INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20140368456A1
• Filed: 01/09/2013
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sakai, Yusuke
• Granted Patent: US 10,198,099 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control processing on an operation object, where an operation right of the operation object is given to a user, displayed on a display unit based on detection of a user from at least one information signal input to the apparatus from outside of the apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a control unit to control processing on an operation object, wherein an operation right of the operation object is given to a user, displayed on a display unit based on detection of a user from at least one information signal input to the apparatus from outside of the apparatus.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit sets a user occupying area in a screen of the display unit for each user detected from the at least one information signal.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit sets a common area in a screen of the display unit usable by each user detected from the at least one information signal.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit sets (i) a user occupying area in a screen of the display unit for each user detected from the at least one information signal, and (ii) all area of the screen other than the user occupying area of the each user detected as a common area usable by the each user detected.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

at least one proximity sensor disposed at each of four side edge portions of a screen of the display unit and at which the at least one information signal is input.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit automatically rotates the operation object, when present in a user occupying area set for the user in a screen of the display unit, to face the user.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the operation object is automatically rotated in accordance with a predetermined timing.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit rotates the operation object in accordance with a position, at which the user has performed an operation with respect to a position of a center of gravity of the operation object, when the user displaces the operation object between set first and second areas in a screen of the display unit.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the user displaces the operation object by dragging or throwing.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

a data exchange unit to exchange data with a terminal owned by the user.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the control unit displays the operation object on a screen of the display unit, based on the data exchanged with the terminal.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls at least one of copying or dividing of the operation object, in response to an operation for displacing the operation object.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

an input interface unit to which the at least one information signal from the outside is input.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the processing on the operation object based on at least one of a screen touch detection result or data received from a terminal owned by the user.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the processing on the operation object by selecting one of a plurality of input units of the apparatus.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the selecting is in accordance with position of or distance to the user.

17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus includes the display unit.

18. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing on the operation object is based on a state of the user.

19. An information processing method comprising:

controlling, by a processor, of processing on an operation object, wherein an operation right of the operation object is given to a user, displayed on a display unit based on detection of a user from at least one information signal input to an information processing apparatus from outside of the apparatus.

20. A non-transitory recording medium recorded with a program executable by a computer, the program comprising:

controlling processing on an operation object, wherein an operation right of the operation object is given to a user, displayed on a display unit based on detection of a user from at least one information signal input to an information processing apparatus from outside of the apparatus.