Abstract:
An electronic apparatus, a recording medium, and a display control method are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a display screen and at least one processor. The display screen can display a first object and a second object, and the processor causes display screen to display the first object and the second object. In a first state where the first object and the second object are displayed on the display screen, when a second operation of separating positions of the first object and second object from each other is detected after a first operation of selecting the first object and the second object is detected, the processor changes a display of the display screen to a second state where the first object and the second object, which are more distant from each other than those in the first state, are displayed with a third object displayed therebetween.

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION 
       [0001]    The present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to Japanese Patent Application No. 2015-148815, filed on Jul. 28, 2015, entitled “ELECTRONIC APPARATUS”. The content of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. 
       FIELD 
       [0002]    Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic apparatus. 
       BACKGROUND 
       [0003]    Recently, electronic apparatuses such as a personal computer and a mobile terminal (a mobile phone, a tablet terminal, a mobile game machine, or the like) have a function to display an object such as, for example, a thumbnail, an icon, an application, and an image. 
       SUMMARY 
       [0004]    An electronic apparatus, a recording medium, and a display control method are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a display screen and at least one processor. The display screen can display a first object and a second object. The processor causes display screen to display the first object and the second object. In a first state where the first object and the second object are displayed on the display screen, when a second operation of separating positions of the first object and second object from each other is detected after a first operation of selecting the first object and the second object is detected, the processor changes a display of the display screen to a second state where the first object and the second object, which are more distant from each other than those in the first state, are displayed with a third object displayed therebetween. 
         [0005]    In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a control program so as to cause an electronic apparatus including a display screen to perform the following step. In a first state where the first object and the second object are displayed on the display screen, when a second operation of separating positions of the first object and second object from each other is detected after a first operation of selecting a first object and a second object is detected, a display of the display screen is changed to a second state where the first object and the second object, which are more distant from each other than those in the first state, are displayed with a third object displayed therebetween. 
         [0006]    In one embodiment, a display control method of an electronic apparatus including a display screen comprises the following step. In a first state where the first object and the second object are displayed on the display screen, when a second operation of separating positions of the first object and second object from each other is detected after a first operation of selecting a first object and a second object is detected, a display of the display screen is changed to a second state where the first object and the second object, which are more distant from each other than those in the first state, are displayed with a third object displayed therebetween. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0007]      FIG. 1  illustrates an external perspective view of a mobile phone  100  showing an embodiment of the disclosure. 
           [0008]      FIG. 2  illustrates a block configuration diagram of the mobile phone  100 . 
           [0009]      FIG. 3  illustrates an example of a display screen  102  of the mobile phone  100 . 
           [0010]      FIGS. 4A to 4D  illustrate a screen transition of the display screen  102  of the mobile phone  100 . 
           [0011]      FIGS. 5A to 5D  illustrate screen transition diagrams of the display screen  102  after the screen transition in  FIG. 4 . 
           [0012]      FIGS. 6A and 6B  illustrate screen transition diagrams of the display screen  102  after the screen transition in  FIG. 5 . 
           [0013]      FIGS. 7A and 7B  illustrate screen transition diagrams of the display screen  102  of the mobile phone  100 . 
           [0014]      FIGS. 8A and 8B  illustrate screen transition diagrams of the display screen  102  of the mobile phone  100 . 
           [0015]      FIG. 9  illustrates a part of flowchart of a program in the mobile phone  100 . 
           [0016]      FIG. 10  illustrates the display screen  102  of the mobile phone  100 . 
           [0017]      FIGS. 11A to 11D  illustrate screen transition diagrams regarding a display screen  102  different from the display screen  102  shown in  FIGS. 4A to 8B . 
       
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
       [0018]    An electronic apparatus according to one embodiment is described hereinafter. 
         [0019]    Configuration 
         [0020]    An electronic apparatus according to one embodiment is, for example, a personal computer, or a mobile terminal (a mobile phone, a tablet terminal, a mobile game machine, or a wearable device (a device in a form of a watch, glasses, a belt, or a cloth, for example, having a display screen)). 
         [0021]    The mobile phone is described as a one example of the electronic apparatus, however, the electronic apparatus according to the present disclosure is not limited to the mobile phone. 
         [0022]    The present disclosure is described using the mobile phone which is one example of the electronic apparatus. 
         [0023]      FIG. 1  illustrates an external perspective view of a mobile phone  100 . Illustrated in  FIG. 1  as one example is the straight type mobile phone  100  being operable with a touch operation. 
         [0024]    As described above, illustrated is the straight type mobile phone  100  as one example of the mobile phone, however, the present disclosure may be also applied to another type of mobile phone such as a folding mobile phone and a slider mobile phone. 
         [0025]    Provided in an outer side of the mobile phone  100  shown in  FIG. 1  are a lamp  101 , a display screen  102 , an optical sensor  103 , a speaker (receiver)  104 , a microphone  105 , a button part  106 , and a camera window  107 . 
         [0026]    The lamp  101 , by emitting light outside, can inform a user of an incoming-call information that, for example, the mobile phone  100  is getting a call and have a missed call or a received-mail information that, for example, the mobile phone  100  has received a new email and have a unread email. The lamp  101  can also inform the user of an arrival of an alarm date and time, for example. A light-emitting element such as LED constitutes the lamp  101 . The lamp  101  is an LED lamp, for example. The lamp  101  lights or blinks the light to inform the user of the information. 
         [0027]    The display screen  102  can display various information. The various information include displays of, for example, an icon indicative of an application, a running application, incoming signal strength, a remaining battery level, a date, and a time. The display screen  102  includes a transparent cover panel, and a display  120  provided in a back side of the cover panel. The display  120  is, for example, a liquid crystal display, an organic EL (Electro Luminescence) display, a plasma display, and an electronic paper. When the display  120  is made up of the liquid crystal display, a backlight of the display  120  emits the light to display the various information on the display screen  102 . Meanwhile, when the display  120  is made up of the organic EL display, a light emitter of the display  120  emits the light to display the various information on the display screen  102 . 
         [0028]    One example of an operation part receiving an operation performed by the user includes a touch operation part  114 . The touch operation part  114  includes a touch panel, for example. The touch panel includes various types of panels such as an electrostatic capacitance type, a resistance film type, an optical type, an ultrasonic surface acoustic wave type, an infrared light shielding type, an electromagnetic induction type, and an image recognition type. The operation part may also be a proximity operation part, which can be operated by detecting a proximity, instead of the touch operation part  114 . The proximity operation part is operated by detecting a motion of a hand, for example, by a proximity sensor. The operation part may detect a motion of the user by a camera, for example, to receive the operation performed by the user. 
         [0029]    In the display screen  102  as one example shown in  FIG. 1 , the cover panel, the display  120 , and the touch operation part  114  are overlapped in a front view of the display screen  102 , and the user operates an object displayed on the display screen  102  by performing the touch operation on the object on the cover panel. 
         [0030]    The optical sensor  103  serves as a brightness detector to detect a surrounding brightness. In one example shown in  FIG. 1 , the optical sensor  103  is located in a front surface of the mobile phone  100 , however, its installation location is not limited to the above but may be disposed in another location as long as the optical sensor  103  detects the surrounding environment with high accuracy. The optical sensor  103  includes one to which a phototransistor, a photodiode, or the like is applied. 
         [0031]    The speaker  104  has a function of outputting sound outside by a control signal from a processor  108 , which will be described below. A location of the speaker  104  is not specifically limited, but the speaker  104  is located in a front surface, a side surface, or a rear surface of the mobile phone  100 , for example. The speaker  104  can output, for example, a sound from an opposite party, a melody, and a ring tone. 
         [0032]    The microphone  105  can convert the collected sound into a sound signal and output the sound signal to a sound encoder  117 , which will be described below. 
         [0033]    The button part  106  is a button-shaped hard key to receive an operation input from the user. The operation from the user received by the button part  106  is input to the processor  108  as the signal. In a case of  FIG. 1 , the button part  106  is pressed to be operated. The button part  106  includes, for example, a power-supply key, a volume key, and a home key. 
         [0034]    The camera window  107  is located in the front surface or a back surface of the mobile phone  100 . The camera window  107  comprises a transparent panel or lens and transmits a subject image to a camera module  116 , which will be described below. 
         [0035]      FIG. 2  illustrates a block configuration diagram of the mobile phone  100 . 
         [0036]    The mobile phone  100  includes at least one processor for providing control and processing capability to perform various functions as described in further detail below. In accordance with various embodiments, the at least one processor  108  may be implemented as a single integrated circuit (IC) or as multiple communicatively coupled IC&#39;s and/or discrete circuits. It is appreciated that the at least one processor  108  can be implemented in accordance with various known technologies. 
         [0037]    In one embodiment, the processor  108  includes one or more circuits or units configurable to perform one or more data computing procedures or processes. For example, the processor  108  may include one or more processors, controllers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors, programmable logic devices, field programmable gate arrays, or any combination of these devices or structures, or other known devices and structures, to perform the functions described herein. 
         [0038]    The processor  108  controls a software and a hardware in the mobile phone  100 . For example, the processor  108  detects the input operation which the touch operation part  114 , the button part  106 , or the like receives from the user to perform various functions of the mobile phone  100 . The processor  108  performs a program stored in the mobile phone  100  in cooperation with a ROM  110  or a RAM  111 . The processor  108  includes a control CPU, for example. 
         [0039]    A vibrator  109  can receive a control signal from the processor  108  to generate a mechanical vibration. The vibrator  109  is made up of a motor, for example, and informs the user of the incoming-call information, the received-mail information, the arrival of the alarm date and time, or the like with the mechanical vibration. 
         [0040]    The ROM (Read Only Memory)  110  can store a program, data, or the like for performing various processing included in the mobile phone  100 . 
         [0041]    The RAM (Random Access Memory)  111  is accessible from the processor  108  and is used as a temporary storage region (also referred to as a buffer region) which is needed in order that the processor  108  performs the various processing. In addition, the 
         [0042]    RAM  111  can store various data generated in the apparatus such as data used in a telephone, such as address book data and email data and image data and video data taken in a camera mode. The image stored in the RAM  111  includes a still image and a video. The video is made up of a plurality of frames, and each frame is made up of a still image. The still image includes an icon, a button, a picture, a thumbnail image and a text layout region. The text layout region is a region on which a text information is displayed. The video and the thumbnail image of the video, which will be described below, are associated with each other by an identification information of the video and then stored in the RAM  111 . 
         [0043]    A wireless circuit  112  can perform a demodulation processing and a decoding processing on a predetermined high frequency signal being input from an antenna  113  to convert the high frequency signal into a digital sound signal. The wireless circuit  112  can perform an encoding processing and a modulation processing on the digital sound signal being inputted from the processor  108  to convert the digital sound signal into a high frequency signal. Subsequently, the wireless circuit  112  can output the high frequency signal to the antenna  113 . 
         [0044]    The antenna  113  can receive a signal in predetermined frequency band and output the signal as the high frequency signal to the wireless circuit  112 . The antenna  113  can output the high frequency signal being output from the wireless circuit  112  as the signal of the predetermined frequency band. 
         [0045]    The camera module  116  has an image sensor such as a CCD. The camera module  116  can digitize an imaging signal being output from the image sensor and perform various corrections such as a gamma correction on the imaging signal to output the imaging signal to a video encoder  115 . The video encoder  115  can performs an encoding processing on the imaging signal being output from the camera module  116  and output the imaging signal to the processor  108 . The camera module  116  can take in a subject image through the camera window  107 . 
         [0046]    The sound encoder  117  can convert an analogue sound signal being output from the microphone  105  into a digital sound signal and perform an encoding processing on the digital sound signal to output the digital sound signal to the processor  108 . 
         [0047]    A video decoder  119  can convert an image information received from the processor  108  into an image signal to be displayed on the display  120  and output the image signal to the display  120 . The display  120  can display an image in accordance with the image signal on a display surface thereof. 
         [0048]    A sound decoder  118  can perform a decoding processing on a sound signal outputted from a CPU  100  and a sound signal of various notification sounds such as a ringtone and an alarm sound and further convert the sound signal into an analog sound signal to output the analog sound signal to the speaker  104 . 
         [0049]    A clock  121  can measure a time and output a signal in accordance with the measured time to the processor  108 . 
         [0050]    Operation Processing 
         [0051]    An operation processing of the mobile phone  100  according to one embodiment is described below. 
         [0052]      FIG. 3  illustrates an example of the display screen  102  of the mobile phone  100 .  FIG. 3  illustrates a video editing screen. Specifically, the display screen  102  shows thumbnails  11   a  to  11   c  indicating parts of one video divided every predetermined time (in  FIG. 3 , the video is divided every five minutes), a preview screen  10  of the video, and a progress bar  12  indicating a current progress of the video (in  FIG. 3 , the progress of the video displayed on the preview screen  10  is shown as eight minutes and fifty seven seconds). Displayed below the thumbnails  11   a  to  11   c  are times of the video (for example, 5:00 indicates five minutes and zero second). 
         [0053]    The video may be taken with a camera included in the mobile phone  100  or may be downloaded from a site of Internet or the like. 
         [0054]      FIGS. 4A to 6B  illustrate a sequence of a screen transition. In the display screen  102  in  FIG. 4A , a finger F 1  of the user touches the thumbnail  11   a  (object) and a finger F 2  of the user touches the adjacent thumbnail  11   b  (object), thereby selecting the thumbnail  11   a  and the thumbnail  11   b.  When, in the state of  FIG. 4A , the user spreads the fingers F 1  and F 2  while touching the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  as shown in  FIG. 4B , the thumbnail  11   a  and the thumbnail  11   b  moving in accordance with the movement of the finger F 1  and the finger F 2  are displayed, and an operation menu  13  (object) is displayed between the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  after movement. In  FIG. 4B , the operation menu  13  displays “copy”, “paste”, and “cut”, however, the present disclosure is not limited to the above configuration. 
         [0055]    As shown in  FIG. 4C , after the finger F 1  and the finger F 2  move away from the thumbnail  11   a  and thumbnail  11   b,  the finger F 1  touches the operation menu  13  to select “copy” in the items of the operation menu  13 . Subsequently, as shown in  FIG. 4D , the finger F 1  touches the thumbnail to select the thumbnail to be copied (the thumbnail  11   b  in one embodiment). 
         [0056]      FIGS. 5A to 6B  show the screen transition of the display screen  102  when the user selects a copy destination of the thumbnail to be copied and performs the copy. 
         [0057]    After  FIG. 4D , as shown in  FIG. 5A , the user slides the finger F 1  from a right side of the thumbnail  11   b  toward a left side (in a direction D in  FIG. 5A ). When the finger F 1  is slid, thumbnails  11   c  to  11   e  located subsequently to the thumbnail  11   b  are displayed as shown in  FIG. 5B . 
         [0058]    As shown in  FIG. 5C , the user selects a paste destination of the copied thumbnail  11   b.  In  FIG. 5C , the user intends to paste the thumbnail  11   b  between the thumbnail  11   d  and the thumbnail  11   e.  When the user spreads the fingers F 1  and F 2  while touching the thumbnails  11   d  and  11   e  as shown in  FIG. 5D , a display  14  shown as “Paste?” is displayed between the moved thumbnails  11   d  and  11   e.  When the user subsequently touches the display  14  showing “Paste?” with the finger F 1  as shown in  FIG. 6A , the thumbnail  11   b  is pasted between the thumbnail  11   d  and the thumbnail  11   e  as shown in  FIG. 6B . The above operations enables a video part constituted by the thumbnail  11   b  to be located between a video part represented by the thumbnail  11   d  and a video part represented by the thumbnail  11   e  in the video. 
         [0059]    As described above, the operations shown in  FIGS. 4A to 6B  move the two objects (in one embodiment, the objects correspond to the thumbnails relating to the plurality of parts forming the one video) to separate from each other, thereby enabling the other display (the operation menu  13  in one embodiment) to be displayed between the two object. Accordingly, the display, such as the operation menu, can be called up with a simple operation instead of providing a display region such as the operation menu separately in the normal display screen (in one embodiment, the normal display screen for editing the video). Especially, the above configuration is effective when the electronic apparatus has a small display screen (in particular, a mobile communication terminal device such as a mobile phone). 
         [0060]    In  FIG. 5C  and  FIG. 5D , when the user selects the paste destination of the thumbnail  11   b  to be copied, the user swipes the fingers F 1  and F 2  so as to separate the thumbnails  11   d  and  11   e  from each other to select the paste destination, however, the present disclosure is not limited to the above configuration. For example, the user may tap a boundary between the thumbnails  11   d  and  11   e  with the finger F 1  as shown in  FIG. 7A , thereby pasting the thumbnail to be pasted (the thumbnail  11   b  in one embodiment) between the thumbnail  11   d  and thumbnail  11   e.    
         [0061]      FIGS. 8A and 8B  illustrate an example of an operation subsequent to  FIG. 4A  and  FIG. 4B . When the user intends to cancel the display of the operation menu  13  after displaying the operation menu  13  on the display screen  102  as shown in  FIG. 4B , the user moves the fingers F 1  and F 2  in a direction of bringing the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  closer to each other (a direction D1 and a direction D2 in  FIG. 8A ) while touching the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  with the fingers F 1  and F 2 , then the display of the operation menu  13  disappears and the thumbnail  11   a  and the thumbnail  11   b  return to the initial display. The example of  FIGS. 8A and 8B  shows the operation of closing the fingers F 1  and F 2  while touching the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  with the fingers F 1  and F 2 , the present disclosure is not limited to the above configuration. For example, the user may move the fingers F 1  and F 2  away from the display screen of  FIG. 4B  and then touch the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  again with the fingers F 1  and F 2  and then close the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  with the fingers F 1  and F 2  as shown in  FIG. 8A . 
         [0062]    The video editing in the mobile phone according to one embodiment is described above based on  FIGS. 3 to 8B , however, the present disclosure is not limited to one example of  FIGS. 3 to 8B . 
         [0063]    Next, a program for performing one embodiment is described using  FIG. 9 . one example is described based on  FIGS. 3 to 8B . 
         [0064]    In a step S 01 , it is detected whether the two thumbnails are touched. Specifically, as shown in  FIG. 4A , it is detected whether the thumbnail  11   a  and the thumbnail  11   b  are touched. When the touch is not detected (the step S 01 : NO), the flow returns to the step S 01  again. When the touch is detected (the step S 01 : YES), it is detected whether the operation of separating the positions of the two thumbnails is performed (a step S 02 ). Specifically, it is detected that whether the touch positions of the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  are separated from each other subsequently to the state where the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b  are touched with the finger, for example, as shown in  FIG. 4B . When the operation of separating the two thumbnails is not detected (the step S 02 : NO), the flow returns to the step S 01 . When the operation of separating the two thumbnails is detected (the step S 02 : YES), the positions of the two thumbnails are separated and the operation menu is then displayed (a step S 03 ). Specifically, in  FIG. 4B , the thumbnail  11   a  and the thumbnail  11   b  move so that their display positions are separated from each other, and the operation menu  13  is then displayed between the thumbnail  11   a  and  11   b  after movement. 
         [0065]    It is detected whether the touch to the two thumbnails is released, that is to say, whether the touch which has been detected is no longer detected (a step S 04 ). When the tough to the two thumbnails is not released (the steps  04 : NO), that is to say, when the touch to the two thumbnails is continued, a flow goes on to a step S 08 , which will be described below. When the touch to the two thumbnails is released (the step S 04 : YES), it is detected whether the selection operation is performed on the operation menu (a step S 05 ). Specifically, it is detected whether the touch to any of the items (copy, paste, and cut) displayed in the operation menu  13  to select the item is detected as shown in  FIG. 4C . When the selection operation is not performed on the menu (the step S 05 : NO), the flow goes on to a step S 09 , which will be described below. When the selection operation is performed on the menu (the step S 05 : YES), it is detected whether the thumbnail is selected (a step S 06 ). Specifically, it is detected whether the thumbnail to be copied is selected in accordance with the “copy” selected in the operation menu  13  as shown in  FIG. 4D . When the thumbnail is not selected (the step S 06 : NO), the flow returns to the step S 06 . When the thumbnail is selected (the step S 06 : YES), the menu is performed (a step S 07 ). Specifically, the copied thumbnail  11   b  is pasted between the thumbnail  11   d  and the thumbnail  11   e  as shown in  FIG. 6B , and then the flow is finished. 
         [0066]    When the touch to the two thumbnails is not released in the step S 04  (the step S 04 : NO), it is detected whether the operation of bringing the positions of the two thumbnails closer to each other is performed (the step S 08 ). Specifically, as shown in  FIG. 8A , it is detected whether the touch positions of the fingers or the like touching the thumbnails  11   a  and  11   b,  which are separately displayed with the operation menu  13  therebetween, has moved closer to each other (the step S 08 ). When the operation of bringing the positions of the two thumbnails closer to each other is not pertained (the step S 08 : NO), the flow returns to the step S 04 . When the operation of bringing the positions of the two thumbnails closer to each other is performed (the step S 08 : YES), the display of the operation menu is deleted and then the display positions of the two thumbnails return to the initial positions (a step S 10 ). 
         [0067]    When the menu is not selected in the step S 05  (the step S 05 : NO), it is detected whether a predetermined period of time has passed (the step S 09 ). When the predetermined period of time has not passed (the step S 09 : NO), the flow returns to the step S 05 . When the predetermined period of time has passed (the step S 09 : YES), the display of the operation menu is deleted and then the display positions of the two thumbnails return to the initial positions (a step S 10 ). 
         [0068]    The touch operations on the thumbnails at a time of the video editing in the electronic apparatus (the mobile phone in one embodiment) are described in  FIGS. 3 to 9 , however, the present disclosure is not limited to the operations on the thumbnails at the time of the video editing. For example, when thumbnails of a plurality of different videos are displayed on the display screen, the two thumbnails are selected and then a operation is pertained for moving display positions of two thumbnails away from each other, so that a display (the operation menu illustrated in  FIG. 4 ) different from the two thumbnails may be displayed. 
         [0069]      FIGS. 10 to 11D  illustrate touch operations on two applications, both of which are active, as one embodiment different from that of  FIGS. 3 to 9 . 
         [0070]    The two application are active in the display screen  102  of the mobile phone  100  in  FIG. 10 . One application is an application A, and other application is an application B. The above applications are displayed side by side on the display screen  102 . The mobile phone  100  is longitudinally displayed in  FIGS. 3 to 8B  and laterally displayed in  FIGS. 10 to 11D , so that either direction may be adopted as the display direction. 
         [0071]    As shown in  FIG. 11A , in the display screen  102  on which the application A and the application B are displayed, the finger F 1  touches the application A and the finger F 2  touches the application B adjacent to application A. When the user spreads the fingers F 1  and F 2  while touching the application A and the application B as shown in  FIG. 11A and 11B , the application A and the application B moving in accordance with the movement of the finger F 1  and the finger F 2  are displayed. Subsequently, at least part of an application C is displayed between the application A and the application B. The application C indicates an application which is not displayed on the display screen  102  of  FIG. 11A  but is active.  FIG. 11B  illustrates the application A and the application B separated from each other to a certain extent. At least the part of the application C may also be displayed in a state where the application A and the application B are not so separated from each other as they are shown in  FIG. 11B . Such a display enables the user to confirm the presence of the application C which is not displayed but active only with a simple operation of spreading the fingers F 1  and F 2  a little while touching the application A and the application B. After the user confirms the application C, the operation of  FIGS. 8A and 8B  described in the above specific example, for example, may be applied, that is, the fingers F 1  and F 2  touch and move the applications A and B in the direction of bringing the applications A and B closer to each other so that the display of the application C is deleted and then, as shown in  FIG. 10 , the display positions of the applications A and B return to the initial positions. 
         [0072]    In  FIG. 11B , the application C is displayed so as to be located behind the application A and the application B, however, the display of the application C is not limited to the above configuration. 
         [0073]      FIG. 11C  illustrates that after  FIG. 11B , which shows that the user spreads fingers F 1  and F 2  while touching the applications A and B, the user moves the fingers F 1  and F 2  away from the display screen  102  and then intends to display the application C, which is displayed between the applications A and B, instead of the application B. Specifically, the user touches the application C with the finger F 1  and then moves the finger from left to right as shown in  FIG. 11C  (a direction D) to locate the finger F 1  on the application B. Accordingly, the display of the application C is moved to be located over the application B. 
         [0074]    As shown in  FIG. 11D , the operation in  FIGS. 11A to 11C  enables the display on a region in a right side of the display screen  102  to be changed from the application B to the application C. In  FIG. 11D , the application B which is no longer displayed is active. 
         [0075]    One example of  FIGS. 10 and 11A to 11D  shows the application display, which is active and displayed, as the first object and the second object and the application display, which is not displayed but active, as the third object. 
         [0076]    Although the present disclosure is described above using drawings, the present disclosure is not limited to examples illustrated in drawings. Although in  FIGS. 3 to 11D , the first object and the second object are adjacent to each other without a gap in the first state shown in  FIG. 3  and  FIG. 10 , the gap may be located between the first object and the second object, or other object may be located between the first object and the second object in the first state. 
         [0077]    Although examples illustrated in drawings show the display of the thumbnail and application as the object (including the first object, the second object, and the third object), the present disclosure is not limited to the above. For example, the object may include an icon (an icon indicative of an application or an icon indicative of notification), a character, and a soft key in a soft keyboard. 
         [0078]    Although examples illustrated in drawings show the operation through the touch operation, the present disclosure is not limited to the above. For example, the object may be operated not by touching but by getting close to the display screen  102 , and the object may be operated even when the user is 1 m or more away from the electronic apparatus, for example. 
         [0079]    The operation may be performed by the user not only with the finger but an operation by visual line, voice, or a gesture or an operation using an operation tool such as a stylus is also applicable.