Information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 7,812,819 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Kenichiro, Kawasaki, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): LEWIS, DAVID LEE
• Application Number:
  US11/744,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20070290994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184, 345684-689
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04892 Arrangements for controlling cursor position based on codes indicative of cursor displacements from one discrete location to another, e.g. using cursor control keys associated to different directions or using the tab key arrangements for controlling cursor position based on coordinate signals G06F3/038

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a first display control unit configured to display information on a display screen, a detection unit configured to detect the operation direction and an operation amount of a direction inputting operation, a scroll control unit configured to scroll the information displayed on the display screen in the operation direction detected by the detection unit, and a second display control unit configured to control the display of information so that the higher the operation amount detected by the detection unit, the wider a display area becomes in the operation direction detected by the detection unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first display control unit configured to display a first area corresponding to at least part of an image on a display screen;

a first detection unit configured to detect, as an operation direction of a direction inputting operation, a first operation direction and a second operation direction perpendicular to the first operation direction;

a second detection unit configured to detect an operation amount of a direction inputting operation; and

a second display control unit configured to, in a case where the first detection unit detects the first operation direction and does not detect the second operation direction, display on the display screen a second area where a length of the second operation direction of the first area is not changed and a length of the first operation direction of the first area is lengthened based on the operation amount of the direction inputting operation.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the direction inputting operation is pressing of at least one button, and wherein the operation amount is an amount of time the at least one button is pressed, the amount of pressure applied when the at least one button is pressed, or a number of times the at least one button is pressed.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the direction inputting operation is movement of a joy stick, and wherein the operation amount is the amount of time the joy stick is inclined, the amount of pressure applied when inclining the joy stick, or the number of times the joy stick is inclined.

4. A method for processing information, the method comprising:

displaying a first area corresponding to at least part of an image on a display screen;

detecting, as an operation direction of a direction inputting operation, a first operation direction and a second operation direction perpendicular to the first operation direction;

detecting an operation amount of a direction inputting operation; and

controlling display of information, in a case where detecting the first operation direction and not detecting the second operation direction, display on the display screen a second area where a length of the second operation direction of the first area is not changed and a length of the first operation direction of the first area is lengthened based on the operation amount of the direction inputting operation.

5. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable process steps, the computer-executable process steps causing a computer to execute a method of comprising:

displaying a first area corresponding to at least part of an image on a display screen;

detecting, as an operation direction of a direction inputting operation, a first operation direction and a second operation direction perpendicular to the first operation direction;

detecting an operation amount of a direction inputting operation; and

displaying, in a case where the first detection unit detects the first operation direction and does not detect the second operation direction, display on the display screen a second area where a length of the second operation direction of the first area is not changed and a length of the first operation direction of the first area is lengthened based on the operation amount of the direction inputting operation.