INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20150046861A1
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kirkpatrick, Eric, Ogai, Takia
• Granted Patent: US 10,216,401 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing device includes an acquiring unit and a processing executing unit. The acquiring unit acquires an initial position and a present position relating to a move of a first object and an initial position and a present position relating to a move of a second object. The processing executing unit executes certain processing on the first and the second objects based on the positional relations between the initial positions and the present positions of the first and the second objects. With this configuration, a user can execute processing on the objects with such a simple operation that moves the first and the second objects displayed. Furthermore, a user can execute desired processing by performing an operation to move the objects to adjust the respective initial positions and the present positions of the objects. This reduces incorrect operations.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

display control unit configured to display a screen including a plurality of objects on display unit;

detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of positions designated by a user on the screen;

moving unit configured to, when one of the user designated positions is included in a determination area set based on the position of an object among the objects in a state where the one of the user designated positions is under detection by the detecting unit, move the object in response to a move of the one of the designated positions;

initial position acquiring unit configured to acquire positions of a first and a second objects as respective initial positions at the time when a first designated position and a second designated position are concurrently included in respective determination areas of the first and the second objects;

present position acquiring unit configured to, after the initial positions of the first and the second objects are acquired by the initial position acquiring unit, when at least one of the first and the second objects is moved by the moving unit in a state where the first and the second designated positions are kept under detection by the detecting unit, acquire the positions of the first and the second objects as respective present positions; and

processing executing unit to execute a first processing on the first and the second objects when the initial position and the present position of the first object are the same and the initial position and the present position of the second object are different, and executing a second processing different from the first processing on the first and the second objects when the initial position and the present position of the first object are different and the initial position and the present position of the second object are different.

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

the processing executing unit executes first processing on the first and the second objects when a first distance from the initial position to the present position of the first object is smaller than a predetermined value, a second distance from the initial position to the present position of the second object is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and the distance between the present position of the first object and the present position of the second object is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the processing executing unit executes second processing on the first and the second objects when the first distance from the initial position to the present position of the first object is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the second distance from the initial position to the present position of the second object is equal to or greater than a predetermine value, a line segment connecting the initial position of the first object and the initial position of the second object intersects with another line segment connecting the present position of the first object and the present position of the second object at a movement center point, and a rotation angle, which is made by a line segment connecting the initial position of the first object and the movement center point and another line segment connecting the present position of the first object and the movement center point and indicates a move of the first object from the initial position to the present position thereof with the movement center point as a center, is equal to or greater than a predetermined angle.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the processing executing unit has a condition to execute the second processing, the condition being whether the first object moves clockwise or counterclockwise from the initial position to the present position thereof with the movement center point as the center.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the processing executing unit executes the second processing on the first and the second objects when the first distance from the initial position to the present position of the first object is equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, and the second distance from the initial position to the present position of the second object is equal to or greater than a second predetermined value different from the first predetermined value.

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

the processing executing unit executes third processing, instead of the second processing, on the first and the second objects when the first distance from the initial position to the present position of the first object is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the second distance from the initial position to the present position of the second object is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the distance between the present position of the first object and the present position of the second object is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, the distance from the initial position of the second object to the present position of the first object is smaller than the distance from the initial position of the second object to the initial position of the first object, and the distance from the initial position of the first object to the present position of the second object is smaller than the distance from the initial position of the first object to the initial position of the second object.

7. An authentication device that comprises the information processing device according to claim 1, the authentication device comprising authenticating unit configured to execute authentication processing on a user by determining whether predetermined processing on a plurality of objects has been executed in the information processing device.

8. An authentication device that comprises the information processing device according to claim 3 wherein the second processing is interchange processing that interchanges display positions of the first and the second objects with each other, the authentication device comprising:

authenticating unit configured to execute authentication processing on a user by determining whether predetermined interchange processing has been executed on a plurality of preset objects in the information processing device.

9. An information processing method comprising:

a display control step of displaying a screen including a plurality of objects on display unit;

a detecting step of detecting a plurality of positions designated by a user on the screen;

an initial position acquiring step of acquiring positions of a first and a second objects as respective initial positions at the time when a first and a second designated positions detected in the detecting step are concurrently included in respective determination areas set based on the positions of the first and the second objects;

a moving step of moving at least one of the first and the second objects in response to a move of at least one of the first and the second designated positions in a state where the first and the second designated positions in the respective determination areas of the first and the second objects are kept under detection;

a present position acquiring step of acquiring the positions of the first and the second objects as respective present positions after the move of at least one of the first and the second objects in the moving step; and

a processing executing step of executing a first processing on the first and the second objects when the initial position and the present position of the first object are the same and the initial position and the present position of the second object are different, and executing a second processing different from the first processing on the first and the second objects when the initial position and the present position of the first object are different and the initial position and the present position of the second object are different.

10. (canceled)