Information processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium recording information processing program

• US 8,913,172 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2011
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Matsushima, Yoshihiro, Kawase, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): GILES, NICHOLAS G
• Application Number:
  US13/156,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20110234857A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,286 Days
• Field of Search: 348/222.1, 348/333.01, 348/333.02, 348/333.05
• US Class Current: 348/333.05
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed includes storage means, display means, and taken image display control means. The storage means stores a taken image therein. The display means has a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is opened. The taken image display control means displays a taken image on the display screen, and changes a taken image to be displayed between before and after closing and opening the information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus is closed and opened again.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing taken images therein;

a display including a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is open;

a selection image display controller for controlling the display screen to display, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, a selection image for allowing a user to select an application program to be launched from a plurality of application programs; and

a taken image display controller, wherein, in accordance with the start-up of the information processing apparatus, the taken image display controller selects, in a random manner, a taken image to be displayed from the taken images stored in the memory, and controls the display screen to display the selected taken image while the selection image is displayed.

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

an imaging device; and

an imaging state setter for enabling imaging by the imaging device in accordance with a predetermined operation being performed while a taken image is displayed by the taken image display controller, wherein

the memory stores therein an image taken by the imaging device.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an imaging device, wherein

the information processing apparatus stores a first photographing program for performing photographing processing of storing an image taken by the imaging device in the memory and a second photographing program for performing the photographing processing, the second photographing program including a function different from the first photographing program, and

the taken image display controller sets both a taken image stored in the memory by execution of the first photographing program and a taken image stored in the memory by execution of the second photographing program as objects to be displayed on the display screen.

4. An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing taken images therein;

a display including a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is open;

a selection image display controller for controlling the display screen to display, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, a selection image for allowing a user to select an application program to be launched from a plurality of application programs; and

a taken image display controller for controlling the display screen to display a taken image from the taken images in the memory while the selection image is displayed, wherein, when the information processing apparatus is closed and opened again, the taken image display controller changes the taken image from the taken images in the memory which is displayed on the display screen between before and after closing and opening the information processing apparatus.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing taken images therein; and

a display including a display screen provided in a surface which is located inside when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is located outside when the information processing apparatus is open, the information processing program, when executed by the computer, causing the information processing apparatus to at least;

display on the display screen, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, a selection image for allowing a user to select an application program to be launched from a plurality of application programs; and

display on the display screen, while the selection image is displayed, a taken image from the taken images in the memory,

wherein, in accordance with the start-up of the information processing apparatus, the taken image to be displayed is selected, in a random manner, from the taken images in the memory.

6. An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing therein images from a camera;

a display screen provided in a surface of the information processing apparatus which is hidden when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is visible when the information processing apparatus is open; and

processing circuitry for controlling the display screen to display, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, one or more selection images, each selection image being selectable for launching a corresponding application program;

selecting, in a random manner and in accordance with the start-up of the information processing apparatus, an image to be displayed from the images stored in the memory; and

controlling the display screen to display the selected image while the one or more selection images is also displayed.

7. An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing therein images from a camera;

a display screen provided in a surface of the information processing apparatus which is hidden when the information processing apparatus is closed and which is visible when the information processing apparatus is opened; and

processing circuitry for controlling the display screen to display, in accordance with start-up of the information processing apparatus, both an image from the images in the memory and one or more selection images, each selection image being selectable for launching a corresponding application program; and

, when the information processing apparatus is closed and opened again, changing the displayed image from the memory between before and after closing and opening the information processing apparatus.