JP6368462B2 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program thereof - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for opening a window on a display screen and opening a file there.

  On PCs and tablet devices, files may be attached to emails and application files. When opening an attached file, the file can be opened by double-clicking the attached icon using a pointing device such as a touch panel or a mouse.

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a window opening method and apparatus capable of displaying a window of a file on a monitor to be displayed with one action when using a multi-monitor.

  This technique displays a file window on the screen of one of the plurality of monitors in a computer having a plurality of monitors and a mouse capable of cursor operation on the screens of the plurality of monitors. Depending on the mouse operation, select one monitor from multiple monitors, virtually grasp the file on the screen with the cursor, drag and drop the file onto any screen of the multiple monitors Perform the process. When the process of dropping the file on an arbitrary screen is performed, the file window is opened on the arbitrary screen.

JP 2012-79027 A

  However, since the file is opened on the same display where the original mail or application file is opened, the original screen becomes invisible. Therefore, if you want to see both the original mail and application files and the attached file at once, you need to reduce or move the window size of the opened file and original mail individually. Yes, not efficient.

  In view of such circumstances, the present invention intends to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program thereof that can display a file so as not to overlap the original screen when the file is opened on the display screen. .

The present invention is an information processing apparatus that opens and displays a specified file on a screen of a display device,
A file open operation type for the file or the file related information indicating the link destination is determined, and when the operation type is determined to be a flick operation toward the outside of the screen with movement with respect to the file related information, the flick is performed. an operation determining unit that identifies the flick direction due to the operation, the case where the operation type by the operation determination unit determines flick operation involving movement relative file-related information of the operation target, the display screen of the display device 2 divided generated by arranging the window specified flick direction by the flick operation so as not to overlap with and displays open the operation target files to the flick direction destination window, display the original screen to the other window And a display control unit.

  Here, the display control unit displays the original screen in a window in front of the movement direction, and opens and displays the operation target file in the movement destination window.

  Further, the movement direction determined by the operation determination unit is any one of up, down, left and right directions of the display screen of the display device.

  When the operation determining unit determines that the operation does not involve movement with respect to the file-related information to be operated, the display control unit generates a window so as to overlap the original screen, and the operation target is displayed on the window. It is characterized by opening and displaying the file.

Further, the present invention is an information processing method for opening and displaying a specified file on a screen of a display device, an operation determination step for determining an operation type of file opening for file related information indicating a link destination of the file; when the operation type is determined to be the flick operation toward the outside of the screen with the movement relative to the file-related information, and the moving direction determination step of specifying a flick direction by the flick operation, the operation type operation target If the file-related information is determined to be a flick operation involving movement, the display screen of the display device is divided into two so as not to overlap and the windows are arranged in the direction specified by the flick operation to generate a flick direction. open the previous window in the operation target file is displayed, the original screen to the other window table shows A display control step that, is characterized in that comprises a.

  Moreover, this invention is a program for making a computer perform each step of the said information processing method.

According to the present invention, when a file is opened on the screen by a flick operation toward the outside of the screen with movement, when the moving direction of the file is specified by the flick operation , the display screen is divided and specified. The windows are arranged in the flick direction so that they do not overlap, the file to be operated is opened and displayed in the window in the flick direction , and the original screen is displayed in the other window. In order to view, it is not necessary to reduce or move the screen, and the operation efficiency can be improved. If the operation does not involve movement, a window is generated so as to overlap the original screen, a file is opened there, and the user can select one of the displays depending on the operation type.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the tablet terminal which is the information processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the file open process by a tablet terminal. It is a figure which shows file opening at the time of flicking a file icon from left to right. It is a figure which shows file opening at the time of double-clicking a fill icon. It is a figure which shows file opening at the time of flicking a file icon from the top to the bottom.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a tablet terminal which is an information processing apparatus according to the present invention.
The tablet terminal 10 includes a display unit 20, a control unit 30, and a storage unit 40. There is also an operation input unit 50 for the user to input (details will be described later).

  The display unit 20 is a touch panel, and includes a display panel 21 such as a liquid crystal or an organic EL, and a position input unit 22 that can be input by a touch operation. The position where the user touches the screen displayed on the display panel 21 is detected by the position input unit 22, and an instruction is given to the control unit 30. In addition to the position input unit 22, the operation input unit 50 includes a pointing device such as a keyboard 51, a touch pad 52, and a mouse 53 as an external connection.

  The control unit 30 includes an operation determination unit 31 that determines an input position, an operation type such as flick or double click, a process control unit 32 that executes a process according to the operation, and generates a window or opens a file. And a display control unit 33 that performs display processing.

  The storage unit 40 includes a memory and stores an application 41 and data 42.

<Embodiment 1>
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of file open processing by the tablet terminal. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating file opening when a file icon is flicked from left to right. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing file opening when the fill icon is double-clicked.

  First, before entering the process of FIG. 2, the user performs an operation of opening an application using the operation input unit 50. For example, an operation for opening an electronic mail application is performed. The operation determination unit 31 of the tablet terminal 10 determines the input operation instruction, and the processing control unit 32 of the control unit 30 recognizes the activation operation of the e-mail application by the user based on the operation determination, and the storage unit The application 41 is read from 40 and activated. Then, the display control unit 33 displays the e-mail application on the display unit 20.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 2, the user performs a touch operation on the icon indicating the file attached to the mail (step S1). As shown in FIG. 3A, an e-mail application display 71 is displayed on the screen of the display unit 20, and the user touches an icon 61 indicating a file with the hand 60 to perform an operation.

  Here, the file icon 61 is file-related information indicating a file. The icon 61 links to a file attached to an e-mail, but may be a URL indicating a lick destination other than that. A display operation is performed by touching file-related information indicating a file such as an icon or URL.

  The operation determination unit 31 determines the type of touch operation, but first determines whether or not it is a flick operation (step S2). If it is a flick, the operation determination part 31 will determine the flick direction (direction which moves the touched hand 60) (step S3). In FIG. 3A, it is determined that the flick is performed from left to right (arrow direction in the figure).

  Next, the process control unit 32 executes the process according to a predetermined operation process. Here, since the flick operation is performed on the file icon 61 that is the operation target, a file open process is performed. That is, the file at the link destination of the icon 61 is read from the storage unit 40 (step S4). The process control unit 32 sends operation determination information and file data to the display control unit 33.

  As shown in FIG. 3B, the display control unit 33 generates windows 72 and 73 by arranging the screens in two in the flick direction (moving direction) specified by the operation determination unit 31 (step S5). .

Here, a process in which the display control unit 33 divides the screen into two to generate a window will be described.
As shown in FIG. 3A, when the display screen has a size from coordinates (1, 1) to coordinates (1000, 1500), the windows 72 and 73 shown in FIG. Generate the coordinates of.

  Since the flick direction is from left to right, a window is generated so that the size of the screen in the X direction is divided into two. Accordingly, the window 72 is generated at a position from the coordinates (1, 1) to the coordinates (750, 1000). The window 73 is generated at a position from the coordinates (751, 1) to the coordinates (1000, 1500).

  Next, the display control unit 33 displays the screen of the e-mail application being displayed in the window 72 on the near side in the flick direction, and opens the file indicated by the touched icon 61 in the window 73 in the flick direction. (Step S6).

  In step S2, if the touch operation is not a flick, the operation determination unit 31 determines whether the touch operation is a double click (step S7). As shown in FIG. 4A, if it is a double click, the process control unit 32 reads the file indicated by the icon 61 in the data 42 of the storage unit 40 (step S8), and sends the data to the display control unit 33. send.

As shown in FIG. 4B, the display control unit 33 generates a window 74 so as to overlap the electronic mail display screen 71 displayed on the display unit 20 (step S9). That is, if the display screen has a size from coordinates (1,1) to coordinates (1000,1500), a window 74 from coordinates (1,1) to coordinates (1000,1500) of the same size is displayed. Generate.
The display control unit 33 opens and displays the file in the generated window 74 (step S10).

  In this way, when an operation involving movement such as flicking is performed on the file-related information to be operated, the screen is divided into two in the movement direction so that the windows do not overlap each other, and the original screen is displayed on each window. Since the file is displayed, the user can check the opened file and the original screen without performing an operation such as reducing or moving the window, thereby improving the operation efficiency. Further, since the window is generated at the tip of the flick direction, the user can form the window at a desired position. Furthermore, when an operation that does not involve movement such as double-clicking is performed, a window can be created so as to overlap the display screen, and a file can be opened there. Therefore, the user can select a display method depending on the operation type.

<Embodiment 2>
The above shows a case where the display screen is flicked from left to right. In the second embodiment, a case where the display screen is flicked from top to bottom will be described. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a file open when the file icon is flicked downward.

  As shown in FIG. 5A, assume that the user flicks from top to bottom as the flick direction. The control unit 30 of the tablet terminal 10 generates windows arranged in the flick direction according to the flowchart of FIG. That is, as shown in FIG. 5B, the display control unit 33 generates the windows 75 and 76 so that the screen of the display panel 21 is vertically divided into two. An e-mail screen (original screen) is displayed in the upper window 75, and a file is opened and displayed in the lower window 76 of the movement destination.

  As described above, in step 2 of FIG. 2, the operation determination unit 31 determines which direction is the top, bottom, left, or right of the display unit 20. Generally, the display unit 20 has a rectangular shape, and determines which of the four sides of the outer shape is the direction. The moving direction to be determined can be arbitrarily set, and the moving direction of the operation is specified as the set direction, and a window is generated in this direction.

  As described above, the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to these embodiments, and the invention may be changed in design without departing from the gist of the present invention. Is also included.

  In the present embodiment, the display screen is divided into two in the same size, but the sizes may be different. The size at that time can be arbitrarily set by the user. In the embodiment, the operation types are two types of flick and double click, but are not particularly limited thereto. It is only necessary to distinguish the generation of a window from an operation that involves movement such as flicking and an operation that does not involve movement such as double-clicking.

  In the present embodiment, the file is stored in the storage unit 40. However, for example, a file existing outside by a cloud service may be used. At that time, link destination information is added to the icon or URL to be operated, and the control unit 30 of the tablet terminal 10 accesses the link destination file by connecting to the Internet or the like.

  In this embodiment, the file is opened in the destination window. However, it is possible to set so that the file is opened in the previous window and the original screen is displayed in the destination window.

  A program that operates in the information processing apparatus according to the present invention is a program (a program that causes a computer to function) that controls a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or the like so as to realize the functions of the above-described embodiments related to the present invention. Also good. Information handled by this apparatus is stored in the storage unit 40, and is read out and corrected / written by the CPU as necessary. In addition, a program for realizing the function of each component may be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, and the program recorded on the recording medium may be read into a computer system and executed to perform processing of each unit. Good. Here, the “computer system” includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices.

  The “computer-readable recording medium” refers to a storage device such as a flexible medium, a magneto-optical disk, a portable medium such as a ROM and a CD-ROM, and a hard disk incorporated in a computer system. Furthermore, the “computer-readable recording medium” dynamically holds a program for a short time like a communication line when transmitting a program via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. In this case, a volatile memory in a computer system serving as a server or a client in that case, and a program that holds a program for a certain period of time are also included. The program may be a program for realizing a part of the functions described above, and may be a program capable of realizing the functions described above in combination with a program already recorded in a computer system.

10: Tablet terminal 20: Display unit 21: Display panel 22: Position input unit 30: Control unit 31: Operation determination unit 32: Processing control unit 33: Display control unit 40: Storage unit 50: Operation input unit

Claims (6)

An information processing device that opens and displays a specified file on a display device screen,
A file open operation type for the file or the file related information indicating the link destination is determined, and when the operation type is determined to be a flick operation toward the outside of the screen with movement with respect to the file related information, the flick is performed. an operation determining unit that identifies the flick direction by operation,
When the operation determination unit determines that the operation type is a flick operation involving movement with respect to the file-related information to be operated, the operation screen is specified by the flick operation so that the display screen of the display device is divided into two and does not overlap. flick direction generated by arranging a window, and displays the open operation target files to the flick direction destination window, and table Shimesuru display control unit the original screen to the other window,
An information processing apparatus comprising:   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays the original screen in a window in front of the moving direction, and opens and displays the operation target file in the moving destination window.   3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the movement direction determined by the operation determination unit is one of up, down, left, and right directions of a display screen of the display device.   When the operation determining unit determines that the operation does not involve movement with respect to the file-related information to be operated, the display control unit generates a window so as to overlap the original screen, and the operation target file is generated in the window. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus is opened and displayed. An information processing method for opening and displaying a specified file on a display device screen,
An operation determination step for determining a file open operation type for the file related information indicating the link destination of the file;
When the operation type is determined to be the flick operation toward the outside of the screen with the movement relative to the file-related information, and the moving direction determination step of specifying a flick direction by the flick operation,
If the operation type is determined to be a flick operation that involves movement with respect to the file-related information to be operated, a window is displayed in the flick direction specified by the flick operation so that the display screen of the display device is divided into two so as not to overlap. generating side by side, and displays the open operation target files to the flick direction destination window, and table Shimesuru display control step the former screen to the other window,
An information processing method comprising:   A program for causing a computer to execute each step of the information processing method according to claim 5.

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