INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20160092079A1
• Filed: 12/03/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: FUSE, Toru, KITAZAKI, Masako, HASUIKE, Kimitake
• Granted Patent: US 10,489,027 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9032 Query formulation
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at one corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit, wherein the selection unit displays a plurality of trajectories, each of which an attribute is associated with and the drawing is arranged on.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at a corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit,

wherein the selection unit displays a plurality of trajectories, each of which an attribute is associated with and the drawing is arranged on.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein spacing between adjacent drawings that are arranged on the trajectory and are displayed on the screen is different from spacing between adjacent drawings that are arranged on the trajectory and are not displayed on the screen.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a size of the drawing displayed on the screen depends on a number of the search words with the attributes attached thereto and indicated by the drawing.

2. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at a corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and

a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit,

wherein the selection unit displays at the corner a plurality of trajectories each of which the drawing is movably displayed on, and

the selection unit combines a plurality of drawings arranged on the plurality of trajectories to select a plurality of search words or a plurality of attributes of the plurality of search words.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein a shape of a drawing serving as a target of an operation of the user from among the plurality of drawings arranged on the plurality of trajectories is displayed in a different form from a shape of another drawing from among the plurality of drawings arranged on the plurality of trajectories.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the selection unit displays a plurality of trajectories each of which an attribute is associated with and the drawing is arranged on.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the selection unit stores a combination of the drawings and calls the stored combination of the drawings.

6. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at a corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and

a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit,

wherein the selection unit modifies a partial match range of a search target character string or switches clusters in a concept space, on a trajectory at a corner of the four corners of the screen in response to an operation of the user.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an information processing program causing a computer to operate as:

a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at one corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and

a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit,

wherein the selection unit displays a plurality of trajectories, each of which an attribute is associated with and the drawing is arranged on.