Patent ID: 9032313
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A terminal device having a display section including a touch screen and a key operating section that performs a plurality of input operations, the terminal device being configured to run in parallel a plurality of functions including an audio-related function, comprising: a first storage means for storing, with respect to each of a plurality of operating means, including operation of the touch screen, a gesture, a voice command and a swing operation, other than operation from the key operating section, which is assignable when the audio-related function runs in a background process, operations performed by a user with each of the plurality of operating means in association with a plurality of operational contents for the audio-related function, respectively; a second storage means for storing an operating means set in advance by the user among the plurality of operating means as an operating means to be assigned when the audio-related function runs in the background process; a first judging means for judging whether the audio-related function is running in the background process in parallel with a function running in a foreground process; a first controlling means for, when the first judging means judges that the audio-related function is running in the background process, automatically controlling to assign display outputs to the display section and operation inputs from the key operating section to the function running in the foreground process; an operation detecting means for detecting an operation performed by a user other than the operation from the key operating section; an identifying means for specifying an operating means from the operation detected by the operation detecting means; a second judging means for, when the first judging means judges that the audio-related function is running in the background process, judging whether the operation means identified by the identifying means coincides with the operation means stored by the second storage means; an acquisition means for, when the operation means identified by the identifying means coincides with the operation means stored by the second storage means, acquiring an operational content for the audio-related function associated with the operation detected by the operation detecting means from the first storage means; and a controlling means for instructing the audio-related function running in the background process to perform the operational content acquired by the acquisition means; wherein, when judged that the operation means identified by the identifying means coincides with the operation means stored by the second storage means and is touch screen operations, the operating detecting means detects as a user an operation pattern of the touch screen operation which has been performed in the display section including the touch screen; and wherein the acquisition means acquires an operational content for the audio-related function associated with the operation pattern of the touch screen operation detected by the operation detecting means, among the plurality of operational contents for the audio-related function stored by the first storage means.