Information Processing Apparatus, Method and Program

• US 20080252593A1
• Filed: 07/27/2005
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fukuta, Shinya
• Application Number:
  US10/574,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20080252593A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, method and program for controlling highlighting on a screen on the basis of an operation on a touch panel overlaid on a display. A touch-panel operation determining unit 31 detects positional information supplied from a touch panel and generates a control signal corresponding to a user operation on the basis of the detected positional information and an operation screen displayed on a display unit. A remote-control operation determining unit 32 detects an operation signal supplied from a remote control receiving unit and generates a control signal corresponding to the detected operation signal. Each generated control signal is output to each appropriate unit through a bus. A highlight control unit 33 shifts a highlighted position in the operation screen displayed in the display unit in accordance with a user operation using a remote control and cancels the highlighting in accordance with an operation on the touch panel. A counter 34 times non-operation time during which the user does not operate on the touch panel. The present invention can be applied to camcorders.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for performing a process in accordance with an operation on a touch panel overlaid on a display or an operation using a remote control, the apparatus comprising:

first detecting means for detecting an operation using the remote control;

second detecting means for detecting an operation on the touch panel; and

display control means for executing an indication to indicate a position specified by a user on a screen of the display in accordance with the operation using the remote control detected by the first detecting means and canceling the indication to indicate the position specified by the user on the screen of the display in accordance with the operation on the touch panel detected by the second detecting means.

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

timer means for timing non-operation time during which an operation using the remote control is not performed, wherein

when the non-operation time is continued for a predetermined period, the display control means cancels the indication to indicate the position specified by the user on the screen of the display.

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

imaging means for capturing an image of an object to generate image signals corresponding to the object; and

recording and playback means for recording the image signals generated by the imaging means and playing back the signals.

4. An information processing method for performing a process in accordance with an operation on a touch panel overlaid on a display or an operation using a remote control, the method comprising:

a first detecting step of detecting an operation using the remote control;

a second detecting step of detecting an operation on the touch panel; and

a display control step of executing an indication to indicate a position specified by a user on a screen of the display in accordance with the operation using the remote control detected in the first detecting step and canceling the indication to indicate the position specified by the user on the screen of the display in accordance with the operation on the touch panel detected in the second detecting step.

5. A program to perform a process in accordance with an operation on a touch panel overlaid on a display or an operation using a remote control, the program allowing a computer to execute the process comprising:

a first detecting step of detecting an operation using the remote control;

a second detecting step of detecting an operation on the touch panel; and

a display control step of executing an indication to indicate a position specified by a user on a screen of the display in accordance with the operation using the remote control detected in the first detecting step and canceling the indication to indicate the position specified by the user on the screen of the display in accordance with the operation on the touch panel detected in the second detecting step.