Information processing device, information processing method and computer-readable recording medium

• US 10,235,041 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2011
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyazawa, Yusuke, Yamano, Ikuo, Homma, Fuminori
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhou, Hong
• Application Number:
  US13/028,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20110205182A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,953 Days
• Field of Search: 345168, 345173-184
• 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 3/04883 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 device including a detection unit for detecting a state of a manipulating body in a manipulation area, a state judgment unit for judging whether the manipulating body is in an input state in which a given input manipulation process is executed according to input information input by the manipulating body or in a standby state in which the input manipulation process is not executed, based on the detection result of the detection unit, and an execution process determination unit for determining a process to be executed from a plurality of processes including the input manipulation process based on the state judged by the state judgment unit or a change of the state.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising text input processing circuitry configured to:

display a software keyboard in a first display area;

display an input text in a second display area which is apart from the first display area;

detect a user operation toward a touch screen including the first display area and the second display area;

execute a text input command to input a text character corresponding to a touch position of a manipulating body and display the inputted text character in the second display area when a first user operation is detected in the first display area; and

execute a movement command to change an input portion among a plurality of input portions where text is to be input within the second display area without changing the text character in the second display area, when a second user operation is detected in the first display area,

wherein the first user operation is different from the second user operation,

wherein the first user operation comprises contact and release between the manipulating body and the touch screen, and

wherein the second user operation comprises movement of the manipulating body in a direction that is different from a direction of the first user operation with respect to a surface of the touch screen.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device is further configured to execute the text input command by inputting the text character in the second display area as part of a character string.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein when the text input command is executed, the information processing device is further configured to execute a spell check process for a previously input character string.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device is further configured to display a notification of the execution of the text input command or the movement command.

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

displaying a software keyboard in a first display area;

displaying an input text in a second display area which is apart from the first display area;

detecting a user operation toward a touch screen including the first display area and the second display area;

executing a text input command to input a text character corresponding to a touch position of a manipulating body and display the inputted text character in the second display area when a first user operation is detected in the first display area; and

executing a movement command to change an input portion among a plurality of input portions where text is to be input within the second display area without changing the text character in the second display area, when a second user operation is detected in the first display area,

wherein the first user operation is different from the second user operation,

wherein the first user operation comprises contact and release between the manipulating body and the touch screen, and

wherein the second user operation comprises movement of the manipulating body in a direction that is different from a direction of the first user operation with respect to a surface of the touch screen.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for causing a computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

displaying a software keyboard in a first display area;

displaying an input text in a second display area which is apart from the first display area;

detecting a user operation toward a touch screen including the first display area and the second display area;

executing a text input command to input a text character corresponding to a touch position of a manipulating body and display the inputted text character in the second display area when a first user operation is detected in the first display area; and

executing a movement command to change an input portion among a plurality of input portions where text is to be input within the second display area without changing the text character in the second display area, when a second user operation is detected in the first display area,

wherein the first user operation is different from the second user operation,

wherein the first user operation comprises contact and release between the manipulating body and the touch screen, and

wherein the second user operation comprises movement of the manipulating body in a direction that is different from a direction of the first user operation with respect to a surface of the touch screen.