Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and mobile terminal device

• US 20070256035A1
• Filed: 04/24/2007
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Funabashi, Yoshimitsu, Tanigawa, Takeshi, Imai, Atsushi, Okamoto, Tomoharu, Adachi, Akihiko, Matsuzawa, Takeshi, Nishimura, Tatsuhiko, Irimajiri, Mayu, Muramatsu, Seiji, Hiraoka, Keiko, Tsuda, Takamoto
• Granted Patent: US 7,865,840 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0225 User interface arrangements, e.g. keyboard, display; Interfaces to other computer systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/963 Calendar or scheduling

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a content detector portion, a display controller portion, an operation state detector portion, and a popup display controller portion. The content detector portion detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information. The display controller portion collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion. In addition, the display controller portion then displays, on a display portion along a time series, content-related graphical information of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents, and displays on the display portion a selector serving to select a desired content from among respective contents displayed through the content-related graphical information. The operation state detector portion detects an operation state of an operation portion serving to perform an operation of moving the selector. In accordance with time information of a content selected by the selector when a predetermined operation state of the operation portion is detected by the operation state, the popup display controller portion detects a content having past time information with respect to the time information of the selected content, and popup displays content-related graphical information of the detected content on the display portion.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a content detector portion that detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information;

a display controller portion that collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion, that displays, on a display portion along a time series, graphical information related to the contents of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents (the graphical information hereinbelow will be referred to as “

content-related graphical information”

), and that displays on the display portion a selector serving to select a desired content from among respective contents displayed through the content-related graphical information;

an operation state detector portion that detects an operation state of an operation portion serving to perform an operation of moving the selector; and

a popup display controller portion that operates such that, in accordance with time information of a content selected by the selector when a predetermined operation state of the operation portion is detected by the operation state detector, the popup display controller portion detects a content having past time information with respect to the time information of the selected content, and popup displays (or, performs popup display of) content-related graphical information of the detected content on the display portion.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the content detector portion detects contents including time information and belonging to a respective per-date time range from the different types of contents;

the display controller portion displays display fields for respective dates on the display portion and displays content-related graphical information of contents respectively having corresponding time information in the display fields for respective dates; and

in accordance with time information of a date of a content selected by the selector when a predetermined operation state of the operation portion is detected by the operation state, the popup display controller portion detects a content having past time information with respect to the time information of the date of the selected content, and popup displays (or, performs popup display of) content-related graphical information of the detected content on the display portion.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the popup display controller portion performs the popup display when an operation-stopped state of the operation portion for a predetermined time period or longer is detected by the operation state detector portion.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the popup display controller portion cause the content being popup displayed to be non-displayed when an operation-started state of the operation portion is detected by the operation state detector portion.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the popup display controller portion detects a content having a date identical or close to the date of the content selected by the selector from on a per-year, per-month, or random basis from among contents having past dates with respect to the content selected by the selector, and popup displays on the display portion content-related graphical information of the detected content.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the popup display controller portion detects a date with a largest number of contents from among contents having past dates with respect to the content selected by the selector, and popup displays on the display portion content-related graphical information of the detected content.

7. An information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the popup display controller portion detects contents having a date identical or close to the date of the content selected by the selector on the per-year, per-month, and random base from among contents having past dates with respect to the content selected by the selector, detects a content with a largest number of contents from among respective dates detected on the per-year, per-month, and random base, and popup displays on the display portion content-related graphical information of a content having the detected date.

8. An information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, when popup displayed the content-related graphical information, the popup display controller portion stores popup display history information indicative of the popup displayed content-related graphical information into a storage section, and reads and list-displays on the display portion the popup display history information stored in the storage section when a display specifying operation for the popup display history information is detected by the operation state detector portion.

9. An information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein, when desired popup display history information is selected by the selector from among the popup display history information list-displayed on the display portion, the display controller portion displays content-related graphical information corresponding to respective dates, with a display field of a date of content-related graphical information corresponding to the selected popup display history information in the center.

10. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

detecting contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information;

collecting the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected in the step of detecting contents, displaying, on a display portion along a time series, content-related graphical information of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents, and displaying on the display portion a selector serving to select a desired content from among respective contents displayed through the content-related graphical information;

detecting an operation state of an operation portion serving to perform an operation of moving the selector; and

in accordance with time information of a content selected by the selector when a predetermined operation state of the operation portion is detected in the step of detecting an operation state, detecting a content having past time information with respect to the time information of the selected content, and popup displays content-related graphical information of the detected content on the display portion.

11. An information processing program, comprising:

causing a computer to function as a content detector portion that detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information;

causing the computer to function as a display controller portion that collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion, that displays, on a display portion along a time series, content-related graphical information of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents, and that displays on the display portion a selector serving to select a desired content from among respective contents displayed through the content-related graphical information;

causing the computer to function as an operation state detector portion that detects a operation state of an operation portion serving to perform an operation of moving the selector; and

causing the computer to function as a popup display controller portion that, in accordance with time information of a content selected by the selector when a predetermined operation state of the operation portion is detected, detects a content having past time information with respect to the time information of the selected content, and that popup displays content-related graphical information of the detected content on the display portion.

12. A mobile terminal device, comprising:

a content detector portion that detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information;

a display controller portion that collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion, that displays, on a display portion along a time series, content-related graphical information of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents, and that displays on the display portion a selector serving to select a desired content from among respective contents displayed through the content-related graphical information;

an operation state detector portion that detects an operation state of an operation portion serving to perform an operation of moving the selector; and

a popup display controller portion that operates such that, in accordance with time information of a content selected by the selector when a predetermined operation state of the operation portion is detected by the operation state, the popup display controller portion detects a content having past time information with respect to the time information of the selected content, and popup displays (or, performs popup display of) content-related graphical information of the detected content on the display portion.