JP6029261B2 - Electronics - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic device having a display screen and a touch panel, and more specifically to an electronic device that can improve operability when selecting a plurality of contents.

2. Description of the Related Art An electronic device having a display screen capable of displaying various types of information and including a touch panel type operation means on the display screen is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
As a touch panel, a finger pressure sensor type, a resistance film type, and a capacitance type are known, and the user not only visually recognizes characters and images displayed on the display screen but also taps, double taps and flicks the touch panel. By dragging or the like, it is possible to perform operations such as operation and editing of data and folders (hereinafter referred to as “contents”) according to the installed application.

For example, when the application is mail software, contents such as image data and document data can be attached to the mail by operating the touch panel when the mail is created.
In the case of a music player, music data and music files can be selected and listened to by operating the touch panel.

JP 2007-4797 A

  When attaching content such as image data to an e-mail or selecting it for other operations, the user needs to specify the content one by one. To select multiple contents, the above operation must be repeated. there were. Therefore, the operation takes time and the operability is not sufficient.

  In addition, it is possible to select a plurality of contents using a so-called check box that allows selection of a predefined option. However, even in this case, the radio buttons corresponding to the contents to be selected are specified by tapping one by one. It takes a lot of time and effort to operate.

  The objective of this invention is providing the electronic device which improves the operativity at the time of selecting a some content continuously.

In order to solve the above problems, an electronic device according to the present invention includes:
A display unit having a display screen;
A touch panel provided on the display screen for receiving touch input;
When a plurality of contents are displayed on the display unit, the touch panel includes a selection unit that selects a plurality of contents displayed on a route on which a touch input is received,
The selection unit further releases the selection state when the selected content is selected again on the route on which the touch panel has received a touch input.

The electronic device program of the present invention is
A display unit having a display screen;
A computer of an electronic device having a touch panel provided on a display screen and receiving a touch input,
When a plurality of contents are displayed on the display unit, a procedure for selecting a plurality of contents displayed on a path on which the touch panel accepts a touch input;
A procedure for canceling the selected state when the selected content is selected again on the path on which the touch panel has received a touch input;
Is to execute.

Furthermore, the control method of the electronic device of the present invention includes:
A display unit having a display screen;
An electronic device control method comprising: a touch panel that is provided on a display screen and receives a touch input;
When a plurality of contents are displayed on the display unit, the plurality of contents displayed on a path on which the touch panel accepts a touch input is selected.
When the selected content is selected again on the path on which the touch panel has received a touch input, the selected state is canceled.

According to the electronic device of the present invention, the user may touch the touch panel while viewing the content displayed on the display screen, and select a plurality of contents displayed on the accepted route. it can. Since this selection operation is an intuitive operation with a high degree of freedom, the operability of the electronic device can be enhanced as much as possible.
In addition, when content is selected in duplicate, the selection state is canceled, so that it is possible to prevent content from being selected in duplicate.
The selected content is determined, for example, when there is no input from the touch panel, and can be used, for example, to create a list of selected content.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of an electronic apparatus to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the electronic apparatus of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a file manager screen. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the present invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of the process which invalidates a duplicate content. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen showing a state where the selected content is attached to the mail. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a playlist creation screen for music files. It is a flowchart figure which attaches and transmits a content to mail. It is explanatory drawing of the display screen corresponding to the flowchart figure of FIG. FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing a favorite list creation screen on the video playback screen.

  In the following, as shown in FIG. 1, a portable electronic device having two display screens (21) and (31) and a touch panel (22) and (32) on each display screen (21) and (31) ( An embodiment to which the present invention is applied will be described in 10). Note that the illustrated electronic device (10) is for explanation, and it is needless to say that the present invention should not be interpreted in a limited manner with respect to a specific structure and configuration.

  The electronic device (10) starts one or a plurality of applications on the operating system as a platform, displays various information on the display screens (21) and (31), and the user touches the touch panel (22) and / or the touch panel (32 ) Can be operated and edited.

First, the structure of the portable electronic device (10) according to the present embodiment will be described.
As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic device (10) has two display screens (21) (21) that can display information such as characters, figures, images, videos, music, and moving pictures in accordance with the application desired by the user. 31) and a touch panel (22) (32) that can be operated by touching the surface of the display screen by a user. For example, it can be configured to be movably connected. The display units (20) and (30) are not limited to two.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the first display unit (20) and the second display unit (30) have a display screen (21) capable of displaying information in a housing (23) (33) whose one surface is open. (31) is accommodated so as to be visible from the opening side. The display screens (21) and (31) are electrically connected to a control means (60) (see FIG. 2) described later, and can display various information. In FIG. 1, the display unit located on the right back side of the drawing is referred to as a first display unit (20), and the display unit located on the left front side is referred to as a second display unit (30).

  The display screens (21) and (31) can be exemplified by liquid crystal displays. On the opening side of the display screens (21) and (31), as shown in FIG. 1, touch panels (22) and (32) that can be operated by a user touching with a fingertip (100) or the like are provided. The touch panels (22) and (32) are disposed so as to close the openings of the housings (23) and (33), and are formed to be transparent so that the display screens (21) and (31) are visible. Examples of the touch panels (22) and (32) include a finger pressure sensor method, a capacitance method, and a resistance film method.

  The first display unit (20) and the second display unit (30) can be relatively moved by the coupling mechanism (40), and detailed description of the configuration is omitted. The structure which makes a part (20) slidable and / or rotatable with respect to a 2nd display part (30) can be illustrated.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a block diagram of the electronic apparatus of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 2, all control of the electronic device (10) is performed by a control means (60) composed of a CPU or the like, and the control means (60) The touch panel (22) (32) is connected via the touch panel determination unit (25) (35), and the display screen (21) (31), operating system control unit (70), application control unit (71) A selection unit (72), a memory (61) serving as a storage unit, and the like are connected.

  The first touch panel (22) and the second touch panel (32) are electrically connected to the control means (60) via the first touch panel determination unit (25) and the second touch panel determination unit (35), respectively. The user input from the first touch panel (22) and the second touch panel (32) is transmitted as coordinate information to the control means (60) via the touch panel determination unit (25) (35), and the control means (60) In response to the input, information on the display screens (21) and (31) is edited and operated.

  The operations that the user can perform on the touch panel (22) (32) with a finger (100), stylus pen, etc. are relatively short taps, double taps, and touch panels (22) that touch the touch panel (22) (32). Touching the touch panel (22) (32) is a quick operation after touching the touch panel (22) (32). So-called flick, so-called pinch that changes the distance while touching the touch panel (22) (32) with two fingers etc., so-called long touch that touches the same position on the touch panel (22) (32), touch panel (22) A so-called swipe that traces the touch panel (22) (32) while touching (32) can be exemplified.

  The first display screen (21) and the second display screen (31) are electrically connected to the control means (60) and can display various information corresponding to the operating system and application software to be used.

  The operating system mounted on the electronic device (10) is operated by an operating system control unit (70) electrically connected to the control means (60). The operating system is a system that serves as an interface for the application, and performs activation, termination, volume adjustment, time display, alarm setting, and other system operations of the application.

  In addition, various applications activated by the electronic device (10) are operated by the application control unit (71) electrically connected to the control means (60) on the operating system. Examples of the application include mail software, music player, browser, viewer software, and the like.

  By starting an operating system or application and performing a content display operation (see step 1 in the flowchart of FIG. 4), as shown in FIG. 3, the first display screen (21) and / or the second display screen (31) are displayed. A plurality of contents can be displayed as a list (step 2). The screen shown is a file manager screen for file management, and image data is displayed as thumbnails (80) (80) on the screen. Instead of thumbnail display, content can be displayed as an image, an icon, a file name, or a folder, or can be displayed for each folder name in which the content is stored.

  As content of a specific embodiment, when mail software is activated, a list of data such as image data that can be attached, a list of music data in the case of a music player, a link (favorites) in the case of a browser In the case of a list of viewer software, a list of image data and moving image data can be exemplified.

  The content can be stored in a memory (61) which is a storage unit electrically connected to the control means (60). In addition to these contents, the memory (61) stores an operating system, applications, and various operations of the electronic device (10).

In the state where the contents are displayed on the display screens (21) and (31) as described above, a plurality of contents are selected by the selection unit (72). The selection unit (72) is connected to the control means (60).
In the state where the content is displayed on the display screens (21) and (31), the selection unit (72) touches the touch panel (22) and (32) with a finger (100) or the like (step 3), and the display screen (21 ) When the content display position in (31) and the touch position match (step 4), a plurality of contents are selected and extracted, and a list thereof is created.

  More specifically, the selection unit (72) inputs a signal to the touch panel determination units (25) and (35) by the user's operation on the touch panels (22) and (32) (step 3). The content selection process shown is performed (steps 5 to 7).

  As shown in FIG. 3, in the content selection process, while touching the touch panel (22) (32) while visually recognizing the content displayed on the display means (21) (31), the touch panel (22) (32) This is a process of selecting a content by sliding (swiping) a finger (100) or the like on the path and touch-inputting desired content on the route in order (for example, tracing the touch panel).

When there is content on the route by the slide operation, the selection unit (72) selects the corresponding content (step 5).
For example, as indicated by a solid line L in FIG. 3, the user selects the thumbnails (80) and (80) with a finger (100) or the like (A, B, A, D, E, H) (A is selected in duplicate). The thumbnails (80) and (80) of A, B, D, E, and H are respectively selected. It is desirable that the thumbnails (80) and (80) in the selected state are blinked and a frame or the like is displayed on the outer periphery of the thumbnails (80) and (80) so that it can be easily recognized that the selected state has been achieved.

  If the content is traced twice when it is slid, the same content is selected multiple times (see the selection order in FIG. 5). Specifically, the content (thumbnail A in the figure) selected in duplicate with the solid line L in FIG. 3 described above may appear in a list to be described later as it is, but step 6 in the flowchart of FIG. As shown in step 7, with respect to the content selected a plurality of times, in order to avoid duplication, the duplicate content selected later is invalidated as shown in the list of FIG. 5.

  If content thumbnails (80), (80), icons, etc. are arranged across multiple screens, touch the touch panel (22) (32) and point to the edge of the display screen (21) (31). When (100) or the like is slid, or the end of the display screen (21) (31) is touched for a predetermined time (step 8), the slide (swipe) operation is continued by scrolling to the next screen. It is desirable (step 9).

  The selection unit (72) sequentially selects content until the user finishes the slide operation. For example, the slide operation is considered to end when the user lifts the finger (100) from the touch panel (22) (32) (step 10), and the content selected in the content selection process can be confirmed (step 10). Step 11). As a result, the selection unit (72) creates a list of the selected contents. The created list can be used for attachment to a mail (see FIG. 6) or creation of a playlist library (see FIG. 7).

  When the slide operation is started again within a predetermined time (for example, 3 seconds) after the slide operation is completed, the process returns to step 3 in the flowchart in FIG. 4 to continue the content selection process. Also good.

  In addition, after the slide operation is completed, any selected content can be deleted from the list by selecting again with a tap or the like within a predetermined time.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 7, thumbnails such as “OK” (81) and “Cancel” (82) are displayed on the screen, and a list is displayed when a thumbnail of “OK” (81) is selected. The creation of the list may be stopped when the thumbnail of “Cancel” (82) is selected.

  As described above, the user can select a plurality of contents by an intuitive operation while visually recognizing the thumbnails (80) and (80) of the contents, so that the operability is improved as much as possible.

  FIG. 6 shows a state where the lists created in FIGS. 3 to 5 are attached to the mail of the mail software. In the figure, contents (.jpg image in the figure) are attached in the order of the created list. If the order is not important for the content, such as attachment to an e-mail, it may be attached in the order of the date of the content, the order of the file name, or the like.

FIG. 7 shows a state in which a music player is activated as an application using the electronic device (10) having the two display screens (21) and (31) shown in FIG. In the figure, a plurality of playlists (libraries) are displayed on the upper first display screen (21), and a playlist creation screen is displayed on the lower second display screen (31). A playlist ("Ema's play list" (84) in the figure, which shows the state after creating the list for easy understanding) is created by the user from the first display screen (21). 22), the music file stored in the memory 61 on the second display screen 31 by the application (“Music” in the figure is displayed).
Album 1 to 10 ”) are displayed as thumbnails (80) and (80).

In this state, as indicated by the solid line L1 in the flowcharts in FIGS. 4 and 7, albums 2, 6, 7, 10, 9, 5, 1, Music files are selected in the order of 2 and 3. Since album 2 is duplicated, duplicate files selected later are invalidated in the manner described in steps 3 and 4 of FIG. 4 and FIG. When the slide operation is completed and a predetermined time has elapsed or “OK” (81) is tapped, a list can be created and registered in the “Ema's play list” (84) in the selected order.
By playing the registered playlist, it is possible to listen to a desired music file in a desired order.

  As described above, in the case of a music file or the like, the performance order becomes important according to the user's preference, so it is preferable to create the list in the selected order.

FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 show specific examples of the flow of creating and transmitting a mail with contents attached and the screen display thereof.
When a mail creation command is input as shown in step 21 of FIG. 8 with the mail software activated, a mail creation screen (90) is displayed as shown in step 22 of FIG. 8 and FIG. 9A. Is done. At this time, when the button for attaching content is operated (step 23) as shown by reference numeral (91) in FIG. 9A, a content selection screen (93) is displayed as shown in FIG. 9B. Then, the content selection process described with reference to FIG. 4 is performed (step 24). More specifically, as shown in FIG. 9 (b), a selection screen (93) for designating the storage location of the attached content is displayed, and when the user selects a desired folder, for example, FIG. 9 (c). As shown, a list screen (94) of contents included in the selected folder is displayed.

  Depending on the application or the like, the operation of tracing the touch panel may be recognized as other actions such as dragging, and therefore a button (95) for confirming that the process proceeds to the content selection processing according to the present invention can be provided. .

  When the confirmation button (95) is operated, as shown in FIG. 9 (d), the screen shifts to a file list screen (97) with a check box (96), and the desired file is displayed as shown in the flowchart of FIG. Select. As a result, as shown in FIG. 9E, a check mark (98) is added to the check box of the selected file, and the selected content is attached when the user lifts his / her finger from the touch panel (step 25). ).

  Note that it may be confirmed whether or not the content selected in the pop-up (99) or the like may be attached before the content is determined.

  After the content is attached to the mail, when the user selects mail transmission on the mail creation screen (step 26), the mail with the content attached is transmitted (step 27).

FIG. 10 shows an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to moving image playback software.
In the illustrated embodiment, a video playback screen is displayed on the upper display screen (21), a list of videos (90a) retrieved from the Internet etc. on the lower display screen (31), and a favorite list file to be created The name (90b) is displayed.

  When a movie is selected as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 (in the figure, videos 1, 2, and 5 are selected in order), a list of the selected videos is added to the favorites list in the order of selection. . At this time, by buffering the content in the favorite list, the moving image can be reproduced smoothly.

  According to the present invention, a user can select a plurality of contents and create a list by simply tracing the desired contents, and the operation is extremely intuitive. Can be improved.

  It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described mail software or music player application, but can of course be applied to browsers, viewer software, and the like.

  For example, in the browser, when multiple image files are displayed on the browser, the order in which the image files are saved is changed according to the order of tracing, or the order in which links are traced when multiple links are displayed. Depending on, a link to be opened next may be determined. Further, the link may be opened in a separate window according to the order of tracing the link.

  In addition, when a plurality of contents are to be deleted at once, the selection can be made by tracing the contents to be deleted in order. In this case, since the selection order is not necessary information, the ordering can be omitted.

  As described above, since a plurality of contents can be selected by an intuitive operation, it is possible to provide an electronic device (10) that is easy to operate intuitively.

  The present invention is useful as an electronic apparatus with excellent operability that allows a plurality of contents to be selected by an intuitive operation.

(10) Electronic equipment
(20) First display section
(21) First display screen
(22) First touch panel
(25) First touch panel determination unit
(30) Second display section
(31) Second display screen
(32) Second touch panel
(35) Second touch panel determination unit
(40) Coupling mechanism
(60) Control means
(61) Memory (storage unit)
(70) Operating system controller
(71) Application control section
(72) Selection section
(80) Thumbnail

Claims (9)

A display unit having a display screen;
A touch panel provided on the display screen for receiving touch input;
When a plurality of contents are displayed on the display unit, the plurality of contents displayed on the path on which the touch panel accepts touch input is selected, and the touch panel is on the path on which touch input is accepted. When the selected content is selected again, a selection unit that invalidates the duplicate content selected later and maintains the selection state of the previously selected content ;
A storage unit for storing an order of a plurality of contents selected by the selection unit;
A control unit that executes a predetermined operation in accordance with the order for a plurality of contents stored in the storage unit;
An electronic device characterized by comprising: The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the selection unit continues the selection operation again when the touch input is received again within a predetermined time after the touch input is not received. The selection unit, when the touch input is no longer accepted from the touch panel, the electronic device according to claim 1 or claim 2 to determine the contents of the selected state for selection. The selection unit deletes the reselected content from the order stored in the storage unit when any content selected by touch input to the touch panel is selected again after the selection operation is completed. 1. The electronic device according to 1 . The electronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein the content is a music file, and the selection unit creates a playlist in an order in which the content is selected. Content, at least the image, the electronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 4 contained any of the file name. Content, at least the image, file name, icon, the electronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 6 are displayed as thumbnails by one of the folders. A display unit having a display screen;
A computer of an electronic device having a touch panel provided on a display screen and receiving a touch input,
When a plurality of contents are displayed on the display unit, the touch panel puts the plurality of contents displayed on the path for accepting the touch input into a selected state and stores the order of the selected contents. Procedure and
A procedure for invalidating duplicate content selected later and maintaining the selection state of the previously selected content when the selected content is selected again on the path on which the touch input is received by the touch panel; ,
A procedure for performing a predetermined operation in accordance with the order for the plurality of selected contents;
An electronic apparatus program characterized by causing A display unit having a display screen;
An electronic device control method comprising: a touch panel that is provided on a display screen and receives a touch input;
When a plurality of contents are displayed on the display unit, the touch panel puts the plurality of contents displayed on the path in which the touch input is received into a selected state and stores the order of the selected plurality of contents. ,
When the selected content is selected again on the route on which the touch input is received by the touch panel, the duplicate content selected later is invalidated, and the selected state of the previously selected content is maintained .
A method of controlling an electronic device , wherein a predetermined operation is executed according to the order for the plurality of selected contents .

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