Patent ID: 8872617
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data processing device comprising: a storage unit storing therein a correspondence table in which biometric data pieces are associated one-to-one with different jobs, the biometric data pieces pertaining to respective fingers of a user, wherein each of the different jobs comprises execution of an application; a display unit; a touchscreen covering a display region of the display unit; a designation unit operable to, in accordance with a user operation, designate a target data piece from among data pieces being displayed on the display unit in accordance with a user operation on the touchscreen; a generation unit operable to generate a biometric data piece by reading a biometric information piece of a finger of the user when the user operation is performed on the touchscreen; and an execution unit operable to execute one of the different jobs that is associated with one of the stored biometric data pieces that matches the generated biometric data piece by using the target data piece as data input by the user with respect to the one of the different jobs, wherein the execution unit splits the display region of the display unit into two or more sub-regions, displays data obtained by executing a first application on a first sub-region among the two or more sub-regions, and displays data obtained by executing a second application on a second sub-region among the two or more sub-regions, wherein, when the user operation designating the target data piece is performed on a region of the touchscreen corresponding to the first sub-region, if a biometric data piece generated by the generation unit when the user operation is performed matches one of the stored biometric data pieces which is associated with the second application, the execution unit executes designation processing in the second application with the target data piece designated by the user operation as a target and displays a result of the designation processing on the second sub-region, and wherein, when a user operation is performed on a region of the touchscreen corresponding to the first sub-region, if a biometric data piece generated by the generation unit when the user operation is performed matches one of the stored biometric data pieces which is associated with an application other than the second application, the execution unit executes the first application using the user operation as an operation pertaining to the first application.