Portable information terminal

1. A portable information terminal, comprising:

a display section that has a plurality of display screens and that displays an image on the plural display screens;

a touch panel type input section that senses a first touch operation on said display screens and identifies a predetermined portion of the image, the predetermined portion being displayed across a first of the display screens and a second of the display screens across a screen boundary between the display screens; and

a control section that causes, based on a predetermined, second directional touch operation on the display screens, any one of the two display screens to display all of the predetermined portion that initially was displayed across the screen boundary between the first and second display screens of said plurality of display screens, while maintaining remaining portions of the image at the first display screen and the second display screen and maintaining some of the predetermined portion that was initially displayed across the screen boundary at the other of the two display screens,

wherein i) a first direction touch operation causes all the predetermined portion to be displayed on the first display screen without causing any remaining portion of the image located outside of the predetermined portion at the second display screen to move toward the first display screen, and ii) a second direction touch operation causes all the predetermined portion to be displayed on the second display screen without causing any remaining portion of the image located outside of the predetermined portion at the first display screen to move toward the second display screen.

2. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 1 ,

wherein said predetermined portion is a rectangular region, and

wherein said touch operation is a touch operation for two display screens that are adjacent to each other.

3. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 2 ,

the touch panel type input section detects the first touch operation as touching a first point on the first display screen and a second point on the second display screen, and

wherein a width of said predetermined portion in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the boundary of said display screens depends on the first and second points touched by said first touch operation.

4. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 3 ,

wherein the width of the predetermined portion in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the boundary of said display screens depends on components of the first and second points touched by said first touch operation in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the boundary of said display screens.

5. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 3 ,

wherein the width of said predetermined portion in the same direction as the longitudinal direction of the boundary of said display screens is a predetermined length.

6. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 5 ,

wherein said predetermined portion is a stripe region surrounded by the first and second points touched by said first touch operation formed to match the width of the display screens along the longitudinal direction of the boundary of the display screens.

7. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 2 ,

wherein the touch panel type input section detects the first touch operation as touching a first point on the first display screen and a second point on the second display screen, and

wherein said predetermined portion is a region identified by the first and second points touched by said first touch operation.

8. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 7 ,

wherein the region identified by said first and second points is a rectangular region having diagonal vertexes given by the first and second points touched by said first touch operation.

9. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 1 ,

wherein said predetermined portion is a predetermined region.

10. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 1 ,

wherein when the first touch operation is performed for two display screens that are adjacent to each other, and said control section identifies said predetermined portion spanning the two display screens,

wherein the touch panel type input section detects the first touch operation as touching a first point on the first display screen and a second point on the second display screen,

wherein the first display screen is a left display screen and the second display screen is a right display screen, and the first direction touch operation is a left direction movement and the second direction touch operation is a right direction movement, and

wherein i) when a user, touching the first and second points, slides the two first and second points with the left direction movement, the control section causes the left display screen to display all of the rectangular region, and ii) when the user, touching the first and second points, slides the two first and second points with the right direction movement, the control section causes the right display screen to display all of the rectangular region.

11. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 10 ,

wherein said first touch operation simultaneously touches the two display screens.

12. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 11 ,

wherein said second directional touch operation is a touch operation that simultaneously slides the first and second points touched by said first touch operation in one direction.

13. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 12 ,

wherein, based on said second directional touch operation, said control section slides said predetermined portion in the same direction as the longitudinal direction of the boundary of the display screens and displays the predetermined portion as the two points slid by said second touch operation and that are moved in the same direction as the longitudinal direction of the boundary of the display screens.

14. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 12 ,

wherein said control section causes any one of said two display screens to continuously display said predetermined portion after said second directional touch operation is performed while said two touch panels are being touched as a third touch operation, and said control section causes the display screen to stop displaying the predetermined portion after the third touch operation has been completed.

15. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 14 ,

wherein said control section causes any one of said two display screens to continuously display said predetermined portion until after a predetermined period time has elapsed after the third touch operation that continuously touches said two touch panels has been completed, and said control section causes the display screen to stop displaying said predetermined portion after said predetermined period of time has elapsed.

16. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 15 ,

wherein while said control section causes any of said two display screens to continuously display said predetermined portion, when a fourth touch operation is performed for a region corresponding to an image portion of the predetermined portion on the touch panel of the display screen, said control section converts coordinates of a position at which the fourth touch operation is performed to coordinates of said predetermined portion and notifies an application that manages an object that is designated by the fourth touch operation of the coordinates of the predetermined portion.

17. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 16 ,

wherein when said fourth touch operation is performed, said control section causes any one of said two display screens to stop displaying said predetermined portion.

18. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 10 ,

wherein when said first touch operation is performed, said control section causes said predetermined portion to be displayed such that the predetermined portion is distinguishable from said remaining portion.

19. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 18 ,

wherein when said first touch operation is performed, said control section causes said predetermined portion to be displayed in three dimensions.

20. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 10 ,

wherein when said second directional touch operation is performed, said control section causes any one of said two display screens to display said predetermined portion such that the predetermined portion is distinguishable from said remaining portion.

21. The portable information terminal as set forth in claim 20 ,

wherein when said second directional touch operation is performed, said control section causes any one of said two display screens to display said predetermined portion in three dimensions.

22. A display control method, comprising:

detecting a predetermined touch operation on display screens of a portable information terminal having a plurality of display screens and a touch panel type input section that senses touch on the individual display screens; and

based on the detected predetermined touch operation, displaying a predetermined portion of an image, that initially lies on two display screens of said plurality of display screens across a screen boundary between the display screens, on any one of the two display screens,

wherein said displaying step displays all of said predetermined portion on the one display screen while maintaining remaining portions of the image at the two display screens and maintaining some of the predetermined portion that was initially displayed across the screen boundary at the other of the two display screens, without causing any remaining portion of the image, located outside of the predetermined portion at the other of the two display screens, to move toward the one display screen.

23. The display control method as set forth in claim 22 , further comprising:

when a first touch operation is performed for two display screens that are adjacent to each other, identifying said predetermined portion, and

when a predetermined second touch operation is performed, causing the one display screen to display all of said predetermined portion.

24. The display control method as set forth in claim 23 ,

wherein said first touch operation simultaneously touches two display screens.

25. The display control method as set forth in claim 24 ,

wherein said second touch operation is a touch operation that slides the two points touched by said first touch operation in one direction, and

wherein said predetermined portion is displayed on a display screen corresponding to the one direction to which the two points are slid by said second touch operation.