INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM

• US 20150346979A1
• Filed: 08/10/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: AMEMIYA, Ryoji, YAGI, Nobutaka, ISHIOKA, Osamu, WAKU, Kenji, KURODA, Yohei
• Granted Patent: US 10,296,189 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device comprising a housing, a display screen, a touch panel arranged on the display screen, an icon, which is displayed on the display screen and manipulated through the touch panel, a state detection unit for detecting a state change of the housing, a state determination unit for determining the state change of the housing detected by the state detection unit, and a display control unit for displaying the icon in a desired position on the display screen in response to a determination result of the state determination unit.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a housing;

a display;

a touch panel arranged on the display; and

processing circuitry that

controls the display to display an icon;

detects an action of a user based on output signals of a plurality of detectors arranged on a surface of the housing;

determines a state of the housing based on the action of the user;

when the state of the housing is determined to be in contact with the user, controls the display to display the icon as sliding to a position that is closer to a detector of the plurality of detectors that detects the action of the user than to any other detector of the plurality of detectors without rotating the icon with respect to the display, and then controls the display to display the icon at the position; and

when the state of the housing is determined to be not in contact with the user, controls the display to display the icon as sliding to a bottom side of display, without rotating the icon with respect to the display, and then controls the display to display the icon at the bottom side of the display.