Information processing device

• US 9,652,126 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2016
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Motoki, Enomoto, Shigeru
• Primary Examiner(s): DAO, TUAN C.
• Application Number:
  US14/989,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20160117065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Provided is information processing device capable of issuing a notification of an occurrence of an event depending on a current operation mode in a case where the information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes. An information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes including at least a first mode and a second mode, receives event information output by an event output program, and notifies a user that the event information has been received, and the information processing device changes a pattern of notification between a case where the event information is received during the operation in the first mode and a case where the event information is received during the operation in the second mode.

Claims

1. An information processing device having a processor, the information processing device operating in a plurality of operation modes including at least a first mode and a second mode, the information processing device comprising:

a display;

a touch sensor which can detect an operation by a user on the display of the information processing device; and

an input device for receiving input from the user, wherein the input device is different from the touch sensor;

wherein;

the processor causes the display to show a detail of an event information that each of a plurality of event output programs outputs in response to a request made by the user;

wherein the event information is received during operation in the first mode and operation in the second mode;

the display displays the detail of the event information in response to receiving an operation on the input device during operation in the first mode;

the display displays the detail of the event information in response to receiving an operation to the touch sensor for selecting an image displayed on the display during operation in the second mode; and

the image is not displayed on the display when the operation on the input device is made during operation in the first mode.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the processor receives the even information and stores the event information in a non-transitory computer readable medium;

and

the processor notifies the user, when the event information is received, that the event information has been received,

wherein processor performs the notification by causing the input device to emit light in a predetermined color without changing a current image shown on the display when the even information is received during the operation in the first mode, and

the processor performs the notification by changing a color of the current image shown on the display to the predetermined color when the event information is received during the operation in the second mode.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the processor causes the display to display a list comprising a plurality of event information items which are output by the event output programs,

wherein the user is notified of past event information items when the user makes a request using the touch sensor or the input device,

wherein, a number of the event information items that each event output program outputs that are shown in list do not exceed a predetermined number;

and

when the user selects an event information item from the list, the processor causes the display to display additional event information items from the event output program associated with the selected event information item that were not contained in the list.

4. A control method for an information processing device having a processor, a display, a touch sensor, and an input device, the information processing device capable of operating in a plurality of operation modes comprising at least a first mode and a second mode, the control method comprising:

displaying a detail of event information that each of a plurality of event output programs outputs in response to a request made by a user;

displaying the detail of the event information in response to receiving an operation to the input device during operation in the first mode; and

displaying the detail of the event information in response to receiving an operation to the touch sensor for selecting an image displayed on the screen during operation in the second mode,

wherein the image is not displayed on the display during operation in the first mode.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing an information processing device, which operates in a plurality of operation modes comprising at least a first mode and a second mode, the information processing device comprising a processor, a touch sensor, an input device, and a display, the program causing the information processing device to perform the steps of:

displaying a detail of event information that each of a plurality of event output programs outputs in response to a request made by a user;

displaying the detail of the event information in response to receiving an operation to the input device during operation in the first mode;

wherein the event information is received during operation in the first mode and operation in the second mode; and

displaying the detail of the event information in response to receiving an operation to the touch sensor for selecting an image displayed on the screen during operation in the second mode,

wherein the image is not displayed on the display during operation in the first mode.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the event information is an alert output by one of the plurality of event output programs.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the event information is a message indicating that a specific processing has been started or finished.