Information processing apparatus

• US 20080050107A1
• Filed: 11/30/2006
• Published: 02/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamashita, Minoru, Matsui, Ai, Yokouchi, Takato
• Application Number:
  US11/606,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20080050107A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 396/89
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2217/005 Blur detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a display unit configured to display a plurality of informations having a plurality of hierarchies; a focus control unit configured to focus at least one of the plurality of informations to be displayed by the display unit; a recognition unit configured to recognize whether or not a focus movement speed in at least one of the plurality of informations controlled by the focus control unit is smaller than a prescribed reference value; and a first control unit configured to control the display unit to display at least one of the plurality of informations according to the recognition result by the recognition unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a plurality of informations having a plurality of hierarchies;

a focus control unit configured to focus at least one of the plurality of informations to be displayed by the display unit;

a recognition unit configured to recognize whether or not a focus movement speed in at least one of the plurality of informations controlled by the focus control unit is smaller than a prescribed reference value; and

a first control unit configured to control the display unit to display at least one of the plurality of informations according to the recognition result by the recognition unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein at least one of the plurality of informations comprises a first information and a second information, and

the first control unit controls the display unit to display the first information and the second information at the same time when the recognition unit recognizes that the focus movement speed in the first information by the focus control unit is smaller than the prescribed reference value.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second control unit configured to control execution of an application program associated with the plurality of informations to be displayed by the display unit in advance.

3. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a plurality of informations having a plurality of hierarchies;

a focus control unit configured to focus at least one of the plurality of informations to be displayed by the display unit;

a focus time judgment unit configured to judge whether or not the same information is focused by the focus control unit for a prescribed time or more; and

a first control unit configured to control the display unit to display at least one of the plurality of informations according to a judgment result by the focus time judgment unit.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the plurality of informations comprises a first information and a second information having a hierarchy lower than a hierarchy of the first information, and

the first control unit controls the display unit to display the first information and the second information at the same time when the focus time judgment unit judges that the same hierarchy item information is focused by the focus unit for the prescribed time or more.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first hierarchy item information is displayed in a first direction, and

wherein the second information is displayed in a second direction which is different from the first direction.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the first and second directions are horizontal and vertical directions.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the at least one of the plurality of informations further comprises a third information and a fourth information having a hierarchy lower than the third information,

wherein the first and third informations have the same hierarchy,

wherein the second and fourth informations have the same hierarchy, and

wherein, after the prescribe time has passed since the first information and the second information are simultaneously displayed, the third information and the fourth information are simultaneously displayed based on a predetermined case.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined case is that a user presses a predetermined key.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the plurality of informations comprises a first information and a second information, and

the first control unit controls the display unit to display the first information and the second information at the same time when the focus time judgment unit judges that the same information is focused by the focus control unit for the prescribed time or more.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a second control unit configured to control execution of an application program associated with the plurality of informations to be displayed by the display unit in advance.