Information processing device, information processing method, data structure of content file, GUI placement simulator, and GUI placement setting assisting method

• US 9,952,755 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2012
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ogiso, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Kieu
• Assistant Examiner(s): Calderon, IV, Alvaro R
• Application Number:
  US14/239,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,065 Days
• Field of Search: 715765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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

A GUI placement information file in which the positions of GUIs are set as the ratio to the screen size and the sizes of the GUIs are set as fixed length is prepared in association with content. In a screen having such a screen size A that the GUIs do not overlap with each other even when the setting is obeyed, the respective GUIs are displayed with the positions and sizes in accordance with the setting of the GUI placement information file (screen 134). In a screen having such a screen size B that GUIs become a state of overlapping with each other when the setting is obeyed, the setting of the position of the relevant GUI is invalidated and the position is so decided that these GUIs abut on each other (screen 136). In the case of a screen having such a screen size C that a GUI becomes a state of running off the screen when the set sizes are obeyed even in the state in which the GUIs abut on each other, the sizes of the respective GUIs are reduced depending on the screen size and the GUIs are displayed in a packed manner (screen 138).

Claims

1. An information processing device that includes a display covered by a touch panel and executes information processing selected by a user, the information processing device being characterized by including

a GUI image generator that generates a plurality of Graphical User Interface (GUI) images to be displayed on the display,

wherein the display has a height V and a width W;

and

an operation information converter that identifies contents of operation carried out by the user from a correspondence relationship between a contact point detected by the touch panel and each GUI image currently being displayed,

wherein the GUI image generator finally decides a position and a size for each GUI image and generates each GUI image by carrying out an adjustment corresponding to a result of a comparison between the height V and the width W of the display with a condition with respect to a display size,

wherein position information and size information for each GUI are recorded in a GUI placement information file created as a standard setting irrespective of the display size,

wherein, in the GUI placement information file;

an x-coordinate position of each GUI image is set as a fixed x-value,

a y-coordinate of each GUI image is set as a ratio of a distance from a display end to the height V of the display,

a GUI width of each GUI image is set as a fixed width, and

a GUI height of each GUI image is set as a fixed height;

wherein the GUI image generator compares the height V of the display to a first predetermined value Vth1 and a second predetermined value Vth2, with Vth1>

Vth2,

wherein, when the height V of the display is larger than Vth1, the GUI image generator displays each GUI image using the x-coordinate position, the y-coordinate position, the GUI width, and the GUI height of each GUI image stored in the GUI placement information file,

wherein, when the height V of the display is Vth1>

V>

Vth2, the GUI image generator;

determines if any GUI images overlap using the GUI placement information file,

invalidates the x-coordinate position and the y-coordinate position of the GUI images that overlap, and

displays the GUI images that overlap as abutting each other, and

wherein, when the height V of the display is less than Vth2, the GUI image generator;

invalidates the x-coordinate position, the y-coordinate position, the GUI width, and the GUI height of each GUI image stored in the GUI placement information file,

reduces the GUI height and the GUI width of each GUI image by a factor of V/Vth2, and

displays the reduced GUI images as abutting each other on the display.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, characterized inthat

the GUI placement information file is generated for each file for executing information processing and is stored in a storage device, and

the GUI image generator generates the GUI image by reading out, from the storage device, the GUI placement information file created for the file for executing information processing selected by the user.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that

the GUI placement information file is created corresponding to each of a one-screen display and a two-screen display and is stored in a storage device together with a file for executing information processing, and

the GUI image generator generates the GUI image by selecting the GUI placement information file corresponding to the own device and reading out the GUI placement information file from the storage device.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that

in the GUI placement information file, a plurality of setting patterns are recorded for a GUI image having the same function, and

the GUI image generator changes the x-coordinate, the y-coordinate, the GUI height, and the GUI width by switching the setting pattern as the adjustment corresponding to the result of the comparison.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, characterized by further including

a GUI placement adjustment acceptor that displays, on the display, a GUI placement adjustment screen to accept adjustment of setting values from the user of the x-coordinate, the y-coordinate, the GUI height, and the GUI width of each GUI image.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that

the GUI with which an image is generated by the GUI image generator includes a GUI of a pseudo-joystick that accepts input of direction and amount defined by a direction vector from a predetermined reference point to a contact point, and

the operation information converter deems operation to the joystick GUI as valid and employs a whole area of the touch panel as a detection area during a period when contact with the touch panel by the user continues from timing of start of contact, by the user, with a detection area in which start of operation to the joystick GUI is detected.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, characterized in that

the operation information converter disables the other GUIs included in the GUI image during a period when the operation information converter deems operation to the joystick GUI as valid.