INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20100053355A1
• Filed: 07/24/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takaoka, Ryo, Saitou, Yuji, Ozawa, Hiroyuki, Iwase, Ayako
• Granted Patent: US 8,379,129 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.100
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/426 involving on-screen location information, e.g. screen coordinates of an area at which the player is aiming with a light gun
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/204 the platform being a handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/66 for rendering three dimensional images
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: display means; operation input receiving means; and display control means for making a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on the display means, displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card is received, and changing a display state of the display means from a first state where the checking image is displayed to a second state where the image corresponding to the specific image card is displayed when a selection operation indicating that the specific image card is selected is received.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

display means for displaying an image;

operation input receiving means for receiving a user'"'"'s operation input; and

display control means for making a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on the display means, displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received by the operation input receiving means, and changing a display state of the display means from a first state where the checking image is displayed to a second state where the image corresponding to the specific image card is displayed when a selection operation indicating that the specific image card is selected is received by the operation input receiving means.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means displays an image indicating that the plurality of image cards are bound or an image indicating that the plurality of image cards overlap in a fan shape as the check image indicating a shape in which the plurality of image cards overlap.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when an operation of moving a user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction with the user'"'"'s finger in contact with the display means is a drag operation, the drag operation on an overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards is employed as the check operation.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display control means recognizes an image card in contact with the user'"'"'s finger as the specific image card when the stop of the drag operation with the user'"'"'s finger is received by the operation input receiving means, and displays one of a portion of the image, a thumbnail of the image, and a feature image which is a featured portion of the image as the information indicating the image, and

wherein when the user'"'"'s at least one finger gets apart from the display means, the display control means recognizes the selection operation as being performed and changes the display state of the display means from the first state to the second state.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display control means makes a display control of changing the display state of the display means from the second state to the first state when the display state is the second state and the operation of bringing the user'"'"'s finger into contact with the display means is received by the operation input receiving means.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the drag operation performed in a second direction different from a first direction of the drag operation employed as the check operation using the specific image card as a start point is employed as the selection operation.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display control means changes the display state of the display means from the first state to the second state when the drag operation in the third direction different from the first direction and the second direction is received by the operation input receiving means.

8. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus which displays an image and receives a user'"'"'s operation input, the information processing method comprising the steps of:

allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card and displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on a touch screen;

displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received; and

changing a display state of the touch screen from a first state where the checking image is displayed to a second state where the image corresponding to the specific image card is displayed when a selection operation indicating that the specific image card is selected is received.

9. A program instructing a computer, which controls an information processing apparatus displaying an image and receiving a user'"'"'s operation input, to perform a control process comprising the steps of:

allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card and displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on a touch screen;

displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received; and

changing a display state of the touch screen from a first state where the checking image is displayed to a second state where the image corresponding to the specific image card is displayed when a selection operation indicating that the specific image card is selected is received.

10. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image;

an operation input receiving unit configured to receive a user'"'"'s operation input; and

a display control unit configured to make a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on the display unit, displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received by the operation input receiving unit, and changing a display state of the display unit from a first state where the checking image is displayed to a second state where the image corresponding to the specific image card is displayed when a selection operation indicating that the specific image card is selected is received by the operation input receiving unit.