US 12,118,204 B2
Display control device and display change method with user touch control
Manabu Morita, Saitama (JP); and Keita Katsuno, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Clarion Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/256,830
Filed by Clarion Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 1, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/026003
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 29, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/009047, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-128055 (JP), filed on Jul. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0157480 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01); G06F 3/04886 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04886 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information display control device comprising:
one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, the one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon at least:
an operation detection unit configured to detect a drag operation of a user performed on a pointer displayed at an intersection of division lines dividing a display screen of a display into three or more divided regions having rectangular shapes, the drag operation comprising a touch-on and a touch-off by the user; and
a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the display between a plurality of layouts set in advance according to the drag operation, wherein
during a transition process between the plurality of layouts, the layout setting unit moves the pointer and deforms the division lines and the three or more divided regions of a first layout by imitating an elastic object according to the drag operation so that the three or more divided regions are deformed into trapezoid shapes, having one set of opposite sides parallel and another set of opposite sides not parallel or pentagonal shapes by stretching the division lines by the pointer, and
based on a distance of the drag operation from touch-on to touch-off, the transition process between the layouts is completed either by transforming each of the three or more divided regions where at least one of the divided regions has been transformed into the trapezoidal shape or the pentagonal shape, into rectangular shapes different than the first layout, or by returning the three or more divided regions to the first layout.