INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120262368A1
• Filed: 03/21/2012
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shogaki, Yohei
• Granted Patent: US 9,075,513 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

It enables a user to easily confirm whether or not a process corresponding to a key was correctly performed. To do so, there is provided a control method for controlling an information processing apparatus, comprising: controlling, in a case where, after a key in a screen displayed on a display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed inside a display area of the key, to perform a process corresponding to the key, and, in a case where, after the key in the screen displayed on the display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, to not perform the process corresponding to the key; and notifying, in the case where the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, the user that the process corresponding to the key is not performed.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a control unit configured to control, in a case where, after a key in a screen displayed on a display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed inside a display area of the key, to perform a process corresponding to the key, and, in a case where, after the key in the screen displayed on the display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, to not perform the process corresponding to the key; and

a notification unit configured to notify, in the case where the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, a user that the process corresponding to the key is not performed.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the case where the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, the notification unit outputs a sound indicating that the process corresponding to the key is not performed.

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

the notification unit includes a display control unit, and

the display control unit makes a color of the key to be displayed in the case where the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key different from a color of the key to be displayed in the case where the key comes to be not depressed inside the display area of the key.

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

the notification unit includes a display control unit,

the display control unit displays the key not yet depressed, with a first color,

the display control unit changes the color of the key from the first color to a second color in accordance with depression of the key,

in the case where, after the key was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed inside the display area of the key, the display control unit changes the color of the key from the second color to the first color, and in the case where, after the key was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, the display control unit changes the color of the key from the second color to the first color.

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

the notification unit includes a display control unit,

the display control unit displays the key not yet depressed, with a first color,

the display control unit changes the color of the key from the first color to a second color in accordance with depression of the key,

in the case where, after the key was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed inside the display area of the key, the display control unit changes the color of the key from the second color to a third color, and then changes the color of the key from the third color to the first color, and

in the case where, after the key was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, the display control unit changes the color of the key from the second color to the first color.

6. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to control to display,

before a key is depressed, the key with a first color on a display unit, and display, in a case where a display area of the key is depressed, the key with a second color on the display unit; and

a notification unit configured to notify, in a case where, after the key was depressed, a position where the key is being depressed is deviated from the display area of the key, a user that the position where the key is being depressed has been deviated from the display area.

7. A control method for controlling an information processing apparatus, comprising:

controlling, in a case where, after a key in a screen displayed on a display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed inside a display area of the key, to perform a process corresponding to the key, and, in a case where, after the key in the screen displayed on the display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, to not perform the process corresponding to the key; and

notifying, in the case where the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, a user that the process corresponding to the key is not performed.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program for controlling an information processing apparatus, the computer program comprising:

a code to control, in a case where, after a key in a screen displayed on a display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed inside a display area of the key, to perform a process corresponding to the key, and, in a case where, after the key in the screen displayed on the display unit was depressed, the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, to not perform the process corresponding to the key; and

a code to notify, in the case where the key comes to be not depressed outside the display area of the key, a user that the process corresponding to the key is not performed.