Patent ID: 9069403
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A display operating device comprising: a position detecting section including a touch surface and configured to detect three positions on the touch surface which fingertips of three fingers are touching; an axis decision section configured to, using first and second positions, which are two of the three positions detected by the position detecting section, decide a first axis which is parallel in an imaginary three-dimensional space to a first imaginary line passing through the first and second positions and passes through a predetermined position of a 3D object located in the imaginary three-dimensional space; a movement determining section configured to determine whether or not a third position, which is a remaining one of the three positions, is moving; a display section; and a first rotation processing section configured to, when with the 3D object displayed on the display section the position detecting section detects the three positions and the movement determining section determines that the third position is moving, perform processing to rotate the 3D object displayed on the display section about the first axis decided by the axis decision section, wherein where movement of the third position toward the first imaginary line is taken as a first movement and movement of the third position away from the first imaginary line is taken as a second movement, and where on an assumption of rotations of the 3D object about the first axis caused by one of the three fingers moving to provide the movement of the third position a direction of rotation of the 3D object about the first axis caused by the first movement is taken as a first direction and a direction of rotation of the 3D object about the first axis caused by the second movement is taken as a second direction, the display operating device further comprises a rotational direction decision section configured to determine whether the movement of the third position is the first movement or the second movement, decide the direction of rotation of the 3D object as the first direction when determining the movement of the third position as the first movement, and decide the direction of rotation of the 3D object as the second direction when determining the movement of the third position as the second movement, and the first rotation processing section is configured to perform processing to rotate the 3D object displayed on the display section in the direction of rotation decided by the rotational direction decision section.