INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120317516A1
• Filed: 06/06/2012
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Ohsumi, Tsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/489,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20120317516A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/849
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing device includes an input operation acceptance unit, distance specification unit, and control unit. The input operation acceptance unit accepts movement of a body substantially parallel to a display surface (two-dimensional plane) of a display unit in which touch panels are laminated, as a touch operation to the touch panel. The distance specification unit detects a distance of the body when a touch operation is made from the display surface (two-dimensional plane) of the display unit. The control unit variably controls the execution of processing related to an object displayed, based on the type of touch operation accepted by the input operation acceptance unit (types differ depending on the trajectory of movement of the body), and the distance detected by the distance specification unit.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a three-dimensional position detection unit that detects a position of a body relative to a reference plane in three-dimension directions;

a three-dimensional operation acceptance unit that recognizes movement of the body in three-dimensional directions based on each position in three-dimensional directions of the body temporally separated and detected multiple times, by way of the three-dimensional position detection unit, and accepts a recognition result thereof as an instruction operation related to an object; and

a control unit that variably controls processing related to the object, depending on the instruction operation accepted by the three-dimensional operation acceptance unit and a distance of the body in a normal vector direction from the reference plane.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the three-dimensional position detection unit includes a touch panel laminated on a display screen, the display screen being the reference plane,

wherein a plurality of types of touch operations to which different processing is respectively associated is assigned as processing related to the object, depending on a distance in a normal vector direction of the display screen,

wherein the three-dimensional operation acceptance unit includes:

an input operation acceptance unit that accepts a movement operation of a body in two-dimensional directions that are substantially parallel to the display screen; and

a distance specification unit that specifies a distance of the body in a normal vector direction from the display screen, and

wherein the control unit

recognizes a touch operation executed among the plurality of types of touch operations, based on the movement operation accepted by way of the input operation acceptance unit and the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit, and controls processing related to the object in accordance with the touch operation.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit executes either processing to skip a page of an object displayed on the display screen, or to read a separate object, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2,

Wherein the control unit executes processing to either rotate an object displayed on the display screen to an arbitrary angle or to rotate to a prescribed angle, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein, among objects disposed on a plurality of layers displayed on the display screen, the control unit executes control of depress processing on the object disposed on any layer, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2,

Wherein the control unit executes control to either select a plurality of objects displayed on the display screen, or to move only a part of the objects among the plurality of objects, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2,

Wherein the control unit executes control to either display an object displayed on the display screen as a separate file of the same category, or to display as a separate file of a separate category, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

8. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit executes control to display an object displayed on the display screen to be enlarged or reduced in size.

9. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit executes to control to either rotate or select the object, depending on a movement of the body in three-dimensional directions recognized by way of the three-dimensional operation acceptance unit.

10. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit executes control to select different character types as a character of conversion candidates acquired based on a result of character recognition, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

11. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject,

wherein the control unit executes control to capture an image by controlling the image-capturing unit according to an instruction based on any touch panel among a plurality of panels configuring the touch panel laminated, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

12. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject,

wherein the control unit executes control to either initiate continuous shoot by way of the image-capturing unit, or to stop the continuous shoot, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

13. An information processing method executed by an information processing device that controls processing related to an object, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting a position a body in three-dimensional directions relative to a reference plane;

recognizing movement of the body in three-dimensional directions based on each position in three-dimensional directions of the body temporally separated and detected multiple times in the detecting step, and accepting a recognition result thereof as an instruction operation related to an object; and

variably controlling processing related to the object, depending on the instruction operation accepted in the recognizing step, and a distance of the body in a normal vector direction from the reference plane.

14. A computer readable recording medium in which a program for causing a computer that controls an information processing device controlling processing related to an object to realize:

a three-dimensional position detection function of detecting a position of a body relative to a reference plane in three-dimension directions;

a three-dimensional operation acceptance function of recognizing movement of the body in three-dimensional directions based on each position in three-dimensional directions of the body temporally separated and detected multiple times, by way of the three-dimensional position detection function, and accepting a recognition result thereof as an instruction operation related to an object; and

a control function of variably controlling processing related to the object, depending on the instruction operation accepted by way of the three-dimensional operation acceptance function and a distance of the body in a normal vector direction from the reference plane.

15. An information processing device, comprising:

a three-dimensional position detection unit that detects a body relative to a reference plane in three-dimension directions;

a three-dimensional operation acceptance unit that recognizes movement of the body in three-dimensional directions based on each position in three-dimensional directions of the body temporally separated and detected multiple times, by way of the three-dimensional position detection unit, and accepts a recognition result thereof as an instruction operation related to an object; and

a control unit that variably controls processing related to the object, depending on the instruction operation accepted by the three-dimensional operation acceptance unit.

16. The information processing device according to claim 15,

wherein the three-dimensional position detection unit includes a touch panel laminated on a display screen, the display screen being the reference plane,

wherein the three-dimensional operation acceptance unit includes:

an input operation acceptance unit that accepts a movement of a body in two-dimensional directions that are substantially parallel to the display screen as a touch operation to the touch panel; and

a distance specification unit that specifies a distance of the body from the display screen as a position of the body in a normal vector direction of the display screen.

17. The information processing device according to claim 16,

wherein the control unit controls processing related to an object, and associated with the touch operation in advance.

18. The information processing device according to claim 16,

wherein the control unit controls processing related to an object, and associated to a distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

19. The information processing device according to claim 18,

Wherein the control unit executes processing to change a display ratio of an object displayed on the display screen, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

20. The information processing device according to claim 18,

wherein the control unit executes control to either skip a page of an object displayed on the display screen or change the object, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

21. The information processing device according to claim 18,

wherein the control unit controls processing related to an object, and associated to a rotation operation on an object displayed on the display screen accepted by way the three-dimensional operation acceptance unit, depending on the distance specified by way of the distance specification unit.

22. The information processing device according to claim 16,

wherein the touch panel is comprised of a capacitive touch panel and a resistive touch panel.

23. The information processing device according to claim 17,

wherein the touch panel is comprised of a capacitive touch panel and a resistive touch panel.

24. The information processing device according to claim 18,

wherein the touch panel is comprised of a capacitive touch panel and a resistive touch panel.

25. The information processing device according to claim 19,

wherein the touch panel is comprised of a capacitive touch panel and a resistive touch panel.

26. The information processing device according to claim 20,

wherein the touch panel is comprised of a capacitive touch panel and a resistive touch panel.

27. The information processing device according to claim 21,

wherein the touch panel is comprised of a capacitive touch panel and a resistive touch panel.

28. An information processing method executed by an information processing device that controls processing related to an object, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting a position a body in three-dimensional directions relative to a reference plane;

recognizing movement of the body in three-dimensional directions based on each position in three-dimensional directions of the body temporally separated and detected multiple times in the detecting step, and accepting a recognition result thereof as an instruction operation related to an object; and

variably controlling processing related to the object, depending on the instruction operation accepted in the recognizing step.

29. A computer readable recording medium in which a program for causing a computer that controls an information processing device controlling processing related to an object to realize:

a three-dimensional position detection function of detecting a position of a body relative to a reference plane in three-dimension directions;

a three-dimensional operation acceptance function of recognizing movement of the body in three-dimensional directions based on each position in three-dimensional directions of the body temporally separated and detected multiple times, by way of the three-dimensional position detection function, and accepting a recognition result thereof as an instruction operation related to an object; and

a control function of variably controlling processing related to the object, depending on the instruction operation accepted by way of the three-dimensional operation acceptance function.