Information processing terminal and method, program, and recording medium

• US 9,619,141 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Konami, Shuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Merkoulova, Olga
• Application Number:
  US14/123,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20140111458A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,776 Days
• Field of Search: 345173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/04883 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: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

A device includes a display unit which displays display screens, an input unit which receives a gesture input, and a controller which detects whether a gesture, input on the input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on one of the display screens of the display unit. The controller displays gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a display unit that displays an image on a display screen, the image having a plurality of gesture input regions where a gesture is inputtable;

an input unit, provided on the display screen, that receives a gesture input;

a controller that (a) determines whether the gestures input, on said input unit, is located in one of the plurality of the gesture input regions of the display screen and (b), when the gesture input on the input unit is determined to be in regions of the display screen which are not one of the plurality of the gesture input regions, visualizes every input region by superimposing color filters in the plurality of the entire gesture input regions on the images of the display screen.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines a number of successive times the gesture input is input on the input unit in the display screen which are not the gesture input regions.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the controller displays the gesture input regions when the number of successive times, the gesture input is input in the regions of the image which are not the gesture input regions, is greater than a predetermined value.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the gesture input regions are displayed and superimposed on the images of display screen while the images on the display screen remain visible.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the gesture input regions are displayed and superimposed on the image of the display screen using different visual representations.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines if additional information about the gesture input regions is requested.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein when additional information about the gesture input regions is requested, the controller displays a legend screen image which displays an explanation associating each gesture input region with a gesture input.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein if further additional information about the legend screen image is requested, the controller displays an additional legend screen image displaying recognizable gesture input and explanations thereof.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the gesture input includes at least a tap, double tap, a vertical flick, a horizontal flick, a long press, a right circular rotation, a left circular rotation, a star figure, a triangular figure and an alphanumeric figure.

10. The device according to claim 5, wherein the gesture input regions are displayed and superimposed on the image of the display screen using different colors.

11. A method comprising the steps of:

detecting whether a gesture input, input on an input unit, is located in a gesture input region on an image of a display screen where a gesture is inputtable, the image having a plurality of gesture input regions; and

when the gesture input on the input unit is detected in a region of the display screen which is not the gesture input region, visualizing every input region by superimposing color filters in the plurality of the entire gesture input regions on the display screen.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising determining a number of successive times the gesture input is input on the input unit in regions of the display screen which are not the gesture input region.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising displaying the gesture input regions on the image when the number of successive times, the gesture input is input in the regions which are not the gesture input regions, is greater than a predetermined value.

14. The method according to claim 11, further comprising displaying the gesture input regions that is superimposed on the image on the display screen while the image on the display screen remains visible.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising displaying the gesture input region that is superimposed on the image on the display screen using different colors.

16. The method according to claim 11, further comprising determining if additional information about the gesture input regions is requested.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising when additional information about the gesture input regions is requested, displaying a legend screen image which displays an explanation associating each gesture input region with a gesture input.

18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising when further additional information about the legend screen image is requested, displaying an additional legend screen image displaying recognizable gesture input and explanations thereof.

19. A program, embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, executed on a computer for determining gestures comprising the steps of:

detecting whether a gesture input, input on an input unit, is located in a gesture input region on an image of a display screen where a gesture is inputtable, the image having a plurality of gesture input regions; and

when the gesture input on the input unit is detected in a region of the display screen which is not the gesture input region, visualizing every gesture input region by superimposing color filters in the plurality of the entire gesture input regions on the image displayed on the display screen.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium embodied with a program for controlling a controller to determine gestures comprising the steps of:

detecting whether a gesture, input on an input unit, is located in a gesture input region on an image of a display screen where gesture input is inputtable, the image having a plurality of gesture input regions; and

when the gesture on the input unit is detected in a region of the display screen which is not the gesture input region of the image displayed on the display screen, visualizing every gesture input region by superimposing color filters in the plurality of the entire gesture input regions on the image of the display screen.