Information processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium recording information processing program

• US 10,437,424 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2015
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Matsushima, Yoshihiro, Kawase, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nabi, Reza
• Application Number:
  US14/986,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20160110042A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,377 Days
• Field of Search: 715811
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An example information processing apparatus includes a display; storage configured to store one or more applications; and a hardware processor configured to control the display to display a menu screen, including one or more selection images operable for launching applications, both when the information processing apparatus is started and when executing of a launched application is stopped. The processor is further configured to automatically change an aspect of the menu screen after the information processing apparatus is turned off and re-started.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display;

storage configured to store one or more applications and one or more display images; and

a hardware processor configured to control the display to display a menu screen, comprising a display image and one or more selection images operable for launching applications, both when the information processing apparatus is started and when executing of a launched application is stopped, wherein

the processor is further configured to automatically change an aspect of the menu screen after the information processing apparatus returns to the menu screen when the executing of a launched application is stopped,

the automatically changed menu screen aspect is determined at least in part in accordance with a favorite setting set prior to the stopping of the executing of the launched application, and

the favorite setting is associated with determining a predetermined order for the display images.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting comprises a user favorite setting.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises a touchscreen display and the selection images comprise touch images.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the automatically changed menu screen aspect comprises menu screen content.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to automatically change an aspect of the menu screen each time the information processing apparatus returns to the menu screen when the executing of a launched application is stopped.

6. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program which, when executed by a hardware processor of an information processing apparatus including a display and storage configured to store one or more applications, causes the hardware processor to control the information processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

display, on the display, a menu screen, comprising one or more selection images operable for launching applications, both when the information processing apparatus is started and when executing of a launched application is stopped; and

automatically change an aspect of the menu screen after the information processing apparatus after the information processing apparatus returns to the menu screen when the executing of a launched application is stopped, wherein

the automatically changed menu screen aspect is determined at least in part in accordance with a favorite setting set prior to the stopping of the executing of the launched application, and

the favorite setting is associated with determining a predetermined order for the one or more selection images.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 6, wherein the setting comprises a user favorite setting.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 6, wherein the automatically changed menu screen aspect comprises menu screen content.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 6, wherein the menu screen aspect is automatically changed each time the information processing apparatus returns to the menu screen when the executing of a launched application is stopped.

10. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display;

a storage; and

a hardware processor configured to;

control the information processing apparatus to enter a sleep mode based on a predetermined operation; and

automatically display, in a random order, one of a plurality of different menu screens each time the information processing apparatus is restarted from the sleep mode, each menu screen comprising an image stored in the storage and one or more selection images each operable for launching a respective application program executable by the hardware processor,

wherein the plurality of different menu screens are determined at least in part based on a user setting.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to set a plurality of favorite images as images for the plurality of different menu screens.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein each different menu screen comprises a different image stored in the storage.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the user setting is set prior to the restarting of the information processing apparatus.

14. A method for an information processing apparatus comprising a display and a storage, the method comprising:

controlling the information processing apparatus to enter a sleep mode based on a predetermined operation; and

automatically displaying on the display, in a random order, one of a plurality of different menu screens each time the information processing apparatus is restarted from the sleep mode, each menu screen comprising an image stored in the storage and one or more selection images each operable for launching a respective application programs,

wherein the plurality of different menu screens are determined at least in part based on a user setting.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for an information processing apparatus comprising a display, storage, and a processor, the program, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to control the information processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

entering a sleep mode based on a predetermined operation; and

automatically displaying, in a random order, one of a plurality of different menu screens each time the information processing apparatus is restarted from the sleep mode, each menu screen comprising an image stored in the storage and one or more selection images each operable for launching a respective application program,

wherein the plurality of different menu screens are determined at least in part based on a user setting.