INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20110018821A1
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KII, Manabu
• Granted Patent: US 9,047,046 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a first touch panel, a second touch panel, and a controller. The first touch panel displays a first object and detects a first touch operation of a user on the first object. The second touch panel displays a second object and detects a second touch operation of the user on the second object. The controller links and changes the displayed first object and the displayed second object when the second touch operation is detected within a predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a first touch panel to display a first object and detect a first touch operation of a user on the first object;

a second touch panel to display a second object and detect a second touch operation of the user on the second object; and

a controller to link and change the displayed first object and the displayed second object when the second touch operation is detected within a predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first touch operation and the second touch operation are operations in opposite directions.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the controller displays the first object on the second touch panel and displays the second object on the first touch panel when the second touch operation is detected within the predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein each of the first object and the second object is displayed as a part of a single third object,

wherein each of the first touch operation and the second touch operation is an operation in a rotation direction, and

wherein the controller rotates the third object when the second touch operation is detected within the predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein each of the first object and the second object is displayed as a part of a single third object,

wherein the first touch operation and the second touch operation are operations in directions moving away from each other, and

wherein the controller changes the third object so that the third object is torn when the second touch operation is detected within the predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising

a storage to store data corresponding to the third object,

wherein the controller deletes the data from the storage when the third object is changed so that the third object is torn.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the first touch operation and the second touch operation are operations in directions moving close to each other, and

wherein the controller changes the first object and the second object so that the first object and the second object are integrated into one when the second touch operation is detected within the predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

a sensor to detect a thing that is present at a predetermined distance from the first touch panel and the second touch panel,

wherein the controller links and changes the displayed first object and the displayed second object when the second touch operation is detected within the predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected and the thing is detected by the sensor.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the controller changes the displayed first object and the displayed second object in a first mode when the thing is detected by the sensor, and changes the displayed first object and the displayed second object in a second mode that is different from the first mode, when the thing is not detected by the sensor.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a storage to store first data corresponding to the first object and second data corresponding to the second object,

wherein the first touch operation is an operation of enclosing the first object in a predetermined rotation direction,

wherein the second touch operation is the operation of enclosing the second object in the predetermined rotation direction, and

wherein the controller causes the storage to group and store the first data and the second data when the second touch operation is detected within the predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

11. An information processing method, comprising:

displaying, by a first touch panel, a first object and detecting a first touch operation of a user on the first object;

displaying, by a second touch panel, a second object and detecting a second touch operation of the user on the second object; and

linking and changing the displayed first object and the displayed second object when the second touch operation is detected within a predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.

12. A program causing an information processing apparatus including a first touch panel and a second touch panel to execute:

a step of displaying, by the first touch panel, a first object and detecting a first touch operation of a user on the first object;

a step of displaying, by the second touch panel, a second object and detecting a second touch operation of the user on the second object; and

a step of linking and changing the displayed first object and the displayed second object when the second touch operation is detected within a predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected.