INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF ASSOCIATING DATA WITH EACH OTHER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20120075267A1
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: AKIFUSA, Yusuke, NITTA, Masahiro, NAGAYA, Masahiko, KAGITA, Asako, FUJISAWA, Yasuhito
• Application Number:
  US13/242,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20120075267A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/26 having at least one additional display device, e.g. on the game controller or outside a game booth
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/655 by importing photos, e.g. of the player
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00198 Creation of a soft photo presentation, e.g. digital slide-show
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device

Abstract

An exemplary embodiment provides an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display portion having first and second display regions, a first display control unit for displaying a first object showing first data in the first display region, a second display control unit for displaying a second object showing second data in the second display region, an acceptance portion for accepting a series of position indication operations in the second display region, and an association control unit for selecting the second object based on a position indicated by the series of position indication operations within the second display region accepted by the acceptance portion and performing processing for associating the first data with the second data corresponding to the selected second object based on subsequent variation in the indicated position.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display portion having first and second display regions;

a first display control unit for displaying a first object showing first data in the first display region;

a second display control unit for displaying a second object showing second data in the second display region;

an acceptance portion for accepting a series of position indication operations in the second display region; and

an association control unit for selecting the second object based on a position indicated by the series of position indication operations in the second display region accepted by the acceptance portion and performing processing for associating the first data and the second data corresponding to the selected second object with each other based on subsequent variation in the indicated position.

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

the association control unit is configured to associate the second data with the first data when the subsequent variation in the indicated position satisfies a prescribed condition.

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

the association control unit is configured to select the second object based on an indication start position.

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

the first display control unit is configured to display the first object selected before the series of position indication operations in the first display region, based on an input operation different from the series of position indication operations.

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

the first display control unit is configured to display a notification image indicating that the first data and the second data are associated with each other, over or proximate to the first object.

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

the first display control unit is configured to use as the notification image, an icon showing the second data associated with the first data corresponding to the first object of interest.

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

even when other second data has already been associated with the first data, the association control unit is configured to cancel association with the other second data in response to the series of position indication operations and to associate second data corresponding to a newly selected second object with the first data.

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

the prescribed condition includes a condition that variation in indicated position relative to the second display region, in a direction in which the first display region is present, occurs in the series of position indication operations.

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

the prescribed condition includes a condition that variation in indicated position relative to the second display region, in a direction in which the first display region is present, occurs within a prescribed period of time immediately before end of the series of position indication operations, in the series of position indication operations.

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

the prescribed condition includes a condition relating to at least one of a moving speed and an amount of displacement in connection with the series of position indication operations.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reproduction portion for reproducing, when the second object is selected in the series of position indication operations, the second data corresponding to the second object.

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

the second display control unit is configured to display a plurality of second objects in the second display region in a selectable manner.

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

the display portion includes first and second display screens aligned in a vertical direction when a user holds the information processing apparatus, the first display region corresponding to the first display screen, and the second display region corresponding to the second display screen, and

the acceptance portion includes a touch panel arranged in correspondence with the second display screen.

14. An information processing system, comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium storing an information processing program; and

a processing apparatus main body to which the storage medium can be attached,

the processing apparatus main body including a display portion having first and second display regions, and

as a computer of the processing apparatus main body executes the information processing program stored in the storage medium, the processing apparatus main body performing;

a first display control step of displaying a first object showing first data in the first display region;

a second display control step of displaying a second object showing second data in the second display region;

an accepting step of accepting a series of position indication operations in the second display region; and

an association control step of selecting the second object based on a position indicated by the series of position indication operations in the second display region accepted in the accepting step and performing processing for associating the first data and the second data corresponding to the selected second object with each other, based on subsequent variation in the indicated position.

15. A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program and executable by a computer of a processing apparatus including a display portion having first and second display regions, the computer readable information processing program comprising:

first display control instructions for displaying a first object showing first data in the first display region;

second display control instructions for displaying a second object showing second data in the second display region;

acceptance instructions for accepting a series of position indication operations in the second display region; and

association control instructions for selecting the second object based on a position indicated by the series of position indication operations in the second display region accepted in response to the acceptance instructions and performing processing for associating the first data and the second data corresponding to the selected second object with each other, based on subsequent variation in the indicated position.