INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20100123657A1
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Published: 05/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Tomoyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,717,286 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/436 using biological or physiological data of a human being, e.g. blood pressure, facial expression, gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

An information processing apparatus executes a variety of processing operations in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation detected by an operation detection device. The apparatus generates a data set from a data group in accordance with a predetermined condition. The apparatus determines the content of processing corresponding to the motion detected by the operation detection device. The apparatus adjusts the data set by increasing or decreasing data included in the data set generated, based on the determined processing.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus which executes a variety of processing operations in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation detected by an operation detection device, comprising:

a generation unit configured to generates a data set from a data group in accordance with a predetermined condition;

a determination unit configured to determine a content of processing corresponding to a motion detected by the operation detection device; and

an adjustment unit configured to perform adjustment of the data set by increasing or decreasing the data included in the data set generated by the generation unit, based on the content of processing determined by the determination unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the content of processing determined by the determination unit is processing for adding data to the data set, data already deleted from the data set is preferentially added by the adjustment.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit preferentially adds data matching a condition associated with the predetermined condition at the time of generating the data set when the content of processing determined by the determination unit is processing for adding data to the data set.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit decides data to be added to the data set, based on a similarity with data included in the data set when the content of processing determined by the determination unit is processing for adding data to the data set.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit preferentially deletes, by the adjustment, data already added to the data set when the content of processing determined by the determination unit is processing for deleting data from the data set.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit decides data to be deleted from the data set, based on a similarity between data contained in the data set, when the content of processing determined by the determination unit is processing for deleting data from the data set.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an output processing unit configured to output, in a recognizable state, a process of a increasing or decreasing the data included in the data set by the adjusting unit.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit comprises an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a magnitude of the determined motion, and the adjustment unit changes the increasing or decreasing number of data included in the data set based on the magnitude of the motion evaluated by the evaluation unit.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines one of a shaking motion and a striking motion detected by the operation detection device.

10. A processing method for an information processing apparatus which executes a variety of processing operations in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation detected by an operation detection device, comprising:

a generation step of generating a data set from a data group in accordance with a predetermined condition;

a determination step of determining a content of processing corresponding to a motion detected by the operation detection device; and

an adjustment step of performing adjustment of the data set by increasing or decreasing the data included in the data set generated in the generation step, based on the content of processing determined in the determination step.

11. A computer-readable storage medium on which stored a computer-executable process steps for causing a computer incorporated in an information processing apparatus which executes a variety of processing operations in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation detected by an operation detection device, the process steps comprising:

a generation step of generating a data set from a data group in accordance with a predetermined condition;

a determination step of determining a content of processing corresponding to a motion detected by the operation detection device; and

an adjustment step of performing adjustment of the data set by increasing or decreasing the data included in the data set generated in the generation step, based on the content of processing determined in the determination step.