INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20130162562A1
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Buffalo Incorporated (Melco Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Buffalo Incorporated (Melco Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: FUJIKI, Aya, OSAWA, Yoshiki
• Application Number:
  US13/710,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20130162562A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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

An information processing device includes a display section, and a touch sensor superposed on the display section, the touch sensor being responsive to touch operation by a user. An estimation unit is also provided and is configured to identify a region on the display section, the region being covered by a part of the user, when the touch sensor detects the touch operation by the user. A display controller is provided that displays information on the display section so as to avoid the region identified by the estimation unit. In addition a computer program product is described.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a display section;

a touch sensor superposed on the display section, the touch sensor being responsive to touch operation by a user;

an estimation unit configured to identify a region on the display section, the region being covered by a part of the user, when the touch sensor detects the touch operation by the user; and

a display controller that displays information on the display section so as to avoid the region identified by the estimation unit.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the display controller displays the information for a predetermined time after an end of the touch operation, and

the information processing device further includes an interface that receives an enlarging or a reducing instruction via the touch sensor during the display of the information, and

in response to the enlarging or reducing instruction being received, the display controller causes the information to be displayed in an enlarged or reduced state according to the instruction.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the display controller causes the display section to display the information for a predetermined time after an end of the touch operation, and

the information processing device further includes an interface that receives an instruction to obtain other information from a source identified by a link, and obtains the other information from the source indicated by the link and displaying the other information when the instruction is given.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an acceleration sensor that detects an attitude of the information processing device; and

an interface that repeatedly obtains attitude information indicating the attitude detected by the acceleration sensor in predetermined timing, and storing at least the attitude information last obtained,

wherein the estimating unit estimates the region on the display section, the region being covered by the part of the body of the user, the region being covered by the part of the body of the user, on a basis of the stored attitude information last obtained.

5. A non-transitory recording medium having instructions stored therein that when executed by a computer cause the computer to implement an information processing device that is connected to a display section and a touch sensor superposed on the display section, the touch sensor being responsive to touch operation by a user, the information processing device comprising:

an estimation unit configured to identify a region on the display section, the region being covered by a part of the user, when the touch sensor detects the touch operation by the user; and

a display controller that that displays information on the display section so as to avoid the region identified by the estimation unit.