INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110057957A1
• Filed: 08/30/2010
• Published: 03/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kasahara, Shunichi
• Application Number:
  US12/871,496
• Publication Number:
  US 20110057957A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/684
• 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 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display, sensors, and a controller. The display displays a plurality of items on one side of a display screen. The sensors detect an operation input to the one side of the display screen. When contact operation is detected, the controller selects the item displayed near the detection position of the contact operation. Further, when pressing operation with a predetermined pressure is detected in such a state that the item is selected, the controller determines the selection of the item.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit which displays a plurality of items on one side of a display screen;

a detection unit which detects an operation input to the one side of the display screen; and

a control unit which, when contact operation is detected, selects the item displayed near the detection position of the contact operation, and when pressing operation with a predetermined pressure is detected in such a state that the item is selected, determines the selection of the item.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of items have a hierarchical structure, and

the control unit selects a hierarchy according to a predetermined operation input and controls the display unit so that the item of the selected hierarchy is displayed on the one side of the display screen.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the display unit so that hierarchy information for use in specification of the selected hierarchy is displayed.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when the item of a predetermined hierarchy is selected and determined, and when there is a hierarchy lower than the selected determined item, the control unit controls the display unit so that the item of the lower hierarchy is displayed instead of the predetermined hierarchy.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when there is a hierarchy upper than the selected hierarchy, the control unit controls the display unit so that an operation item for use in designation of movement to the upper hierarchy is displayed at the end of the one side of the display screen, and

further when the operation item is selected and determined in the selected hierarchy, the control unit controls the display unit so that the item of the upper hierarchy is displayed instead of the selected hierarchy.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when contact operation with a predetermined contact area is detected in the selected hierarchy, the control unit controls the display unit so that the item of the upper hierarchy is displayed instead of the selected hierarchy.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising another detection unit which detects an operation input to the vicinity of a display area of the hierarchy information, and wherein,

according to the contact operation to the vicinity of the display area of the hierarchy information, the control unit controls the display unit so that the item of the upper hierarchy is displayed instead of the selected hierarchy.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising another detection unit which detects an operation input to another side different from the one side of the display screen, wherein

when the pressing operation is detected by the another detection unit in the selected hierarchy, the control unit controls the display unit so that the item of the upper hierarchy is displayed instead of the selected hierarchy.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein according to a predetermined operation input, the control unit controls the display unit so that the plurality of items are scroll-displayed on the one side of the display screen.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when the contact operation is detected at one or the other end of the one side of the display screen, the control unit controls the display unit so that the plurality of items are displayed while being scrolled to the opposite side of the side corresponding to the contact position.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein when the pressing operation is detected at one or the other end of the one side of the display screen, the control unit controls the display unit so that as the detection position of the pressing operation is closer to the end on one side, the speed of scroll-displaying the plurality of items is increased.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein when the pressing operation with less than the predetermined pressure is detected at one or the other end of the one side of the display screen, the control unit controls the display unit so that as the pressure of the pressing operation becomes larger, the plurality of items are displayed while scrolling at higher speed.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein when the hierarchy information is displayed at one end of the one side of the display screen, and when the plurality of items are scroll-displayed, the control unit controls the display unit so that the display area of the hierarchy information is reduced in size to the opposite side of the one side of the display screen.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the display unit so that the display area of the selected item is increased in size to the opposite side of the one side of the display screen.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a slider, including an operating knob, on the one side of the display screen, and

when the contact operation is detected in such a state that the operating knob is selected, the control unit moves the operating knob on the slider to the vicinity of the detection position of the contact operation, and when the pressing operation with the predetermined pressure is detected in such a state that the operating knob is selected, the control unit sets an input value corresponding to the position of the operating knob.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit is provided along the one side of the display screen and outside the display screen.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when contact operation is detected near an item over a predetermined period of time, the control unit determines the selection of the item.

18. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

displaying a plurality of items on one side of a display screen;

detecting an operation input to the one side of the display screen; and

when contact operation is detected, selecting the item displayed near the detection position of the contact operation, and when pressing operation with a predetermined pressure is detected in such a state that the item is selected, determining the selection of the item.

19. A program for causing a computer to execute an information processing method which comprises the steps of:

displaying a plurality of items on one side of a display screen;

detecting an operation input to the one side of the display screen; and

when contact operation is detected, selecting the item displayed near the detection position of the contact operation, and when pressing operation with a predetermined pressure is detected in such a state that the item is selected, determining the selection of the item.