DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20140313130A1
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamano, Ikuo, Noda, Takuro, Narita, Tomoya, Mizunuma, Hiroyuki, Yamamoto, Kazuyuki, Ikeda, Takuo
• Granted Patent: US 9,671,880 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Provided is a display control device including a display control unit that performs control for displaying, on a screen, a pointer having a directed position a predetermined distance away from a position on the screen corresponding to an operation position of an operating object, depending on a variation in a position of the operating object detected in an operation area.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a display control unit that performs control for displaying, on a screen, a pointer having a directed position a predetermined distance away from a position on the screen corresponding to an operation position of an operating object, depending on a variation in a position of the operating object detected in an operation area.

2. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit performs control for deciding a relative position of the directed position with respect to the operation position, depending on the operation position of the operating object.

3. The display control device according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit performs control for deciding the relative position of the directed position, depending on a condition at an operation start of the operating object detected in the operation area.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the information processing device performs control for displaying the pointer on the screen on the basis that the operating object moves by the predetermined distance or more in the operation area.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the display control unit changes the relative position of the directed position of the pointer from the position on the screen corresponding to the operation position of the operating object, depending on a movement start position of the operating object.

6. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the display control unit changes the relative position of the directed position of the pointer from the position on the screen corresponding to the operation position of the operating object, depending on a movement angle of the operating object.

7. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the display control unit performs control for changing the relative position of the directed position of the pointer from the position on the screen corresponding to the operation position of the operating object, depending on a moving speed of the operating object.

8. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein the display control unit performs control for displaying the pointer on the screen on the basis that an operation of the operating object in the operation area moves from an outside of the screen to an inside.

9. The display control device according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit performs control for deciding the relative position of the directed position with respect to the operation position, depending on a condition of the last operation of the operating object in the operation area.

10. The display control device according to claim 9, wherein the display control unit performs control for deciding the relative position of the directed position, depending on an operation direction of the operating object at the last operation of the operating object.

11. The display control device according to claim 9, wherein the display control unit performs control for deciding the relative position of the directed position, depending on an operation speed of the operating object at the last operation of the operating object.

12. The display control device according to claim 9, wherein the display control unit performs control for changing the relative position of the directed position depending on the operation position of the operating object at the last operation of the operating object.

13. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein, after displaying the pointer on the screen, the display control unit changes the relative position of the directed position with respect to the operation position of the operating object, depending on a user operation.

14. The display control device according to claim 13, wherein, after displaying the pointer on the screen, the display control unit changes the relative position of the directed position, depending on an operation of another operating object in the operation area.

15. The display control device according to claim 13, wherein, after displaying the pointer on the screen, the display control unit changes the relative position of the directed position, depending on a button operation by a user.

16. The display control device according to claim 13, wherein, after displaying the pointer on the screen, the display control unit changes the relative position of the directed position, depending on a variation in an attitude of the screen by a user.

17. A display control method comprising:

performing control for displaying, on a screen, a pointer having a directed position a predetermined distance away from a position on the screen corresponding to an operation position of an operating object, depending on a variation in a position of the operating object detected in an operation area.

18. A computer program for causing a computer to execute:

performing control for displaying, on a screen, a pointer having a directed position a predetermined distance away from a position on the screen corresponding to an operation position of an operating object, depending on a variation in a position of the operating object detected in an operation area.