INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED

• US 20140189558A1
• Filed: 01/27/2012
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Takami, Shinya
• Granted Patent: US 10,466,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/767
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

Provided are a device and a method which facilitate continued focusing of a user on specific content information even when said specific content information has been moved off the display screen by scrolling or page transitioning. Focus content information, which is identified from content information displayed on the display screen of the terminal device, is set in advance as content information for user focus. Then, in response to user operations which transition said focus content information out of the display area, copy content information, being a copy of said focus content information, is displayed for a certain period of time on the display screen of said terminal device.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. An information processing device that causes content information to be displayed on a display screen of a terminal device, the information processing device comprising:

an attention content information specifying means that specifies attention content information that is set in advance as content information to which a user is caused to pay attention from among the content information; and

a control means that causes copy content information which is a copy of the attention content information to be displayed on the display screen according to a user operation that tries to cause the attention content information specified by the attention content information specifying means to transit out of a display area.

18. The information processing device according to claim 17, further comprising:

a user operation detection means that detects the user operation,

wherein the control means causes the copy content information to be displayed on the display screen in case that the user operation is detected by the user operation detection means.

19. The information processing device according to claim 17, wherein

the copy content information is disposed in a second layer different from a first layer in which the attention content information is disposed on the display screen,

the information processing device further comprises a display position specifying means that specifies a display position of the attention content information in the first layer when the user operation is started, and

the control means disposes and fixes the copy content information at a display position which is the same as the display position specified by the display position specifying means and which is a display position in the second layer and displays the copy content information.

20. The information processing device according to claim 17, wherein

the copy content information is disposed in a second layer different from a first layer in which the attention content information is disposed on the display screen, and

the control means causes the copy content information to be displayed while causing the copy content information to move in the second layer.

21. The information processing device according to claim 17, wherein the control means disposes and fixes the copy content information at a predetermined display position and causes the copy content information to be displayed.

22. The information processing device according to claim 17, wherein the control means causes the display of the copy content information to be invisible from a user in case that the user operation is completed or a predetermined period of time has elapsed from the completion of the user operation.

23. The information processing device according to claim 19, wherein the control means causes the display of the copy content information to be invisible from a user in case that the user operation is completed or a predetermined period of time has elapsed from the completion of the user operation.

24. The information processing device according to claim 20, wherein the control means causes the display of the copy content information to be invisible from a user in case that the user operation is completed or a predetermined period of time has elapsed from the completion of the user operation.

25. The information processing device according to claim 21, wherein the control means causes the display of the copy content information to be invisible from a user in case that the user operation is completed or a predetermined period of time has elapsed from the completion of the user operation.

26. The information processing device according to claim 20, wherein the user operation is a scroll operation that causes display content including the attention content information to scroll.

27. The information processing device according to claim 26, wherein the control means causes the copy content information to be displayed while causing the copy content information to move in the second layer at a speed slower than that of the scrolling in the same direction as that of the scrolling.

28. The information processing device according to claim 26, wherein the control means causes the display of the copy content information to be invisible from a user in case that a speed of the scrolling becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined speed.

29. The information processing device according to claim 27, wherein the control means causes the display of the copy content information to be invisible from a user in case that a speed of the scrolling becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined speed.

30. The information processing device according to claim 26, wherein

the attention content information specifying means specifies new attention content information displayed on the display screen in case that a speed of the scrolling becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined speed, and

the control means causes copy content information which is a copy of the new attention content information to be displayed on the display screen according to a user operation that tries to cause the new attention content information specified by the attention content information specifying means to transit out of the display area.

31. The information processing device according to claim 28, wherein

the attention content information specifying means specifies new attention content information displayed on the display screen in case that a speed of the scrolling becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined speed, and

the control means causes copy content information which is a copy of the new attention content information to be displayed on the display screen according to a user operation that tries to cause the new attention content information specified by the attention content information specifying means to transit out of the display area.

32. The information processing device according to claim 26, wherein a display form of the copy content information is changed according to a speed of the scrolling.

33. The information processing device according to claim 28, wherein a display form of the copy content information is changed according to a speed of the scrolling.

34. The information processing device according to claim 26, further comprising:

a distance information acquisition means that acquires distance information indicating a distance from a display position of the attention content information on the display screen when the scroll operation is started to a display position of the attention content information whose position is changed according to the scroll operation,

wherein the control means changes a display form of the copy content information according to the distance indicated by the distance information acquired by the distance information acquisition means.

35. The information processing device according to claim 28, further comprising:

a distance information acquisition means that acquires distance information indicating a distance from a display position of the attention content information on the display screen when the scroll operation is started to a display position of the attention content information whose position is changed according to the scroll operation,

wherein the control means changes a display form of the copy content information according to the distance indicated by the distance information acquired by the distance information acquisition means.

36. The information processing device according to claim 26, further comprising:

a time information acquisition means that acquires time information indicating duration time of the scroll operation,

wherein the control means changes a display form of the copy content information according to the duration time indicated by the time information acquired by the time information acquisition means.

37. The information processing device according to claim 28, further comprising:

a time information acquisition means that acquires time information indicating duration time of the scroll operation,

wherein the control means changes a display form of the copy content information according to the duration time indicated by the time information acquired by the time information acquisition means.

38. An information processing method performed by a computer that causes content information to be displayed on a display screen of a terminal device, the information processing method comprising:

a step of specifying attention content information that is set in advance as content information to which a user is caused to pay attention from among the content information; and

a step of causing copy content information which is a copy of the attention content information to be displayed on the display screen according to a user operation that tries to cause the specified attention content information to transit out of a display area.