INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20120030635A1
• Filed: 07/14/2011
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MIYAZAKI, Reiko
• Application Number:
  US13/183,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20120030635A1
• 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 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: an operation section; and a control section adapted to execute a process in response to dragging through the operation section; the control section changing, when dragging is carried out continuously after a particular operation by the operation section, a process to be executed in response to the dragging based on the particular operation.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an operation section; and

a control section adapted to execute a process in response to dragging through said operation section;

said control section changing, when dragging is carried out continuously after a particular operation by said operation section, a process to be executed in response to the dragging based on the particular operation.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said operation section allows an operation input by a touch operation.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the particular operation is an operation of continuing to touch an arbitrary position of a screen of a display section for more than a predetermined period of time, and

said control section causes, when the arbitrary position continues to be touched for more than the predetermined period of time, a cursor to be displayed at the position which continues to be touched and changes, when dragging is carried out continuously after the touching, the process to be executed in response to the dragging based on the touching and besides stretches the cursor in response to the dragging.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said control section executes, when dragging is carried out in a state in which an image is displayed on a display screen, a process of scrolling the image in response to the dragging, but executes, when dragging is carried out continuously after an arbitrary position on the image continues to be touched for more than a predetermined period of time, a process of zooming the image in response to the dragging.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said control section executes, when dragging is carried out continuously after the arbitrary position on the image continues to be touched for more than the predetermined period of time, a process of zooming the image around a center provided by the position touched first.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the particular operation is an operation of tapping an arbitrary position of a screen of a display section, and

said control section causes, when the arbitrary position is tapped, a cursor to be displayed at the tapped position and changes, when dragging is carried out continuously after the tapping, the process to be executed in response to the dragging based on the tapping and besides stretches the cursor in response to the dragging.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the particular operation is an operation of touching an arbitrary position in a region set on a screen of a display section, and

said control section changes, when dragging is carried out continuously after the arbitrary position is touched, the process to be executed in response to the dragging and causes a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end portion of the dragging to be displayed on the display section.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said control section executes, when dragging is carried out in a state in which an image is displayed on the display screen, a process of scrolling the image in response to the dragging, but executes, when dragging is carried out continuously after the arbitrary position in the region is touched, a process of changing a parameter relating to picture quality of the image in response to the dragging.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of parameters are prepared as the parameter and a plurality of regions individually for the parameters are set on the screen, and

said control section executes, when dragging is carried out continuously after an arbitrary position in an arbitrary one of the regions is touched, a process of changing the parameter corresponding to the touched region in response to the dragging.

10. An information processing method, comprising

changing, in the case where dragging is carried out continuously after a particular operation when a control section executes a process in response to dragging through an operation section, a process to be executed in response to the dragging based on the particular operation.

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

changing, in the case where dragging is carried out continuously after a particular operation when a control section executes a process in response to dragging through an operation section, a process to be executed in response to the dragging based on the particular operation.