INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING CONTENT OF AN INSTRUCTION AND AN INSTRUCTION LOCUS

• US 20100146424A1
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Keiichi, Chihara, Yusuke
• Application Number:
  US12/631,583
• Publication Number:
  US 20100146424A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/768
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes an instruction identification unit that identifies an instruction based on an operation of the instruction of a user, an instruction locus identification unit that identifies an instruction locus corresponding to the instruction identified by the instruction identification unit based on association information that associates the instruction and the instruction locus of the instruction, and a presentation unit that associates and presents content of the instruction identified by the instruction identification unit and the instruction locus identified by the instruction locus identification unit and presents the content of the instruction and the instruction locus to give the instruction, to the user while explicitly illustrating a correspondence relationship of both.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an instruction identification unit that identifies an instruction based on an operation of the instruction of a user;

an instruction locus identification unit that identifies an instruction locus corresponding to the instruction identified by the instruction identification unit based on association information that associates the instruction and the instruction locus of the instruction; and

a presentation unit that associates and presents content of the instruction identified by the instruction identification unit and the instruction locus identified by the instruction locus identification unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instruction identification unit identifies a plurality of instructions based on an operation of the plurality of instructions of the user,

the instruction locus identification unit identifies the instruction locus corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions identified by the instruction identification unit based on the association information, and

the presentation unit displays content of the plurality of instructions identified by the instruction identification unit on a display apparatus, and when one of instruction loci corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions identified by the instruction locus identification unit is displayed on the display apparatus, the presentation unit presents the content of the instruction corresponding to the instruction locus to be displayed, in association, by displaying and moving the content of the instruction to within a fixed distance from the instruction locus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the presentation unit prevents the instruction locus and the content of the instruction from overlapping with each other when the content of the instruction is moved and displayed within the fixed distance from the instruction locus.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the presentation unit makes the content of the instruction corresponding to the instruction locus to be displayed transparent if the instruction locus and the content of the instruction overlap with each other when the content of the instruction is moved and displayed within the fixed distance from the instruction locus.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instruction identification unit identifies a plurality of instructions based on an operation of the plurality of instructions of the user,

the instruction locus identification unit identifies the instruction locus corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions identified by the instruction identification unit based on the association information, and

the presentation unit displays the content of the plurality of instructions identified by the instruction identification unit on a display apparatus, and when one of instruction loci corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions identified by the instruction locus identification unit is displayed on the display apparatus, the presentation unit presents the content of the instruction corresponding to the instruction locus to be displayed, in association, by displaying the content of the instruction differently from the content of the other instructions.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the presentation unit displays the instruction locus in an order in which the instruction locus is rendered when one of instruction loci corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions is displayed on the display unit.

7. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus, comprising:

identifying an instruction based on an operation of the instruction of a user;

identifying an instruction locus corresponding to the identified instruction based on association information that associates the instruction and the instruction locus corresponding to the instruction; and

associating and presenting content of the identified instruction and the identified instruction locus.

8. The information processing method according to claim 7, wherein the instruction identification identifies a plurality of instructions based on an operation of a plurality of instructions of the user,

the instruction locus identification identifies the instruction locus corresponding to each of the plurality of identified instructions based on the association information, and

the presentation displays the content of the plurality of identified instructions on a display apparatus, and when one of identified instruction loci corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions is displayed on the display apparatus, the content of the instruction corresponding to the instruction locus to be displayed, is presented in association, by displaying and moving the content of the instruction to within a fixed distance from the instruction locus.

9. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein the presentation prevents the instruction locus and the content of the instruction from overlapping with each other when the content of the instruction is moved and displayed within the fixed distance from the instruction locus.

10. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein the presentation makes the content of the instruction corresponding to the instruction locus to be displayed transparent if the instruction locus and the content of the instruction overlap with each other when the content of the instruction is moved and displayed within the fixed distance from the instruction locus.

11. The information processing method according to claim 7, wherein the instruction identification identifies a plurality of instructions based on an operation of a plurality of instructions of the user,

the instruction locus identification identifies the instruction locus corresponding to each of the plurality of identified instructions based on the association information, and

the presentation displays the content of the plurality of identified instructions on a display apparatus, and when one of identified instruction loci corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions is displayed on the display apparatus, the content of the instruction corresponding to the instruction locus to be displayed, is presented in association, by displaying the content of the instruction differently from the content of the other instructions.

12. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein the presentation displays the instruction locus in an order in which the instruction locus is rendered when one of instruction loci corresponding to each of the plurality of instructions is displayed on the display unit.

13. A computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, the instructions causing a computer to perform the functions comprising:

an instruction identification unit that identifies an instruction based on an operation of the instruction of a user;

an instruction locus identification unit that identifies an instruction locus corresponding to the instruction identified by the instruction identification unit based on association information that associates the instruction and the instruction locus of the instruction; and

a presentation unit that associates and presents content of the instruction identified by the instruction identification unit and the instruction locus identified by the instruction locus identification unit.