INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20100188352A1
• Filed: 01/21/2010
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: IKEDA, Tetsuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,610,678 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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

There is provided an information processing apparatus including first and second display panels capable of displaying a plurality of objects and being connected with each other via a connection unit serving as a non-display region in which the objects are not displayed, an input position detection unit for detecting a position of an operator, a direction detection unit for detecting a moving direction of the operator, a moved position calculation unit for calculating a moved position to which an object selected with the operator moves, and a display position correction unit for moving the selected object from the non-display region, on the basis of a display position of the selected object or a moving direction of the operator, in a case where at least a portion of the selected object having moved to the calculated moved position resides in the non-display region.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

first and second display panels capable of displaying a plurality of objects, the first and second display panels being connected with each other via a connection unit serving as a non-display region in which the objects are not displayed;

an input position detection unit for detecting a position of an operator located on the first and/or second display panels;

a direction detection unit for detecting a moving direction of the operator, on the basis of a time change of the detected position of the operator;

a moved position calculation unit for calculating a moved position to which an object selected with the operator moves, the selected object moving to the moved position along a path in which the operator moves; and

a display position correction unit for moving the selected object from the non-display region, on the basis of a display position of the selected object or a moving direction of the operator, in a case where at least a portion of the selected object having moved to the calculated moved position resides in the non-display region.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display position correction unit moves the selected object to one of the first and second display panels in which a barycenter of the selected object resides, on the basis of the position of the barycenter of the selected object.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display position correction unit moves the selected object to one of the first and second display panels toward which the operator moves, in a case where the selected object is in proximity to the non-display region.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display position correction unit moves the selected object to one of the first and second display panels toward which the operator moves, in a case where attribute information associated with the selected object changes when the selected object is moved from one of the first and second display panels to the other of the first and second display panels.

5. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

detecting a position of an operator located on first and/or second display panels capable of displaying a plurality of objects, the first and second display panel being connected with each other via a connection unit serving as a non-display region in which the objects are not displayed;

detecting a moving direction of the operator, on the basis of a time change of the detected position of the operator;

calculating a moved position to which an object selected with the operator moves, the selected object moving to the moved position along a path in which the operator moves; and

moving the selected object from the non-display region, on the basis of a display position of the selected object or a moving direction of the operator, in a case where at least a portion of the selected object having moved to the calculated moved position resides in the non-display region.

6. A program for a computer having first and second display panels capable of displaying a plurality of objects, the first and second display panels being connected with each other via a connection unit serving as a non-display region in which the objects are not displayed, the program causing the computer to achieve:

an input position detection function for detecting a position of an operator located on the first and/or second display panels;

a direction detection unit for detecting a moving direction of the operator, on the basis of a time change of the detected position of the operator;

a moved position calculation function for calculating a moved position to which an object selected with the operator moves, the selected object moving to the moved position along a path in which the operator moves; and

a display position correction function for moving the selected object from the non-display region, on the basis of a display position of the selected object or a moving direction of the operator, in a case where at least a portion of the selected object having moved to the calculated moved position resides in the non-display region.