Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program

• US 8,581,869 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2011
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Kazuyuki, Narita, Tomoya, Miyazaki, Reiko, Koga, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Giesy, Adam R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sasinowski, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/166,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20120032903A1
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/174, 345/175, 345/156, 715/863
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display section, a contact detection section which is provided on a surface at an opposite side of the display section, and an operation control section which decides, when a predetermined operation input is performed based on a detection result obtained by the contact detection section, not to execute predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the contact detection section.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display section;

a first contact detection section which is provided on a surface at an opposite side of the display section;

a second contact detection section at a side of the display section; and

an operation control section which decides, when a predetermined operation input is performed based on a detection result obtained by the contact detection section, not to execute predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the contact detection section,

wherein, when a distance between coordinates of a contact point detected by the first contact detection section and coordinates of a contact point detected by the second contact detection section is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the operation control section decides not to execute operation processing corresponding to the operation input.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when a plurality of contact points are detected by the first contact detection section, the operation control section decides not to execute operation processing corresponding to an operation input based on a contact point other than an initially detected contact point.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when the information processing apparatus is in a predetermined functional state, the operation control section decides, even in a case of determining that the operation input is performed based on the detection result obtained by the first contact detection section, not to execute operation processing corresponding to the operation input.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising

wherein, when a contact point is detected by the second contact detection section, even if the information processing apparatus is in the predetermined functional state, the operation control section decides to execute operation processing corresponding to the detection result obtained by the first contact detection section.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when an amount of displacement of a contact point within a predetermined time period is equal to or less than a predetermined amount based on the detection result obtained by the first contact detection section, the operation control section decides not to execute the predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the first contact detection section.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

wherein, when an operation input is detected only from the first contact detection section based on the detection result obtained by the first contact detection section and a detection result obtained by the second contact detection section, the operation control section decides not to execute operation processing corresponding to the operation input.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when the distance between the coordinates of the contact point detected by the first contact detection section and the coordinates of the contact point detected by the second contact detection section is equal to or less than the predetermined value, and when a distance between coordinates of a predetermined object displayed on the display section and the coordinates of the contact point detected by the first contact detection section is equal to or less than a second predetermined value, the operation control section decides not to execute operation processing corresponding to the operation input.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when a contact area on the first contact detection section is equal to or more than a predetermined value based on the detection result obtained by the first contact detection section, the operation control section decides not to execute the predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the first contact detection section.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when it is detected that a predetermined operation input is further performed within a predetermined time period after a contact point is detected by the first contact detection section, the operation control section decides to execute operation processing based on the contact point.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when a time period taken for performing the operation input to the first contact detection section is equal to or less than a predetermined time period based on the detection result obtained by the first contact detection section, the operation control section decides not to execute the predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the contact detection section.

11. An information processing method comprising:

detecting, by a contact detection section which is provided on a surface at an opposite side of a display section, contact with an operating object;

detecting, by a second contact detection section at a side of the display section, a contact point;

deciding, when a predetermined operation input is performed based on a detection result obtained by the contact detection section, not to execute predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the contact detection section; and

deciding, when a distance between coordinates of a contact point detected by the first contact detection section and coordinates of the contact point detected by the second contact detection section is equal to or less than a predetermined value, not to execute operation processing corresponding to the operation input.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor in an information processing apparatus causes the processor to execute a method comprising:

detecting, by a contact detection section which is provided on a surface at an opposite side of a display section, contact with an operating object;

detecting, by a second contact detection section at a side of the display section, a contact point;

deciding, when a predetermined operation input is performed based on a detection result obtained by the contact detection section, not to execute predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the contact detection section; and

deciding, when a distance between coordinates of a contact point detected by the first contact detection section and coordinates of the contact point detected by the second contact detection section is equal to or less than a predetermined value, not to execute operation processing corresponding to the operation.