Computer-readable storage medium, apparatus, system, and method for scrolling in response to an input

• US 9,268,480 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2011
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Kimura, Eriko, Torigoe, Nobutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): LOWENBERGER, AARON J
• Application Number:
  US13/312,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20120167002A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 715/784, 715/786, 345/684
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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

Abstract

When it is determined that a touch position by a user has shifted on a scroll image display region in a direction different from a first direction (scrolling direction), a scroll target image is scrolled and displayed in the first direction (scrolling direction).

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus which includes a scroll image display region for displaying a scroll target image, the scroll image display region including a first region, the information processing program causing the computer to perform operations comprising:

sequentially detecting a pointed position in a second region located in a first direction from the first region, or in a third region located in a second direction opposite the first direction from the first region;

determining whether the detected pointed position shifts in the second region or the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image, (a) in the first direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the second region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and (b) in the second direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction,

wherein the first region is a region for providing a different instruction than a scroll instruction for scrolling the scroll target image.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the information processing program further causes the computer to perform further operations:

setting a scrolling amount by which the scroll target image is to be scrolled in the first direction;

setting the scrolling amount on the basis of a shift amount by which the detected pointed position has shifted in the second region in the direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image in the first direction by the set scrolling amount.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein the operations further include:

setting a scrolling amount by which scrolling is to be performed per unit time, on the basis of a shift amount by which the detected pointed position has shifted in the second region in the direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image in the first direction by the set scrolling amount, per unit time.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein the operations further include setting the scrolling amount in accordance with a length of a track on which the detected pointed position has moved in the second region from a predetermined reference position in the direction different from the first direction and the second direction.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein the operations further include setting the scrolling amount in accordance with a shift amount by which the detected pointed position has shifted in the second region from a predetermined reference position in the direction different from the first direction and the second direction.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein the operations further include setting the scrolling amount in accordance with a shift amount by which the detected pointed position has shifted in the second region in the direction different from the first direction and the second direction within a predetermined time.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the determining includes determining whether the detected pointed position has shifted in the second region in the direction different from the first direction and the second direction within a predetermined time by an amount exceeding a predetermined threshold.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the direction different from the first direction and the second direction is a direction orthogonal to the first direction.

9. An information processing system comprising:

a display which includes a scroll image display region for displaying a scroll target image, the scroll image display region including a first region; and

a processing system including at least one processor, the processing system configured to perform operations comprising;

sequentially detecting a pointed position in a second region located in a first direction from the first region, or in a third region located in a second direction opposite the first direction from the first region;

determining whether the detected pointed position shifts in the second region or the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image, (a) in the first direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the second region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and (b) in the second direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction,

wherein the first region is a region for providing a different instruction than a scroll instruction for scrolling the scroll target image.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus which includes a scroll image display region for displaying a scroll target image, the scroll image display region including a first region, the information processing program causing the computer to perform operations comprising:

sequentially detecting a pointed position in a second region located in a first direction from the first region, or in a third region located in a second direction opposite the first direction from the first region;

determining whether the detected pointed position shifts in the second region or the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image, (a) in the first direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the second region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and (b) in the second direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction,

wherein, in response to determining that a detected pointed position shifts in the first region, an operation different from scrolling the scroll target image is performed without scrolling the scroll target image.

11. An information processing system comprising:

a display which includes a scroll image display region for displaying a scroll target image, the scroll image display region including a first region; and

a processing system including at least one processor, the processing system configured to perform operations comprising;

sequentially detecting a pointed position in a second region located in a first direction from the first region, or in a third region located in a second direction opposite the first direction from the first region;

determining whether the detected pointed position shifts in the second region or the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image (a) in the first direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the second region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and (b) in the second direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction,

wherein, in response to determining that a detected pointed position shifts in the first region, an operation different from scrolling the scroll target image is performed without scrolling the scroll target image.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus which includes a scroll image display region for displaying a scroll target image, the scroll image display region including a first region, the information processing program causing the computer to perform operations comprising:

sequentially detecting a pointed position in a second region located in a first direction from the first region, or in a third region located in a second direction opposite the first direction from the first region;

determining whether the detected pointed position shifts in the second region or the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image, (a) in the first direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the second region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and (b) in the second direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction,

wherein the second region is located in the first direction from the first region and has substantially rectangular shape in which the first direction is the shorter side direction.

13. An information processing system comprising:

a display which includes a scroll image display region for displaying a scroll target image, the scroll image display region including a first region; and

a processing system including at least one processor, the processing system configured to perform operations comprising;

sequentially detecting a pointed position in a second region located in a first direction from the first region, or in a third region located in a second direction opposite the first direction from the first region;

determining whether the detected pointed position shifts in the second region or the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction; and

scrolling the scroll target image, (a) in the first direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the second region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and (b) in the second direction when the detected pointed position shifts in the third region in a direction different from the first direction and the second direction,

wherein the second region is located in the first direction from the first region and has substantially rectangular shape in which the first direction is the shorter side direction.