Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system

• US 10,162,480 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2017
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamano, Ikuo, Yamamoto, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Siddiqui, Md Saiful A
• Application Number:
  US15/690,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20170364240A1
• Time in Patent Office: 482 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation surface configured to receive touch inputs, and a sensor unit configured to detect at least one right-side touch input from a manipulation by a user of the operation surface within a first operational area of the operation surface, and at least one left-side touch input from a manipulation by the user of the operation surface within a second operational area of the operation surface, wherein the first operational area and the second operational area of the operation surface are mapped to a graphical user interface (GUI) area of a display device.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a touch panel; and

at least one processor configured to;

map a touch point detected through the touch panel to a correspondence point related to an on-screen-keyboard (OSK);

display an image which indicates a position of the correspondence point on a display screen; and

display a letter of a key of the OSK in an input section based on a user operation,

wherein the correspondence point is offset in a y-direction from a position of the touch point,

wherein when the touch point is positioned on a first side of the touch panel, the correspondence point is positioned within an area that is offset in a first direction of an x-direction from the position of the touch point, and

wherein when the touch point is positioned on a second side of the touch panel, which is a side opposite to the first side, the correspondence point is positioned within an area that is offset in a second direction of the x-direction from the position of the touch point, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first direction of the x-direction is to the right of the position of the touch point, and the second direction of the x-direction is to the left of the position of the touch point.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 2, wherein first side of the touch panel is a left side of the touch panel, and the second side of the touch panel is a right side of the touch panel.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the correspondence point is offset to an upper side in the y-direction from the position of the touch point.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein an offset amount of the offset of the correspondence point in the y-direction from a position of the touch point is uniform regardless of a y-coordinate value of the touch point.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user operation comprises a removal of a finger from the touch panel.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to change a display format of the displayed image.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the display format includes a color of a graphical user interface (GUI) component.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus is a smart phone.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein a direction upward from the apparatus is set to a y-axis, and a vertical direction of the touch screen is set to an x-axis.

11. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein there is a gap which is not mapped to the OSK between the first side of the touch panel and the second side of the touch panel.

12. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein a part of the first side of the touch panel and a part of the second side of the touch panel are mapped to a same key on the OSK.

13. The information processing apparatus of claim 12, wherein the same key is a space key.

14. An information processing method comprising:

mapping a touch point detected through a touch panel to a correspondence point related to an on-screen-keyboard (OSK);

displaying an image which indicates a position of the correspondence point on a display screen; and

displaying a letter of a key of the OSK in an input section based on a user operation,

wherein the correspondence point is offset in a y-direction from a position of the touch point,

wherein when the touch point is positioned on a first side of the touch panel, the correspondence point is positioned within an area that is offset in a first direction of an x-direction from the position of the touch point, and

wherein when the touch point is positioned on a second side of the touch panel, which is a side opposite to the first side, the correspondence point is positioned within an area that is offset in a second direction of the x-direction from the position of the touch point, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

mapping a touch point detected through a touch panel to a correspondence point related to an on-screen-keyboard (OSK);

displaying an image which indicates a position of the correspondence point on a display screen; and

displaying a letter of a key of the OSK in an input section based on a user operation,

wherein the correspondence point is offset in a y-direction from a position of the touch point,

wherein when the touch point is positioned on a first side of the touch panel, the correspondence point is positioned within an area that is offset in a first direction of an x-direction from the position of the touch point, and

wherein when the touch point is positioned on a second side of the touch panel, which is a side opposite to the first side, the correspondence point is positioned within an area that is offset in a second direction of the x-direction from the position of the touch point, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.

16. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a touch panel; and

at least one processor configured to;

map a touch point detected through the touch panel to a correspondence point related to an on-screen-keyboard (OSK);

display an image which indicates a position of the correspondence point on a display screen; and

display a letter of a key of the OSK in an input section based on a user operation,

wherein the correspondence point is offset in a y-direction from a position of the touch point,

wherein an offset amount of the offset of the correspondence point in the y-direction from a position of the touch point is uniform regardless of a y-coordinate value of the touch point, and

wherein the correspondence point is positioned within a center area whose centroid is offset in an x-direction from the position of the touch point towards a center of the touch panel.

17. The information processing apparatus of claim 16, wherein the correspondence point is offset to an upper side in the y-direction from the position of the touch point.

18. The information processing apparatus of claim 16, wherein the user operation comprises a removal of a finger from the touch panel.

19. The information processing apparatus of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to change a display format of the displayed image.

20. The information processing apparatus of claim 19, wherein the display format includes a color of a graphical user interface (GUI) component.

21. The information processing apparatus of claim 16, wherein the information processing apparatus is a smart phone.

22. The information processing apparatus of claim 16, wherein a direction upward from the apparatus is set to a y-axis, and a vertical direction of the touch screen is set to an x-axis.

23. An information processing method comprising:

mapping a touch point detected through a touch panel to a correspondence point related to an on-screen-keyboard (OSK);

displaying an image which indicates a position of the correspondence point on a display screen; and

displaying a letter of a key of the OSK in an input section based on a user operation,

wherein the correspondence point is offset in a y-direction from a position of the touch point,

wherein an offset amount of the offset of the correspondence point in the y-direction from a position of the touch point is uniform regardless of a y-coordinate value of the touch point, and

wherein the correspondence point is positioned within a center area whose centroid is offset in an x-direction from the position of the touch point towards a center of the touch panel.

24. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

mapping a touch point detected through a touch panel to a correspondence point related to an on-screen-keyboard (OSK);

displaying an image which indicates a position of the correspondence point on a display screen; and

displaying a letter of a key of the OSK in an input section based on a user operation,

wherein the correspondence point is offset in a y-direction from a position of the touch point,

wherein an offset amount of the offset of the correspondence point in the y-direction from a position of the touch point is uniform regardless of a y-coordinate value of the touch point, and

wherein the correspondence point is positioned within a center area whose centroid is offset in an x-direction from the position of the touch point towards a center of the touch panel.