Patent ID: 9164675
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An electronic device comprising: a touch-input section which detects a touch operation; a display section; a movement detecting section which detects movement directions of a slide operation on the touch-input section while touching the touch-input section, when the slide operation is performed; a pattern determining section which determines a pattern of the slide operation based on the movement directions detected by the movement detecting section, wherein the pattern determining section is configured to detect a predetermined pattern in which the touch operation is performed in an order of (i) movement in a first direction and (ii) movement in a second direction that differs from the first direction, wherein the pattern determining section is further configured to determine a combination corresponding to the predetermined pattern from among a plurality of predetermined combinations for the first direction and the second direction; a display control section which controls a direction of changing display content displayed on the display section and controls a type of a method of changing the display content based on the combination determined by the pattern determining section; and a measuring section which measures a stop duration of a temporary stop, when the predetermined pattern of the slide operation is a pattern in which the touch operation is performed in an order of (i) the movement in the first direction, (ii) the temporary stop, and (iii) the movement in the second direction that differs from the first direction, wherein the display control section further controls the display content displayed on the display section such that another type of the method of changing the display content is controlled based on the stop duration measured by the measuring section.