INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20110246923A1
• Filed: 03/29/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Tatsuhito, KASAHARA, Shunichi
• Application Number:
  US13/074,584
• Publication Number:
  US 20110246923A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a plurality of objects for setting execution parameters when predetermined processing is performed in a display screen to be adjacent to each other and controls scrolling of the plurality of objects in the display screen in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation, a parameter setting unit that sets execution conditions for performing the predetermined processing in accordance with a combination of the objects positioned in predetermined positions in the display screen, and a processing execution unit that performs the predetermined processing based on the execution conditions set by the parameter setting unit, wherein the display control unit causes, when one of the objects is operated by the user'"'"'s operation, the operated object and the object adjacent to the operated object to scroll in the display screen.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display control unit that displays a plurality of objects for setting execution parameters when predetermined processing is performed in a display screen to be adjacent to each other and controls scrolling of the plurality of objects in the display screen in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation;

a parameter setting unit that sets execution conditions for performing the predetermined processing in accordance with a combination of the objects positioned in predetermined positions in the display screen; and

a processing execution unit that performs the predetermined processing based on the execution conditions set by the parameter setting unit,

wherein the display control unit causes, when one of the objects is operated by the user'"'"'s operation, the operated object and the object adjacent to the operated object to scroll in the display screen.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a predetermined coefficient of static friction and a predetermined coefficient of dynamic friction are set to between the objects adjacent to each other, and

the display control unit calculates, when a scrolling speed of the operated object is a predetermined threshold calculated based on the coefficient of static friction or more, the scrolling speed of the adjacent object based on the coefficient of dynamic friction.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,

wherein the display control unit causes, when the user'"'"'s operation performed on the operated object includes the operation in a direction parallel to a scroll direction and the operation in the direction perpendicular to the scroll direction, also the object adjacent to the operated object to scroll together.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit calculates, when the scrolling speed of the adjacent object is the predetermined threshold or more, the scroll speed of the object further adjacent to the adjacent object based on the coefficient of dynamic friction.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit causes, when a predetermined operation body is close to or in contact with the object adjacent to the operated object, only the operated object to scroll.

6. An information processing method, comprising the steps of

displaying a plurality of objects for setting execution parameters when predetermined processing is performed in a display screen to be adjacent to each other;

controlling scrolling of the objects in the display screen in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation;

setting execution conditions for performing the predetermined processing in accordance with a combination of the objects positioned in predetermined positions in the display screen; and

performing the predetermined processing based on the set execution conditions,

wherein in the step of controlling scrolling, when one of the objects is operated by the user'"'"'s operation, the operated object and the object adjacent to the operated object are scrolled in the display screen.

7. A program causing a computer to realize:

a display control function that displays a plurality of objects for setting execution parameters when predetermined processing is performed in a display screen to be adjacent to each other, controls scrolling of the plurality of objects in the display screen in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation, and when one of the objects is operated by the user'"'"'s operation, causes the operated object and the object adjacent to the operated object to scroll in the display screen;

a parameter setting function that sets execution conditions for performing the predetermined processing in accordance with a combination of the objects positioned in predetermined positions in the display screen; and

a processing execution function that performs the predetermined processing based on the execution conditions set by the parameter setting function.