Information processing device, control method for information processing device, and information storage medium

• US 7,903,095 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2006
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Hirotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh; Duc Q
• Application Number:
  US11/885,427
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158200A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,855 Days
• Field of Search: 345 73-181, 345/1.1, 345/1.2, 345/1.3
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/301 using an additional display connected to the game console, e.g. on the controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact

Abstract

An information processing device in which, when one position on a touch panel is newly pressed in a state in which another position or a plurality of other positions are pressed, the newly pressed position can be reliably specified. A pressed-position-information storing section (70) stores positional information indicating a plurality of positions of a touch panel section (56). Based on a position having a predetermined relationship with the plurality of positions indicated by the positional information that is stored in the pressed-position-information storing section (70), a display limiting section (78) limits a display positions of one or a plurality of position guiding images displayed on a display section (80). A pressed-position acquiring section (74) acquires a pressed position based on the plurality of positions indicated by the positional information stored in the pressed-position information storing section (70) and a position indicated by pressed position information outputted from the touch panel section (56). A processing executing section (76) executes processing based on the pressed position acquired by the pressed-position acquiring section (74).

Claims

1. An information processing device including:

a touch panel that outputs positional information corresponding to a position being pressed;

pressed-position acquiring means for acquiring a pressed position based on the positional information outputted from the touch panel; and

pressed-position-information storing means for storing pressed position information indicating the pressed position acquired by the pressed-position acquiring means, wherein;

the information processing device comprises;

displaying means for displaying a screen including one or a plurality of position guiding images;

display limiting means for limiting, when the pressed position information stored in the pressed-position-information storing means indicates a plurality of pressed positions, a display position of the position guiding image based on a position having a predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions; and

processing executing means for executing processing based on the pressed position acquired by the pressed-position acquiring means and the display position of the position guiding image; and

the pressed-position acquiring means acquires, when the pressed position information stored in the pressed-position-information storing means indicates one or a plurality of pressed positions, the pressed position further based on the one or the plurality of pressed positions.

2. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display position of the position guiding image is limited such that a position on the screen corresponding to the position having the predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information is not included in the display area of the position guiding image.

3. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display position of the position guiding image is limited such that at least part of the position guiding image is not included in an area on the screen corresponding to the position having the predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information.

4. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the position having the predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information comprises a center of gravity of the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information.

7. An information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the position having the predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information comprises a center of gravity of the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information.

8. An information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the position having the predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information comprises a center of gravity of the plurality of pressed positions indicated by the pressed position information.

5. A control method for an information processing device including a touch panel that outputs positional information corresponding to a position being pressed, comprising the steps of:

acquiring a pressed position based on the positional information outputted from the touch panel;

causing pressed-position-information storing means to store pressed position information indicating the pressed position acquired by the step acquiring a pressed position;

causing displaying means to display a screen including one or a plurality of position guiding images;

limiting a display position of the position guiding image based on a position having a predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions, when the pressed position information stored in the pressed-position-information storing means indicates a plurality of pressed positions; and

executing processing based on the pressed position acquired in the step of acquiring a pressed position and the display position of the position guiding image,

wherein the step of acquiring a pressed position includes acquiring the pressed position further based on the one or the plurality of pressed positions, when the pressed position information stored in the pressed-position-information storing means indicates one or a plurality of pressed positions.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to function as an information processing device, the information processing device including:

a touch panel that outputs positional information corresponding to a position being pressed;

means for acquiring a pressed position based on the positional information outputted from the touch panel; and

means for storing pressed position information indicating the pressed position acquired by the means for acquiring the pressed-position,

wherein;

the program recorded on the computer-readable medium causes the computer to function as;

means for displaying a screen including one or a plurality of position guiding images;

means for limiting, when the pressed position information stored in the means for storing pressed-position-information indicates a plurality of pressed positions, a display position of the position guiding image based on a position having a relation with the plurality of pressed positions; and

means for executing processing based on the pressed position acquired by the means for acquiring the pressed-position and the display position of the position guiding image;

wherein the means for acquiring the pressed position acquires, when the pressed position information stored in the means for storing pressed-position-information indicates one or a plurality of pressed positions, the pressed position further based on the one or the plurality of pressed positions.

9. An information processing device including:

a touch panel that outputs positional information corresponding to a position being pressed;

a pressed-position acquiring section that acquires a pressed position based on the positional information outputted from the touch panel; and

a main storage that stores pressed position information indicating the pressed position acquired by the pressed-position acquiring section, wherein;

the information processing device comprising;

a display section that displays a screen including at least one position guiding image;

a display control section that limits, when the pressed position information indicates a plurality of pressed positions, a display position of the position guiding image based on a position having a predetermined relation with the plurality of pressed positions; and

a processing executing section that executes processing based on the acquired pressed position and the display position of the position guiding image; and

the pressed-position acquiring section acquires, when the pressed position information indicates one or a plurality of pressed positions, the pressed position further based on the one or the plurality of pressed positions.