Information Processing Apparatus, Control Method For Same, Program, And Storage Medium

• US 20080104536A1
• Filed: 10/17/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: MORI, SHIGEKI
• Granted Patent: US 7,992,092 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/798
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of objects, a first movement unit configured to move one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more movement destination areas on the display unit in response to a user'"'"'s operation, a determination unit configured to determine an extractive selection condition from incidental information of the object moved by the first movement unit, an extractive selection unit configured to select one or more from among the plurality of objects based on the extractive selection condition determined by the determination unit, and a second movement unit configured to move, to the movement destination area, one or more objects selected by the extractive selection unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a plurality of objects that correspond to respective ones of a plurality of content items;

a first movement unit configured to move one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more movement destination areas on the display unit in response to a user'"'"'s operation;

a determination unit configured to determine an extractive selection condition from incidental information of the object moved by the first movement unit;

an extractive selection unit configured to select one or more from among the plurality of objects based on the extractive selection condition determined by the determination unit; and

a second movement unit configured to move, to the movement destination area, the one or more objects selected by the extractive selection unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising plural movement destination areas, with information of a respective particular type assigned to each movement destination area, and

wherein the determination unit determines the extractive selection condition based on both the information assigned to the movement destination area to which that object has been moved by the first movement unit, and the incidental information of the that object.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of objects serving as a population from which one or more objects are selected by the extractive selection unit, are given by an object group located in a movement origin area of the object which has been moved by the first movement unit.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising an area-setting unit configured to set, on the display unit, an area to designate that area as corresponding to a kind of extractive selection condition, wherein the determination unit specifies as the extractive selection condition one that exists in the incidental information of the relevant object when the area set by the area setting unit is selected as the movement destination area of the object moved by the first movement unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the relevant object is moved to a particular sub-area within the area to designate the kind of the extractive selection condition, the determination unit designates a logical-relation formula for use in determining a match or a mismatch with the extractive selection condition corresponding to the relevant object and employs a determination result of the logical-relation formula as a condition for extractive selection of information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the relevant object is moved to a particular sub-area within the area to designate a kind of the extractive selection condition, the determination unit designates a condition formula for use in determining a numerical similarity relationship or a numerical magnitude relationship with respect to the extractive selection condition corresponding to the relevant object and employs a determination result of the condition formula as a condition for extractive selection of information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the objects are moved out from an area in which a population is present at the time of performing the extractive selection by the extractive selection unit, an exclusion condition is set for excluding the objects from that area by the extractive selection of information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the objects are moved into an area in which a population is present at the time of executing the extractive selection by the extractive selection unit, from outside that area, an additional condition is set for adding objects to that area by the extractive selection of information.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a detection unit configured to detect, from the incidental information of objects in an object group serving as the population when the objects are selected by the extractive selection unit, a kind of extractive selection condition capable of classifying the population into two large parts;

and

an assignment unit configured to assign the kind of extractive selection condition detected by the detection unit to the area to designate the kind of extractive selection condition on a display user-interface screen.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second movement unit moves the objects that have been selected from among the population by the extractive selection unit, to the movement destination area of the relevant moved object.

11. A control method for an information processing apparatus, the control method comprising the steps of:

displaying, on a display unit, a plurality of objects that correspond to respective ones of a plurality of content items;

moving one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more movement destination areas on the display unit in response to a user'"'"'s operation;

determining an extractive selection condition from incidental information of the object moved in the moving step;

selecting one or more from among the plurality of objects based on the extractive selection condition determined in the determining step; and

moving, to the movement destination area, the one or more objects selected in the selecting step.

12. A computer-readable storage medium storing a control program to cause a computer to execute a control method for an information processing apparatus, the control method comprising the steps of:

displaying, on a display unit, a plurality of objects that correspond to respective ones of a plurality of content items;

moving one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more movement destination areas on the display unit in response to a user'"'"'s operation;

determining an extractive selection condition from incidental information of the object moved in the moving step;

selecting one or more from among the plurality of objects based on the extractive selection condition determined in the determining step; and

moving, to the movement destination area, the one or more objects selected in the selecting step.