Information processing apparatus

• US 9,519,423 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2012
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tokutake, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisen, Alexander
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yang, Nan-Ying
• Application Number:
  US13/403,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20120268378A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,755 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3262 Power saving in digitizer or tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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

Abstract

An information processing apparatus that includes a touch panel unit that detects a touch input; an application control unit that sets one of a plurality of application programs to an active state as an active-state application program; a profile information acquiring unit that acquires profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and a parameter updating unit that sets a detection parameter of the touch panel unit based on the profile information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a touch panel device that detects a touch input; and

circuitry configured to

set one of a plurality of application programs to an active state as an active-state application program;

acquire profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and

set a detection parameter of the touch panel device based on the acquired profile information, wherein

the circuitry is configured to set a software keyboard application as the active-state application program;

the profile information corresponding to the software keyboard application includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a first sensitivity threshold for detecting a touch input at the touch panel device at positions corresponding to each of a plurality of key icons of the software keyboard application and a second sensitivity threshold for detecting a touch input at the touch panel device at positions other than the positions corresponding to each of the plurality of key icons, the second sensitivity threshold being lower than the first sensitivity threshold;

the positions, which have the second sensitivity threshold, are distinct and separate from the plurality of key icons of the software keyboard application;

the profile information corresponding to the software keyboard application includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a reporting rate defining a speed at which a detected touch input is output by the touch panel device, the reporting rate corresponding to the software keyboard application being lower than a reporting rate corresponding to each of other application programs; and

the plurality of application programs include a standby menu application program, a game application program and a keyboard application program.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information is information for optimizing the detection parameter of the touch panel device for the active-state application program.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the active-state application program includes the profile information, and the circuitry is configured to acquire the profile information from the active-state application program.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of application programs includes profile information, and the circuitry is configured to acquire the profile information from the active-state application program of the plurality of application programs.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes the detection parameter that is updated by the circuitry.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the detection parameter is a firmware setting of the touch panel device.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to convert the profile information into instructions compliant with a firmware of the touch panel device.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the circuitry is configured to set the detection parameter of the touch panel device by replacing existing instructions of the firmware of the touch panel device with the converted profile information.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a sensitivity threshold for detecting the touch input.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a number of times for confirming detection of the touch input.

11. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes information identifying sets of coordinate values, which each correspond to different pixel areas of a display panel on which a surface of the touch panel device is arranged.

12. The information processing apparatus of claim 11, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a sensitivity threshold for detecting the touch input for each of the different pixel areas.

13. The information processing apparatus of claim 12, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a number of times for confirming detection of the touch input for each of the different pixel areas.

14. The information processing apparatus of claim 13, wherein the profile information includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a reporting rate defining a speed at which a detected touch input is output by the touch panel device for each of the different pixel areas.

15. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the profile information of each of the plurality of application programs includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a sensitivity threshold for detecting the touch input at the touch panel device, the sensitivity threshold setting being different for each of the plurality of application programs.

18. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second sensitivity threshold corresponds to disabling detection of a touch input by the touch panel at the positions other than the positions corresponding to each of the plurality of key icons.

19. The information processing apparatus of claim 18, wherein the positions other than the positions corresponding to each of the plurality of key icons includes positions between each of the plurality of key icons.

16. A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

setting one of a plurality of application programs of the information processing apparatus to an active state as an active-state application program;

acquiring profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and

setting a detection parameter of a touch panel device that detects a touch input based on the acquired profile information, wherein

a software keyboard application is set as the active-state application program;

the profile information corresponding to the software keyboard application includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a first sensitivity threshold for detecting a touch input at the touch panel device at positions corresponding to each of a plurality of key icons of the software keyboard application and a second sensitivity threshold for detecting a touch input at the touch panel device at positions other than the positions corresponding to each of the plurality of key icons, the second sensitivity threshold being lower than the first sensitivity threshold;

the positions, which have the second sensitivity threshold, are distinct and separate from the plurality of key icons of the software keyboard application;

the profile information corresponding to the software keyboard application includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a reporting rate defining a speed at which a detected touch input is output by the touch panel device, the reporting rate corresponding to the software keyboard application being lower than a reporting rate corresponding to each of other application programs; and

the plurality of application programs include a standby menu application program, a game application program and a keyboard application program.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

setting one of a plurality of application programs of the information processing apparatus to an active state as an active-state application program;

acquiring profile information corresponding to the active-state application program; and

setting a detection parameter of a touch panel device that detects a touch input based on the acquired profile information, wherein

a software keyboard application is set as the active-state application program;

the profile information corresponding to the software keyboard application includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a first sensitivity threshold for detecting a touch input at the touch panel device at positions corresponding to each of a plurality of key icons of the software keyboard application and a second sensitivity threshold for detecting a touch input at the touch panel device at positions other than the positions corresponding to each of the plurality of key icons, the second sensitivity threshold being lower than the first sensitivity threshold;

the positions, which have the second sensitivity threshold, are distinct and separate from the plurality of key icons of the software keyboard application;

the profile information corresponding to the software keyboard application includes information for setting, as the detection parameter, a reporting rate defining a speed at which a detected touch input is output by the touch panel device, the reporting rate corresponding to the software keyboard application being lower than a reporting rate corresponding to each of other application programs; and

the plurality of application programs include a standby menu application program, a game application program and a keyboard application program.