Recording medium storing information processing program, information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method

• US 8,954,882 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2012
• Issued: 02/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Miyoshi, Yasumasa, Funahashi, Kiyofumi, Takuma, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Ting
• Application Number:
  US13/438,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111397A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 715/784, 715/973, 715/788, 715/800, 345/173, 345/179
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/973 Scroll tool, e.g. window scroll bar

Abstract

An example information processing device includes an information processing unit which scrolls a screen of a display unit on which a web page is displayed, in response to a flick gesture or operation, and during flick scroll, reduces the web page in size and displays a portion of the web page reduced in size on the screen of the display unit.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information processing program which causes a computer of an information processing device to execute:

scrolling a screen of a display unit on which a portion of an entirety of content is displayed;

reducing the entirety of the content in size so that a portion that was previously not displayed on the screen is displayed on the screen during scrolling the screen;

displaying the at least a portion reduced in size of the content on the screen, wherein said scrolling and reducing the content in size is performed simultaneously in response to a user entering an initial input on the displayed content, but not on a scroll bar of the display unit; and

when the input is no longer being entered, gradually returning the reduced size of the content to an original size before being reduced, in accordance with an elapsed time from the time at which the input is no longer being entered.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein

the screen is scrolled by a scroll amount per predetermined time on the screen, the scroll amount per predetermined time being substantially not changed, irrespective of whether or not the content is reduced in size.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the information processing program causes the computer to further execute:

detecting a strength of an input performed by a user in response to the user'"'"'s input, wherein

the content is reduced in size based on a result of the strength detection.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 3, wherein the information processing program causes the computer to further execute:

obtaining a position group on a predetermined input surface in response to the user'"'"'s input, wherein

the strength of the user'"'"'s input is detected based on the obtained position group.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 4, wherein

the content is reduced in size at a ratio which increases with an increase in the detected strength.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 4, wherein

the screen is scrolled based on the obtained position group.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 4, wherein the information processing program causes the computer to further execute:

calculating, based on the obtained position group, a touch area indicating an area of a touched region of the input surface, wherein

the strength of the user'"'"'s input is detected based on the touch area.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 4, wherein the information processing program causes the computer to further execute:

calculating, based on the obtained position group, a movement speed indicating a distance per predetermined time by which a touched region of the input surface has been moved, wherein

the strength of the user'"'"'s input is detected based on the movement speed.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein

the screen is scrolled in response to a user'"'"'s instruction to an operation unit, and

the content is reduced in size in response to the instruction.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the information processing program causes the computer to further execute:

obtaining a position group on a predetermined input surface in response to a user'"'"'s input; and

identifying a first operation in which the position group continues to be obtained and varies or a second operation in which the obtained position group varies within a predetermined period of time before being not obtained, wherein

when the first operation is performed, the screen is scrolled based on the position group relating to the first operation, and when the second operation is performed, the screen is scrolled based on the position group relating to the second operation, and

when the first operation is performed, the content is not reduced in size, and when the second operation is performed, the content is reduced in size.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 10, wherein

when the second operation is performed, the content is reduced at a reduction ratio which is determined based on the position group relating to the second operation.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 11, wherein

the reduction ratio is not changed until a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the start of the second operation.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein

the screen is scrolled in response to a user'"'"'s scroll operation, and the content is reduced in size in response to the scroll operation.

14. An information processing method comprising:

scrolling a screen of a display unit on which a portion of an entirety of content is displayed;

reducing the entirety of the content in size so that a portion that was previously not displayed on the screen is displayed on the screen during scrolling the screen;

displaying the at least a portion reduced in size of the content on the screen, where said scrolling and reducing the content in size is performed simultaneously in response to a user entering an initial input on the displayed content, but not on a scroll bar of the display unit; and

when the input is no longer being entered, gradually returning the reduced size of the content to an original size before being reduced, in accordance with an elapsed time from the time at which the input is no longer being entered.

15. An information processing system comprising a plurality of information processing devices, wherein said plurality of information processing devices comprise processors configured to:

scroll a screen of a display unit on which a portion of an entirety of content is displayed;

reduce the entirety of the content in size so that a portion that was previously not displayed on the screen is displayed on the screen during scrolling the screen;

display, on the screen, the at least a portion reduced in size, wherein said scrolling and reducing the content in size is performed simultaneously in response to a user entering an initial input on the displayed content, but not on a scroll bar of the display unit; and

when the input is no longer being entered, gradually returning the reduced size of the content to an original size before being reduced, in accordance with an elapsed time from the time at which the input is no longer being entered.

16. An information processing device comprising:

a display unit, and

a processing device comprising at least on computer processor configured to;

scroll a screen of the display unit on which a portion of an entirety of content is displayed;

reduce the entirety of the content in size so that a portion that was previously not displayed on the screen is displayed on the screen during scrolling the screen;

display, on the screen, the at least a portion reduced in size, wherein said scrolling and reducing the content in size is performed simultaneously in response to a user entering an initial input on the displayed content, but not on a scroll bar of the display unit; and

when the input is no longer being entered, gradually returning the reduced size of the content to an original size before being reduced, in accordance with an elapsed time from the time at which the input is no longer being entered.