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

• US 20050183040A1
• Filed: 04/05/2005
• Published: 08/18/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hirohito Kondo, Takahiko Sueyoshi, Tomoki Shiono, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
• Original Assignee: Hirohito Kondo, Takahiko Sueyoshi, Tomoki Shiono, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
• Inventors: Kondo, Hirohito, Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro, Shiono, Tomoki, Sueyoshi, Takahiko
• Granted Patent: US 8,190,993 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/841
• 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 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1635 Details related to the integration of battery packs and other power supplies such as fuel cells or integrated AC adapter
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1679 for locking or maintaining the movable parts of the enclosure in a fixed position, e.g. latching mechanism at the edge of the display in a laptop or for the screen protective cover of a PDA G06F1/1681 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• 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 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04897 Special input arrangements or commands for improving display capability

Abstract

[Object]The object of the present invention is to make the setting condition of menu items easily adjustable on the setting screen with regard to the predetermined object to be operated.

[Solution]According to the present invention, since the camera setting utility screen 320 for the CCD camera 23 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 21, any one of the plural number of menu items is selected from said camera setting utility screen 320 displayed according to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial 30, the setting condition with regard to the menu item selected is adjusted corresponding to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial 30, and the CCD camera 23 is to be set to said setting condition adjusted, the whole processing from the selection of menu item to the adjustment of setting condition can be conducted only by the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial 30.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. An information processing device comprising:

a display means for displaying a setting screen for a predetermined object to be operated on a display screen;

a selecting and adjusting means for selecting any one of a plural number of menu items from said setting screen displayed on said display screen by said display means according to a rotation operation and push operation, and for adjusting a setting condition with regard to said selected menu item or items according to the rotation operation and the push operation; and

a control means for setting said object to said setting condition adjusted by said selecting and adjusting means,

wherein said selecting and adjusting means moves a marker display with regard to multiple marker columns provided corresponding to said selected menu item according to said rotation operation and adjusts to said setting condition corresponding to a stop position of said marker display according to said push operation.

11. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

displaying a setting screen with regard to a predetermined object to be operated on a display screen;

selecting any one of a plural number of menu items from said setting screen displayed on said display screen at said display step according to a rotation operation and a push operation by predetermined selecting and adjusting means, and adjusting a setting condition to said selected menu item according to said rotation operation and the push operation by said selecting and adjusting means; and

setting said object to said setting condition adjusted by said selecting and adjusting means,

wherein said selecting and adjusting step moves a marker display or marker displays with regard to a plural number of marker columns provided corresponding to said selected menu item according to said rotation operation and adjusts to said setting condition corresponding to a stop position of said marker display according to said push operation.

12. A program storage medium having a program stored therein for making an information processing device execute programs, said program comprising the steps of:

displaying a setting screen with regard to a predetermined object to be operated on a display screen;

selecting any one of a plural number of menu items from said setting screen displayed on said display screen at said display step according to a rotation operation and a push operation by predetermined selecting and adjusting means, and adjusting a setting condition with regard to said menu item selected according to said rotation operation and the push operation by said selecting and adjusting means; and

setting said object to said setting condition adjusted at said selecting and adjusting step,

wherein said selecting and adjusting step moves a marker display with regard to plural number of marker items provided corresponding to said selected menu item and adjusts to said setting condition corresponding to a stop position of said marker display according to said push operation.