INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20160048530A1
• Filed: 01/15/2015
• Published: 02/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SATO, Mitsuru, KOJIMA, Masaya, KUBOTA, Kosuke, HAYASHI, Kunihiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,965,485 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a first display controller, an accepting unit, a grouping unit, and a memory controller. The first display controller controls a display to display plural images representing respective files. The accepting unit accepts an operation for selecting at least two or more images from among the plural images. The grouping unit forms a group by associating plural files represented by the at least two or more images with one another with the at least two or more images kept displayed on the display in a case where the accepting unit has accepted the operation. The memory controller controls a memory to store information indicating display positions of the at least two or more images on a screen in association with the group that has been formed by the grouping unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first display controller that controls a display to display a plurality of images representing respective files;

an accepting unit that accepts an operation for selecting at least two or more images from among the plurality of images;

a grouping unit that forms a group by associating a plurality of files represented by the at least two or more images with one another with the at least two or more images kept displayed on the display in a case where the accepting unit has accepted the operation; and

a memory controller that controls a memory to store information indicating display positions of the at least two or more images on a screen in association with the group that has been formed by the grouping unit.

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

a second display controller that controls the display to rearrange and display the at least two or more images and other images representing files in accordance with a predetermined criterion while maintaining a relative positional relationship among the at least two or more images and keeping the at least two or more images displayed.

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

a third display controller that controls the display to display relationship information indicating that, among the plurality of files, two or more files that satisfy a predetermined condition have a relationship and to display relationship type information indicating a type of the relationship in association with the relationship information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

a third display controller that controls the display to display relationship information indicating that, among the plurality of files, two or more files that satisfy a predetermined condition have a relationship and to display relationship type information indicating a type of the relationship in association with the relationship information.

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

a fourth display controller that controls the display to display a frame that surrounds the at least two or more images, the fourth display controller controlling the display to display information indicating that a file represented by an image from among the at least two or more images belongs to a plurality of groups in association with the image in a case where the file belongs to a predetermined number of groups or more.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

a fourth display controller that controls the display to display a frame that surrounds the at least two or more images, the fourth display controller controlling the display to display information indicating that a file represented by an image from among the at least two or more images belongs to a plurality of groups in association with the image in a case where the file belongs to a predetermined number of groups or more.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising

a fourth display controller that controls the display to display a frame that surrounds the at least two or more images, the fourth display controller controlling the display to display information indicating that a file represented by an image from among the at least two or more images belongs to a plurality of groups in association with the image in a case where the file belongs to a predetermined number of groups or more.

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

a fourth display controller that controls the display to display a frame that surrounds the at least two or more images, the fourth display controller controlling the display to display information indicating that a file represented by an image from among the at least two or more images belongs to a plurality of groups in association with the image in a case where the file belongs to a predetermined number of groups or more.

9. An information processing method comprising:

controlling a display to display a plurality of images representing respective files;

accepting an operation for selecting at least two or more images from among the plurality of images;

forming a group by associating a plurality of files represented by the at least two or more images with one another with the at least two or more images kept displayed on the display in a case where the operation has been accepted; and

controlling a memory to store information indicating display positions of the at least two or more images on a screen in association with the group that has been formed.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing, the process comprising:

controlling a display to display a plurality of images representing respective files;

accepting an operation for selecting at least two or more images from among the plurality of images;

forming a group by associating a plurality of files represented by the at least two or more images with one another with the at least two or more images kept displayed on the display in a case where the operation has been accepted; and

controlling a memory to store information indicating display positions of the at least two or more images on a screen in association with the group that has been formed.