Information Processing Unit and Scroll Method

• US 20090094548A1
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: NOBORI, Fujio, Tokashiki, Mamoru, Satoh, Nariaki
• Application Number:
  US12/245,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094548A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/786
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

An information processing unit according to the present invention, includes: a display portion in which part of plural object display regions which function as an object when object data is displayed is displayed; an object data display control portion which allocates the object data to the plural object display regions so as to display the object data; and an object display region move control portion which scrolls the object display region displayed in the display portion in a scroll direction based on an inputted scroll direction while scrolling the object display region not displayed in the display portion so as to display the object display region in the display portion.

Claims

1. An information processing unit, comprising:

a display portion in which part of plural object display regions which function as an object by displaying object data is displayed;

an object data display control portion which allocates the object data to the plural object display regions so as to display the object data; and

an object display region move control portion which scrolls the object display region displayed in the display portion in a scroll direction based on an inputted scroll direction while scrolling the object display region not displayed in the display portion so as to display the object display region in the display portion.

2. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein

the object display regions are disposed in parallel in a predetermined direction, and

the scroll in the scroll direction is carried out in the unit of the row or column of the disposed object display regions.

3. The information processing unit according to claim 2, wherein

the object display region move control portion moves the object display region which comes not to be displayed in the display portion as a result of the scroll in the scroll direction to the back of the object display region which comes to be displayed in the display portion as a result of the scroll.

4. The information processing unit according to claim 2, wherein

the quantity of the object display regions disposed in a single row or a single column is at least (quantity of the object display regions disposed in a single row or a single column in the display portion+2) or more.

5. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the object data display control portion changes a transmission factor of the object data allocated to the object display region which comes not to be displayed in the display portion accompanied by move of the object display region so that the transmission factor is decreased.

6. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the object data display control portion changes a transmission factor of the object data allocated to the object display region which comes to be displayed in the display portion accompanied by the move of the object display region so that the transmission factor is increased.

7. The information processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising a memory portion which records the object data, wherein the object data display control portion acquires the object data from the memory portion.

8. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein

the object data display control portion acquires the object data from an external device connected to the information processing unit.

9. A scroll method for scrolling an object displayed in the display portion, comprising the steps of:

scrolling plural object display regions displayed in the display portion, which function as the object when object data is displayed, according to an inputted scroll method, and displaying the object display region not displayed in the display portion, in the display portion;

moving the object display region which comes not to be displayed in the display portion as a result of the scroll in the scroll direction to the back of the object display region which comes to be displayed in the display portion as a result of the scroll; and

allocating the object data to the object display region which comes not to be displayed in the display portion after the object display region is moved.