INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20180140946A1
• Filed: 03/09/2016
• Published: 05/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: UENO, MASAFUMI, SHIOBARA, NAOKI
• Granted Patent: US 10,525,342 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/214 for locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/31 Communication aspects specific to video games, e.g. between several handheld game devices at close range
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/822 Strategy games; Role-playing games A63F13/825, A63F13/828 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0393 Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04162 for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser sensing hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/70 specially adapted for specific purposes

Abstract

A process is performed by linking communication information acquired by Near field radio communication from a client device with position information of the client device. An information processing device (1) includes an association unit (211) configured to: acquire via an NFC unit (112) configured to perform Near field radio communication, terminal information held by an NFC terminal; acquire touch information including information on a position on the touch panel (111), the NFC terminal coming into contact with the position; and associate the terminal information and the touch information and store a result of the association.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

a terminal information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a client device, via a communication unit configured to perform Near field radio communication, terminal information held by the client device placed over a touch panel;

a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information including information on a position on the touch panel, the client device coming into contact with or approaching the position; and

an association unit configured to associate the terminal information and the position information and store a result of the association.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, upon the client device moving on the touch panel while keeping the contact or the approached state, the association unit updates the position information associated with the terminal information in accordance with the movement.

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

the terminal information is further associated with angle information indicating an angle formed by a first axis configured on the touch panel and a second axis being an axis on the same plane as the first axis and being specified on the basis of a contour of the client device, and the resulting information is stored, and

upon the angle of the client device changing while keeping the contact or the approached state, the association unit updates the angle information associated with the terminal information, in accordance with the change.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the association unit releases the association between the terminal information and the position information upon a predetermined time elapsing after disrupting the contact or the approached state of the client device.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein, when the position information acquisition unit acquires second position information of the client device before the predetermined time elapses after disrupting the contact or the approached state of the client device at a first position on the touch panel, at least upon a difference between a second position indicated by the second position information and the first position being within a predetermined range, the association unit updates the position information associated with the terminal information, by the second position information.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, further comprising a size determination unit configured to determine a size of a facing surface of the client device facing the touch panel, wherein

upon a difference between a size of a facing surface of the client device at the first position and a size of a facing surface of the client device at the second position being within a predetermined range, the association unit further updates the position information associated with the terminal information, by the second position information.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, further comprising a shape determination unit configured to determine a shape of the facing surface, wherein

upon a shape of the facing surface at the first position and a shape of the facing surface at the second position being identical, the association unit further updates the position information associated with the terminal information, by the second position information.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the association unit associates the terminal information and the position information and stores a result of the association upon determining that an object brought into contact with or being approached to the touch panel is the client device.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the communication unit comprises a plurality of antennas configured to perform Near field radio communication with the client device, and

upon a plurality of the client devices simultaneously having performed Near field radio communication, the association unit associates terminal information acquired by an antenna being closest to a position, the client device coming into contact with or approaching the position, among the antennas having performed Near field radio communication, and the position information of a client device closest to the antenna.

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

the communication unit comprises a plurality of antennas configured to perform Near field radio communication with the client device, and

the information processing device further comprises an antenna condition configuration unit configured to bring an antenna closest to the position indicated by the position information of the client device into a state of Near field radio communication with the client device being possible.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a control program for causing a computer to function as the information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the computer is caused to function as the terminal information acquisition unit, the position information acquisition unit, and the association unit.

11. A control method of an information processing device, comprising:

a terminal information acquisition step of acquiring from a client device via a communication unit configured to perform Near field radio communication, terminal information held by the client device placed over a touch panel;

a position information acquisition step of acquiring position information including information on a position on the touch panel, the client device coming into contact with or approaching the position; and

an association step for associating the terminal information and the position information and storing a result of the association.

13. (canceled)