Information processing device and information processing method

• US 9,746,919 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Seta, Kenichi, Ueno, Masatoshi, Noguchi, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdin, Shaheda
• Application Number:
  US14/561,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20150169051A1
• Time in Patent Office: 998 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including an application information acquisition unit which acquires a position of a window on a display screen, and a control unit which terminates an application of a window whose position acquired by the application information acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

an application information acquisition unit configured to acquire positions of a plurality of windows displayed on a display screen; and

a control unit configured to terminate a first application of a first window, of the plurality of windows, on the display screen based on a first distance between a first position of the first window and a second position of a user, wherein the first distance is greater than each of a plurality of first distances between the positions of windows of the plurality of windows, other than the first window, and the second position of the user,

wherein the user is positioned in front of the display screen.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user state acquisition unit configured to acquire the second position of the user.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the user state acquisition unit is further configured to acquire a direction of a gaze of the user, and

wherein the second position of the user and the direction of the gaze of the user are used to terminate the first application of the first window.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the control unit is further configured to terminate a second application of a second window based on a second distance from a third position of the second window to a visual position, wherein the second distance is greater than each of a plurality of second distances from the positions of the windows, other than the second window, to the visual position, and

wherein the visual position is specified from the second position of the user and the direction of the gaze of the user.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the control unit is further configured to determine that the first application of the first window satisfies an application terminating condition based on a change in the direction of the gaze of the user.

6. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the control unit is further configured to determine the first application of the first window satisfies an application terminating condition based on a determination that the direction of the gaze of the user is fixed for a determined time.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the application information acquisition unit is further configured to acquire input device information which indicates an input device that has usability to the first application of the first window, and

wherein the control unit is further configured to:

determine that the input device is unsuitable for use by the user based on the first position of the first window and the second position of the user, and

add a result of the determination to an application terminating condition.

8. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit is further configured to determine a that the first application of the first window satisfies an application terminating condition based on a change in the second position of the user.

9. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the user state acquisition unit is further configured to acquire information on a direction of a body of the user or on a direction of a face of the user, and

wherein the control unit is further configured to determine that the first application of the first window satisfies an application terminating condition based on a first change in the direction of the body of the user or a second change in the direction of the face of the user.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is further configured to determine that the first application of the first window satisfies an application terminating condition based on a determined state of a computational resource of the information processing device.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is further configured to halt a determination that the first application of the first window satisfies an application terminating condition based on the first application of the first window that satisfies an exclusion condition.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit is further configured to preferentially terminate the first application of the first window, among a plurality of applications which satisfy an application terminating condition, based on a display of the first window behind the plurality of windows other than the first window.

13. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information of the user,

wherein the control unit is further configured to terminate a specified application based on the identification information of the user.

14. The information processing device according to claim 13,

wherein the control unit is further configured to terminate the specified application based on a third position of a window of the specified application.

15. An information processing device, comprising:

an application information acquisition unit configured to

acquire input device information that indicates an input device that has usability to a plurality of applications displayed on a display screen; and

acquire positions of a plurality of windows displayed on the display screen, wherein the plurality of windows correspond to the plurality of applications;

a user state acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a user with respect to the display screen; and

a control unit configured to;

terminate a first application associated with a first window of the plurality of windows on the display screen based on a first distance between a first position of the first window and the position of the user, wherein the first distance is greater than a second distance between a second position of at least a second window of the plurality of windows and the position of the user; and

terminate a second application associated with a third window of the plurality of windows on the display screen for which the input device is determined unsuitable for use by the user based on the position of the user.

16. An information processing method, comprising:

acquiring positions of a plurality of windows displayed on a display screen; and

terminating an application of a first window, of the plurality of windows, on the display screen based on a first distance between a first position of the first window and a second position of a user, wherein the first distance is greater than each of a plurality of distances between the positions of windows of the plurality of windows, other than the first window, and the second position of the user,

wherein the user is positioned in front of the display screen.

17. An information processing method, comprising:

acquiring input device information that indicates an input device having usability to a plurality of applications displayed on a display screen;

acquiring positions of a plurality of windows displayed on the display screen, wherein the plurality of windows correspond to the plurality of applications;

acquiring a position of a user with respect to the display screen;

terminating a first application associated with a first window of the plurality of windows on the display screen based on a first distance between a first position of the first window and the position of the user, wherein the first distance is greater than a second distance between a second position of at least a second window of the plurality of windows and the position of the user; and

terminating a second application associated with a third window of the plurality of windows on the display screen for which the input device is determined unsuitable for use by the user based on the position of the user.