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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2012
Tetsuhiro Shibata, Sagamihara, JP;
Tatsuya Eguchi, Toyohashi, JP;
Tsutomu Suka, Fussa, JP;
Keiichiro Hyodo, Kokubunji, JP;
Masayuki Inoue, Hachioji, JP;
Tetsuhiro Shibata, Sagamihara, JP;
Tatsuya Eguchi, Toyohashi, JP;
Tsutomu Suka, Fussa, JP;
Keiichiro Hyodo, Kokubunji, JP;
Masayuki Inoue, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an electronic information terminal device, which makes it possible to establish an area having an arbitral shape only by performing a simple action on a multi-touchable panel provided therewith. The device includes: a display section that is provided with a touch panel, which is capable of detecting two or more touched positions simultaneously; and an area setting control section that establishes an area based on a moving locus of a line segment connecting a plurality of touched positions, when at least one of the plurality of touched positions has moved, 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. The device is provided with an erasing operation mode for erasing a figure and a depicting operation mode for depicting another figure in a selectable manner.