INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD

• US 20120056878A1
• Filed: 08/18/2011
• Published: 03/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MIYAZAWA, Yusuke, Suzuki, Seiji, Okumura, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 8,786,636 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• 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 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a display, a sensor, and a controller. The display has a screen. The sensor is configured to detect an inclination. The controller is configured to display a first object on the screen and display a second object associated with the first object on the screen in accordance with the inclination detected by the sensor.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display having a screen;

a sensor configured to detect an inclination; and

a controller configured to display a first object on the screen and display a second object associated with the first object on the screen in accordance with the inclination detected by the sensor.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a touch panel configured to detect contact, wherein

the second object is an object operable with the touch panel.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the controller switches availability of an operation of the second object using the touch panel in accordance with the inclination.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the first object is an object operable with the touch panel.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the controller switches a first state where the first object is operable with the touch panel and a second state where the second object is operable with the touch panel in accordance with the inclination.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the controller displays in a rotational manner a three-dimensional display object having a first surface serving as the first object and a second surface serving as the second object in accordance with the inclination, to thereby display the second object on the screen in accordance with the inclination.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the controller controls display such that the three-dimensional display object is hardly rotated in a case where an angle of the inclination is less than a predetermined value, and such that a rotation speed of the three-dimensional display object becomes higher as the inclination increases in a case where the angle of the inclination is the predetermined value or more.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the controller determines a position of a virtual camera in accordance with the inclination, and changes a background image of the three-dimensional display object in accordance with the position of the virtual camera.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the controller moves the first object and the second object in directions different from each other in accordance with the inclination, to thereby display the second object on the screen in accordance with the inclination.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the controller moves the first object while rotating the first object.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the first object is an image displayed when content is reproduced,

the second object is an object for operating a reproduction position of the content, and

the controller changes, in a case where the second object is operated with the touch panel, the reproduction position in accordance with a change amount of a contact position of the touch panel.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

the controller changes a ratio of a change amount of the reproduction position of the content to the change amount of the contact position of the touch panel, in accordance with the inclination.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the controller can simultaneously execute a plurality of application programs,

the first object is an image displayed by one of the plurality of application programs, and

the second object is an image for selecting one of the plurality of application programs.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the first object is an image indicating content, and

the second object is an icon for deleting content.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller can update a reference point serving as a reference of the inclination.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

the controller determines whether an angle of the inclination is a predetermined threshold value or more, and updates the reference point when the angle of the inclination is the predetermined threshold value or more.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

the controller determines whether the contact with the touch panel is not detected for a predetermined period of time or more and updates, in the case where the contact is not detected for the predetermined period of time or more, a position of the information processing apparatus at that time as the reference point.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

the controller determines whether a change amount of the inclination is less than a predetermined threshold value within a predetermined period of time and updates, in the case where an angle of the inclination is less than the predetermined threshold value, a position of the information processing apparatus at that time as the reference point.

19. A program causing an information processing apparatus to execute:

displaying a first object on a screen of a display; and

displaying a second object associated with the first object on the screen in accordance with an inclination detected by a sensor.

20. A control method, comprising:

displaying a first object on a screen of a display; and

displaying a second object associated with the first object on the screen in accordance with an inclination detected by a sensor.