INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20100053220A1
• Filed: 07/08/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takaoka, Ryo, Ozawa, Hiroyuki, Furue, Nobuki
• Application Number:
  US12/499,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20100053220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: display means for displaying an image; operation-input receiving means for receiving operation input of a user; and display control means for arranging one or more images on a virtual desktop having an infinite space size and performing, with a part of the desktop set as a display area, display control for causing the display means to display the display area, wherein when selection operation for selecting a predetermined image among the one or more images arranged on the desk top is performed, as the display control, the display control means shifts a relative position of the display area on the desktop such that the predetermined image is included in the center of the display area.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

display means for displaying an image;

operation-input receiving means for receiving operation input of a user; and

display control means for arranging one or more images on a virtual desktop having an infinite space size and performing, with a part of the desktop set as a display area, display control for causing the display means to display the display area, wherein

when selection operation for selecting a predetermined image among the one or more images arranged on the desk top is performed, as the display control, the display control means shifts a relative position of the display area on the desktop such that the predetermined image is included in the center of the display area.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein stroking operation by a user for, with an image displayed in the display area and different from the predetermined image set as a root image, bringing a finger into contact with the root image and then moving the finger to the predetermined image while keeping the finger in contact with the display means is adopted as the selection operation.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the predetermined image is also included in the display area including the root image, as the display control, the display control means further prohibits the shift of the display area.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, when operation for enlarging or reducing the display area is performed after the shift of the display area is prohibited by the display control means, as the display control, the display control means further shifts the relative position of the display area on the desktop such that the predetermined image is included in the center of the display area and causes the display means to enlarge or reduce and display the display area after the shift.

5. An information processing method comprising the step of:

allowing an information processing apparatus that displays an image and receives operation input of a user to arrange one or more images on a virtual desktop having an infinite space size and perform, with a part of the desktop set as a display area, display control for displaying the display area, wherein

in the performing the display control, when selection operation for selecting a predetermined image among the one or more images arranged on the desktop is performed, as the display control, a relative position of the display area on the desktop is shifted such that the predetermined image is included in the center of the display area.

6. A computer program for causing a computer that controls an information processing apparatus that receives operation input of a user to execute control processing including a display control step of arranging one or more images on a virtual desktop having an infinite space size and performing, with a part of the desktop set as a display area, display control for displaying the display area, wherein

in the performing the display control, when selection operation for selecting a predetermined image among the one or more images arranged on the desktop is performed, as the display control, a relative position of the display area on the desktop is shifted such that the predetermined image is included in the center of the display area.

7. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image;

an operation-input receiving unit configured to receive operation input of a user; and

a display control unit configured to arrange one or more images on a virtual desktop having an infinite space size and performing, with a part of the desktop set as a display area, display control for causing the display unit to display the display area, wherein

when selection operation for selecting a predetermined image among the one or more images arranged on the desk top is performed, as the display control, the display control unit shifts a relative position of the display area on the desktop such that the predetermined image is included in the center of the display area.