INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110285658A1
• Filed: 01/27/2010
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Homma, Fuminori, Nashida, Tatsushi
• Application Number:
  US13/146,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20110285658A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders

Abstract

Provided are a portable information processing device having a touch panel, and an information processing method and a program in the information processing device for enabling a user manipulation to be simpler and more intuitive than in a related art and large screen displayed content to be directly manipulated by the portable information processing device.

The portable information processing device includes an input position detection unit provided at a display screen side of the display device, for detecting a position of an input by a manipulation body on the display screen, a gesture detection unit provided at a back side of the display screen of the display device, for detecting a predetermined gesture, an output device selection unit for selecting an output device for outputting content data corresponding to the selected object based on first gesture information that indicates gesture detected by the gesture detection unit, and a signal generation unit for generating a control signal for causing the selected output device to execute a predetermined process based on second gesture information that indicates gesture detected by the gesture detection unit.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a display device on which a predetermined object is displayed;

an input position detection unit provided at a display screen side of the display device, for detecting a position of an input by a first manipulation body on the display screen;

an object specifying unit for specifying a selected object that is the object selected by the first manipulation body based on input position information indicating the input position and display position information indicating a display position of the object;

a gesture detection unit provided at a back side of the display screen of the display device, for detecting a predetermined gesture when the predetermined gesture is input by a second manipulation body;

an output device selection unit for selecting an output device that is an external device for outputting content data corresponding to the selected object based on first gesture information indicating the gesture detected by the gesture detection unit; and

a signal generation unit for generating a control signal for causing the selected output device to execute a predetermined process based on second gesture information indicating a gesture detected after position information of the content data is transmitted to the output device.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a position information transfer unit for transferring the position information of the content data corresponding to the selected object to the output device selected by the output device selection unit.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the gesture detection unit is capable of detecting a position of an input by the second manipulation body on the back surface of the display screen,

the information processing device further comprises:

an input area detection unit for dividing an area of the display screen and an area on the back surface of the display screen into a plurality of divided areas, respectively, and detecting the divided area on the display screen where the first manipulation body is located and the divided area on the back surface of the display screen where the second manipulation body is located based on first input position information indicating the input position of the first manipulation body input from the input position detection unit and second input position information indicating the input position of the second manipulation body input from the gesture detection unit; and

a judgment unit for judging whether the divided area where the first manipulation body is located and the divided area where the second manipulation body is located have a corresponding positional relationship based on first divided area information indicating the divided area where the first manipulation body is located and second divided area information indicating the divided area where the second manipulation body is located, and

the position information transfer unit transfers the position information only when it is determined by the judgment unit that the divided area where the first manipulation body is located and the divided area where the second manipulation body is located have a corresponding positional relationship.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a layout adjustment unit for acquiring display control information from the output device, the display control information being information for controlling display of content data corresponding to the selected object on the output device, and generating an instruction signal for adjusting a layout of the content data in the display screen of the output device based on the acquired display control information and third gesture information indicating the gesture detected by the gesture detection unit after the content data is displayed on the output device.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein, when layout adjustment is performed in displaying one content data, the output device stores layout information about the layout of the content data after the layout adjustment, to be associated with the position information of the content data, and

the layout adjustment unit transmits, to the output device, application condition information indicating an application condition for the layout information associated with the position information of the content data stored in the output device, when the output device displays another content data, according to gesture information input from the gesture detection unit.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a device registration unit for performing, on an external device, a device registration process in which the external device and the information processing device are allowed to access each other through a protocol common to the external device and the information processing device via a network,

wherein the output device selection unit selects the output device from among the external devices subjected to the device registration process.

7. An information processing method comprising:

an input position detection step of detecting a position of an input by a first manipulation body on a display screen of a display device on which a predetermined object is displayed;

an object specifying step of specifying a selected object that is the object selected by the first manipulation body based on input position information indicating the input position and display position information indicating a display position of the object;

a gesture detection step of detecting a predetermined gesture input by a second manipulation body in a state in which the selected object is selected by the first manipulation body;

an output device selection step of selecting an output device that is an external device for outputting content data corresponding to the selected object based on first gesture information indicating the gesture detected in the gesture detection step;

a position information transmission step of transmitting position information of the content data to the output device; and

a signal generation step of generating a control signal for causing the selected output device to execute a predetermined process based on second gesture information indicating a gesture detected after the position information of the content data is transmitted to the output device.

8. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing device, the information processing device comprising:

an input position detection unit provided at a display screen side of a display device on which a predetermined object is displayed, for detecting a position of an input by a first manipulation body on the display screen;

an object specifying unit for specifying a selected object that is the object selected by the first manipulation body based on input position information indicating the input position and display position information indicating a display position of the object;

a gesture detection unit provided at a back side of the display screen of the display device, for detecting a predetermined gesture when the predetermined gesture is input by a second manipulation body;

an output device selection unit for selecting an output device that is an external device for outputting content data corresponding to the selected object based on first gesture information indicating the gesture detected by the gesture detection unit; and

a signal generation unit for generating a control signal for causing the selected output device to execute a predetermined process based on second gesture information indicating a gesture detected after position information of the content data is transmitted to the output device.