OBJECT PROCESSING DEVICE, OBJECT PROCESSING METHOD, AND OBJECT PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20140375585A1
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ogai, Takia, Kirkpatrick, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 9,383,906 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

An object processing device includes a selection accepting unit that accepts selection of one or more objects among a plurality of displayed objects, a detection unit that detects instruction input for processing on objects, and an execution unit that executes processing on non-selected objects. It is thereby possible to easily set many objects as objects to be processed. Further, because processing on objects is executed by instruction input different from selection of objects, such as selection of objects displayed on a display unit, it is possible to reduce work for specified processing on objects to be processed.

Claims

1. An object processing device including a display unit configured to display an image containing a plurality of objects, an input unit configured to be able to detect input from a user indicating a position on the display unit and formed integrally with the display unit and a selection receiving unit configured to receive selection input of one or more objects displayed on the display unit based on input detected by the input unit, comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect instruction input different from selection input of objects by the selection receiving unit; and

an execution unit configured to, when instruction input detected by the detection unit is specified instruction input, execute specified processing corresponding to the specified instruction input on non-selected objects being objects other than the object of which selection input is performing by the user among the plurality of objects displayed by the display unit.

2. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit can detect an event including a direction parameter with respect to a state of the object processing device, and detects an event having a specified direction parameter as the instruction input.

3. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit can detect an event including direction and size parameters with respect to a state of the object processing device, and detects an event having specified direction and size parameters as the instruction input.

4. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit can detect a time period when a specified operation is performed on the object processing device, and detects a specified operating time period related to the operation as the instruction input.

5. The object processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the detection unit can detect a detected value from a gyro sensor included in the object processing device, and detects a specified detected value as the instruction input.

6. The object processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the detection unit can detect a detected value from an acceleration sensor included in the object processing device, and detects a specified detected value as the instruction input.

7. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit can detect a user'"'"'s voice, and detects a specified keyword included in the voice as the instruction input.

8. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit detects specified input by a user detected by the input unit as the instruction input.

9. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the execution unit executes any one of processing of randomly changing positions of the non-selected objects on the display unit, processing of deleting the non-selected objects, and processing of moving the non-selected objects to another page different from a page where the non-selected objects are displayed, as the specified processing.

10. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the execution unit executes first processing on the non-selected objects and executes second processing different from the first processing on selected objects being objects selected by the selection accepting unit.

11. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit can detect first instruction input and second instruction input different from the first instruction input as instruction input for processing on objects, and

when the first instruction input is detected by the detection unit, the execution unit executes first processing on the non-selected objects, and when the second instruction input is detected by the detection unit, the execution unit executes second processing different from the first processing on the non-selected objects.

12. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit can detect first instruction input and second instruction input different from the first instruction input as instruction input for processing on objects, and

when the first instruction input is detected by the detection unit, the execution unit executes first processing on the non-selected objects, and when the second instruction input is detected by the detection unit, the execution unit executes second processing different from or identical to the first processing on selected objects being objects selected by the selection accepting unit.

13. The object processing device according to claim 11, wherein

the detection unit detects an event including a direction parameter with respect to a state of the object processing device, detects an event having a first direction parameter as the first instruction input, and detects an event having a second direction parameter different from the first direction as the second instruction input.

14. The object processing device according to claim 11, wherein

the detection unit can detect a time period when a specified operation is performed on the object processing device, and when the detected operating time period corresponds to a preset first time range, detects the detected operation as the first instruction input, and when the detected operating time period corresponds to a preset second time range, detects the detected operation as the second instruction input.

15. The object processing device according to claim 10, wherein

the execution unit executes any one of processing of randomly changing positions of the objects to be processed on the display unit, processing of deleting the objects to be processed, and processing of moving the objects to be processed to another page different from a page where the objects are displayed, as each of the first processing and the second processing.

16. The object processing device according to claim 1, wherein

an inter-object distance indicating a degree of similarity of attributes can be calculated for each pair of objects based on a relationship between attributes of each of the plurality of objects,

the detection unit can detect instruction input with an input value of a certain level as instruction input for processing on objects, and

the execution unit executes specified processing on a non-selected object where the inter-object distance from a selected object being an object selected by the selection accepting unit corresponds to an inter-object distance associated in advance with the input value accompanying the instruction input.

17. An object processing method in an object processing device including a display unit configured to display an image containing a plurality of objects, an input unit configured to be able to detect input from a user indicating a position on the display unit and formed integrally with the display unit and a selection receiving unit configured to receive selection input of one or more objects displayed on the display unit based on input detected by the input unit, the method comprising:

a detection step of detecting instruction input different from selection input of objects by the selection receiving unit; and

an execution step of, when instruction input detected in the detection step is specified instruction input, executing specified processing corresponding to the specified instruction input on non-selected objects being objects other than the object of which selection input is performing by the user among the plurality of objects displayed by the display unit.

18. (canceled)