Information processing device, method, and computer program product

• US 9,361,859 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tasaki, Tsuyoshi, Yamauchi, Yasunobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhou, Hong
• Application Number:
  US14/463,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20150062036A1
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-179
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/903 Querying for retrieval from the web G06F16/953
• 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: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/30 Control of display attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/37 Details of the operation on graphic patterns G09G5/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control

Abstract

According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a detector, a setting controller, and a controller. The detector detects a holding position of the information processing device. The setting controller sets a control region at a position separated by a distance from the detected holding position. The controller controls, based on whether the control region is touched, control a function.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a detector configured to detect a holding position of the information processing device;

a setting controller configured to set a control region at a position separated by a distance from the detected holding position;

a controller configured to, based on whether the control region is touched, control a function;

a handwriting data receiver configured to receive an input piece of handwriting data;

a sound obtaining controller configured to obtain an ambient sound; and

a handwriting data storage configured to store the input piece of handwriting data in a corresponding manner to an ambient sound which is obtained along with the input piece of the handwriting data, wherein

the function includes a search function to search for information, and

the controller is configured to search for information using a first piece of handwriting data that is input during a period of time in which contact with the control region is made,

among input pieces of handwriting data that have been stored in the handwriting data storage, the controller obtains, as a search result, a second piece of handwriting data and the ambient sound corresponding to the second piece of handwriting data, the second piece of handwriting data being similar to the first piece of handwriting data, and

among the ambient sounds that are stored in the handwriting data storage the controller further obtains, as a search result, a second ambient sound and a third piece of handwriting data corresponding to the second ambient sound, the second ambient sound being similar to the first ambient sound.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein

the detector is configured to obtain, in a chronological order, contact regions where a contact has been made, and

when a condition in which a variation in center of gravity positions of the contact regions remains within a range for a period of time, the detector is configured to detect a reference position in the contact regions as the holding position.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein

the holding position of the information processing device indicates a position of a finger of a user who is holding the information processing device.

4. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a handwriting data display configured to display the input piece of handwriting data; and

a handwriting data storage configured to store the input piece of handwriting data in a corresponding manner to background information which is displayed on the handwriting data display as background of the input piece of handwriting data, wherein

among input pieces of handwriting data that have been stored in the handwriting data storage, the controller obtains, as a search result, a second piece of handwriting data and background information corresponding to the second piece of handwriting data, the second piece of handwriting data being similar to the first piece of handwriting data.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein, based on the background information corresponding to the first piece of handwriting data, the controller further searches for information and obtains a search result.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein, based on a first ambient sound obtained during contact with the control region is made, the controller further searches for information and obtains a search result.

7. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a search result display to display pieces of information obtained as search results in such a manner that for a piece of information having a higher priority as a search result, a display position of the piece of information is closer to a center point of a display area.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller searches for information from a plurality of viewpoints using the first piece of handwriting data, and

the search result display is configured to arrange, for each of the plurality of viewpoints, the pieces of information, which are obtained as search results, along a plurality of viewpoint axes extending in different directions from the center point of the display area as well as to arrange the pieces of information in such a manner that a piece of information having a higher priority as a search result, the display position of the piece of information is closer to the center point of the display area.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein, the search result display displays the pieces of information obtained as search results in such a way that for a piece of information having a higher priority as a search result, a display size of the piece of information is larger.

10. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a handwriting data receiver configured to receive an input piece of handwriting data;

a sound obtaining controller configured to obtain an ambient sound; and

a handwriting data storage,

the function comprises storing the input piece of handwriting data in the handwriting data storage in a corresponding manner with the ambient sound, and

the controller is configured to store a first piece of handwriting data, which is input during a period of time in which contact with the control region is made, in the handwriting data storage in a corresponding manner to the ambient sound obtained along with the first piece of handwriting data.

11. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a handwriting data receiver configured to receive an input piece of handwriting data; and

a handwriting display,

the function comprises displaying the input piece of handwriting data on the handwriting display, and

the controller is configured to change display color or line type of a piece of handwriting data that is input during a period of time in which contact with the control region is made from display color or line type of a piece of handwriting data that is input during a period of time in which contact with the control region is not made, and displays the changed display color or changed line type on the handwriting data display.

12. A method implemented in an information processing device, the method comprising:

detecting a holding position of the information processing device;

setting a control region at a position separated by a distance from the detected holding position;

controlling a function based on whether or not the control region is touched receiving an input piece of handwriting data;

obtaining an ambient sound; and

storing the input piece of handwriting data in a corresponding manner to an ambient sound which is obtained along with the input piece of the handwriting data, wherein

the function includes a search function to search for information, and

the controlling includes searching for information using a first piece of handwriting data that is input during a period of time in which contact with the control region is made,

among input pieces of handwriting data that have been stored in the handwriting data storage, the controlling includes obtaining, as a search result, a second piece of handwriting data and the ambient sound corresponding to the second piece of handwriting data, the second piece of handwriting data being similar to the first piece of handwriting data, and

among the ambient sounds that are stored in the handwriting data storage, the controlling further includes obtaining, as a search result, a second ambient sound and a third piece of handwriting data corresponding to the second ambient sound, the second ambient sound being similar to the first ambient sound.

13. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a computer program that causes a computer to perform:

detecting a holding position of the information processing device;

setting a control region at a position separated by a distance from the detected holding position;

controlling a function based on whether or not the control region is touched;

receiving an input piece of handwriting data;

obtaining an ambient sound; and

storing the input piece of handwriting data in a corresponding manner to an ambient sound which is obtained along the input piece of the handwriting data, wherein

the function includes a search function to search for information, and

the controlling includes searching for information using a first piece of handwriting data that is input during a period of time in which contact with the control region is made,

among input pieces of handwriting data that have been stored in the handwriting data storage the controlling includes obtaining as a search result a second niece of handwriting data and the ambient sound corresponding to the second piece of handwriting data, the second piece of handwriting data being similar to the first piece of handwriting data, and

among the ambient sounds that are stored in the handwriting data storage the controlling further includes obtaining, as a search result, a second ambient sound and a third piece of handwriting data corresponding to the second ambient sound, the second ambient sound being similar to the first ambient sound.