INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20140108014A1
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Tomonori, Okutani, Yasuo
• Application Number:
  US14/042,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20140108014A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/260
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/02 Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination

Abstract

The present invention is configured to display a screen that includes a voice output position with a simple operation, even when another text that does not include the voice output position is displayed by manipulation during output of a text as voice. Therefore, when an input unit 101 detects an operation by a user while outputting a text as voice, a display control unit executes processing that corresponds to this operation such as scrolling, and displays the designated part of the text. Thereafter, when the input unit 101 further detects an operation and if the detected operation and the immediately previous operation are opposite operations to each other, a text that includes a current voice output position is displayed.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to display a text on a screen;

a voice output unit configured to output the text as voice;

a detection unit configured to detect a first operation and a second operation performed by a user on the screen; and

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the second operation has a predetermined relationship with the first operation;

wherein the display control unit is configured to control the screen based on determination by the determination unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined relationship is a relationship in which the second operation and the first operation are opposite to each other.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the first operation and the second operation are of the same operation type.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when it is determined by the determination unit that the second operation has the predetermined relationship with the first operation, the screen is controlled so as to include the text that is being output as voice by the voice output unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein when it is determined by the determination unit that the second operation does not have the predetermined relationship with the first operation, the screen is controlled based on the second operation.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the detection unit is further configured to detect an acceleration of the second operation, and the display control unit is configured to control the screen based on the determination by the determination unit and the acceleration.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein when it is determined by the determination unit that the second operation has the predetermined relationship with the first operation, and that the acceleration is a predetermined threshold or greater, the screen is controlled so as to include the text that is being output as voice by the voice output unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first operation is an operation that has been detected prior to the second operation.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first operation includes a plurality of operations that have been detected prior to the second operation.

10. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus comprising:

a display control step of displaying a text on a screen;

a voice output step of outputting the text as voice;

a detection step of detecting a first operation and a second operation performed by a user on the screen; and

a determination step of determining whether or not the second operation has a predetermined relationship with the first operation;

wherein the display control step controls the screen based on determination in the determination step.

11. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the predetermined relationship is a relationship in which the second operation and the first operation are opposite to each other.

12. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the first operation and the second operation are of the same operation type.

13. The method according to claim 10,

wherein when it is determined in the determination step that the second operation has the predetermined relationship with the first operation, the screen is controlled so as to include the text that is being output as voice in the voice output step.

14. The method according to claim 13,

wherein when it is determined in the determination step that the second operation does not have the predetermined relationship with the first operation, the screen is controlled based on the second operation.

15. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the detection step further detects an acceleration of the second operation, and the display control step controls the screen based on the determination in the determination step and the acceleration.

16. The method according to claim 15,

wherein when it is determined in the determination step that the second operation has the predetermined relationship with the first operation, and that the acceleration is a predetermined threshold or greater, the voice output step controls the screen so as to include the text that is being output as voice.

17. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the first operation is an operation that has been detected prior to the second operation.

18. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the first operation includes a plurality of operations that have been detected prior to the second operation.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that has stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute the steps of the method according to claim 10.