INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20120268378A1
• Filed: 02/23/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tokutake, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 9,519,423 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3262 Power saving in digitizer or tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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

An information processing apparatus that includes a touch panel unit that detects a touch input; an application control unit that sets one of a plurality of application programs to an active state as an active-state application program; a profile information acquiring unit that acquires profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and a parameter updating unit that sets a detection parameter of the touch panel unit based on the profile information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a touch panel unit that detects a touch input;

an application control unit that sets one of a plurality of application programs to an active state as an active-state application program;

a profile information acquiring unit that acquires profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and

a parameter setting unit that sets a detection parameter of the touch panel unit based on the profile information.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information is information for optimizing the detection parameter of the touch panel unit for the active-state application program.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the active-state application program includes the profile information, and the profile information acquiring unit acquires the profile information from the active-state application program.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of application programs include profile information, and the profile information acquiring unit acquires the profile information from the active-state application program of the plurality of application programs.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes the detection parameter that is updated by the parameter updating unit.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the detection parameter is a firmware setting of the touch panel unit.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information acquiring unit converts the profile information into instructions compliant with firmware of the touch panel unit.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the parameter setting unit sets the detection parameter of the touch panel unit by replacing existing instructions of the firmware of the touch panel unit with the profile information converted by the profile information acquiring unit.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a sensitivity threshold for detecting the touch input.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a number of times for confirming detection of the touch input.

11. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a reporting rate defining a speed at which a detected touch input is output by the touch panel unit.

12. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes information identifying sets of coordinate values, which each correspond to different pixel areas of a display panel on which a surface of the touch panel unit is arranged.

13. The information processing apparatus of claim 12, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a sensitivity threshold for detecting the touch input for each of the different pixel areas.

14. The information processing apparatus of claim 12, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a number of times for confirming detection of the touch input for each of the different pixel areas.

15. The information processing apparatus of claim 12, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a reporting rate defining a speed at which a detected touch input is output by the touch panel unit for each of the different pixel areas.

16. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of application programs include a standby menu application program, a game application program and a keyboard application program.

17. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information of each of the plurality of application programs includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a sensitivity threshold for detecting the touch input at the touch panel unit, wherein the sensitivity threshold setting is different for each of the plurality of application programs.

18. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information of each of the plurality of application programs includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a reporting rate defining a speed at which a detected touch input is output by the touch panel unit, wherein the reporting rate setting is different for each of the plurality of application programs.

19. A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

setting one of a plurality of application programs of the information processing apparatus to an active state as an active-state application program;

acquiring profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and

setting a detection parameter of a touch panel unit that detects a touch input based on the profile information.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

setting one of a plurality of application programs of the information processing apparatus to an active state as an active-state application program;

acquiring profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and

setting a detection parameter of a touch panel unit that detects a touch input based on the profile information.