INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR

• US 20160378248A1
• Filed: 09/08/2016
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MIZUNUMA, Hiroyuki, YAMAMOTO, Kazuyuki, SATOH, Nariaki, YAMANO, Ikuo
• Granted Patent: US 11,281,324 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

An apparatus including a memory storing instructions and a control unit executing the instructions is provided. The control unit is configured to send signals to display first and second indicators on a display device. The control unit is further configured to receive first and second user inputs and, in response to the received inputs, to send signals to change a display state of the first indicator according to the first input. The control unit is further configured to send signals to change a display state of the second indicator according to the second input and initiate an operation to be performed based on a combination of the first and second inputs.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first touch pad configured to detect a first input to operate a first indicator in a graphical user interface; and

a second touch pad configured to detect a second input to operate a second indicator in the graphical user interface,

wherein the first touch pad and the second touch pad are separately arranged on a surface,

wherein the first touch pad is arranged on a first side of the surface and the second touch pad is arranged on a second side of the surface, and

wherein the first indicator is mapped in a first side of the graphical user interface and the second indicator is mapped in a second side of the graphical user interface.

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

at least one mechanical switch arranged between the first touch pad and the second touch pad.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first indicator and the second indicator are operated based on relative coordinate information of a movement direction and a movement amount of the first input and the second input, respectively.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the information processing apparatus is a controller which is separated from a processor which controls a displaying of an image of the graphical user interface.

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

at least one sensor configured to detect a pressed input on the first touch pad or on the second touch pad.

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

an action for operation is set according to a combination of the first input and the second input.

7. An information processing method, executed via at least one processor, the method comprising:

detecting, via a first touch pad, a first input to operate a first indicator in a graphical user interface; and

detecting, via a second touch pad, a second input to operate a second indicator in the graphical user interface,

wherein the first touch pad and the second touch pad are separately arranged on a surface of a device, wherein the first touch pad is arranged on a first side of the surface and the second touch pad is arranged on a second side of the surface, and

wherein the first indicator is mapped in a first side of the graphical user interface and the second indicator is mapped in a second side of the graphical user interface.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to execute an information processing method, the method comprising:

detecting, via a first touch pad, a first input to operate a first indicator in a graphical user interface; and

detecting, via a second touch pad, a second input to operate a second indicator in the graphical user interface,

wherein the first touch pad and the second touch pad are separately arranged on a surface of a device,

wherein the first touch pad is arranged on a first side of the surface and the second touch pad is arranged on a second side of the surface, and

wherein the first indicator is mapped in a first side of the graphical user interface and the second indicator is mapped in a second side of the graphical user interface.