Patent ID: 8947386
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. An electronic information terminal device, comprising: a display section that is provided with a display screen to display an image thereon and a touch panel, wherein the touch panel is mounted over the display screen and is capable of simultaneously detecting two or more touched positions respectively touched by two or more touching objects, the two or more touched positions being separated by a line segment; and an area setting control section that establishes an area formed by moving at least one of the two or more touched positions on the display section, such that the line segment traverses a portion of the display section, wherein the area corresponds to the portion of the display section traversed by the line segment, so as to make the display section display an image in which information residing within the area, above-established, is erased, or in which another information is added into the area above-established.