INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

• US 20140109024A1
• Filed: 07/06/2012
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Reiko
• Granted Patent: US 11,249,625 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04807 Pen manipulated menu
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a position of a manipulation body on a display screen and a control unit configured to, if a first manipulation on the display screen in a locked state is detected, display, on the display screen, icons to be arranged based on a reference point indicating a position of the manipulation body when the first manipulation is completed, and if a second manipulation indicating a direction from the reference point is detected, start up an application corresponding to the icon specified by the second manipulation. An associated method and computer readable storage medium are also described.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a detector that detects an interaction position of a manipulation body on a display screen; and

a controller that

when the display screen is in a locked state, causes an arrangement of display items on the display screen to be based on a reference point,

said reference point being a last contact position of a first manipulation of the manipulation body on the display screen, and

when a second manipulation of the manipulation body indicating a direction of movement from the reference point is detected, starts up an application corresponding to a display item displayed in the direction of movement, said second manipulation occurring after said first manipulation.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller arranges the display items radially around the reference point.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller selects the display items based on a position of the reference point.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the display screen is divided into a plurality of areas, and

the control unit selects the display item displayed in the direction of movement based on which area the detected reference point is positioned.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the display screen is at least one of a touch panel display and a proximity display.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said display items are icons.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the application is hosted on a remote computer.

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

a behavior recognition unit configured to recognize a behavior of a user,

wherein the controller selects the display item displayed in the direction of movement based on a behavior of the user recognized by the behavior recognition unit.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

when the direction of movement of the second manipulation is between respective display items, the display screen displays a home screen.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first manipulation is to authenticate a device owner, and

the second manipulation is to start up the application.

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

a case; and

a case direction detection unit configured to detect a direction of the case,

wherein the controller displays different sets of display items depending on the direction of the case.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first manipulation is a press-and-hold manipulation that includes pressing and holding at a point of the display screen for a predetermined period of time.

13. An information processing method comprising:

detecting an interaction position of a first manipulation on a display screen when in a locked state;

displaying on the display screen an arrangement of display items based on a reference point indicating a last contact position of a manipulation body when the first manipulation is completed;

detecting a second manipulation indicating a direction of movement from the reference point; and

starting up an application corresponding to a display item displayed in the direction of movement, said second manipulation occurring after said first manipulation.

14. The information processing method according to claim 13, wherein the displaying includes arranging the arrangement of display items radially around the reference point.

15. The information processing method according to claim 13, wherein the displaying includes displaying the arrangement of display items based on a position of the reference point.

16. The information processing method according to claim 15, wherein

the display screen is divided into a plurality of areas, and

the displaying includes displaying the arrangement of display items based on which area the detected reference point is positioned.

17. The information processing method according to claim 13, wherein:

the detecting an interaction position includes detecting the interaction position on one of a touch panel display and a proximity display.

18. The information processing method according to claim 13, wherein:

the displaying includes displaying the arrangement of display items as an arrangement of icons.

19. The information processing method according to claim 13, wherein the starting up includes starting up the application on a remote computer.

20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein that when executed by a processor perform an information processing method, the method comprising:

detecting an interaction position of a first manipulation on a display screen when in a locked state;

displaying on the display screen an arrangement of display items based on a reference point indicating a last contact position of a manipulation body when the first manipulation is completed;

detecting a second manipulation indicating a direction of movement from the reference point; and

starting up an application corresponding to a display item displayed in the direction of movement, said second manipulation occurring after said first manipulation.