Information processing device, information processing method, recording medium and program

• US 20020149621A1
• Filed: 02/26/2002
• Published: 10/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro, Noguchi, Shinsuke
• Granted Patent: US 7,143,355 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/233 including a pointing device, e.g. roller key, track ball, rocker switch or joystick constructional details of pointing devices per se G06F3/033

Abstract

A jog dial server monitors an operation notification by a jog dial, then decides the operation based on the operation notification, and executes the decided operation as a jog script engine. The jog dial server loads a script file describing status transition of the jog dial in the script language at the time of start-up, then reads the status transition, and operates in accordance with the status transition thus read. Thus, an information processing device is provided which enables extension of the operation with respect to an application incompatible with the jog dial.

Claims

1. An information processing device for carrying out processing based on an input operation by a user using an input device for carrying out rotation and press operations, the information processing device comprising:

server means for monitoring an operation notification by the input device and determining and executing the operation based on the operation notification;

wherein the server means loads, at the time of start-up, a script file describing the status transition of the input device in the script language, reads the status transition corresponding to the operation of the input device, and executes the operation corresponding to the read status transition thus read.

2. The information processing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operation corresponding to the status transition read from the script file loaded by the server means is a display related to a graphical user interface of the input device.

3. The information processing device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display related to the graphical user interface includes a first display status for displaying what processing the information processing device can currently carry out in accordance with the operation using the input device, and a second display status for displaying a list of items which can be executed on the information processing device in accordance with the operation of the input device.

4. The information processing device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first display status is a guide status for guiding the operation of an application program, and the second display status is a list view status for display a list of application programs to be selected.

5. An information processing method for carrying out information processing based on an input operation by a user using an input device for carrying out rotation and press operations, the method comprising:

a processing execution step of monitoring an operation notification by the input device and determining and executing the operation based on the operation notification;

wherein at the processing execution step, a script file describing the status transition of the input device in the script language is loaded at the time of start-up, then the status transition corresponding to the operation of the input device is read, and the operation corresponding to the status transition thus read is executed.

6. A recording medium having an information processing program recorded thereon, the information processing program being adapted for carrying out information processing based on an input operation by a user using an input device for carrying out rotation and press operations, the information processing program comprising:

a processing execution step of monitoring an operation notification by the input device and determining and executing the operation based on the operation notification;

wherein at the processing execution step, a script file describing the status transition of the input device in the script language is loaded at the time of start-up, then the status transition corresponding to the operation of the input device is read, and the operation corresponding to the status transition thus read is executed.

7. A program related to information processing for carrying out information processing based on an input operation by a user using an input device for carrying out rotation and press operations, the program comprising:

a processing execution step of monitoring an operation notification by the input device and determining and executing the operation based on the operation notification;

wherein at the processing execution step, a script file describing the status transition of the input device in the script language is loaded at the time of start-up, then the status transition corresponding to the operation of the input device is read, and the operation corresponding to the status transition thus read is executed.