Patent ID: 9262069
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G05B,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A control device comprising: a controller that monitors and controls at least a target device; and an input display that displays a monitoring/controlling screen associated with the target device and detects a touch operation performed by a user, wherein, when the input display determines that the user continues touching the monitoring/controlling screen at least at two points and performs a rotating operation by a predetermined angle or more, based on a relationship between touched positions of the at least two points before and after movement of at least one of the touched positions, the controller changes a status value associated with the touched positions of the at least two points, and when the input display detects touches on the monitoring/controlling screen at two points, and a distance in a lateral direction between one touched position and an other touched position is within a predetermined first range, and a distance in a longitudinal direction between the one touched position and the other touched position is a predetermined second value or less, the input display starts determining whether or not the rotating operation by the predetermined angle or more is performed.