INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPERATION INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20130088450A1
• Filed: 01/13/2011
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takase, Masaki, Karasawa, Hidenori, Uchino, Ryota
• Application Number:
  US13/639,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20130088450A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

To provide an information processing system capable of increasing the range of variation of a processing executed based on a touch operation. An information processing system such as a portable game device (1) comprises a display (12a), a touch sensor (12b) that detects a position of an object on a detection surface provided in an area including an inside area (14) occupying at least a part of a display surface of the display unit (12a) and an outside area (16) adjacent to the inside area (14) and outside the display surface, and a processing executing unit that executes a processing based on a position corresponding to a position in the inside area (14) and detected by the touch sensor (12b) and a position corresponding to a position in the outside area (16) and detected by the touch sensor (12b).

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

a display unit;

a touch sensor that detects a position of an object on a detection surface provided in an area including an inside area occupying at least a part of a display surface of the display unit and an outside area adjacent to the inside area and outside the display surface; and

a processing executing unit that executes a processing based on a position corresponding to a position in the inside area and detected by the touch sensor and a position corresponding to a position in the outside area and detected by the touch sensor.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein:

the touch sensor sequentially detects the position of the object, and

the processing executing unit executes a processing based on a history of the position detected by the touch sensor.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the processing executing unit executes a different processing between under a condition that the position corresponding to the position in the inside area and the position corresponding to the position in the outside area are both included in the history of the position detected by the touch sensor and under a condition that only the position corresponding to the position in the inside area is included in the history of the position detected by the touch sensor.

4. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the processing executing unit executes a predetermined processing under a condition that the touch sensor detects the position corresponding to one of the position in the inside area and the position in the outside area and thereafter the position corresponding to another.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processing executing unit executes a processing of displaying information in a position in the display unit, the position being specified based on the position detected by the touch sensor.

6. An operation input device, comprising:

a display unit; and

a touch sensor that detects a position of an object on a detection surface provided in an area including an inside area occupying at least a part of a display surface of the display unit and an outside area adjacent to the inside area and outside the display surface,

wherein the touch sensor outputs data corresponding to a result of detection by the touch sensor to a processing executing unit that executes a processing based on a position corresponding to a position in the inside area and detected by the touch sensor and a position corresponding to a position in the outside area and detected by the touch sensor.

7. An information processing device, comprising a processing executing unit that executes a processing based on a position corresponding to a position in an inside area and a position corresponding to a position in an outside area, the positions being detected by a touch sensor that detects a position of an object on a detection surface that is provided in an area including the inside area occupying at least a part of a display surface of the display unit and the outside area adjacent to the inside area and outside the display surface.

8. An information processing method, comprising:

executing a processing based on a position corresponding to a position in an inside area and a position corresponding to a position in an outside area, the positions being detected by a touch sensor that detects a position of an object on a detection surface that is provided in an area including the inside area occupying at least a part of a display surface of the display unit and the outside area adjacent to the inside area and outside the display surface.

9. A program stored on a non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having instructions for execution by a computer, the program having instructions to:

execute a processing based on a position corresponding to a position in an inside area and a position corresponding to a position in an outside area, the positions being detected by a touch sensor that detects a position of an object on a detection surface that is provided in an area including the inside area occupying at least a part of a display surface of the display unit and the outside area adjacent to the inside area and outside the display surface.

10. A non-transitory computer readable information storage medium storing a program having instructions for execution by a computer, the program having instructions to:

execute a processing based on a position corresponding to a position in an inside area and a position corresponding to a position in an outside area, the positions being detected by a touch sensor that detects a position of an object on a detection surface that is provided in an area including the inside area occupying at least a part of a display surface of the display unit and the outside area adjacent to the inside area and outside the display surface.

11-22. -22. (canceled)