Patent ID: 9678934
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An electronic device comprising: a touch panel; a pinch-in detection section that detects a pinch-in operation performed by a user on an object displayed on the touch panel; a copy processing section that when the pinch-in operation is detected by the pinch-in detection section, copies the object or a character string included in the object; a pinch-out detection section that detects a pinch-out operation performed by the user on the touch panel; and a paste processing section that when the pinch-out operation is detected by the pinch-out detection section, pastes the object or the character string, copied by the copy processing section, at a position at which the pinch-out operation is detected, wherein the pinch-in detection section detects a type of the object that is targeted by the pinch-in operation, the copy processing section determines a copying target based on the type of the object, the copy processing section