INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS

• US 20130244637A1
• Filed: 02/19/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ueda, Roka, Onohara, Takashi, Iwayagano, Seizi, Kawabe, Yuji, Daini, Keishi, Higo, Takuma, Yoshio, Taichi, Sakai, Eri
• Granted Patent: US 9,414,179 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a terminal apparatus for offering information in more quantity and in further detail than before by having a plurality of devices linked with one another. The information processing apparatus includes a first device and a second device interconnected with each other. Application information about an application executing on the first device is acquired through a communication block included in the second device. Display on a display block included in the second device is controlled based on the application information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first device; and

a second device connected with said first device,

wherein application information about an application executing on said first device is acquired through a communication block included in said second device, and

display on a display block included in said second device is controlled based on said application information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein content information indicative of information related to content reproduced by said application on said first device is acquired through said communication block, and

based on said content information, information about said content is controlled to be displayed on said display block included in said second device.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said application information indicates that the application is executing on said first device.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said application information indicates the type of the application reproducing content on said first device.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein operation information indicative of details of an input operation performed on an input block included in said second device is transmitted to said first device through said communication block included in said second device.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein update information is acquired through said communication block included in said second device, said update information indicating an update of display details on a display block of said first device performed on said first device on the basis of said operation information, and

the display on said display block of said second device is updated based on said update information.

7. An information processing method for use with a first device and a second device interconnected with each other, said information processing method comprising:

acquiring application information about an application executing on said first device through a communication block included in said second device; and

controlling display on a display block included in said second device based on said application information.

8. An information processing program for executing an information processing method in conjunction with a first device and a second device interconnected with each other, said information processing method comprising:

acquiring application information about an application executing on said first device through a communication block included in said second device; and

controlling display on a display block included in said second device based on said application information.

9. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a display block; and

a communication block,

wherein application information about an application executing on another device connected to said terminal apparatus is acquired through said communication block, and

display on said display block is controlled based on said application information.