INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PLAYBACK STATE CONTROLLING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150248919A1
• Filed: 09/13/2013
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Homma, Fuminori, Nashida, Tatsushi, Okumura, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 9,761,277 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/327 Table of contents
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4728 for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position change detecting unit that detects a position change of an operating body on a screen, a playback state control unit that controls a playback state of a content, and a display control unit that at least displays a part or all of a text list in which text data items associated with elapsed times in a playback of the content are sorted in an order of the elapsed times, on the screen. The playback state control unit controls the playback state of the content in response to a continuous position change of the operating body detected by the position change detecting unit on the text list displayed by the display control unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a position change detecting unit that detects a position change of an operating body on a screen;

a playback state control unit that controls a playback state of a content; and

a display control unit that at least displays a part or all of a text list in which text data items associated with elapsed times in a playback of the content are sorted in an order of the elapsed times, on the screen, wherein

the playback state control unit controls the playback state of the content in response to a continuous position change of the operating body detected by the position change detecting unit on the text list displayed by the display control unit.

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

the continuous position change of the operating body includes a drag motion in a first-axis direction being a direction in which the text data items in the text list displayed on the screen are arranged, the drag motion in the first-axis direction being a movement of the operating body in the first-axis direction,

the display control unit displays the text list while scrolling the text list in the first-axis direction in response to the drag motion in the first-axis direction, and

the playback state control unit changes a playback position in the content in response to the display of the scrolled text list.

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

the display control unit subjects at least one of the text data items contained in the text list to focusing display on the screen, and

the playback state control unit changes the playback position in the content to a playback position corresponding to the text data item subjected to the focusing display.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a list processing unit that divides the text list into at least one or more blocks based on the text data items and the elapsed times.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein in a case where a time interval between a first text data item and a second text data item in the text list reaches a predetermined interval or more in the text list, the list processing unit divides the text data items between the first text data item and the second text data item.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit displays the text list while scrolling the text list in the first-axis direction in units of the text data items in response to the drag motion in the first-axis direction.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the continuous position change of the operating body includes a drag motion in second-axis directions orthogonal to a direction in which the text data items in the text list displayed on the screen are arranged, the drag motion in second-axis directions being a movement of the operating body in the second-axis directions,

the display control unit displays at least one of the text data items contained in the text list while changing a character spacing of the at least one of the text data items in response to the drag motion in the second-axis directions, and

the playback state control unit changes a playback speed of the content in response to the drag motion in the second-axis directions.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the display control unit displays at least one of the text data items contained in the text list while reducing a character spacing of the at least one of the text data items in response to the drag motion in a first direction out of the second-axis directions, and

the playback state control unit increases the playback speed of the content in response to the drag motion in the first direction out of the second-axis directions.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the display control unit displays at least one of the text data items contained in the text list while increasing a character spacing of the at least one of the text data items in response to the drag motion in a second direction out of the second-axis directions, and

the playback state control unit decreases the playback speed of the content in response to the drag motion in the second direction out of the second-axis directions.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the continuous position change of the operating body includes a hold motion in which the operating body keeps being detected at one location on the text list displayed on the screen, wherein

the display control unit displays the text list without scrolling in response to the hold motion, and

the playback state control unit subjects some region in the content to repeat playback in response to the hold motion.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the playback state control unit subjects the content to the repeat playback in units of the text data items in response to the hold motion.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit changes a unit for scrolling in which the text list is scrolled in the first-axis direction and displayed, in accordance with a state of the drag motion in the first-axis direction.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

a list processing unit that divides the text list into at least one or more blocks based on the text data items and the elapsed times, wherein

if a number of the operating bodies detected on the screen is two or more in the drag motion in the first-axis direction, the display control unit displays the text list while scrolling the text list in the first-axis direction in units of the blocks in response to the drag motion in the first-axis direction.

14. A playback state controlling method comprising:

displaying a part or all of a text list in which text data items associated with elapsed times in a playback of a content are sorted in an order of the elapsed times, on a screen;

detecting a continuous position change of an operating body on the text list displayed on the screen; and

controlling a playback state of the content in response to the continuous position change of the operating body.

15. A program causing a computer to execute:

displaying a part or all of a text list in which text data items associated with elapsed times in a playback of a content are sorted in an order of the elapsed times, on a screen;

detecting a continuous position change of an operating body on the text list displayed on the screen; and

controlling a playback state of the content in response to the continuous position change of the operating body.