Patent ID: 8199125
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information display apparatus comprising: a display unit which includes a screen for displaying an image; a touch detection unit which detects a touch position of an object on the screen of the display unit; a counting unit which determine whether a plurality of touch positions are detected; a motionlessness detection unit which detects a motionless touch position which is motionless for a predetermined time period in the plurality of detected touch positions; a behavior detection unit which detects a behavior of a touch position other than the motionless touch position detected by the motionlessness detection unit among the plurality of detected touch positions; an instruction detection unit which detects an instruction corresponding to the behavior of the touch position detected by the behavior detection unit; and a control unit which controls, in accordance with the motionless touch position detected by the motionlessness detection unit and the instruction detected by the instruction detection unit, the display unit to reduce an display area of a kept image, the image being displayed on the display unit when the motionless touch position is detected, to a predetermined size to continue displaying the reduced kept image, and to display an image other than the reduced kept image, wherein the instruction detection unit detects a display switch instruction to switch the display of the image other than the reduced kept image to a display of another image based on a slide operation, the another image being an image other than the kept image, the reduced kept image and the image other than the reduced kept image, and the control unit controls the display unit to sequentially switch and display the different images in accordance with the detection of the display switch instruction by the instruction detection unit.