PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20070279431A1
• Filed: 04/23/2007
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsuda, Kouichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,020,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/594
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

A program causes an information processing apparatus to execute the steps of assigning an operating element of an operation input device to a search term having been input, displaying an information image containing the search term on a screen, the information image being obtained on the basis of search processing using the search term, and indicating a position of the search term in the information image, the search term being assigned with the operating element in the assigning step, when operation information on the operating element assigned to the search term is input while the display of the displaying step is being performed.

Claims

1. A program for causing an information processing apparatus to execute the steps of:

assigning an operating element of an operation input device to a search term having been input;

displaying an information image containing the search term on a screen, the information image being obtained on the basis of search processing using the search term; and

indicating a position of the search term in the information image, the search term being assigned with the operating element in the assigning step, when operation information on the operating element assigned to the search term is input while the display of the displaying step is being performed.

2. The program of claim 1,

wherein, in the displaying step, the search term and an operating element image representing the operating element assigned to the search term in the assigning step are displayed together with the information image.

3. The program of claim 2,

wherein the operating element image is displayed so as to be adjacent to the search term assigned with the operating element represented by the operating element image.

4. The program of claim 2,

wherein the operating element image is displayed so as to be partially superimposed on the search term assigned with the operating element represented by the operating element image.

5. The program of claim 2,

wherein the operating element image is indicated as a translucent image displayed so as to be adjacent to the search term or to be partially superimposed on the search term.

6. The program of claim 1,

wherein the information image displayed in the displaying step is an image of a list of the search result obtained on the basis of the search processing using the search term.

7. The program of claim 1,

wherein the information image displayed in the displaying step is an image representing information selected and acquired from the search result list image obtained on the basis of the search processing using the search term.

8. The program of claim 1,

wherein, in the indicating step indicating a position of the search term in the information image, a cursor is displayed at a position where the search term is presented in the information image.

9. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

assigning an operating element of an operation input device to a search term having been input;

displaying an information image containing the search term on a screen, the information image being obtained on the basis of search processing using the search term; and

indicating a position of the search term in the information image, the search term being assigned with the operating element in the assigning step, when operation information on the operating element assigned to the search term is input while the display of the displaying step is being performed.

10. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an assigning unit configured to assign an operating element of the operation input device to a search term having been input; and

a display processing unit configured to display an information image containing the search term on a screen, the information image being obtained on the basis of search processing using the search term and indicate a position of the search term in the information image, the search term being assigned with the operating element by the assigning unit, when operation information on the operating element assigned to the search term is input.