Patent ID: 9552099
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A portable terminal, comprising: a display panel including a display screen and a touch detection area; a processor that controls the display panel to display one or more images on the display screen; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the portable terminal to perform an operation comprising: defining one or more display areas within the display screen; detecting a touch operation made by a user within the touch detection area; determining whether a screen dividing command is input based on the touch operation; dividing one of the display areas that is selected as an object area into a first display area and a second display area when determined that the screen dividing command is input by the determining process; and controlling the display panel to display a part or whole of a first image displayed in the object area in each of the first display area and the second display area, the first image being an image displayed in the object area just before determined that the screen dividing command is input.