INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140111458A1
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Konami, Shuichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,619,141 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

A device comprising:

• • a display unit displays display screens;
  • an input unit receives a gesture input;
  • a controller detects whether a gesture, input on said input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on one of the display screens of the display unit, and displays gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a display unit displays display screens;

an input unit receives a gesture input;

a controller detects whether a gesture, input on said input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on one of the display screens of the display unit, and displays gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines a number of successive times the gesture is input on the input unit in non-gesture input regions where gesture recognition is not associated with any gesture.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the controller displays the gesture input regions when the number of successive times the gesture is input in the non-gesture input regions is greater than a predetermined value.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the gesture input regions are displayed superimposed on the display screen while the display screen remains visible.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the gesture input regions are displayed superimposed on the display screen using different colors.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines if additional information about the gesture input regions is requested.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein when additional information about the gesture input regions is requested, the controller displays a legend screen which displays an explanation about types of input gestures associated with each gesture input region.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein if further additional information about the legend screen is requested, the controller displays an additional legend screen displaying recognizable gestures and explanations thereof.

9. A method comprising the steps of:

detecting whether a gesture, input on an input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on a display screen of a display unit; and

displaying gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising determining a number of successive times the gesture is input on the input unit in non-gesture input regions where gesture recognition is not associated with any gesture.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising displaying the gesture input regions when the number of successive times the gesture is input in the non-gesture input regions is greater than a predetermined value.

12. The method according to claim 9, further comprising displaying the gesture input regions superimposed on the display screen while the display screen remains visible.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising displaying the gesture input region superimposed on the display screen using different colors.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising determining if additional information about the gesture input regions is requested.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising when additional information about the gesture input regions is requested, displaying a legend screen which displays an explanation about types of input gestures associated with each gesture input region.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising when further additional information about the legend screen is requested, displaying an additional legend screen displaying recognizable gestures and explanations thereof.

17. A program, embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, executed on a computer for determining gestures comprising the steps of:

detecting whether a gesture, input on an input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on a display screen of a display unit; and

displaying gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a controller to determine gestures comprising the steps of:

detecting whether a gesture, input on an input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on a display screen of a display unit; and

displaying gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.