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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Moriya, Chiba, JP;
Atsushi Ikeda, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroaki Koike, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Kogure, Ibaraki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display device that allows a user to easily move an icon across tabs and freely change the order of the icon in the tab of a movement destination is provided. The display device comprising a display unit, a touch panel that is arranged so as to superimposed on the display unit, and a control unit configured to display a screen including a plurality of tabs capable of accommodating a plurality of predetermined numbers of icons on the display unit. The control unit comprises a switching unit configured to switch between a home screen for displaying icons accommodated in a first tab selected via the touch panel among the plurality of tabs and a setting screen for moving a predetermined icon accommodated in the first tab to a second tab by a drag-and-drop operation, and a display control unit configured in such a way that when the predetermined icon is dragged onto a heading part of the second tab on the setting screen, in a case that there is no space for inserting the predetermined icon in the second tab, a display indicating that a drop operation is not possible is performed on the heading part of the second tab, and in a case that there is a space for inserting the predetermined icon in the second tab, a display indicating that a drop operation is possible is performed on the heading part of the second tab.