Information processing device, operation input method and operation input program

• US 20110175829A1
• Filed: 01/11/2011
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Homma, Fuminori, Miyazawa, Yusuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,581,864 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a contact detection unit configured to detect a contact operation for an operation surface, an approach detection unit configured to detect an approach operation for the operation surface, and a control unit configured to recognize the contact operation and the approach operation as a series of operation inputs when the contact operation and the approach operation are continuously detected.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a contact detection unit configured to detect a contact operation for an operation surface;

an approach detection unit configured to detect an approach operation for the operation surface; and

a control unit configured to recognize the contact operation and the approach operation as a series of operation inputs when the contact operation and the approach operation are continuously detected.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit recognizes the contact operation and the approach operation as the series of operation inputs when the contact operation and the approach operation are continuously detected within a predetermined time and recognizes the contact operation and the approach operation as individual operation inputs when the contact operation and the approach operation are continuously detected after exceeding the predetermined time.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls execution of a predetermined process based on a predetermined contact operation detected by the contact detection unit and controls a process of restoring to a state before the execution of the predetermined process when the approach detection unit detects a predetermined approach operation within a predetermined time from the detection of the predetermined contact operation.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls execution of a predetermined process based on a predetermined contact operation detected by the contact detection unit and continues to execute the predetermined process when the approach detection unit detects another approach operation within a predetermined time from the detection of the predetermined contact operation.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein the other approach operation is an operation for separating an indicator from the operation surface and stopping the indicator after the contact operation.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls execution of a predetermined process based on predetermined motion of the contact operation detected by the contact detection unit and executes the predetermined process using a parameter different from a parameter used upon execution based on the contact operation when the contact detection unit detects the predetermined motion of the approach operation within a predetermined time from the detection of the predetermined contact operation.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein, when the contact detection unit detects a contact operation within a predetermined time after the approach detection unit detects an approach operation for moving an indicator in a certain direction, the control unit executes control based on the certain direction and the contact operation.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, when the approach detection unit detects an approach operation within a predetermined range from a contact position within a predetermined time after the contact detection unit detects a contact operation, the control unit recognizes the contact operation and the approach operation as the series of operation inputs.

9. An operation input method comprising the steps of:

detecting a contact operation for an operation surface by a contact detection unit;

detecting an approach operation for the operation surface by an approach detection unit; and

recognizing the contact operation and the approach operation as a series of operation inputs when the contact operation and the approach operation are continuously detected.

10. An operation input program executing, on an information processing device, the steps of:

detecting a contact operation for an operation surface of an operation unit by a contact detection unit and detecting an approach operation for the operation surface by an approach detection unit; and

recognizing the contact operation and the approach operation as a series of operation inputs when the contact operation and the approach operation are continuously detected in the detecting the contact detection operation and the detecting the approach detection operation.