INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20160170634A1
• Filed: 02/05/2016
• Published: 06/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Konami, Shuichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,665,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

A device comprising:

• • a display unit displays display screens;
  • an input unit receives a gesture input;
  • a controller detects whether a gesture, input on said input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on one of the display screens of the display unit, and displays gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive a gesture input,

recognize the gesture input, and

in a case where a first gesture is input a predetermined number of times in a region where it is not possible to perform a first input process by using the first gesture, display a region where it is possible to perform the first input process by using a second gesture on a screen to which the first gesture is input, in association with information explaining the second gesture.

20. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the second gesture is different from the first gesture.

21. The information processing apparatus according to claim 20, wherein

the first gesture is a tap operation.

22. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein

the second gesture is an operation of moving a finger in an arbitrary direction on the screen.

23. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the first gesture is a tap operation.

24. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the second gesture is an operation of moving a finger in an arbitrary direction on the screen.

25. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the information explaining the second gesture includes text information.

26. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the information explaining the second gesture includes a type of the second gesture and information regarding the first input process.

27. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the region where it is possible to perform the first input process by using the second gesture is displayed in color.

28. The information processing apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising a display unit that displays display information.

29. The information processing apparatus according to claim 28, further comprising a communication unit that communicates information, wherein

the display unit displays a web page received by the communication unit.

30. The information processing apparatus according to claim 28, further comprising a touch panel on an upper surface of the display unit.

31. An information processing method comprising:

an input step of receiving a gesture input;

a recognition step of recognizing the gesture input; and

a display control step of, in a case where a first gesture is input a predetermined number of times in a region where it is not possible to perform a first input process by using the first gesture, displaying a region where it is possible to perform the first input process by using a second gesture on a screen to which the first gesture is input, in association with information explaining the second gesture.

32. A program for causing a computer to execute:

an input step of receiving a gesture input;

a recognition step of recognizing the gesture input; and

a display control step of, in a case where a first gesture is input a predetermined number of times in a region where it is not possible to perform a first input process by using the first gesture, displaying a region where it is possible to perform the first input process by using a second gesture on a screen to which the first gesture is input, in association with information explaining the second gesture.

33. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute:

an input step of receiving a gesture input;

a recognition step of recognizing the gesture input; and

a display control step of, in a case where a first gesture is input a predetermined number of times in a region where it is not possible to perform a first input process by using the first gesture, displaying a region where it is possible to perform the first input process by using a second gesture on a screen to which the first gesture is input, in association with information explaining the second gesture.