Contents display device and contents display method

1. A contents display device for displaying content, the contents display device comprising:

a display section having a single screen on which content is displayed;

a touch detection section, superposed on the single screen of the display section, for detecting contact instances that operate content displayed on the display section; and

a control section for controlling the content displayed on the display section, based on contact instances detected by the touch detection section, wherein the control section includes:

a bookmarking determination section for, provided that multiple contact instances on the single screen have been simultaneously detected by the touch detection section, determining for the simultaneously detected multiple contact instances whether or not each simultaneously detected contact instance is stationary for a predetermined period in a region, of the display section, in which the content is displayed, and determining that a simultaneously detected contact instance that is determined to be stationary for the predetermined period is a bookmarking contact instance;

a bookmark-position configuration section for configuring a bookmark position in the content displayed on the display section, based on the bookmarking contact instance; and

a return-to-bookmark-position determination section for, after the bookmark position has been configured by the bookmark-position configuration section, provided that the touch detection section detects that a position of the bookmarking contact instance has slid, determining to return the content displayed on the display section to the bookmark position, and when the return-to-bookmark-position determination section has made the determination to return to the bookmark position, for returning the content displayed on the display section to the bookmark position configured by the bookmark-position configuration section, wherein

when the touch detection section has simultaneously detected multiple contact instances, the touch detection section samples coordinate position of the multiple contact instances multiple times within a predetermined time period; and

the bookmarking determination section determines whether each simultaneously detected contact instance is stationary on the condition that the coordinate position of the simultaneously detected contact instance does not change having been sampled for the multiple times within the predetermined time period.

2. The contents display device according to claim 1 , wherein the control section scrolls the content displayed on the display section, based either on none of the contact instances detected by the touch detection section being simultaneously detected, or on none of any simultaneously detected contact instances being determined to be stationary for the predetermined period.

3. The contents display device according to claim 1 , wherein during the interval the bookmarking contact instance is maintained, the bookmark-position configuration section continues maintaining the bookmark position configured based on the bookmarking contact instance, and once the bookmarking contact instance is broken, the bookmark-position configuration section releases the bookmark position configured based on the bookmarking contact instance.

4. The contents display device according to claim 3 , wherein, during the interval the bookmarking contact instance is maintained, the control section scrolls the content displayed on the display section, based on one of the simultaneously detected contact instances not having been determined by the bookmarking determination section to be the bookmarking contact instance.

5. A contents display method executed by a contents display device for displaying content on a display section having a single screen, the method comprising:

a touch detection step of detecting a contact instance that operates content displayed on the single screen of the display section;

a bookmarking determination step of, provided that multiple contact instances on the single screen have been simultaneously detected in the touch detection step, determining for the simultaneously detected multiple contact instances whether or not each contact simultaneously detected instance is stationary for a predetermined period in a region, of the display section, in which the content is displayed, and determining that a simultaneously detected contact instance that is determined to be stationary for the predetermined period is a bookmarking contact instance;

a bookmark-position configuration step of configuring a bookmark position in the content displayed on the display section, based on the bookmarking contact instance;

a return-to-bookmark-position determination step of, after the bookmark position has been configured in the bookmark-position configuration step, provided that it is detected that a position of the bookmarking contact instance has slid, determining to return the content displayed on the display section to the bookmark position; and

a bookmark-position display step of returning the content displayed on the display section to the bookmark position configured in the bookmark-position configuration step, when the determination to return to the bookmark position has been made in the return-to-bookmark-position determination step; wherein

when the touch detection step simultaneously detects multiple contact instances, multiple samples of the coordinate position of the multiple contact instances are taken multiple times within a predetermined time period; and

the bookmarking determination step determines whether each simultaneously detected contact instance is stationary on the condition that the coordinate position of the simultaneously detected contact instance does not change having been sampled for the multiple times within the predetermined time period.