Patent ID: 9256363
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information processing device, comprising: a touch panel; and a controller configured to display a virtual keyboard including a plurality of buttons on the touch panel, wherein the controller is configured to receive input of a character through the virtual keyboard when (i) the touch panel detects a contact to a first button among the plurality of buttons, the first button associated with the character, (ii) the contact slides, on the virtual keyboard, to a second button among the plurality of buttons, and (iii) an angular difference between a direction of entering to the first button and a direction of leaving from the first button is larger than a threshold value, and store information of the received character, and wherein the controller is further configured, when a predetermined gesture is performed, the predetermined gesture being a gesture in which a user of the information processing device places a finger on any one of four corner regions of the touch panel and moves the finger in a diagonal direction toward a corner region which is opposite to the corner region on which the finger is placed while keeping the finger in contact with the touch panel, to turn up a part of a displayed first object in the diagonal direction in which the finger moves, and to display a subsequent second object exposed in an area below the part being turned up, and the controller being configured to, when the finger moves to a predetermined point on the touch panel, display the virtual keyboard in the area below the first object and the subsequent second object, and when the finger moves into an area of the virtual keyboard from the predetermined point while continuing to maintain contact with the touch panel, the controller is configured to cause the first object to receive input of a character string through the virtual keyboard.