DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110239163A1
• Filed: 10/29/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SATO, Tatsuhito, GOTOH, Tomohiko, OKAMURA, Yuki, MOCHIZUKI, Daisuke
• Application Number:
  US12/915,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20110239163A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/853
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a tree structure generation unit that generates a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition, and a node extraction unit that, when any position information is specified, identifies a node in the tree structure to which the specified position information belongs, and extracts, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the specified position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure.

Claims

1. A display screen control method, comprising the steps of:

generating a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition;

when any position information serving as a reference is specified, identifying a node in the tree structure to which the specified position information belongs;

extracting, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the reference position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure; and

using a node extraction result obtained in the step of extracting the node to display an object corresponding to the content data at a position in a display screen according to the position information,

wherein in the step of identifying the node and in the step of extracting the node, a position corresponding to a center of the display screen is used as the position information serving as the reference,

in the step of displaying the object, in a case where there is content data in which a position corresponding to the position information is out of a range displayed in the display screen, a node including the content data located out of the range is selected from among the extraction result, and

an object corresponding to the selected node is displayed as an object of the content data located out of the range.

2. The display screen control method according to claim 1,

wherein in the step of displaying the object, in a case where the object corresponding to the node is displayed, a direction instruction object is displayed together with the object corresponding to the node, the direction instruction object indicating a direction of a position corresponding to the position information associated with the node.

3. The display screen control method according to claim 2,

wherein in the step of displaying the object, in a case where the direction instruction object is selected by user operation, the display screen is changed so that a central position of the node corresponding to the direction instruction object or a position of the content data located at a position closest to the central position of the node is arranged in the center of the display screen.

4. The display screen control method according to claim 3,

wherein in the step of displaying the object, a size of a region displayed in the display screen is determined so that other nodes or content data included in the node are all displayed within the display screen.

5. The display screen control method according to claim 1,

wherein in the step of displaying the object, the node selected from among the extraction result is changed according to a size of a region displayed in the display screen.

6. The display screen control method according to claim 2,

wherein sizes of the direction instruction object and the object corresponding to the node are determined according to a distance between the node and a position corresponding to the center of the display screen or the number of content data or other nodes included in the node.

7. A graphical user interface comprising:

a display region for displaying an execution screen of an application for displaying, at a display position corresponding to position information, an object corresponding to content data associated with the position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity,

wherein the content data are clustered into one or a plurality of groups based on the position information in advance, and

a display state of the object in the execution screen changes according to a clustering result and a distance between a position corresponding to the position information and a central position of the execution screen.

8. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a tree structure generation unit that generates a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition; and

a node extraction unit that, when any position information is specified, identifies a node in the tree structure to which the specified position information belongs, and extracts, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the specified position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the node extraction unit extracts, from among the nodes in the tree structure, all child nodes of the identified node and nodes, other than the identified node, branching from a parent node of the identified node.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the node extraction unit newly adopts, as a new target node, a parent node having a child node, other than the identified node, branching from the identified node and a parent node of the identified node, and further extracts a node, other than the target node, branching from a parent node of the target node.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the node extraction unit repeats node extraction until the target node becomes a root node.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein in a case where the specified position information belongs to a plurality of nodes in the tree structure, the node extraction unit adopts, as a node to which the specified position information belongs, a node located at a deepest position with respect to the root node from among the plurality of nodes.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein in a case where the specified position information further includes information for specifying a region in the feature space, the node extraction unit changes an extracted node according to a size of an area of the region.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the feature space is a space representing a location on a surface of a sphere defined by a latitude and a longitude.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the feature space is a space defined based on a feature quantity for specifying a location on a plane.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the feature space is a space defined based on a feature quantity for specifying a time.

17. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

generating a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition;

identifying a node in the tree structure to which any specified position information belongs; and

extracting, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the specified position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure.

18. A program for causing a computer to realize:

a tree structure generation function for generating a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition; and

a node extraction function for, when any position information is specified, identifying a node in the tree structure to which the specified position information belongs, and extracting, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the specified position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure.