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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an information input and output apparatus including a screen control unit that generates a screen which includes at least one region to input or output information, as a window, a display attribute storage unit that stores a display and a non-display of each of the windows on the screen, and a position and a size of each of the windows when the windows are displayed on the screen, as a display attribute for each window, a display unit that displays the screen generated by the screen control unit, and a contact position detecting unit that is disposed along a display surface of the display unit, and outputs a coordinate for each contact position to the screen control unit when contacts are simultaneously detected at a plurality of positions. The screen control unit determines a region that is formed by connecting a plurality of contact positions, on the basis of coordinate information of the plurality of contact positions acquired by the contact position detecting unit, and changes the display attribute of the window in accordance with the region.