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Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);

Inventor:

Masatoshi Nakao, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G01C 21/367 (2013.01); G01C 21/3664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04806 (2013.01);
Abstract

A display device includes a display section which displays an image in a screen, a proximity detecting section which detects proximity of a finger to the screen, an image generating section which generates, in accordance with the detected proximity of the finger, an enlarged image by enlarging the image displayed in the screen with a prescribed enlarged display magnification, and a display control section which controls to display a local enlarged image corresponding to a part of the generated enlarged image in a superimposed manner over the image in a position in the screen vertically below the finger whose proximity has been detected.


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