-pressed;
A step of determining whether or not the movement operation button has been pressed within a predetermined time after being pressed shortly;
A step of executing a short movement operation when it is determined that the movement operation button is short-pressed;
A step of executing a scrolling operation when it is determined that the movement operation button is pressed for a long time and when the movement operation button is pressed for a short time after being pressed shortly;
It is characterized by having.
[0013]
The program of the present invention is a program for controlling a terminal device including a movement operation button for starting a movement operation on a screen.
A process for determining whether the operation button for movement is short-pressed or long-pressed;
A process of determining whether or not the movement operation button is pressed within a predetermined time after the operation button has been pressed for a short time;
When it is determined that the movement operation button has been pressed for a short time, a process of executing a short movement operation;
When it is determined that the operation button for movement has been pressed for a long time and when the operation button for movement has been pressed for a short time after being pressed for a short time, a process of executing a scroll operation;
Is executed by a computer.
[0014]
According to the present invention, since scrolling can be started not only by long pressing but also by continuous pressing within a short time, the time required to start scrolling can be significantly shortened (for example, to about 0.1 second). .
[0015]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1A is a plan view showing the appearance of a terminal device to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 1B is a block diagram showing the configuration of the terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
[0016]
The present invention is applied to terminal devices such as a mobile phone, PHS, PDA, electronic notebook, personal computer, and the like. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, a terminal device to which the present invention is applied includes a main body 1, a display unit 2 provided on the main body 1 for displaying various information on a screen, and various data. It has the input part 3 which inputs, and the control part 4 which controls operation | movement of a terminal device. The input unit 3 includes a cross-shaped button 5 that is a movement operation button and a numeric keypad 6.
[0017]
The display unit 2 is controlled by the control unit 4 and has a function of switching display according to inputs from the cross-shaped button 5 and the numeric keypad 6. For example, it has a function of displaying the input number on the display unit 2 when the number of the numeric keypad 6 is input.
[0018]
As shown in FIG. 1A, the cross-shaped button 5 includes an upper button 5a, a lower button 5b, a left button 5c, and a right button 5d, and is mainly used for scrolling the cursor and scrolling the page. Instructs four directions (up / down / left / right). Here, scrolling means that the cursor or page or the like moves continuously. For example, if scrolling is started downward while a list of phone book information is displayed, the cursor continuously moves downward.
[0019]
The input from the upper button 5a, the lower button 5b, the left button 5c, and the right button 5d of the cross button 5 is longer than a predetermined time when a short time button less than a predetermined time is pressed (hereinafter referred to as a short press). There are cases where the time button is pressed (hereinafter referred to as long press).
[0020]
The numeric keypad 6 is composed of buttons for inputting numbers from 0 to 9 and other buttons for functions necessary for the terminal device, and mainly calls numbers and functions built in the terminal device. Used for.
[0021]
In the embodiment of the present invention, the function of the numeric keypad 6 is equivalent to the function of a conventional terminal device, and thus detailed description is omitted.
[0022]
As shown in FIG. 1B, the control unit 4 includes a first determination unit 7 that determines whether the cross-shaped button 5 that is a movement operation button has been pressed shortly or longly, and the cross-shaped button 5 When it is determined by the second determination unit 8 that determines whether or not the button has been pressed within a predetermined time after the short press and the first determination unit 7 that the cross button 5 has been pressed for a short time In addition, when the short movement execution unit 9 that executes a short movement (for example, one line movement or one page movement) operation and the first determination unit 7 determine that the cross-shaped button 5 has been pressed for a long time and The second determination unit 8 includes a scroll execution unit 10 that executes a scroll operation when it is determined that the cross-shaped button 5 is pressed within a predetermined time after the cross-shaped button 5 is pressed for a short time.
[0023]
The terminal device also includes a storage unit 11 that stores telephone directory information and the like, a communication unit 12 that is connected to a communication network such as the Internet, and the like. The phone book information is composed of, for example, a name, a phone number, and a group number. In the embodiment of the present invention, since the name of the telephone directory information is used for explanation, a symbol is assigned. However, since the telephone number and group number are not the object of the explanation of the present invention, no symbol is assigned.
[0024]
As an example, it is assumed that the storage unit 11 of the terminal device stores 30 phone book information. Assume that 30 phone book information is managed by numbers 1 to 30.
[0025]
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example when a list of names of phone book information is displayed on the display unit 2. Here, it is assumed that the name of the phone book information for 10 cases can be displayed on one screen on the display unit 2.
[0026]
A cursor 13 indicates a selection candidate in the list of phone book information. The cursor 13 moves up one line when the upper button 5a of the cross-shaped button 5 is pressed for a short time, and moves down one line when the lower button 5b is pressed for a short time.
[0027]
When the cursor 13 is on “1 Ichiro Asano” on the display unit 2 in FIG. 2, when the upper button 5a is pressed for a short time, a list L1 of names from the 21st to 30th names in the phone book information is displayed.
[0028]
When the cursor 13 is on “10 Yamada ☆ child” on the display unit 2 of FIG. 2, when the down button 5b is pressed for a short time, a list L2 of names from the 11th to the 20th name in the phone book information is displayed. .
[0029]
Also, when the right button 5d of the cross button 5 is pressed for a short time from the screen display of the display unit 2 in FIG. 2, a list L2 of the 11th to 20th phonebook information is displayed. Conversely, when the left button 5c of the cross button 5 is pressed for a short time from the screen display of the display unit 2 in FIG. 2, a list L1 of the 21st to 30th phonebook information is displayed.
[0030]
FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the terminal apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 shows a procedure for moving the cursor 13 downward as an example when the display on the display unit 2 of the terminal device is displaying the list of the phone book information shown in FIG.
[0031]
In the case of the conventional terminal device, when the lower button 5b of the cross button 5 is pressed for a short time, the cursor 13 only moves down by one line. In addition, in order to start scrolling, the lower button 5b of the cross button 5 must be pressed for a long time.
[0032]
On the other hand, in the terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention, the scroll operation can be started from a combination of continuous pressing (double click) and long pressing within a predetermined time.
[0033]
First, a list of phone book information stored in the storage unit 11 is displayed on the display unit 2 of the terminal device (step S1).
[0034]
Next, when the lower button 5b of the cross button 5 is input (step S2), the first determination unit 7 determines whether the input of the lower button 5b is a short press or a long press (step S3).
[0035]
When it is determined by the first determination unit 7 that the key is a short press, the short movement execution unit 9 moves the cursor 13 downward by one line (step S4).
[0036]
When it is determined by the first determination unit 7 that the long press is made, the scroll execution unit 10 starts scrolling the cursor 13 (step S5).
[0037]
Next, after the processing in step S4, the second determination unit 8 determines whether or not the lower button 5b is continuously pressed within a predetermined time (for example, 300 milliseconds (0.3 seconds)) (step S6).
[0038]
When the second determination unit 8 determines that the time is less than a predetermined time (for example, 300 milliseconds), scrolling of the cursor 13 is started (step S5).
[0039]
When it is determined by the second determination unit 8 that the predetermined time (for example, 300 milliseconds) is exceeded, the short movement execution unit 9 moves the cursor 13 downward by one line (step S4).
[0040]
After step S5, the scroll execution unit 10 determines whether the lower button 5b is kept pressed or released (step S7).
[0041]
If it is determined in step S7 that the down button 5b is kept pressed, the scroll execution unit 10 continues to scroll the cursor 13 (step S8), and the process proceeds to step S7. .
[0042]
If it is determined in step S7 that the lower button 5b is released, the scroll of the cursor 13 is stopped (step S9), and the process proceeds to step S1.
[0043]
4 and 5 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the movement of the cursor 13 as an example of the operation of the terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
[0044]
As shown in FIG. 2, from the state where the cursor 13 is in “1 Asano Ichiro”, the cursor 13 is changed to “6 Takagi” by using a scroll that combines continuous pressing (double click) and long pressing within the predetermined time of the down button 5b. An example of moving to “Male” will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
[0045]
At step S1 in the flowchart of FIG. 3, the display unit 2 displays the screen shown in FIG.
[0046]
When the down button 5b is pressed for a short time from the state of step S1 (step S2), the process proceeds to step S3 and step S4, and the display unit 2 displays the screen shown in FIG.
[0047]
When the down button 5b is pressed again within a predetermined time (300 milliseconds) from step S4, scrolling of the cursor 13 is started (step S5).
[0048]
When the process proceeds from step S5 to step S7 and it is determined that the lower button 5b is kept pressed, the process proceeds to step S8, and the display unit 2 displays the screen shown in FIG.
[0049]
If the process proceeds from step S8 to step S7 and it is determined that the lower button 5b is kept pressed, the process proceeds to step S8, and the display unit 2 displays the screen shown in FIG.
[0050]
When the process proceeds from step S8 to step S7 and it is determined that the lower button 5b is kept pressed, the process proceeds to step S8, and the display unit 2 displays the screen shown in FIG.
[0051]
When the process proceeds from step S8 to step S7 and it is determined that the lower button 5b is kept pressed, the process proceeds to step S8, and the display unit 2 displays the screen shown in FIG.
[0052]
If the process proceeds from step S8 to step S7 and it is determined that the lower button 5b has been released, the process proceeds to step S9, and scrolling is stopped (see FIG. 5F).
[0053]
After stopping scrolling in step S8, the process proceeds to step S1.
[0054]
The same operation as described above can be performed for buttons other than the lower button 5b of the cross button 5. That is, when the upper button 5a is pressed for a short time, the cursor 13 moves upward by one line, and when the upper button 5a is pressed for a long time or continuously, the cursor 13 scrolls upward. When the right button 5d is pressed for a short time, the page of the phone book information is moved forward by one page, and when the right button 5d is pressed for a long time or continuously, the page is scrolled forward. Further, when the left button 5c is pressed for a short time, the page of the phone book information moves after one page, and when the left button 5c is pressed for a long time or continuously, the page scrolls backward.
[0055]
In this embodiment, an example of the operation while displaying the phone book information is shown. However, for example, when selecting a menu list or scrolling a page while connected to the Internet, the cursor 13 being displayed is displayed. Applicable to all cases of moving and scrolling pages.
[0056]
Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the combination of continuous pressing (double click) and long pressing is used, but scrolling is started by short pressing the same cross button 5 twice (double click), and the cross The scrolling may be continued even after the button 5 is released, and the scrolling may be stopped when any button is input.
[0057]
Furthermore, in step S6 in the flowchart of FIG. 3, the conditions for starting scrolling may be changed by appropriately changing the time used as a determination criterion.
[0058]
FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the second embodiment of the present invention relates to a program 14 that controls a terminal device and causes a computer to execute the processing performed by the terminal device described above. The program 14 may be recorded on a recording medium such as a magnetic disk, a CD-ROM, or a semiconductor memory, or may be downloaded via a communication network.
[0059]
According to the embodiment of the present invention, scrolling can be started not only by long pressing but also by continuous pressing within a short time, so the time until the scrolling is started is remarkably reduced (for example, to about 0.1 second). ) It can be shortened, and the operability is improved without giving the operator time stress.
[0060]
Further, since the conventional function can be used as it is simply by adding processing for determining whether or not the button is continuously pressed within a predetermined time, the long-press function in the conventional terminal device is not impaired at all. .
[0061]
Furthermore, since the operation buttons and the like existing in the conventional terminal device can be used as they are simply by changing the configuration of the control unit 4, this can be easily realized.
[0062]
The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the technical matters described in the claims.
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, since scrolling can be started not only by long pressing but also by continuous pressing within a short time, it is possible to remarkably shorten the time until the scrolling is started, and to give the operator time stress. The operability is improved without giving.
[0063]
Moreover, since the conventional function can be used as it is simply by adding processing for determining whether or not the button is continuously pressed within a predetermined time, the long pressing function in the conventional terminal device is not impaired at all. .
[0064]
Furthermore, since the operation buttons and the like existing in the conventional terminal device can be used as they are simply by changing the configuration of the control unit, it can be easily realized.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1A is a plan view showing an appearance of a terminal device to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 1B is a block diagram showing a configuration of a terminal device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example when a list of phone book information is displayed on a display unit;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining cursor movement as an example of the operation of the terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining cursor movement as an example of the operation of the terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1: body 2: display unit 3: input unit 4: control unit 5: cross button 6: numeric keypad 7: first determination unit 8: second determination unit 9: short movement execution unit 10: scroll execution unit 11: Storage unit 12: Communication unit 13: Cursor 14: Program

Claims (7)

In a terminal device provided with a movement operation button for starting a movement operation on the screen,
First determination means for determining whether the movement operation button is short-pressed or long-pressed;
Second determination means for determining whether or not the movement operation button is pressed within a predetermined time after the operation button is pressed shortly;
Short movement execution means for executing a short movement operation when the first determination means determines that the movement operation button has been pressed shortly;
When it is determined by the first determination means that the movement operation button has been pressed for a long time, and after the movement operation button is short-pressed by the second determination means, it is pressed within a predetermined time. Scroll execution means for executing a scroll operation when it is determined that
Have
The scroll execution means continues to scroll even after the movement operation button is released when the movement operation button is short-pressed within a predetermined time and the scroll operation is executed. A terminal device that stops scrolling when any button is input .   The terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a unit that changes a time that is a determination criterion in the second determination unit.   The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the movement operation button starts a movement operation of a cursor.   The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the movement operation button starts a movement operation of a page.   The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the movement operation button starts a cursor movement operation and a page movement operation. In a method of starting scrolling by a terminal device having a movement operation button for starting a movement operation on a screen,
Determining whether the operation button for movement is short-pressed or long-pressed;
A step of determining whether or not the movement operation button has been pressed within a predetermined time after being pressed shortly;
A step of executing a short movement operation when it is determined that the movement operation button is short-pressed;
A step of executing a scrolling operation when it is determined that the movement operation button is pressed for a long time and when the movement operation button is pressed for a short time after being pressed shortly;
When the operation button for movement is short-pressed and then pressed for a short time within a predetermined time to execute the scrolling operation, the scrolling is continued even after the movement operation button is released, and any button input is performed. A step to stop scrolling if there is,
A scroll starting method characterized by comprising: In a program for controlling a terminal device having a movement operation button for starting a movement operation on a screen,
A process for determining whether the operation button for movement is short-pressed or long-pressed;
A process of determining whether or not the movement operation button is pressed within a predetermined time after the operation button has been pressed for a short time;
When it is determined that the movement operation button has been pressed for a short time, a process of executing a short movement operation;
When it is determined that the operation button for movement has been pressed for a long time and when the operation button for movement has been pressed for a short time after being pressed for a short time, a process of executing a scroll operation;
When the movement operation button is pressed for a short time and then pressed within a predetermined time to execute the scroll operation, scrolling is continued even after the movement operation button is released, and any button input is performed. If there is a process to stop scrolling ,
A program that causes a computer to execute.

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