INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20110234857A1
• Filed: 06/09/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: MATSUSHIMA, Yoshihiro, KAWASE, Tomohiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,913,172 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.99
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed includes storage means, display means, and taken image display control means. The storage means stores a taken image therein. The display means has a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is opened. The taken image display control means displays a taken image on the display screen, and changes a taken image to be displayed between before and after closing and opening the information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus is closed and opened again.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a storage memory for storing a taken image therein;

a display having a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is opened;

selection image display controller for displaying, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, a selection image for causing a user to select an application program to be launched from a plurality of application programs; and

taken image display controller for displaying the taken image while the selection image is displayed.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in accordance with the start-up of the information processing apparatus, the taken image display controller selects a taken image to be displayed from taken images stored in the storage memory in a random manner, and displays the taken image.

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

an imaging device; and

imaging state setter for enabling imaging by the imaging device in accordance with a predetermined operation being performed while a taken image is displayed by the taken image display controller, wherein,

the storage memory stores therein an image taken by the imaging device.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an imaging device, wherein,

the information processing apparatus stores a first photographing program for performing photographing processing of storing an image taken by the imaging device in the storage memory and a second photographing program for performing the photographing processing, the second photographing program having a function different from the first photographing program, and

the taken image display controller sets both a taken image stored in the storage memory by execution of the first photographing program and a taken image stored in the storage memory by execution of the second photographing program as objects to be displayed on the display screen.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the information processing apparatus is closed and opened again, the taken image display controller changes a taken image to be displayed between before and after closing and opening the information processing apparatus.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a storage memory for storing a taken image therein; and

a display having a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is opened, the information processing program causing the computer to execute;

selection image display control including displaying, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, a selection image for causing a user to select an application program to be launched from a plurality of application programs; and

taken image display control including displaying the taken image while the selection image is displayed.