Information-processing apparatus and imaging apparatus

• US 20100134433A1
• Filed: 11/18/2009
• Published: 06/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyanishi, Mikio
• Application Number:
  US12/592,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20100134433A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 19/00 Cameras details G03B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04809 Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information-processing apparatus includes a display unit having a display screen, and processing means for detecting a touched position on the display screen and performing a processing operation corresponding to the touched position. The display screen has two or more regions arranged in a predetermined direction and being corresponding to respective different processing operations. The processing means includes limited-operation-processing means for limitedly performing, when a plurality of regions among the two or more regions are simultaneously touched with a first digit reached out in the predetermined direction, a processing operation corresponding to a first region nearest to the tip of the first digit.

Claims

1. An information-processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit having a display screen; and

processing means for detecting a touched position on the display screen and performing a processing operation corresponding to the touched position,

wherein the display screen has two or more regions arranged in a predetermined direction and being corresponding to respective different processing operations, and

wherein the processing means includes limited-operation-processing means for limitedly performing, when a plurality of regions among the two or more regions are simultaneously touched with a first digit reached out in the predetermined direction, a processing operation corresponding to a first region nearest to the tip of the first digit.

2. An imaging apparatus comprising:

a display unit having a display screen; and

processing means for detecting a touched position on the display screen and performing a processing operation corresponding to the touched position,

wherein the display screen has two or more regions arranged in a predetermined direction and being corresponding to respective different processing operations, and

wherein the processing means includes limited-operation-processing means for limitedly performing, when a plurality of regions among the two or more regions are simultaneously touched with a first digit reached out in the predetermined direction, a processing operation corresponding to a first region nearest to the tip of the first digit.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a grip to be gripped and provided on a lower side of the display unit,

wherein the two or more regions are arranged in a right-end region of the display screen and in a vertical direction of the display screen.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a grip to be gripped and provided on a right side of the display unit,

wherein the two or more regions are arranged in a lower-end region of the display screen and in a horizontal direction of the display screen.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 3, wherein guides are provided around the display screen in correspondence with the two or more regions, the guides being positioned near the two or more regions, respectively, and guiding the digit toward the two or more regions, respectively.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the guides each have a concave or convex shape or a combination of concave and convex shapes.

7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an ocular finder provided on an upper side of the display unit,

wherein the two or more regions are arranged within a region of the display screen in which a face does not prevent a touch with the first digit in a state where an eye is positioned close to the finder.

8. An information-processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit having a display screen; and

a processor configured to detect a touched position on the display screen and to perform a processing operation corresponding to the touched position,

wherein the display screen has two or more regions arranged in a predetermined direction and being corresponding to respective different processing operations, and

wherein the processor includes a limited-operation processor for limitedly performing, when a plurality of regions among the two or more regions are simultaneously touched with a first digit reached out in the predetermined direction, a processing operation corresponding to a first region nearest to the tip of the first digit.

9. An imaging apparatus comprising:

a display unit having a display screen; and

a processor configured to detect a touched position on the display screen and to perform a processing operation corresponding to the touched position,

wherein the display screen has two or more regions arranged in a predetermined direction and being corresponding to respective different processing operations, and

wherein the processor includes a limited-operation processor for limitedly performing, when a plurality of regions among the two or more regions are simultaneously touched with a first digit reached out in the predetermined direction, a processing operation corresponding to a first region nearest to the tip of the first digit.