INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20150089447A1
• Filed: 04/16/2013
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsumura, Nao
• Granted Patent: US 10,346,028 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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

There is provided an information processing device including a region control unit that provides a plurality of objects arranged in a predetermined direction with a detection region that detects contact or proximity of a pointing member, and conducts control in a manner that a plurality of modes exist with differing states of overlap between ranges in the predetermined direction of the detection region for the objects that neighbor each other.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a region control unit that provides a plurality of objects arranged in a predetermined direction with a detection region that detects contact or proximity of a pointing member, and conducts control in a manner that a plurality of modes exist with differing states of overlap between ranges in the predetermined direction of the detection region for the objects that neighbor each other.

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

the region control unit conducts control to transition between two of the modes.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the region control unit conducts control to transition between two of the modes accompanied by animation.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the region control unit conducts control to transition between two of the modes while animating the detection region.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the region control unit conducts control to transition between two of the modes accompanied by movement of information displayed in the objects corresponding to the detection region.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the region control unit, when transitioning between two of the modes, conducts control to change at least part of the detection region to create overlap between regions of the objects that neighbor each other.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein

the region control unit changes at least part of the detection region into a circular shape.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein

the region control unit systematically changes at least part of the detection region into a circular shape along the predetermined direction.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein

the region control unit alternately changes at least part of the detection region into a circular shape along the predetermined direction.

10. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein

the region control unit changes at least part of the detection region into a circular shape along the predetermined direction, and in a direction different from the predetermined direction.

11. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein

the region control unit changes the detection region into a trapezoidal shape.

12. The information processing device according to claim 11, wherein

the region control unit changes the detection region into a trapezoidal shape in a manner that an upper base and a lower base alternate.

13. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the region control unit conducts control to transition between two of the modes when the objects falls below a predetermined threshold value in width.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the region control unit conducts control in a manner that a mode in which the detection region overlaps with regions of the objects and a mode in which the detection region does not overlap with the regions of the objects are included.

15. An information processing method comprising:

a step of providing a plurality of objects arranged in a predetermined direction with a detection region that detects contact or proximity of a pointing member, and a step of conducting control in a manner that a plurality of modes exist with differing states of overlap between ranges in the predetermined direction of the detection region for the objects that neighbor each other.

16. A recording medium having a computer program recorded thereon, the computer program causing a computer to execute:

a step of providing a plurality of objects arranged in a predetermined with a detection region that detects contact or proximity of a pointing member, and a step of conducting control in a manner that a plurality of modes exist with differing states of overlap between ranges in the predetermined of the detection region for the objects that neighbor each other.