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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shinya Takeichi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01);
Abstract
When a touch panel is operated and erroneous processing has been performed, the probability of the same operation error next time is reduced. For this purpose, when a touch to the touch panel is detected, one of respective items in a menu, which the touch position belongs to is determined. Then processing regarding the determined item is performed. At this time, when a designation input indicating that the selection of the item corresponding to the executed processing was not intended by the operator has been made, to narrow a decision area to decide selection of the item, information indicating the decision area is updated.