Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program

• US 7,190,336 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2003
• Issued: 03/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujisawa, Hirotoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Awad; Amr A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHERMAN, STEPHEN G
• Application Number:
  US10/659,723
• Publication Number:
  US 20040125053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,280 Days
• Field of Search: 345 76- 82, 345/156, 345/55, 345/204, 345168-169
• US Class Current: 345/81
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0227 Cooperation and interconnection of the input arrangement with other functional units of a computer G06F3/023 - G06F3/037 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0842 forming a memory circuit, e.g. a dynamic memory with one capacitor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/76 Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors

Abstract

An information processing apparatus and method disclosed herein allows information to be communicated intuitively and readily. The information processing apparatus including, production element for producing a plurality of first graphic images representative of output data to be outputted to a different information processing apparatus; display element for successively displaying the first graphic images produced by the production element; detection element for detecting a plurality of second graphic images representative of input data inputted from the different information processing apparatus in response to successive display of the second graphic images on the different information processing apparatus; and acquisition element for acquiring the input data based on the second graphic images detected by the detection element.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

detection means for successively detecting a plurality of graphic images representative of input data inputted from a different information processing apparatus through successive display of the graphic images on said different information processing apparatus; and

acquisition means for acquiring the input data based on the graphic images successively detected by said detection means, further comprising;

display means for displaying a predetermined image; and

formation means for forming, at a portion of a display region of said display means in which the predetermined image is displayed, a detection region in which the graphic images are successively detected by said detection means.

2. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

detection means for successively detecting a plurality of graphic images representative of input data inputted from a different information processing apparatus through successive display of the graphic images on said different information processing apparatus; and

acquisition means for acquiring the input data based on the graphic images successively detected by said detection means, further comprising;

display means for displaying a predetermined image; and

formation means for forming, at a portion of a display region of said display means in which the predetermined image is displayed, a detection region in which the graphic images are successively detected by said detection means,

wherein said formation means forms the detection region by applying, to each of pixels in the display region in which the detection region is formed, a voltage reverse to a voltage which is applied to each of pixels which display the image.

3. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

detection means for successively detecting a plurality of graphic images representative of input data inputted from a different information processing apparatus through successive display of the graphic images on said different information processing apparatus; and

acquisition means for acquiring the input data based on the graphic images successively detected by said detection means, further comprising;

display means for displaying a predetermined image; and

formation means for forming, at a portion of a display region of said display means in which the predetermined image is displayed, a detection region in which the graphic images are successively detected by said detection means,

wherein said detection means detects electric current generated in response to light from the outside in an active semiconductor layer of a transistor disposed in each of pixels which form the detection region.

4. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

detection means for successively detecting a plurality of graphic images representative of input data inputted from a different information processing apparatus through successive display of the graphic images on said different information processing apparatus; and

acquisition means for acquiring the input data based on the graphic images successively detected by said detection means, further comprising;

display means for displaying a predetermined image; and

formation means for forming, at a portion of a display region of said display means in which the predetermined image is displayed, a detection region in which the graphic images are successively detected by said detection means,

wherein said detection means detects electric current generated in response to light from the outside in an electroluminescent element disposed in each of pixels which form the detection region.

5. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

detection means for successively detecting a plurality of graphic images representative of input data inputted from a different information processing apparatus through successive display of the graphic images on said different information processing apparatus; and

acquisition means for acquiring the input data based on the graphic images successively detected by said detection means, further comprising;

display means for displaying a predetermined image; and

formation means for forming, at a portion of a display region of said display means in which the predetermined image is displayed, a detection region in which the graphic images are successively detected by said detection means,

wherein said formation means forms the detection region such that the detection region is successively moved in synchronism with scanning of a screen by said display means.

6. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display section including a plurality of pixels each including an electroluminescent element for emitting light to display an image;

changeover means for changing over direction of a voltage to be applied to each electroluminescent element to change over driving of the electroluminescent element between driving for light emission and driving for light reception; and

detection means for detecting an input from the outside based on electric current generated in any electroluminescent element driven for light reception as a result of a changeover by said changeover means when an electroluminescent element receives light;

wherein said changeover means forms a detection region, including a plurality of pixels whose respective electroluminescent elements are driven for light reception, in a predetermined region of said display section; and

wherein said changeover means forms a display region, including a plurality of pixels whose respective electroluminescent elements are driven for light emission, in a region of said display section separated from the detection region.

7. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display section including a plurality of pixels each including an electroluminescent element for emitting light to display an image;

changeover means for changing over direction of a voltage to be applied to each electroluminescent element to change over driving of the electroluminescent element between driving for light emission and driving for light reception; and

detection means for detecting an input from the outside based on electric current generated in any electroluminescent element driven for light reception as a result of a changeover by said changeover means when an electroluminescent element receives light,

wherein said changeover means forms, in proximity of a first pixel including a first electroluminescent element driven for light emission, a second pixel including a second electroluminescent element driven for light reception, and said detection means detects an input from the outside based on electric current generated when said second electroluminescent element receives reflected light originating from light emitted from said first electroluminescent element.

8. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display section including a plurality of pixels each including an electroluminescent element for emitting light to display an image;

changeover means for changing over direction of a voltage to be applied to each electroluminescent element to change over driving of the electroluminescent element between driving for light emission and driving for light reception; and

detection means for detecting an input from the outside based on electric current generated in any electroluminescent element driven for light reception as a result of a changeover by said changeover means when an electroluminescent element receives light,

wherein said changeover means forms, in proximity of a first pixel including a first electroluminescent element driven for light emission, a second pixel including a second electroluminescent element driven for light reception, and said detection means detects an input from the outside based on electric current generated when said second electroluminescent element receives reflected light originating from light emitted from said first electroluminescent element,

wherein said detection means detects that a predetermined object is positioned in proximity of a surface of said display section as an input from the outside.

9. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display section including a plurality of pixels each including an electroluminescent element for emitting light to display an image;

changeover means for changing over direction of a voltage to be applied to each electroluminescent element to change over driving of the electroluminescent element between driving for light emission and driving for light reception; and

detection means for detecting an input from the outside based on electric current generated in any electroluminescent element driven for light reception as a result of a changeover by said changeover means when an electroluminescent element receives light,

wherein said changeover means forms, in proximity of a first pixel including a first electroluminescent element driven for light emission, a second pixel including a second electroluminescent element driven for light reception, and said detection means detects an input from the outside based on electric current generated when said second electroluminescent element receives reflected light originating from light emitted from said first electroluminescent element,

wherein said detection means detects plane information of an object which contacts with or is positioned in the proximity of a surface of said display section as an input from the outside based on electric current generated when said second electroluminescent element receives reflected light originating from light emitted from said first electroluminescent element.

10. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display section including a plurality of pixels each including an electroluminescent element for emitting light to display an image;

changeover means for changing over direction of a voltage to be applied to each electroluminescent element to change over driving of the electroluminescent element between driving for light emission and driving for light reception; and

detection means for detecting an input from the outside based on electric current generated in any electroluminescent element driven for light reception as a result of a changeover by said changeover means when an electroluminescent element receives light,

wherein said changeover means forms, in proximity of a first pixel including a first electroluminescent element driven for light emission, a second pixel including a second electroluminescent element driven for light reception, and said detection means detects an input from the outside based on electric current generated when said second electroluminescent element receives reflected light originating from light emitted from said first electroluminescent element,

wherein said first electroluminescent element emits light of a predetermined wavelength, and said second electroluminescent element has a high light reception sensitivity to light of the predetermined wavelength.