INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORING MEDIUM

• US 20140092048A1
• Filed: 04/06/2012
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Hirotsugu
• Application Number:
  US14/118,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20140092048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/426 involving on-screen location information, e.g. screen coordinates of an area at which the player is aiming with a light gun
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• 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

The present invention is to allow change of the area in which information as a display target is not displayed in a display according to a detected position by a touch sensor disposed opposed to a touch sensor that is so disposed as to be overlapped on the display. An information processing device (1) includes a touch panel (12) that is so configured as to include a display and a front touch sensor that is so disposed as to be overlapped on the display and detects the position of an object on a detection surface, a back touch sensor (18) that is disposed opposed to the front touch sensor and detects the position of an object on a detection surface, and a control section. The control section identifies, as a prohibited area, one of two areas that each occupy part of the display and are disposed on the left and right sides based on at least one detected position by the back touch sensor (18), and causes information as a display target to be displayed in an area outside the prohibited area in the display.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a display section;

a front touch sensor that is so disposed as to be overlapped on the display section and detects a position of an object on a detection surface;

a back touch sensor that is disposed opposed to the front touch sensor and detects a position of an object on a detection surface; and

a control section,

wherein the control section identifies, as a prohibited area, one of two areas that each occupy part of the display section and are disposed on left and right sides based on at least one detected position by the back touch sensor, and

the control section causes information as a display target to be displayed in an area outside the prohibited area in the display section.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein a correspondence relationship between the detected position by the back touch sensor and the prohibited area identified from the two areas is reversed depending on whether shorter-side direction of the display section is direction along vertical direction or longitudinal direction of the display section is direction along the vertical direction.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control section identifies one of the two areas as the prohibited area based on whether one detected position by the back touch sensor exists in an area in the back touch sensor opposed to left half of the front touch sensor or exists in an area in the back touch sensor opposed to right half of the front touch sensor.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the control section identifies the area on the left side, of the two areas, as the prohibited area if one detected position by the back touch sensor exists in the area in the back touch sensor opposed to the left half of the front touch sensor, and identifies the area on the right side, of the two areas, as the prohibited area if not so.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a direction detector that detects direction of the display section,

wherein the control section determines whether longitudinal direction of the display section is direction along vertical direction or shorter-side direction of the display section is direction along the vertical direction based on a detection result by the direction detector, when it is determined that the shorter-side direction of the display section is direction along the vertical direction, the control section identifies the area on the left side, of the two areas, as the prohibited area if one detected position by the back touch sensor exists in the area in the back touch sensor opposed to the left half of the front touch sensor, and identifies the area on the right side, of the two areas, as the prohibited area if not so, and when it is determined that the longitudinal direction of the display section is direction along the vertical direction, the control section identifies the area on the right side, of the two areas, as the prohibited area if one detected position by the back touch sensor exists in the area in the back touch sensor opposed to the left half of the front touch sensor, and identifies the area on the left side, of the two areas, as the prohibited area if not so.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control section decides positions of the two areas based on a detected position by the front touch sensor.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein the control section decides an area in the display section located on a lower left side of the detected position by the front touch sensor as the area on the left side, of the two areas, and decides an area in the display section located on a lower right side of the detected position by the front touch sensor as the area on the right side, of the two areas.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein if a plurality of pieces of information as display targets exist and the plurality of pieces of information are ordered, the control section causes the plurality of pieces of information that are ordered to be displayed in a plurality of ordered areas obtained by dividing an area outside the prohibited area in the display section in such a manner that order of the information corresponds to order of the area.

9. A control method of an information processing device including a display section, a front touch sensor that is so disposed as to be overlapped on the display section and detects a position of an object on a detection surface, and a back touch sensor that is disposed opposed to the front touch sensor and detects a position of an object on a detection surface, the control method comprising:

identifying one of two areas that each occupy part of the display section and are disposed on left and right sides as a prohibited area based on at least one detected position by the back touch sensor; and

causing information as a display target to be displayed in an area outside the prohibited area in the display section.

10. A program for an information processing device including a display section, a front touch sensor that is so disposed as to be overlapped on the display section and detects a position of an object on a detection surface, and a back touch sensor that is disposed opposed to the front touch sensor and detects a position of an object on a detection surface, the program causing the information processing device to carry out:

a step of identifying one of two prohibited areas that each occupy part of the display section and are disposed on left and right sides based on at least one detected position by the back touch sensor; and

a step of causing information as a display target to be displayed in an area outside the identified prohibited area in the display section.

11. A computer-readable information storing medium that stores a program for an information processing device including a display section, a front touch sensor that is so disposed as to be overlapped on the display section and detects a position of an object on a detection surface, and a back touch sensor that is disposed opposed to the front touch sensor and detects a position of an object on a detection surface, the program causing the information processing device to carry out:

a step of identifying one of two prohibited areas that each occupy part of the display section and are disposed on left and right sides based on at least one detected position by the back touch sensor; and

a step of causing information as a display target to be displayed in an area outside the identified prohibited area in the display section.