Program, information processing method, and information processing apparatus for indicating a search term in accordance with a user operation

• US 8,020,087 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2007
• Issued: 09/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsuda, Kouichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dasgupta; Soumya
• Application Number:
  US11/738,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20070279431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,604 Days
• Field of Search: 715/210, 715/224, 715/232, 715/780, 715/816
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

An information processing apparatus for indicating a search term in accordance with a user operation assigns an operating element of an operation input device to a search term having been input and displays an information image containing the search term on a screen on the basis of search processing using the search term. The information processing apparatus also indicates a position of the search term in the information image when operation information on the operating element assigned to the search term is input while the displaying is being performed. Therefore, a user can check where a search term is located in a displayed page using a variety of operation input devices.

Claims

1. An information processing method comprising:

inputting a plurality of search terms into a search term field;

executing a search based upon the inputted search terms;

obtaining a list of search results;

selecting and opening a document from the search results;

assigning an operating element of an operation input device to each of the inputted search terms;

displaying the document containing the search terms on a screen; and

while displaying the document on the screen and in response to operating the operating element that corresponds to one of the search terms, indicating a position of the corresponding search term in the document.

2. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions thereon that when executed by an information processing apparatus cause the information processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

inputting a plurality of search terms into a search term field;

executing a search based upon the inputted search terms;

obtaining a list of search results;

selecting and opening a document from the search results;

assigning an operating element of an operation input device to each of the inputted search terms;

displaying, on a screen, the document containing the search terms; and

while displaying the document on the screen and in response to operating the operating element that corresponds to one of the search terms, indicating a position of the corresponding search term in the document.

3. The program non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein each of the assigned operating elements has a corresponding operating element image and the search terms are displayed together with the corresponding operating element images in the search term field.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein each of the operating element images is displayed adjacent to the corresponding search term.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein each of the operating element images is displayed partially superimposed on the corresponding search term.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein each of the operating element images is a translucent image and is displayed adjacent to the corresponding search term or partially superimposed on the corresponding search term.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 3, wherein each of the corresponding operating element images is individually enclosed by a different frame.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the obtained search results are based on search processing using the search terms.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein, when indicating the position of the corresponding search term in the document, a cursor is displayed at the position where the corresponding search term is presented in the document.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 2, wherein the operation input device is a remote controller and the operating element is a key of the remote controller.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 2, wherein the operating elements of the operation input device are sequentially assigned to the corresponding search terms.

12. An information processing apparatus comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions thereon that when executed performs a method comprising:

inputting a plurality of search terms into a search term field;

executing a search based upon the inputted search terms;

obtaining a list of search results;

selecting and opening a document from the search results;

assigning an operating element of an operation input device to each of the inputted search terms;

displaying the document containing the search terms on a screen; and

while displaying the document on the screen and in response to operating the operating element that corresponds to one of the search terms, indicating a position of the corresponding search term in the document.