INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20140115533A1
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Ichiro, Tanaka, Wataru, Inoue, Seita, Oiwa, Ryoto
• Granted Patent: US 9,588,670 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/799
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An exemplary information-processing device includes: an operation receiving unit that receives an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area, a display controlling unit that controls a display unit to display a graphic in the display area, and a movement controlling unit that controls movement of the display area in accordance with values derived from the operational input so that the display area moves with a restriction of movement in a predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are in a predetermined positional relation.

Claims

1. An information-processing device comprising:

an operation receiving unit configured to receive an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area,

a display controlling unit configured to control a display unit to display a graphic in the display area, and

a movement controlling unit configured to control movement of the display area in accordance with a value derived from the operational input,

wherein

the movement controlling unit moves the display area with a restriction of movement in a predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are in a predetermined positional relation.

2. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined positional relation is a relation that the display area is at a position where the display area starts to go outside the predetermined area.

3. The information-processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the movement controlling unit is further configured to restrict movement of the display area in a direction intersecting with a direction in which the display area goes outside the predetermined area.

4. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the movement controlling unit is further configured to restrict movement of the display area in accordance with a distance between the display area and the predetermined area.

5. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the movement controlling unit is further configured to move the display area such that the larger the distance between the display area and the predetermined area is, the more strongly the movement controlling unit restricts movement of the display area.

6. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the movement controlling unit is further configured to restrict movement of the display area such that a displacement in the predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are in the predetermined positional relation is smaller than a displacement in the predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are not in the predetermined positional relation.

7. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the movement controlling unit is further configured to move the display area with the restriction of movement in the predetermined direction when an edge of the display area and an edge of the predetermined area are in the predetermined positional relation.

8. The information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein

after the movement controlling unit moves the display area out of the predetermined area in a range where a distance between an edge of the display area and an edge of the predetermined area do not exceed a threshold, the movement controlling unit is further configured to move the display unit back inside the predetermined area.

9. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program causing a computer device to execute a process, the process comprising:

receiving an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area,

controlling a display unit to display a graphic in the display area, and

controlling movement of the display area in accordance with a value derived from the operational input such that the display area moves with a restriction of movement in a predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are in a predetermined positional relation.

10. An information-processing method comprising:

receiving an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area,

controlling a display unit to display a graphic in the display area, and

controlling movement of the display area in accordance with values derived from the operational input such that the display area moves with a restriction of movement in a predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are in a predetermined positional relation.

11. An information-processing system comprising:

an operation receiving unit configured to receive an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area,

a display controlling unit configured to control a display unit to display a graphic in the display area, and

a movement controlling unit configured to control movement of the display area in accordance with a value derived from the operational input,

wherein

the movement controlling unit moves the display area with a restriction of movement in a predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are in a predetermined positional relation.