INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF SAME

• US 20130038532A1
• Filed: 12/27/2010
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Okura, Junya, Tsuchikura, Toshitake
• Granted Patent: US 9,289,679 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/20 Input arrangements for video game devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/214 for locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/40 Processing input control signals of video game devices, e.g. signals generated by the player or derived from the environment
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/10 characterized by input arrangements for converting player-generated signals into game device control signals
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Provided is a program capable of facilitating an operation input made by a user. A computer-readable information storage medium has stored thereon a program for controlling a computer connected to an operation input device to function so as to obtain, for each time unit, an input value indicating specifics of the operation input of the user received by the operation input device, and to calculate, as an output value of a parameter to be operated, a value obtained by changing a reference value by a change amount, the reference value being determined by one of a plurality of obtained input values, the change amount being determined by each of the plurality of obtained input values.

Claims

1. A computer-readable information storage medium having stored thereon a program for controlling a computer connected to an operation input device, which receives an operation input of a user, to function as:

input value obtaining means for obtaining, at a predetermined interval, an input value indicating specifics of the operation input received by the operation input device; and

output value calculating means for calculating an output value of a parameter to be operated, based on a plurality of input values obtained by the input value obtaining means,

wherein the output value calculating means calculates as the output value a value obtained by changing a reference value by a change amount, the reference value being determined by one of the plurality of input values obtained by the input value obtaining means, the change amount being determined by each of the plurality of input values which are obtained by the input value obtaining means at predetermined intervals.

2. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the reference value is a value determined by an input value that the input value obtaining means has obtained last time.

3. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the output value calculating means outputs as the output value a value obtained by changing the reference value by a change amount that is determined by each of a plurality of input values obtained by the input value obtaining means after the user executes a given start operation.

4. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the output value calculating means outputs as the output value a value obtained by changing the reference value by a change amount that is determined by each of a plurality of input values obtained by the input value obtaining means after the user executes a given start operation and after a given start condition is satisfied.

5. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein, when the input value obtained by the input value obtaining means exceeds a predetermined value, the output value calculating means calculates the output value by using as the change amount an upper limit value which is determined in advance.

6. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the operation input device comprises a sensor for detecting a tilt of a casing which is gripped by the user with hands,

wherein, when the user makes an operation input by tilting the casing, the input value obtaining means obtains as the input value a value indicating a direction and amount of the tilt of the casing which is caused by the operation,

wherein the output value is a value indicating a direction and a magnitude,

wherein the reference value is a value indicating a direction and a magnitude that are determined by a tilt direction and tilt amount indicated by the one of the plurality of input values, and

wherein the change amount is an amount of change whose magnitude is determined by the amount of tilt in a direction determined by a tilt direction that is indicated by an associated input value.

7. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 6,

wherein the input value is constituted of a first input component value and a second input component value which indicate respective amounts of rotation about two reference axes,

wherein the output value is constituted of a first output component value and a second output component value which indicate respective magnitudes along two reference directions, and

wherein the output value calculating means determines a change amount with respect to the first output component value based on the first input component value, determines a change amount with respect to the second output component value based on the second input component value, and determines the change amount with respect to the first output component value and the change amount with respect to the second output component value by calculation methods different from each other.

8. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the reference value is determined so that a ratio of a change of the reference value to a change of the input value in a range where an absolute value of the input value exceeds a given value is smaller than a ratio of the change of the reference value to the change of the input value in a range where the absolute value of the input value is equal to or less than the given value.

9. The computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the program controls the computer to further function as means for displaying on a display screen an image indicating a magnitude of the change amount that is determined by an input value obtained by the input value obtaining means last time when the output value calculating means calculates the output value.

10. An information input device connected to an operation input device, which receives an operation input of a user, the information input device comprising:

input value obtaining means for obtaining, at a predetermined interval, an input value indicating specifics of the operation input received by the operation input device; and

output value calculating means for calculating an output value of a parameter to be operated, based on a plurality of input values obtained by the input value obtaining means,

wherein the output value calculating means calculates as the output value a value obtained by changing a reference value by a change amount, the reference value being determined by one of the plurality of input values obtained by the input value obtaining means, the change amount being determined by each of the plurality of input values which are obtained by the input value obtaining means at predetermined intervals.

11. The information input device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a touch sensor disposed on a front face of a casing of the information input device and a touch sensor disposed on a rear face of the casing; and

start operation receiving means for receiving, as a start operation, an operation in which the user touches the touch sensor disposed on the front face of the casing with at least one finger of each of both hands and also touches the touch sensor disposed on the rear face of the casing with at least one finger of each of both hands,

wherein the operation input device comprises a sensor for detecting a tilt of the casing, and

wherein the output value calculating means outputs as the output value a value obtained by changing the reference value by a change amount that is determined by each of a plurality of input values obtained by the input value obtaining means after the start operation is received.

12. The information input device according to claim 11,

wherein the start operation receiving means receives, as an ending operation, an operation of breaking up a state in which the user touches the touch sensor disposed on the front face of the casing with at least one finger of each of both hands and also touches the touch sensor disposed on the rear face of the casing with at least one finger of each of both hands, and

wherein, when the ending operation is received, the output value calculating means ends the calculation of the output value.

13. A method of controlling an information input device, the method comprising:

an input value obtaining step of obtaining, at a predetermined interval, an input value indicating specifics of an operation input that is received by an operation input device for receiving an operation input of a user; and

an output value calculating step of calculating an output value of a parameter to be operated, based on a plurality of input values obtained in the input value obtaining step,

wherein, in the output value calculating step, a value obtained by changing a reference value by a change amount is calculated as the output value, the reference value being determined by one of the plurality of input values obtained in the input value obtaining step, the change amount being determined by each of the plurality of input values which are obtained at predetermined intervals in the input value obtaining step.