INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20150169051A1
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SETA, KENICHI, UENO, MASATOSHI, NOGUCHI, MASATO
• Granted Patent: US 9,746,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including an application information acquisition unit which acquires a position of a window on a display screen, and a control unit which terminates an application of a window whose position acquired by the application information acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an application information acquisition unit which acquires a position of a window on a display screen; and

a control unit which terminates an application of a window whose position acquired by the application information acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user state acquisition unit which acquires a position of a user,

wherein the position of the user acquired by the user state acquisition unit is used for judgment of the predetermined condition.

3. The information processing devices according to claim 2,

wherein the predetermined condition is a condition that a distance from the position of the window to the position of the user is longer than a distance to be compared.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the user state acquisition unit further acquires a direction of a user'"'"'s gaze,

for the judgment of the predetermined condition, the position of the user and the direction of a user'"'"'s gaze acquired by the user state acquisition unit are used.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein the predetermined condition is a condition that a distance from the position of the window to a visual position specified from the position of the user and the direction of a user'"'"'s gaze is longer than a distance to be compared.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the application information acquisition unit further acquires input device information which shows an input device having usability to an application, and

the control unit judges whether or not the input device shown by the input device information acquired by the application information acquisition unit is an input device which is unsuitable for use by the user based on the position of the window and the position of a user, and then adds a result of the judgment to an application terminating condition.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit judges whether or not an application satisfies an application terminating condition when a state of a computational resource of the information processing device is in a predetermined state.

8. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit judges a necessity for execution of the judgment of whether or not an application satisfies an application terminating condition based on a change in the position of a user acquired by the user state acquisition unit.

9. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the user state acquisition unit further acquires information on a direction of a user'"'"'s body or a direction of a user'"'"'s face, and

the control unit judges a necessity for execution of the judgment of whether or not an application satisfies an application terminating condition based on a change in the direction of a user'"'"'s body or the direction of a user'"'"'s face acquired by the user state acquisition unit.

10. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein the control unit judges a necessity for execution of the judgment of whether or not an application satisfies an application terminating condition based on a change in the direction of a user'"'"'s gaze acquired by the user state acquisition unit.

11. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein the control unit judges a necessity for execution of the judgment of whether or not an application satisfies an application terminating condition when the direction of a user'"'"'s gaze acquired by the user state acquisition unit is fixed for a predetermined time.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit does not perform the judgment of whether or not an application satisfies an application terminating condition for the application which satisfies a predetermined exclusion condition.

13. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit preferentially terminates an application whose window is displayed behind other windows among applications which satisfy an application terminating condition.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user identification information acquisition unit which acquires user'"'"'s identification information,

wherein the control unit terminates an application specified based on the user'"'"'s identification information acquired by the user identification information acquisition unit.

15. The information processing device according to claim 14,

wherein the control unit terminates the specified application when a position of a window of the specified application acquired by the application information acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition.

16. An information processing device comprising:

an application information acquisition unit which acquires input device information which shows an input device having usability to an application;

a user state acquisition unit which acquires a position of a user; and

a control unit which terminates an application for which an input device shown by the input device information acquired by the application information acquisition unit is judged to be an input device which is unsuitable for use by a user based on the position of the user acquired by the user state acquisition unit.

17. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring a position of a window on a display screen; and

terminating an application of a window of which the acquired position satisfies a predetermined condition.

18. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring input device information which shows an input device having usability to an application;

acquiring a position of a user; and

terminating an application for which an input device shown by the input device information to be acquired is judged to be an input device which is unsuitable for use by a user based on the acquired position of the user.