INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20100083187A1
• Filed: 08/12/2009
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: AKIFUSA, Yusuke, MIYAMOTO, Shigeru, IMAMURA, Takaya
• Granted Patent: US 8,910,085 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/862
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A game apparatus as one example of an information processing apparatus includes an LCD, a touch panel provided to the LCD, and a CPU core. The CPU core displays a “Yes” button to which a command of allowing save of temporarily-stored sound data is assigned, on the LCD. When a designating operation of an arbitrary position within the displayed button is performed with a stick or the like, which position within the button is designated is specified through a touch panel, a condition is set to the command on the basis of the specified position, and information processing in relation to the command is executed according to the set condition.

Claims

1. A recording medium recording an information processing program, wherein said information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus having a display and a pointing device capable of designating an arbitrary position within said display to function as:

a display means for displaying a command area to which a command is assigned on said display;

a specifying means for specifying which area within said command area is designated when an operation of designating an arbitrary position within the command area displayed by said display means is performed by said pointing device;

a setting means for setting a condition to said command on the basis of the position specified by said specifying means; and

an executing means for executing information processing in relation to said command according to the condition set by said setting means.

2. A recording medium recording an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said information processing apparatus further includes a first memory for storing a condition assigned to each position within said command area, and

said setting means sets a condition assigned to the position specified by said specifying means to said command with reference to said first memory.

3. A recording medium recording an information processing program according to claim 2, wherein

said information processing includes information outputting processing, and

said condition includes an output manner condition indicating in which manner the information is to be output in said information outputting processing.

4. A recording medium recording an information processing program according to claim 3, wherein

said information outputting processing includes information displaying processing, and

said output manner condition includes a display manner condition indicating in which manner the information is to be displayed in said information displaying processing.

5. A recording medium recording an information processing program according to claim 4, wherein

said display manner condition includes a display color condition.

6. A recording medium recording an information processing program according to claim 5, wherein

said display means displays each position within said command area according to a display color condition assigned to said position with reference to said first memory.

7. A recording medium recording an information processing program according to claim 6, wherein

a display color condition according to a gradation is assigned to each position within said command area.

8. A recording medium recording an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said command is a command of allowing save of predetermined information,

said command area has a button shape,

said information processing apparatus further includes a second memory for saving said predetermined information, and

said information processing includes information saving processing for adding the condition set by said setting means to said information and saving the same in said second memory.

9. A recording medium recording to an information processing program according to claim 8, wherein

said information processing further includes symbol displaying processing for displaying a symbol image obtained by symbolizing the information saved by said information saving processing on said display, and

said condition includes a display manner condition indicating in which manner the symbol image is to be displayed in said symbol displaying processing.

10. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display;

a pointing device capable of designating an arbitrary position within said display;

a display means for displaying a command area to which a command is assigned on said display;

a specifying means for specifying which area within said command area is designated when an operation of designating an arbitrary position within the command area displayed by said display means is performed by said pointing device;

a setting means for setting a condition to said command on the basis of the position specified by said specifying means; and

an executing means for executing information processing in relation to said command according to the condition set by said setting means.

11. A recording medium recording an information processing program, wherein said information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus having a display and a pointing device capable of designating an arbitrary position within said display to function as:

a display means for displaying a command area to which a predetermined command is assigned on said display;

an assigning means for assigning a condition setting command to each position with said command area displayed by said display means;

a specifying means for specifying which area within said command area is designated when an operation of designating an arbitrary position within the command area displayed by said display means is performed by said pointing device;

a setting means for setting a condition to said predetermined command according to the condition setting command assigned to the position specified by said specifying means out of a plurality of condition setting commands assigned to the command area by said assigning means; and

an executing means for executing information processing in relation to said predetermined command according to the condition set by said setting means.