INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAMS USED THEREIN

• US 20090140999A1
• Filed: 12/16/2008
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nishimura, Takanori, Tamai, Hiroki, SATO, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US12/336,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20090140999A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

In an information-processing apparatus employing a coordinate input unit such as a touch panel, processing of explicitly reporting the state of an operation carried out by the user to the user is carried out in order to present a result of the operation to the user. In the information-processing apparatus employing the coordinate input unit and a display unit integrated with the coordinate input unit, in accordance with the type of an operation carried out by the user on the coordinate input unit, the apparatus issues a notice for verifying the state of the operation as well as a result of the operation and avoiding an incorrect operation to the user. To put it concretely, in the configuration of the information-processing apparatus, by outputting a display detectable by the visual sense, a sound or a vibration pattern in accordance with the number of times contact with the coordinate input unit has been made during an operation or in accordance with the state of sustaining such contact, it is possible to verify whether a tap operation or a drag operation has been carried out as intended by the user.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. :

An information processing apparatus having a coordinate input apparatus for detecting a positional coordinate indicated by a user operation and display means unitized with said coordinate input apparatus, comprising;

display control means for executing control such that first display is displayed on said display means in accordance with a drag start position detected by said coordinate input apparatus, second display is displayed on said display means in accordance with a drag end position detected by said coordinate input apparatus, and third display is displayed on said display means in accordance with a position in dragging detected by said coordinate input apparatus,

wherein said display control means displays said first display, said second display, and said third display only for a predetermined time from an end of said operation.

10. :

The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising;

voice output means for outputting voice for notification in accordance with an operation of said coordinate input apparatus.

11. :

The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising;

vibration generating means for generating a vibration in accordance with an operation of said coordinate input apparatus.

12. :

A program for making a computer execute control of a display processing in an information processing apparatus having a coordinate input apparatus for detecting a positional coordinate indicated by a user operation and display means unitized with said coordinate input apparatus, said program comprising the steps of;

displaying first display on said display means only for a predetermined time in accordance with a drag start position detected by said coordinate input apparatus;

displaying second display on said display means only for a predetermined time in accordance with a drag end position detected by said coordinate input apparatus; and

displaying third display on said display means only for a predetermined time in accordance with a position in dragging detected by said coordinate input apparatus.