INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20120293427A1
• Filed: 02/27/2012
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Mukai, Yoshiyuki, Kusano, Shunichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,854,324 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processing device that includes a display, a touch panel that detects a gesture operation, a memory that stores a correlation between each of a plurality of effects that can be applied to an object displayed on the display and one of a plurality of gesture operations, and a processor that applies one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display, and controls the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a display;

a touch panel that detects a gesture operation;

a memory that stores a correlation between each of a plurality of effects that can be applied to an object displayed on the display and one of a plurality of gesture operations; and

a processor that applies one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display, and controls the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.

2. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the correlation stored in the memory is a table correlating each of the plurality of effects to one of the plurality of gesture operations.

3. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the processor generates the correlation between each of the plurality of effects and one of the plurality of gesture operations.

4. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the touch panel detects an input selecting the object and the processor sets a predetermined area on the touch panel on which the gesture operation may be detected based on the input selecting the object.

5. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the memory stores a correlation between a size change effect for changing a size of the object and a pinch gesture operation defined by a change in distance between two touch points on the touch panel, and the processor controls the display to change a size of the object based on the change in distance between the two touch points on the touch panel.

6. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the memory stores a correlation between a movement effect for moving the object and a drag gesture operation defined by a movement of a touch input on the touch panel in a direction, and the processor controls the display to move the object in the direction corresponding to the movement of the touch input on the touch panel.

7. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between a justifying effect for left or right justifying the character string and a drag gesture operation defined by a movement of a touch input on the touch panel in a right or left horizontal direction, and the processor controls the display to display the character string left or right justified based on the movement of the touch input in the left or right horizontal direction.

8. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between a scrolling operation for scrolling the character string and a flick gesture operation defined by a movement of a touch input on the touch panel in a direction, and the processor controls the display to scroll the character string in a direction corresponding to the movement of the touch input.

9. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the memory stores a correlation between a blinking effect for causing the object to blink and a double click operation defined by detecting two individual touch inputs on the display within a predetermined time period, and the processor controls the display to cause the object to blink upon detecting the double click operation.

10. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between a bold character effect of bolding the characters in the character string and a pinch out gesture defined by an increase in distance between two touch inputs on the touch panel in a horizontal direction, and the processor controls the display to display the character string with bold characters upon detecting the pinch out gesture.

11. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between an italicize character effect of italicizing the characters in the character string and a parallel shift operation defined by parallel movement of two touch inputs on the touch panel in a horizontal direction, and the processor controls the display to display the character string with italicized characters upon detecting the parallel shift operation.

12. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the memory stores a correlation between a hue and saturation changing effect for changing a hue and a saturation of an object and a rotation gesture operation defined by rotating two touch inputs on the touch panel, and the processor controls the display to change a hue of the object based on an amount of rotation of the two touch inputs and change a saturation of the object based on a change in distance between the two touch inputs.

13. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between a copy effect for copying the character string and a horizontal drag gesture defined by movement of a touch input on the touch panel in a right horizontal direction, and the processor controls the display to display a duplicate of the character string next to the character string upon detecting the horizontal drag gesture.

14. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between a deletion effect for deleting the character string and a horizontal drag gesture defined by movement of a touch input on the touch panel in a left horizontal direction, and the processor controls the display to delete the character string upon detecting the horizontal drag gesture.

15. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between an effect of changing a case of characters in the character string and a vertical direction gesture defined by movement of a touch input in an upper vertical direction, and the processor controls the display to change the case of the characters upon detecting the vertical direction gesture.

16. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a character string and the memory stores a correlation between an effect of changing a size of characters in the character string and vertical direction gesture defined by movement of a touch input in an upper or lower vertical direction, and the processor controls the display to change the size of the characters proportional to the vertical direction gesture.

17. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the object is a string of symbols and the memory stores a correlation between an effect of changing symbols in the string of symbols and a vertical direction gesture defined by movement of a touch input in an upper vertical direction, and the processor controls the display to change symbols in the string of symbols upon detecting the vertical direction gesture.

18. A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

storing, in a memory of the information processing apparatus, a correlation between each of a plurality of effects applied to an object displayed on a display and one of a plurality of gesture operations;

detecting, by a touch panel of the information processing apparatus, a gesture operation;

applying, by a processor of the information processing apparatus, one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display; and

controlling, by the processor, the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

storing a correlation between each of a plurality of effects applied to an object displayed on a display and one of a plurality of gesture operations;

detecting a gesture operation at a touch panel of the information processing apparatus;

applying one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display; and

controlling the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.