Information processing apparatus, system, information processing method, and program

• US 9,791,997 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2015
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Satoshi, Tanuma, Fumihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong, Hien
• Application Number:
  US14/619,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242090A1
• Time in Patent Office: 979 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processor configured to perform the functions of displaying a cursor configured to select a range of a list screen on which a plurality of icons are arranged, and changing an icon or icons to be selected using the cursor based on an operation of a user while keeping unchanged the number of icons selectable using the cursor.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to;

control to display a cursor configured to select a plurality of first icons from a first number of the first icons displayed on a first list screen,

wherein the first number is two or more;

control to display a second list screen comprising a second number of second icons,

wherein the second icons are extracted from the plurality of first icons selected by the cursor on the first list screen,

wherein the second number is equal to or smaller than the first number,

wherein a number of icons selectable by the cursor is changeable based on a first operation of a user, and

wherein a third number of icons are selectable by the cursor;

control to display a third list screen based on a reduction in the number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the third list screen is configured to display a fourth number of icons,

wherein the fourth number is smaller than the third number, and

wherein size of icons on a fourth list screen is larger than size of icons on the first list screen, and

control to display the fourth list screen based on an increase in the number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the fourth list screen is configured to display a fifth number of icons, and

wherein the fifth number of icons are extracted from icons selected by the cursor with the increase in the number of icons selectable by the cursor.

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

a controller comprising a plurality of operation units,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

obtain a second operation of the user based on an operation signal of the controller; and

assign different user operations to each of the plurality of operation units,

wherein a first set of user operations assigned to each of the plurality of operation units on the first list screen differ from a second set of user operations assigned to each of the plurality of operation units on the second list screen.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first icons displayed on the first list screen are content icons,

wherein each of the content icons indicates content, wherein the content is extracted from a content group, and

wherein the processor is further configured to control to display a first number of pieces of content extracted from the content group and a second number of pieces of non-extracted content from the content group.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the first icons are arranged along an item axis on the first list screen, and

wherein the first number of the pieces of content extracted from the content group is displayed as a histogram on the item axis.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of first icons are selected independent of a location where the plurality of first icons are displayed on the first list screen.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first icons displayed on the first list screen are content icons,

wherein each of the content icons indicates content extracted from a content group,

wherein the content icons are arranged along an item axis on the first list screen, and

wherein the processor is further configured to:

scale up a range of the item axis based on a second operation of the user, wherein the range of the item axis corresponds to the number of icons selectable by the cursor; and

extract the content from the content group based on the scaled up range of the item axis.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first icons displayed on the first list screen are content icons,

wherein each of the content icons indicates content,

wherein on the first list screen, each of the content icons are arranged in one of a first direction or a second direction different from the first direction,

wherein the content icons are arranged in the first direction based on a first attribute of the content,

wherein the content icons are arranged in the second direction based on a second attribute of the content, and

wherein the second attribute is different from the first attribute.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the processor is further configured to switch between a first cursor configured to select a first set of content icons arranged in the first direction and a second cursor configured to select a second set of content icons arranged in the second direction.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the first attribute includes one of a time stamp of generation of the content or a time stamp of update of the content.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the content are image content, and

wherein the second attribute includes one of subjects in the image content or shooting locations of the image content.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the second attribute includes one of types of the content, storage places of the content, or categories of the content.

12. A system, comprising:

at least one information processing apparatuses configured to;

control to display a cursor configured to select a plurality of first icons from a first number of the first icons displayed on a first list screen,

wherein the first number is two or more;

control to display a second list screen comprising a second number of second icons,

wherein the second icons are extracted from the plurality of first icons selected by the cursor on the first list screen,

wherein the second number is equal to or smaller than the first number,

wherein a number of icons selectable by the cursor is changeable based on an operation of a user, and

wherein a third number of icons are selectable by the cursor,

control to display a third list screen based on a reduction in the number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the third list screen is configured to control to display a fourth number of icons,

wherein the fourth number is smaller than the third number, and

wherein size of icons on a fourth list screen is larger than size of icons on the first list screen, and

control to display the fourth list screen based on an increase in the number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the fourth list screen is configured to display a fifth number of icons, and

wherein the fifth number of icons are extracted from icons selected by the cursor with the increase in the number of icons selectable by the cursor.

13. An information processing method, comprising:

displaying a cursor configured to select a plurality of first icons from a first number of the first icons displayed on a first list screen,

wherein the first number is two or more;

displaying a second list screen comprising a second number of second icons,

wherein the second icons are extracted from the plurality of first icons selected by the cursor on the first list screen,

wherein the second number is equal to or smaller than the first number,

wherein a number of icons selectable by the cursor is changeable based on an operation of a user, and

wherein a third number of icons are selectable by the cursor;

displaying a third list screen based on a reduction in the number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the third list screen is configured to display a fourth number of icons,

wherein the fourth number is smaller than the third number, and

wherein size of icons on a fourth list screen is larger than size of icons on the first list screen, and

displaying the fourth list screen based on an increase in the number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the fourth list screen is configured to display a fifth number of icons, and

wherein the fifth number of icons are extracted from icons selected by the cursor with the increase in the number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for causing the computer to perform execute operations, the operations comprising:

displaying a cursor configured to select a plurality of first icons from a first number of the first icons displayed on a first list screen,

wherein the first number is two or more; and

displaying a second list screen comprising a second number of second icons,

wherein the second icons are extracted from the plurality of first icons selected by the cursor on the first list screen,

wherein the second number is equal to or smaller than the first number,

wherein a number of icons selectable by the cursor is changeable based on a first operation of a user, and

wherein a third number of icons are selectable by the cursor;

displaying a third list screen based on a reduction in the third number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the third list screen is configured to display a fourth number of icons,

wherein the fourth number is smaller than the third number, and

wherein size of icons on a fourth list screen is larger than size of icons on the first list screen, and

displaying the fourth list screen based on an increase in the third number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number,

wherein the fourth list screen is configured to display a fifth number of icons, and

wherein the fifth number of icons are extracted from icons selected by the cursor with the increase in number of icons selectable by the cursor from the third number.