INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110115820A1
• Filed: 11/03/2010
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: NARITA, TOMOYA, KASAHARA, SHUNICHI
• Application Number:
  US12/938,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20110115820A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/650
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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 a detection unit configured to detect an operation input in a predetermined operation direction, and a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, first auxiliary information indicating the predetermined operation direction and second auxiliary information indicating a movement direction of display information with respect to the display unit, and to move the display information while moving the first auxiliary information in the movement direction in accordance with the operation input detected by the detection unit and moving the second auxiliary information in association with the movement of the first auxiliary information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect an operation input in a predetermined operation direction; and

a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, first auxiliary information indicating the predetermined operation direction, and second auxiliary information indicating a movement direction of display information with respect to the display unit, and to move the display information while moving the first auxiliary information in the movement direction in accordance with the operation input detected by the detection unit and moving the second auxiliary information in association with the movement of the first auxiliary information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display information is movable in a plurality of directions with respect to the display unit, and

wherein the display control unit is configured to change the movement direction of the display information and an indication of the second auxiliary information indicating the movement direction of the display information, in accordance with a pressing operation input detected by the detection unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the detection unit detects a pressing operation input and a moving operation input, the display control unit is configured to enlarge or reduce the display information in accordance with a magnitude of the pressing operation input detected by the detection unit.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the detection unit detects a pressing operation input and a moving operation input, the display control unit is configured to move the display information in a depth direction in accordance with a magnitude of the pressing operation input detected by the detection unit, and to display second auxiliary information indicating the depth direction.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to change an amount of movement of the display information in accordance with a magnitude of a pressing operation input detected by the detection unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the first auxiliary information and the second auxiliary information includes a gear graphic that is a graphical representation of a gear, and

wherein the display control unit is configured to move the display information in accordance with an operation input detected by the detection unit, and

wherein the display control unit is configured to move a first gear graphic indicating the operation direction in the operation direction, and to display a second gear graphic configured to mesh with the first gear graphic in association with the movement of the first gear graphic, the second gear graphic indicating the movement direction of the display information with respect to the display unit.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display control unit is configured to change a gear ratio of gear graphics displayed as the first auxiliary information and the second auxiliary information, in accordance with a ratio of an amount of movement of an operating member used to perform an operation input to an amount of movement of the display information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to display the first auxiliary information and the second auxiliary information in a peripheral area of the display unit.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to display third auxiliary information on the display unit, the third auxiliary information indicating a ratio and position of a display range displayed within a display area of the display unit to an overall size of the display information.

10. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

detecting an operation input in a predetermined operation direction;

displaying, on displaying means, first auxiliary information indicating the operation direction and second auxiliary information indicating a movement direction of display information with respect to the displaying means; and

moving the display information while moving the first auxiliary information in the movement direction in accordance with the detected operation input and moving the second auxiliary information in association with the movement of the first auxiliary information.

11. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus comprising:

detecting means for detecting an operation input in a predetermined operation direction; and

means for displaying, on displaying means, first auxiliary information indicating the predetermined operation direction and second auxiliary information indicating a movement direction of display information with respect to the display unit, and for moving the display information while moving the first auxiliary information in the movement direction in accordance with the operation input detected by the detecting means and moving the second auxiliary information in association with the movement of the first auxiliary information.