Volume adjustment device

1. A volume adjustment device comprising:

a display section;

a touch panel that is linked with the display section; and

a controller, wherein

the controller

displays a slide bar on the display section, the slide bar including a normal area, a limit area, and a knob indicating a volume value, the normal area having a first end and a second end that corresponds to a lower limit of the limit area, the lower limit of the limit area corresponding to a higher volume value than the first end of the normal area, and the knob being movable between the first end of the normal area and the second end of the normal area,

receives movement of contact detected on the touch panel, the detected contact indicating movement of a target that is a movement goal position of the knob,

adjusts a volume of an audio signal to the volume value corresponding to a position of the knob,

moves the knob with a moving speed of the target while the knob and the target are within the normal area, and does not move the knob above the lower limit into the limit area while the target is within the limit area, and

moves the knob and the lower limit of the limit area from the lower limit of the limit area toward the target while the target is within the limit area, such that the second end of the normal area moves with the lower limit thereby expanding the normal area, the movement of the lower limit and the expansion of the normal area being at the same predetermined speed.

2. The volume adjustment device according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined speed is slower than a threshold movement speed of the target that the controller is capable of detecting.

3. The volume adjustment device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller expands the normal area toward the limit area by a predetermined area after it moves the knob to the target.

4. The volume adjustment device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller

detects contact to the knob by the touch panel, and

moves the knob with the predetermined speed to the target while it expands the normal area toward the limit area to the target with the predetermined speed when it receives movement of the target into the limit area over the normal area and if it continues detecting contact of the target.

5. The volume adjustment device according to claim 4 , wherein the controller

stops expansion of the normal area and movement of the knob when it does not detect contact to the target before it moves the knob to the target when the controller receives the movement of the target to the limit area over the normal area.

6. The volume adjustment device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller

stops expansion of the normal area and moves the knob to the target within the normal area after it receives movement of the target to the limit area over the normal area when it receives movement of the target from the limit area to the normal area.

7. The volume adjustment device according to claim 6 , wherein the controller

expands the normal area toward the limit area by a predetermined area when a distance between a position of the knob within the normal area and lower limit of the stopped limit area is less than a distance corresponding to the predetermined area.

8. The volume adjustment device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller expands the limit area toward normal area when a distance between a position of the knob within the normal area and the lower limit of the limit area is not less than a distance corresponding to a predetermined area after a predetermined time passes after movement of the knob.

9. The volume adjustment device according to claim 8 , wherein the controller expands the limit area toward the normal area so that the distance between the position of the knob and the lower limit of the limit area can be the distance corresponding to the predetermined area.

10. The volume adjustment device according to claim 8 , wherein the controller receives a setting of a limit value of the lower limit of the limit area, and does not drop the lower limit of the limit area less than the limit value that it receives.

11. The volume adjustment device according to claim 1 , further comprising: a communication section that is for communicating with an external device,

wherein the controller adjusts the volume of the audio signal, which is output from the external device by sending the volume value corresponding to position of the moved knob to the external device.

12. A non-transitory storage medium storing a volume adjustment program that instructs a controller of a computer including a display section, a touch panel that is linked with the display section, and the controller

to display a slide bar on the display section, the slide bar including a normal area, a limit area, and a knob indicating volume value, the normal area having a first end and a second end that corresponds to a lower limit of the limit area, the lower limit of the limit area corresponding to a higher volume value than the first end of the normal area, and the knob being movable between the first end of the normal area and the second end of the normal area,

to receive movement of contact detected on the touch panel, the detected contact indicating movement of a target that is a movement goal position of the knob,

to adjust a volume of an audio signal to a volume value corresponding to a position of the knob,

to move the knob with a moving speed of the target while the knob and the target are within the normal area, and does not move the knob above the lower limit into the limit area while the target is within the limit area, and

to move the knob and the lower limit of the limit area from the lower limit of the limit area toward the target while the target is within the limit area, such that the second end of the normal area moves with the lower limit thereby expanding the normal area, the movement of the lower limit and the expansion of the normal area being at the same predetermined speed.