INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20100321316A1
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nashida, Tatsushi, Homma, Fuminori
• Granted Patent: US 8,988,363 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0235 using chord techniques G06F3/0234 takes precedence
• 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

An information processing apparatus includes: an operation display unit that displays a display screen and detects detection information that changes in accordance with a user operation performed on the display screen; an operation determination unit that determines, in accordance with the detection information, whether an operation has been performed on an operation target displayed on the display screen; a selection unit that selects an image to be displayed, in accordance with a determination result from the operation determination unit; an area-where-arrangement-is-not-to-be-performed setting unit that sets an area where arrangement is not to be performed, in accordance with the determination result from the operation determination unit and the detection information; and an arrangement processing unit that arranges the image to be displayed, in an area where arrangement can be performed, in accordance with the selected image to be displayed and the set area where arrangement is not to be performed.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an operation display unit that displays a display screen and detects detection information that changes in accordance with a user operation performed on the display screen;

an operation determination unit that determines, in accordance with the detection information, whether an operation has been performed on an operation target that can be operated by a user and that is displayed on the display screen;

an image-to-be-displayed selection unit that selects an image to be displayed that is to be displayed on the display screen, in accordance with a determination result from the operation determination unit;

an area-where-arrangement-is-not-to-be-performed setting unit that sets an area where arrangement is not to be performed, the image to be displayed being not to be arranged in the area where arrangement is not to be performed, on the display screen in accordance with the determination result from the operation determination unit and the detection information; and

an arrangement processing unit that arranges the image to be displayed, in an area where arrangement can be performed, the image to be displayed being allowed to be arranged in the area where arrangement can be performed, within the display screen in accordance with the selected image to be displayed and the set area where arrangement is not to be performed.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement processing unit sets the area where arrangement can be performed, in accordance with the set area where arrangement is not to be performed and a display area where the image to be displayed can be displayed within the display screen.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the area-where-arrangement-is-not-to-be-performed setting unit updates the set area where arrangement is not to be performed, every time an image to be displayed is arranged by the arrangement processing unit, and

the arrangement processing unit sets the area where arrangement can be performed, in accordance with the updated area where arrangement is not to be performed.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the arrangement processing unit

sets a direction of attraction based on the detection information, and a display start position where display of the image to be displayed starts, and

arranges the image to be displayed selected by the image-to-be-displayed selection unit, from the display start position in the direction of attraction.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a case in which the operation determination unit determines that an operation has been performed on a predetermined operation target,

the image-to-be-displayed selection unit selects, as the image to be displayed, another operation target that can be operated by a user and that is related to the predetermined operation target.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a processing unit that performs, in accordance with the determination result from the operation determination unit, processing that corresponds to the operation target, the operation determination unit having determined that an operation has been performed on the operation target.

7. A method for controlling display, comprising the steps of:

determining, in accordance with detection information detected by an operation determination unit that displays a display screen and detects detection information that changes in accordance with a user operation performed on the display screen, whether an operation has been performed on an operation target that can be operated by a user and that is displayed on the display screen;

selecting an image to be displayed that is to be displayed on the display screen, in accordance with a determination result in the step of determining;

setting an area where arrangement is not to be performed, the image to be displayed being not to be arranged in the area where arrangement is not to be performed, on the display screen in accordance with the determination result in the step of determining and the detection information; and

arranging the image to be displayed, in an area where arrangement can be performed, the image to be displayed being allowed to be arranged in the area where arrangement can be performed, within the display screen in accordance with the image to be displayed selected in the step of selecting and the area where arrangement is not to be performed set in the step of setting.

8. A computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded therein, the program comprising the steps of:

determining, in accordance with detection information detected by an operation determination unit that displays a display screen and detects detection information that changes in accordance with a user operation performed on the display screen, whether an operation has been performed on an operation target that can be operated by a user and that is displayed on the display screen;

selecting an image to be displayed that is to be displayed on the display screen, in accordance with a determination result in the step of determining;

setting an area where arrangement is not to be performed, the image to be displayed being not to be arranged in the area where arrangement is not to be performed, on the display screen in accordance with the determination result in the step of determining and the detection information; and

arranging the image to be displayed, in an area where arrangement can be performed, the image to be displayed being allowed to be arranged in the area where arrangement can be performed, within the display screen in accordance with the image to be displayed selected in the step of selecting and the area where arrangement is not to be performed set in the step of setting.