Information Processing Apparatus and Information Processing Method

• US 20100058254A1
• Filed: 08/28/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: NARITA, Tomoya
• Application Number:
  US12/550,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20100058254A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

To provide an information processing apparatus and information processing method capable of rapidly and easily zooming in or out an image displayed on a display unit. The apparatus includes a display unit 124 that displays an image on a screen based on image data, a proximity detection unit 122 that detects a contact or proximity between a contact object and the display unit, an angle detection unit 106 that detects a rotation of the display unit in a plane parallel to the screen of the display unit, and a zoom processing unit 172 that zooms in or out an element displayed on the screen of the display unit and displays the same on the screen depending on a rotation angle of the detected rotation while the contact or proximity is being detected.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit that displays an image on a screen based on image data;

a proximity detection unit that detects a contact or proximity between a contact object and the display unit;

an angle detection unit that detects a rotation of the display unit in a plane parallel to the screen of the display unit; and

a zoom processing unit that zooms in or out an element displayed on the screen of the display unit and displays the same on the screen depending on a rotation angle of the detected rotation while the contact or proximity is being detected.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the zoom processing unit zooms in or out the element with reference to a position of the detected contact or proximity on the screen.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a movement processing unit that moves an element displayed on the screen of the display unit and displays the same on the screen depending on a change in a position of the detected contact or proximity while the contact or proximity is being detected.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a rotation processing unit that rotates an element displayed on the screen of the display unit and displays the same on the screen depending on a rotation angle of the detected rotation while the contact or proximity is being detected.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a predetermined time elapses after the proximity detection unit detects the contact or proximity, the zoom processing unit starts a zoom mode capable of zooming in or out the element.

6. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

displaying an image on a screen based on image data by display unit;

detecting a contact or proximity between a contact object and the display unit by proximity detection unit;

detecting a rotation of the display unit in a plane parallel to the screen of the display unit; and

zooming in or out an element displayed on the screen of the display unit and displaying the same on the screen depending on a rotation angle of the detected rotation by zoom processing unit while the contact or proximity is being detected.