INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20130328831A1
• Filed: 07/24/2013
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: HOMMA, Fuminori, MATSUDA, Kouichi, NASHIDA, Tatsushi
• Granted Patent: US 9,891,737 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An apparatus comprising:

a control circuitry configured to generate information for controlling a display to display a display object used for determining a parameter related to a content and changing the display of the display object according to an operation of a user,

wherein, when the user makes an operation pointing at a location corresponding to where the display object is displayed and the pointing lasts for a period of time exceeding a threshold time amount, the control circuitry generates information controlling the display to replace the display object with a zoomed display object.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the displayed object comprises a current position indicator that indicates a current playback position of a content being played back on the display, the current position indicator being repositionable at a point along a timeline display based on the location of the pointing operation, the timeline display being associated with the content being played back.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein

the current position indicator is a slider bar.

19. The apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein, when the user makes the operation pointing at the location corresponding to where the timeline display is displayed and the pointing lasts for the period of time exceeding the threshold time amount, the control circuitry generates the information controlling the display to replace the timeline display with a zoomed timeline display.

20. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the display is further controlled to display a start edge value and an end edge value associated with the timeline display.

21. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the display is controlled to replace the display object with the zoomed display object by enlarging a portion of the display object around the location of the pointing operation.

22. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the display is controlled to replace the display object with the zoomed display object by zooming into a portion of the display object around the location of the pointing operation.

23. The apparatus according to claim 22, wherein

the zooming into the portion of the display object around the location of the pointing operation is a zooming along a time-axis of a timeline display of the display object.

24. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the display is further controlled to display a start edge value and an end edge value associated with the display object.

25. The apparatus according to claim 16,

wherein, when the operation pointing at the location corresponding to where the display object is displayed is no longer made, the display is controlled to display the display object in an original state.

26. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the display is controlled to display the display object within a slider bar region of the display, and

when the user makes the operation pointing at the location corresponding to where the display object is displayed and the pointing lasts for the period of time exceeding the threshold time amount, the display is controlled to replace the display object with the zoomed display object by displaying an interval of the display object surrounding the location of the pointing operation to be zoomed and displayed on portions of the slider bar region in which portions of the display object other than the displayed interval were previously displayed prior to the zooming of the displayed interval.

27. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the content is a video content and the display object represents a playback range of the video content.

28. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the display object is associated with a play-back of the content, and

the display object is replaced with the zoomed display object by updating a start edge value of the content play-back with a new start edge value and updating an end edge value of the content play-back with a new end edge value, the new start edge value and the new end edge value being obtained based on an interval of the zoomed display object.

29. The apparatus according to claim 28, wherein

the interval of the zoomed display object corresponds to a value obtained by dividing a value obtained by subtracting the end edge value from the start edge value by a constant.

30. The apparatus according to claim 28, wherein

the interval of the zoomed display object corresponds to a value obtained by dividing the end edge value by a constant.

31. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the display object is replaced with the zoomed display object by updating a start edge value and an end edge value associated with the display object with a new start edge value and a new end edge value obtained based on a current playback position of the content represented by the display object and a whole reproduction time of the content.

32. The apparatus according to claim 31, wherein

the current playback position is indicated by a current position indicator positioned at the position of the pointing operation.

33. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

the zoomed display object is a portion of the display object that has been magnified or extended for display upon the display.

34. A method comprising:

generating an information for controlling a display to display a display object used for determining a parameter related to a content; and

changing the display of the display object according to an operation of a user,

wherein, when the user makes an operation pointing at a location corresponding to where the display object is displayed and the pointing lasts for a period of time exceeding a threshold time amount, the control circuitry generates information controlling the display to replace the display object with a zoomed display object.

35. The method according to claim 34,

wherein, when the operation pointing at the location corresponding to where the display object is displayed is no longer made, the display is controlled to display the display object in an original state.

36. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute an method, the method comprising:

generating an information for controlling a display to display a display object used for determining a parameter related to a content; and

changing the display of the display object according to an operation of a user,

wherein, when the user makes an operation pointing at a location corresponding to where the display object is displayed and the pointing lasts for a period of time exceeding a threshold time amount, the control circuitry generates information controlling the display to replace the display object with a zoomed display object.

37. The computer-readable medium according to claim 36,

wherein, when the operation pointing at the location corresponding to where the display object is displayed is no longer made, the display is controlled to display the display object in an original state.