INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20120030625A1
• Filed: 07/21/2011
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LY Corp. (A Holdings Corp.), Z Intermediate Global Corporation
• Original Assignee: LINE Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Reiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,110,579 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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: an operation section; and a control section adapted to cause, when dragging is carried out through the operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display section in response to the dragging and execute, where a direction from one end portion of the cursor which is a start point side of the dragging to the other end portion of the cursor which is an end point side of the dragging is determined as a direction of the cursor, a process corresponding to the direction of the cursor for information displayed on the display section; the control section changing the information to be displayed on the display section when the other end portion of the cursor enters a predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an operation section; and

a control section adapted to cause, when dragging is carried out through said operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display section in response to the dragging and execute, where a direction from one end portion of the cursor which is a start point side of the dragging to the other end portion of the cursor which is an end point side of the dragging is determined as a direction of the cursor, a process corresponding to the direction of the cursor for information displayed on the display section;

said control section changing the information to be displayed on the display section when the other end portion of the cursor enters a predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control section executes a process corresponding to the direction and the length of the cursor for the information displayed on the display section.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said control section

causes, from between first hierarchy information of a first hierarchy and second hierarchy information of a second hierarchy which is a higher hierarchy with respect to the first hierarchy, the first hierarchy information to be displayed on the display section, but

changes, when the other end portion of the cursor enters the predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging, the information to be displayed on the display section from the first hierarchy information to the second hierarchy information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said control section returns, if, after the information to be displayed on the display section is changed from the first hierarchy information to the second hierarchy information, the dragging is continued until the length of the cursor becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value, the information to be displayed on the display section from the second hierarchy information to the first hierarchy information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first hierarchy information is a dynamic image while the second hierarchy information is an extracted image list configured from images extracted from the dynamic image, and

said control section

causes the dynamic image to be displayed on the display section,

changes, when the other end portion of the cursor enters the predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging, the information to be displayed on the display section from the dynamic image to the extracted image list,

executes, when the dynamic image is displayed on the display section, a process of reproducing the dynamic image at a reproduction speed corresponding to the direction and the length of the cursor, and

executes, when the extracted image list is displayed on the display section, a process of scrolling the extracted image list at a scroll speed corresponding to the direction and the length of the cursor.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first hierarchy information is a track list configured from titles of tunes while the second hierarchy information is an album list configured from albums in which the tunes are collected, and

said control section

causes the track list to be displayed on the display section,

changes, when the other end portion of the cursor enters the predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging, the information to be displayed on the display section from the track list to the album list,

executes, when the track list is displayed on the display section, a process of scrolling the track list at a scroll speed corresponding to the direction and the length of the cursor, and

executes, when the album list is displayed on the display section, a process of scrolling the album list at a scroll speed corresponding to the direction and the length of the cursor.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said control section erases, when the dragging comes to an end, the display of the cursor and returns the information to be displayed on the display section to the first hierarchy information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said control section changes, when the information to be displayed on the display section is changed from the first hierarchy information to the second hierarchy information and then the dragging is continued until the other end portion of the cursor goes out of the predetermined region and then enters the predetermined region again, the information to be displayed on the display section from the second hierarchy information to third hierarchy information of a third hierarchy which is a higher hierarchy with respect to the second hierarchy.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the region is set to an end portion of the screen.

10. An information processing method, comprising:

causing, by a control section, when dragging is carried out through an operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display section in response to the dragging and executing, where a direction from one end portion of the cursor which is a start point side of the dragging to the other end portion of the cursor which is an end point side of the dragging is determined as a direction of the cursor, a process corresponding to the direction of the cursor for information displayed on the display section; and

changing, by the control section, the information to be displayed on the display section when the other end portion of the cursor enters a predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging.

11. An information processing program for causing an information processing apparatus to execute:

a step by a control section of causing, when dragging is carried out through an operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display section in response to the dragging and executing, where a direction from one end portion of the cursor which is a start point side of the dragging to the other end portion of the cursor which is an end point side of the dragging is determined as a direction of the cursor, a process corresponding to the direction of the cursor for information displayed on the display section; and

a step by the control section of changing the information to be displayed on the display section when the other end portion of the cursor enters a predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging.