Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for checking plural stored images

• US 8,339,497 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2009
• Issued: 12/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iwase, Ayako, Ozawa, Hiroyuki, Takaoka, Ryo, Saitou, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): GILES, NICHOLAS G
• Application Number:
  US12/496,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20100053216A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/650, 348/222.1, 348/333.01, 715/700, 715/716, 715/764, 715/765, 715/766, 715/767, 715/769, 715/781, 715/782, 715/783, 715/784, 715/786, 715/788, 715/790, 715/791, 715/792, 715/793
• US Class Current: 348/333.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: display means for displaying an image; operation input receiving means for receiving a user'"'"'s operation input; and display control means for making a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on the display means, and displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received by the operation input receiving means.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

display means for displaying an image out of a plurality of stored images;

operation input receiving means for receiving a user'"'"'s operation input; and

display control means for controlling the plurality of stored images to correspond to a plurality of image cards, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which the plurality of image cards overlap, on the display means, and displaying at least a portion of the image which corresponds to a specific image card out of the plurality of the image cards when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received by the operation input receiving means,

wherein when an operation of moving a user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction with the user'"'"'s finger in contact with the display means is a drag operation, the drag operation on an overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards is employed as the check operation, and wherein the display control means recognizes an image card among the plurality of image cards in contact with the user'"'"'s finger as the specific image card when a stop of the drag operation with the user'"'"'s finger is received by the operation input receiving means, and

wherein when the specific image card is not the top image card displayed in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards, the display control means displays the at least a portion of the image corresponding to the specific image card without changing a sequence position of the specific image card in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means displays the plurality of image cards as bound or as overlapping in a fan shape as the check image indicating a shape in which the plurality of image cards overlap.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means displays the at least a portion of the image corresponding to the specific image card as one of a portion of the image, a thumbnail of the image, and a feature image which is a featured portion of the image as the information indicating the image.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the portion of the image is one of both end portions of the image or a center portion of the image.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means recognizes a top image card of the plurality of image cards as the specific image card, displays overlapping portions of the image cards on the left and right sides of the specific image card, and displays the overlapping portions behind the top image card.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means recognizes a predetermined image card of the plurality of image cards as the specific image card and sequentially displays overlapping portions on the left and right sides of the specific image card.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the display control means updates the specific image card and displays one of an image corresponding to the updated specific image card and information indicating the image, by shifting the plurality of image cards to one side of the left and right sides of the specific image card when a one-side drag operation on the overlapping portion displayed on the one side and the one-side drag operation on the overlapping portion displayed on the other side are received by the operation input receiving means.

8. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus which displays an image out of a plurality of stored images on a display means and receives a user'"'"'s operation input, the information processing method comprising the steps of:

controlling the plurality of stored images to correspond to a plurality of image cards;

displaying a check image which indicates a shape in which the plurality of image cards overlap; and

displaying at least a portion of the image which corresponds to a specific image card out of the plurality of image cards when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received,

wherein when an operation of moving a user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction with the user'"'"'s finger in contact with the display means is a drag operation, the drag operation on an overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards is employed as the check operation, and recognizing an image card among the plurality of image cards in contact with the user'"'"'s finger as the specific image card when a stop of the drag operation with the user'"'"'s finger is detected, and

wherein when the specific image card is not the top image card displayed in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards, the displaying includes displaying the at least a portion of the image corresponding to the specific image card without changing a sequence position of the specific image card in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with computer executable instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus that displaying an image on a display means and receiving a user'"'"'s operation input, causes the information processing apparatus to perform process comprising the steps of:

controlling the plurality of stored images to correspond to a plurality of image cards;

displaying a check image which indicates a shape in which the plurality of image cards overlap; and

displaying at least a portion of the image which corresponds to a specific image card out of the plurality of image cards when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received,

wherein when an operation of moving a user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction with the user'"'"'s finger in contact with the display means is a drag operation, the drag operation on an overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards is employed as the check operation, and recognizing an image card among the plurality of image cards in contact with the user'"'"'s finger as the specific image card when a stop of the drag operation with the user'"'"'s finger is detected, and

wherein when the specific image card is not the top image card displayed in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards, the displaying includes displaying the at least a portion of the image corresponding to the specific image card without changing a sequence position of the specific image card in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards.

10. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image out of a plurality of stored images;

an operation input receiving unit configured to receive a user'"'"'s operation input; and

a display control unit configured to control the plurality of stored images to correspond to a plurality of image cards, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which the plurality of image cards overlap, on the display unit, and displaying at least a portion of the image which corresponds to a specific image card out of the plurality of image cards when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received by the operation input receiving unit,

wherein when an operation of moving a user'"'"'s finger by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction with the user'"'"'s finger in contact with the display unit is a drag operation, the drag operation on an overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards is employed as the check operation, and wherein the display control unit recognizes an image card among the plurality of image cards in contact with the user'"'"'s finger as the specific image card when a stop of the drag operation with the user'"'"'s finger is received by the operation input receiving unit, and

wherein when the specific image card is not the top image card displayed in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards, the display control unit displays the at least a portion of the image corresponding to the specific image card without changing a sequence position of the specific image card in the overlapping portion of the plurality of image cards.