INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD USING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF CONTENT FILE

• US 20130139079A1
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Published: 05/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitao, Takashi, Hyodo, Katsuya, Mochizuki, Arito
• Granted Patent: US 9,841,890 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/00 Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A plurality of GUIs are displayed on the screen of a display. A hit determination area of each GUI is defined within a graphic of the GUI. When a user touches a point of contact, four virtual points of contact are generated in the shape of a ‘V’ within the screen. A GUI desired to be selected by the user is identified according to a predetermined rule by referring to whether points of contact are located within each hit determination area, the number of points of contact, the priority level defined for each GUI, etc.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an input information acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a point of designation designated by a user in a display image including GUIs (graphical user interfaces);

a user operation content identification unit configured to locate virtual points of designation at positions determined according to the position of the point of designation on a plane that forms the display image, and to select a single GUI by comparing the GUIs with one another with reference to a relationship between the positions of the plurality of points of designation including the virtual points of designation and hit determination areas defined for respective GUIs; and

an information processing unit configured to execute a process mapped to the selected GUI.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the input information acquisition unit acquires, as the point of designation, a point of contact of a user'"'"'s finger on a touch panel provided on a display displaying the display image, and

wherein, in an area around the point of contact, the user operation content identification unit locates the virtual points of designation more in a side of a direction of the tip of the finger than the other side.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the user operation content identification unit locates the virtual points of designation at a position determined by a position determination rule defined in association with the device or the display image.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the user operation content identification unit distributes the virtual points of designation in the shape of a ‘

V’

having an apex at the point of designation.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the input information acquisition unit acquires the point of contact on the touch panel by the finger of a hand holding the information processing device, and

the user operation content identification unit defines a direction of a vector, extending from a position at base of the finger to the point of contact, as the direction of the tip of the finger and distributes the virtual points of designation around the defined direction.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a rear touch panel configured to sense a position of a finger supporting the information processing device from behind,

wherein the user operation content identification unit identifies the position of the base of the finger, based on the position sensed by the rear touch panel.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a sensor configured to acquire an angle of tilt of the display,

wherein the user operation content identification unit changes the distribution of the virtual points of designation in accordance with the angle of the tilt of the display.

8. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a sensor configured to acquire an image of the finger on the display,

wherein the user operation content identification unit identifies a direction of the tip of the finger based on the image of the finger and distributes the virtual points of contact around the identified direction.

9. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring a position of a point of designation designated by a user in a display image including GUIs (graphical user interfaces);

locating virtual points of designation at positions determined according to the position of the point of designation on a plane that forms the display image, and selecting a single GUI by comparing the GUIs with one another with reference to a relationship between the positions of the plurality of points of designation including the virtual points of designation and hit determination areas defined for respective GUIs; and

executing information processing mapped to the selected GUI.

10. A computer program embedded in a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, comprising:

a module configured to acquire a position of a point of designation designated by a user in a display image including GUIs (graphical user interfaces);

a module configured to locate virtual points of designation at positions determined according to the position of the point of designation on a plane that forms the display image, and to select a single GUI by comparing the GUIs with one another with reference to a relationship between the positions of the plurality of points of designation including the virtual points of designation and hit determination areas defined for respective GUIs; and

a module configured to execute information processing mapped to the selected GUI.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with a computer program comprising:

a module configured to acquire a position of a point of designation designated by a user in a display image including GUIs (graphical user interfaces);

a module configured to locate virtual points of designation at positions determined according to the position of the point of designation on a plane that forms the display image, and to select a single GUI by comparing the GUIs with one another with reference to a relationship between the positions of the plurality of points of designation including the virtual points of designation and hit determination areas defined for respective GUIs; and

a module configured to execute information processing mapped to the selected GUI.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which data of a content file is recorded, the data having a structure configured to map:

a program of content executed in an information processing device;

to

a contact point generation rule configuration file configured to define a rule for locating virtual points of contact generated according to a position of a point of designation, on a plane that forms a display image including GUIs (graphical user interfaces) displayed while content is being executed in the information processing device, the contact point generation rule configuration file being used to select a single GUI by comparing the GUIs with one another with reference to a relationship between positions of a plurality of points of designation, including the virtual points of designation generated by the information processing device by referring to the file while executing content, and hit determination areas defined for respective GUIs, and to execute a process mapped to the selected GUI.