Patent ID: 8669955
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A portable display device configured to be held by a user, the device comprising: a display unit configured to display images respectively in two adjacent screens; an input unit configured to obtain two or more coordinates of positions on the display unit, the positions being subjected to one of approach, contact, and press by the user; and a gesture recognizing unit configured to recognize and execute a previously stored processing command corresponding to a changing form of two or more related coordinates by chronologically associating the coordinates of the positions subjected to one of approach, contact, and press on the display unit and obtained by the input unit, wherein the gesture recognizing unit enters: a non-accepting state in which recognition and execution of the processing command are unallowed when the coordinates obtained by the input unit do not include a predetermined fixed coordinate, and an accepting state in which recognition of the processing command is allowed when the coordinates obtained by the input unit include the fixed coordinate; and the input unit obtains, as the fixed coordinate, a predetermined fixed coordinate of a position on the display unit that corresponds to a position of one finger of the user and that corresponds to a position suitable for holding the portable display device by one hand of the user.