INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20080046831A1
• Filed: 08/01/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (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 9,037,987 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/025 adapted to a specific application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a user evaluation value table and a display controller portion. In the user evaluation value table, user evaluation values each corresponding to the number of processes of the respective content are stored on a basis of the respective content. When performing display changing of a respective content intended for display on a display portion, the controller portion detects from the user evaluation value table a user evaluation value of a content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion. Then, the controller portion performs change control to change a display time period for the content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion in accordance with the detected user evaluation value.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a user evaluation value table wherein user evaluation values each corresponding to the number of processes of the respective content are stored on a basis of the respective content; and

a display controller portion that, when performing display changing of a respective content intended for display on a display portion, detects from the user evaluation value table a user evaluation value of a content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion, and performs change control to change a display time period for the content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion in accordance with the detected user evaluation value.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controller portion performs operations including:

the display changing on a basis of a display screen on which a plurality of contents are displayed at one time;

calculation, on the basis of the display screen, of a total of user evaluation values of the respective contents intended to be graphically displayed on the display screen at one time; and

change control to change a display time period for the respective display screen in accordance with the calculation result.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controller portion performs operations including:

the display changing on a basis of a display screen on which a plurality of contents are displayed at one time;

calculation, on the basis of the display screen, of a total of user evaluation values of a predetermined number of contents selected in order from large user evaluation value from among the respective contents intended to be graphically displayed on the display screen; and

change control to change a display time period for the respective display screen in accordance with the calculation result.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controller portion performs operations including:

the display changing on a basis of a display screen on which a plurality of contents are displayed at one time;

detection, on a basis of the respective display screen, of a content having a largest user evaluation value from among the respective contents intended to be graphically displayed on the display screen at one time; and

change control to change a display time period for the respective display screen in accordance with the user evaluation value of the detected content.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controller portion performs operations including:

the display changing on a basis of a display screen on which a plurality of contents are displayed at one time;

calculation, on a basis of the respective display screen, of a total of user evaluation values of the respective contents intended to be graphically displayed on the display screen at one time; and

change control to change a display time period for the respective display screen so that a display screen is not displayed when the calculated total of the user evaluation values corresponding to the display screen is less than a predetermined value, and a display screen is displayed for either a predetermined time period or a time period corresponding to the calculated user evaluation value when the calculated total of the user evaluation values corresponding to the display screen is larger than or equal to the predetermined value.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising specified-user evaluation value storage portion for storing preliminarily specified user evaluation value, wherein the display controller portion performs operations including:

the display changing on a basis of a display screen on which a plurality of contents are displayed at one time;

calculation, on a basis of the respective display screen, of a total of user evaluation values of the respective contents intended to be graphically displayed on the display screen at one time; and

change control to change a display time period for the respective display screen so that a display screen is not displayed when the calculated total of the user evaluation values corresponding to the display screen is less than a user evaluation value stored in the specified-user evaluation value storage portion, and a display screen is displayed for either a predetermined time period or a time period corresponding to the calculated user evaluation value when the calculated total of the user evaluation values corresponding to the display screen is larger than or equal to the predetermined value.

7. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controller portion performs operations including:

display of a plurality of contents at one time on the display screen;

detection of the user evaluation value of the respective content from the user evaluation value table when performing sequential scroll display of the respective displayed content on the basis of the respective content; and

stopping of scrolling for a time period when a content having a user evaluation value larger than or equal to a predetermined user evaluation value is scroll-displayed in substantially a center of the display portion, or reduction of a scroll speed.

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

when performing display screen changing across respective contents intended to be displayed on a display portion, detecting a user evaluation value of a content intended to be displayed on the display portion from a user evaluation value table wherein user evaluation values each corresponding to the number of processes of the respective content are stored on a basis of the respective content; and

performing change control to change a display time period for the content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion in accordance with the detected user evaluation value.

9. An information processing program, comprising:

when performing display screen changing across respective contents intended to be displayed on a display portion, causing a computer to function as a user evaluation value detector portion that detects a user evaluation value of a content intended to be displayed on the display portion from a user evaluation value table wherein user evaluation values each corresponding to the number of processes of the respective content are stored on a basis of the respective content; and

causing the computer to function as a display controller portion that performs change control to change a display time period for the content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion in accordance with the detected user evaluation value.