Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 8,704,781 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2010
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kii, Manabu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lao, Lun-Yi
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHAH, PRIYANK J
• Application Number:
  US12/708,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20100259494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,524 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/173, 178 1801- 1904, 715/769, 715/863, 715/864
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a first touch panel, a second touch panel, a touch sensor, and a controller. The first touch panel displays an object and detects a first touch operation of a user on the object. The second touch panel detects a second touch operation of the user. The touch sensor is provided between the first touch panel and the second touch panel and detects a third touch operation of the user. The controller moves the object displayed on the first touch panel in accordance with the first touch operation, and displays the object on the second touch panel when the third touch operation is detected within a first time period since the first touch operation has become undetected and the second touch operation is detected within a second time period since the third touch operation is detected.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a first touch panel to display an object and detect a first touch operation of a user on the object;

a second touch panel to detect a second touch operation of the user;

a touch sensor that is provided between the first touch panel and the second touch panel, the touch sensor detects a third touch operation of the user; and

a controller to move the object displayed on the first touch panel in accordance with the first touch operation, and display the object on the second touch panel when the third touch operation is detected within a first time period since the first touch operation has become undetected and the second touch operation is detected within a second time period since the third touch operation is detected.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller displays, near the touch sensor, when the third touch operation is detected, an image indicating that the object is to be moved to the second touch panel.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the first touch panel includes a first touch surface having a first end side and a second end side opposed to the first end side,

wherein the second touch panel includes a second touch surface having a third end side adjacent to the second end side with the touch sensor interposed therebetween and a fourth end side opposed to the third end side, and

wherein the controller displays, when the third touch operation is detected, the object such that a part of the object sticks out from the third end side of the second touch panel toward the second touch panel.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first touch panel includes a first touch surface to which the first touch operation is input,

wherein the second touch panel includes a second touch surface to which the second touch operation is input,

wherein the touch sensor includes a third touch surface to which the third touch operation is input, and

wherein the first touch surface, the second touch surface, and the third touch surface are provided so that the first touch surface, the second touch surface, and the third touch surface are positioned on the same plane at a time the first touch operation, the second touch operation, and the third touch operation are input.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller detects a time period from a time the first touch operation is detected to a time the second touch operation is detected and displays, when the time period is a predetermined value or less, the object on the second touch panel irrespective of whether the third touch operation has been detected.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first time period is a period of time ranging from 50 to 500 milliseconds.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second time period is a period of time ranging from 50 to 500 milliseconds.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first, second and third touch operations are part of a drag-and-drop operation.

9. An information processing method, comprising:

displaying, by a first touch panel, an object and detecting a first touch operation of a user on the object;

detecting, by a second touch panel, a second touch operation of the user;

detecting, by a touch sensor that is provided between the first touch panel and the second touch panel, a third touch operation of the user;

moving the object displayed on the first touch panel in accordance with the first touch operation; and

displaying the object on the second touch panel when the third touch operation is detected within a first time period since the first touch operation has become undetected and the second touch operation is detected within a second time period since the third touch operation is detected.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program instructions thereon, when executed by an information processing apparatus including a first touch panel, a second touch panel, and a touch sensor provided between the first touch panel and the second touch panel, which causes the information processing apparatus to execute the steps of:

displaying, by the first touch panel, an object and detecting a first touch operation of a user on the object;

detecting, by the second touch panel, a second touch operation of the user;

detecting, by the touch sensor, a third touch operation of the user;

moving the object displayed on the first touch panel in accordance with the first touch operation; and

displaying the object on the second touch panel when the third touch operation is detected within a first time period since the first touch operation has become undetected and the second touch operation is detected within a second time period since the third touch operation is detected.