INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130201159A1
• Filed: 01/25/2013
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Inamoto, Shinji
• Application Number:
  US13/749,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20130201159A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/178
• 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

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position detecting unit detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel, and a selecting unit selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and a last contact position.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a position detecting unit detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel; and

a selecting unit selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and a last contact position.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a region control unit setting a recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects,

wherein the selecting unit selects an object associated with a recognition region to which the contact position belongs.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the region control unit controls the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects based on a last contact position.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a viewing determining unit determining whether a part or all of a predetermined region including the plurality of objects is being viewed,

wherein the region control unit controls the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects based on a result of determination performed by the viewing determining unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, when controlling the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects, the region control unit is configured to limit a moving range of the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects to a movable range.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the region control unit determines whether a predetermined time has elapsed from a last contact and when the predetermined time has not elapsed from the last contact, the region control unit is configured to control the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the region control unit corrects the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects based on a history of the contact position.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the region control unit corrects the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects based on an average value of displacements between positions previously contacted and objects selected by the contact.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the region control unit sets the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects based on a last selected object.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the region control unit sets the recognition region associated with each of the plurality of objects in a manner that a midpoint between the last selected object and an object neighboring the last selected object is included in a recognition region associated with the neighboring object.

11. An information processing method comprising:

detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel; and

selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and a last contact position.

12. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus including

a position detecting unit detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel;

and

a selecting unit selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and a last contact position.