Information processing apparatus, display control method, and program

• US 10,198,096 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2010
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Tetsuo, Aoyama, Ryu, Tsurumi, Takehiko, Moriya, Shoichiro, Homma, Fuminori
• Primary Examiner(s): Khan, Ibrahim A
• Application Number:
  US12/709,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20100214249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,270 Days
• Field of Search: 345173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 includes an outer frame portion which forms an outer frame of a display portion where an object is displayed; a position detecting portion which detects a position of an operating body coming in touch with or close to the display portion or the outer frame portion; and a display controlling portion which displays on the display portion, auxiliary information about an object situated at a position of the operating body detected by the position detecting portion at a start of the shift when the operating body shifts to the outer frame portion while keeping touch with or close to the display portion.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display screen configured to display image data; and

circuitry configured to

detect a drag gesture in which a continuous contact by an operating body originates in an area of the display screen above a selected object of the displayed image data and ends in an outer frame around a perimeter of the display screen, and

control the display screen to display auxiliary information of content corresponding to the selected object of the image data displayed on the display screen in response to the drag gesture.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the operating body moves in the drag gesture, the auxiliary information of the content corresponding to the selected object of the image data is displayed at a corresponding position of the operating body detected after the drag gesture.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

turn the selected object of the image data displayed on the display screen into a first select state when the selected object of the image data is directly touched or approached by the operating body, according to a detected position of the operating body,

wherein when the operating body moves in the drag gesture, the circuitry is further configured to turn the selected object of the image data situated at a corresponding position of the operating body detected after the drag gesture into a second select state different from the first select state.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

reproduce the content corresponding to the selected object of the image data when the selected object of the image data is turned into the first select state by being directly touched or approached by the operating body,

wherein when the selected object of the image data is turned into the second select state by the operating body moving in the drag gesture, the circuitry is further configured to display the auxiliary information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the content is music content, the circuitry is further configured to display information indicating one or more of a reproducing history of the music content, a reproducing time of the music content, and a frequency of reproduction of the music content, on the display screen, as the auxiliary information of the content.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the content is moving image content, the circuitry is further configured to display information indicating one or more of a reproducing history of the moving image content, a reproducing time of the moving image content, and a frequency of reproduction of the moving image content, on the display screen, as the auxiliary information of the content.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the content is static image content and the selected object of the image data is a folder corresponding to one or more static image contents, the circuitry is further configured to display a thumbnail image of each static image content of the one or more static image contents corresponding to the selected object of the image data set in the second select state, on the display screen, as the auxiliary information of the content.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary information of the content corresponding to the selected object of the image data is displayed on the full display screen.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary information of the content corresponding to the selected object of the image data is displayed in a window on the full display screen.

10. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an outer frame positioned around a perimeter of a display screen, wherein image data is displayed on the display screen;

a position detecting portion which detects a position of an operating body coming into touch contact with the display screen and then with the outer frame; and

a display controlling portion configured to display auxiliary information of content corresponding to a selected object of the image data displayed on the display screen according to a drag gesture, wherein the drag gesture is a continuous contact by the operating body which originates in an area of the display screen above the selected object of the displayed image data and ends in the outer frame,

wherein the position detecting portion, the area judging portion, and the display controlling portion are each implemented via at least one processor.

11. An information processing method, implemented via at least one processor, the method comprising:

displaying image data on a display screen;

detecting a drag gesture in which a continuous contact by an operating body originates in an area of the display screen above a selected object of the displayed image data and ends in an outer frame around a perimeter of the display screen; and

displaying auxiliary information on the display screen of content corresponding to the selected object of the image data displayed on the display screen in response to the drag gesture.

12. An information processing method, implemented via at least one processor, comprising:

displaying image data on a display screen;

detecting a drag gesture in which a continuous contact by an operating body originates in an area of the display screen above a selected object of the displayed image data and ends in an outer frame around a perimeter of the display screen; and

displaying auxiliary information on the display screen of content corresponding to the selected object of the image data displayed on the display screen in response to the drag gesture.

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

displaying image data on a display screen;

detecting a drag gesture in which a continuous contact by an operating body originates in an area of the display screen above a selected object of the displayed image data and ends in an outer frame around a perimeter of the display screen; and

displaying auxiliary information on the display screen of content corresponding to the selected object of the image data displayed on the display screen in response to the drag gesture.

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

displaying image data on a display screen;

detecting a drag gesture in which a continuous contact by an operating body originates in an area of the display screen above a selected object of the displayed image data and ends in an outer frame around a perimeter of the display screen; and

displaying auxiliary information on the display screen of content corresponding to the selected object of the image data displayed on the display screen in response to the drag gesture.