JPH06230888A - Mouse input method on touch panel - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] In a personal computer equipped with a touch panel,
With a touch pen only, operations equivalent to mouse operations are possible. [Arrangement] In an information processing device in which a touch panel for drawing figures, characters, etc. and a display area for displaying trajectory data by a pen pressure operation on the touch panel can be arbitrarily changed, when a peripheral area of the touch panel is pointed, , Bottom, left, right, upper left corner, upper right corner, lower left corner and lower right corner to move the display area described above.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an input system in which a touch panel display section is provided at a position different from a display screen, and when executing application software, an operation equivalent to a mouse operation can be performed with a touch pen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A mouse is widely used as one of pointing input devices for specifying a position on a screen of a CRT display such as a personal computer.

The mouse is so called because its shape resembles a mouse. It reads the XY position information by electrically detecting the rotation angle of a sphere attached to the bottom surface. Is.

Near the mouse-shaped tip, one to three buttons that can be operated with a fingertip are provided.

As for the button of this mouse, for example, if the mouse has two buttons, press the first button to "execute", press the second button to "cancel", and press the first and second buttons at the same time. For example, processing such as "next instruction" can be performed.

The mouse is characterized by its high accuracy and good operability despite its small size and low cost.

Therefore, it is attached as standard or optional to computer equipment such as a personal computer.

[0008]

By the way, it is convenient that the same operation as the mouse can be performed without actually connecting the mouse to the device in a computer device or the like provided with a display screen and a touch panel.

As one of the methods, a key can be provided on the left and right in addition to the touch panel, and the position can be specified with a touch pen.

However, this method has a drawback in that operations other than the touch pen must be performed and the operations become complicated.

Considering mouse emulation on a touch panel while executing conventional application software, double-click, realization of left / right button functions,
It is necessary to realize the function of simultaneously pressing the left and right buttons.

The object of the present invention is based on the above consideration.
An object of the present invention is to provide a mouse input method for a touch panel that can perform an operation equivalent to a mouse operation only by operating a touch pen.

[0013]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention is to solve these problems, and has information processing including a touch panel and a display device for displaying figures, characters and the like by pen pressure operation of the touch panel. In the device, a display area in which data input by the touch panel is displayed is set in the display device in advance, and the touch panel has a peripheral area for recognizing a position pointed by a touch pen, and a side of the peripheral area. A mouse input method is provided in which, when correspondingly pointed, the display content of the display area is copied corresponding to the position of the pointed side.

[0014]

According to the above construction, the mouse can be emulated with only the touch pen without any other operation.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1A is a schematic view showing an embodiment of a mouse input type touch panel in the touch panel according to the present invention.

A peripheral area 3 including a display effective area 2 inside is set on the touch panel 1. By pointing in the surrounding area 3, an operation equivalent to a mouse operation is realized.

Surrounding areas are an upper side area 5, a lower side area 6, a left side area 8, a right side area 7, an upper left corner area 9, and an upper right corner area 1.
0, a lower left corner area 11 and a lower right corner area 12. FIG. 1B is a diagram showing a display device for displaying trajectory data associated with a writing pressure operation on a touch panel according to the present invention.

This display device has a display area in which the trajectory data drawn on the touch panel 1 is displayed in real time and the data display area input by the touch panel can be arbitrarily changed. In the case of this embodiment, since one screen is divided into four areas A to D, the trajectory data on the touch panel 1 is divided into four areas.
Displayed in the area.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a circuit adopting the mouse input method in the touch panel according to the present invention.

Touch pen driver software for realizing a mouse operation with a touch panel and a touch pen when executing application software is stored in the HDD 21.

Touch panel 23 with touch pen 22
Is transmitted to the CPU 24. C
When the position information sent from the touch panel 23 is the surrounding area 3, the PU 24 recognizes that the display device 26 corresponding to the position is a mouse operation, and the locus data drawn on the touch panel 23 is displayed on the display device. Move 26. System application software and the like are stored in the HDD 21 and the RAM 25.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of emulating a mouse operation according to this method.
It is a figure which shows an example of the said touch pen driver software.

The specific operation of FIG. 2 will be described below with reference to FIG. The display area for displaying the trajectory data of the touch panel 1 is set as, for example, the area C (step 0). With the activation of the touch pen driver, the CPU 24 determines whether or not there is an input from the touch pen 22 (step 1). If there is no input, no processing is performed (step 2). If there is an input, it is determined whether it is the position information in the display effective area 2 or the position information in the surrounding area 3 (step 3). If it is determined that the position information is within the display effective area 2, the dot display corresponding to the corresponding position on the display device 1 is performed (step 4). When it is determined that the area is the surrounding area 3, it is next determined which portion of the surrounding area 3 (step 5) and the process proceeds to step 6. Touch pen 2
When the upper side region 5 is pointed at 2, the above-mentioned region C
The display data of is copied in the upper direction of the screen. Similarly, when the lower side area 6, the left side area 8, the right side area 7, the upper left corner area 9, the upper right corner area 10, the lower left corner area 11 and the lower right corner area 12 are pointed, the display data of the aforementioned area C is
Copied in the left, right, upper left and upper right corners respectively.

The entire area of the touch panel 23 and the display device 26
There is also a case where all the areas of 1 to 1 correspond to each other, that is, the areas A to D which are the entire areas of the display device 26 correspond to the entire areas of the touch panel 23.

[0025]

As described above, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus in which a touch panel for drawing figures, characters, etc. and a display area for displaying trajectory data by pen pressure operation on the touch panel can be arbitrarily changed. , The touch panel mouse input method has an area around the display effective area for recognizing the same operation as the mouse operation, and when the area around the area is pointed by the touch pen, the area corresponding to the surrounding area is described above. Since it is configured to move the display area of, all the mouse operations can be emulated by the operation of the touch panel and the touch panel.

The existing operating system,
The mouse operation can be emulated without changing the application program.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a schematic view showing an embodiment of a mouse input type touch panel in a touch panel according to the present invention,
(B) is a diagram showing a display device for displaying trajectory data associated with a writing pressure operation on the touch panel.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a circuit adopting a mouse input method in a touch panel according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of emulating a mouse operation according to this method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Touch Panel 2 Display Effective Area 3 Surrounding Area 5 Upper Area 6 Lower Area 7 Right Area 8 Left Area 9 Upper Left Corner Area 10 Upper Right Corner Area 11 Lower Left Corner Area 12 Lower Right Corner Area 21 HDD 22 Touch Pen 23 Touch Panel 24 CPU 25 RAM 26 Display Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus having a touch panel and a display device for displaying figures, characters and the like by a pen pressure operation of the touch panel, wherein a display area for displaying data input by the touch panel is previously displayed. The touch panel has a surrounding area for recognizing the position pointed to by the touch pen, and when the pointing is performed corresponding to the side of the surrounding area, the display content of the display area is the position of the pointing side. A mouse input method on a touch panel, which is characterized by being copied according to.