INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

• US 20110179374A1
• Filed: 01/03/2011
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: WAKU, Kenji, AMEMIYA, Ryoji, KURODA, Yohei, YAGI, Nobutaka, ISHIOKA, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US12/983,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179374A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• 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

A display apparatus includes a housing, an operation position specification section, and a display control section. The housing includes a touch panel, and is configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen. The operation position specification section is configured to specify an operation position of each of the keys of the software keyboard; and a display control section is configured to automatically change display of the keys based on variations of the operation positions of the keys, the operation positions being specified by the operation position specification section.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a housing including a touch panel, configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen;

an operation position specification section configured to specify an operation position of each of the keys of the software keyboard; and

a display control section configured to automatically change display of the keys based on variations of the operation positions of the keys, the operation positions being specified by the operation position specification section.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section displays an operation area of the key having a large variation more largely than that of the key having a small variation based on the variations of the operation positions of the keys.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section obtains the center of the operation positions of each of the keys based on the variations of the operation positions, and changes a display position of each of the keys in accordance with the obtained center of the operation positions.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section obtains a standard deviation of each of the keys based on the variations of the operation positions, and sets a width of each of the keys in accordance with a width of the obtained standard deviation.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

when each of the keys is displayed based on the center of the operation positions and the width of the key, and adjacent keys are displayed in an overlapping manner, the display control section sets a portion displayed in the overlapping manner as a dead zone to which a key input is incapable of being made.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

an erroneous input position specification section configured to specify an erroneous input position of each of the keys of the software keyboard, wherein

the display control section automatically changes display of the keys based on the erroneous input positions of the keys, the erroneous input positions being specified by the erroneous input position specification section.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section changes display of the keys by varying a boundary position of each key one of per given period of time during which the software keyboard is operated and per given number of times typing is made on the software keyboard.

6. A display apparatus, comprising:

a housing including a touch panel, configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen;

a number-of-operations specification section configured to specify the number of operations made to each of the keys of the software keyboard; and

a display control section configured to automatically change display of the keys based on the number of operations made to the keys, the number of operations being specified by the number-of-operations specification section.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the display control section displays an operation area of the key having a large number of operations more largely than that of the key having a small number of operations based on the number of operations made to the keys.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the number-of-operations specification section obtains a peak position of the operations made to each of the keys based on the number of operations made to each of the keys, and

the display control section changes a display position of the key based on the peak position.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the display control section sets a boundary between the peak positions of adjacent keys in accordance with a ratio of the numbers of operations of the adjacent keys.

11. A display apparatus, comprising:

a housing including a touch panel, configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen;

an erroneous input position specification section configured to specify an erroneous input position of each of the keys of the software keyboard; and

a display control section configured to automatically change display of the keys based on the erroneous input positions of the keys, the erroneous input positions being specified by the erroneous input position specification section.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

the display control section displays an operation area of the key having a large number of erroneous inputs more largely than that of the key having a small number of erroneous inputs based on the erroneous input positions of the keys.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

the display control section changes a display position of each of the keys based on the erroneous input positions of the keys.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

the display control section changes at least one of a display position and an operation area of a key adjacent to each of the keys based on the erroneous input positions of the keys.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

the display control section changes display of at least one of a key operation area for a right hand and a key operation area for a left hand, based on the erroneous input positions of the keys.

17. A program causing a computer to execute:

a function of a display apparatus including a housing that includes a touch panel and is configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen;

a function of an operation position specification section configured to specify an operation position of each of the keys of the software keyboard; and

a function of a display control section configured to automatically change display of the keys based on variations of the operation positions of the keys, the operation positions being specified by the operation position specification section.

18. A program causing a computer to execute:

a function of a display apparatus including a housing that includes a touch panel and is configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen;

a function of a number-of-operations specification section configured to specify the number of operations made to each of the keys of the software keyboard; and

a function of a display control section configured to automatically change display of the keys based on the number of operations made to the keys, the number of operations being specified by the number-of-operations specification section.

19. A program causing a computer to execute:

a function of a display apparatus including a housing that includes a touch panel and is configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen;

a function of an erroneous input position specification section configured to specify an erroneous input position of each of the keys of the software keyboard; and

a function of a display control section configured to automatically change display of the keys based on the erroneous input positions of the keys, the erroneous input positions being specified by the erroneous input position specification section.