Information processing apparatus, method and program

• US 8,316,299 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2006
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Music Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Asaka, Kotaro, Kinouchi, Takashi, Takatsuka, Susumu, Sakata, Junichiro, Tsukazaki, Hideo, Ozawa, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunez, Jordany
• Application Number:
  US11/543,946
• Publication Number:
  US 20070085840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,237 Days
• Field of Search: 715/716, 715/727, 715/738, 715/739
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, includes: display control means for displaying, on the display, an item associated with predetermined content; detection means for detecting a contact of a user with the touch panel; determination means for determining whether or not the contact of the user is released, the contact being detected by the detection means; selection means for completing, when the determination means determines that the contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by the display control means on a position where the contact of the user was detected by the detection means until just before; and playback means for playing back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by the selection means.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, comprising:

display control means for displaying, on said display, an item associated with predetermined content;

detection means for detecting a contact of a user with said touch panel;

determination means for determining whether or not said contact of the user is released, said contact being detected by said detection means;

selection means for completing, when said determination means determines that said contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by said display control means on a position where said contact of the user was detected by said detection means until just before;

acquisition means for acquiring related content that has a certain relationship to the content associated with the item selected by the selection means,

wherein the selection means selects, in accordance with the contact of the user detected by the detection means the item associated with the content, and

wherein the display control means displays a first item on a center of a circle or polygon, and displays a first plurality of items related to the first item on a circumference of the circle or polygon, and

wherein when the selection means selects a second item from the first plurality of items displayed on the circumference of the circle or polygon, the display control means displays the second item selected from the circumference on the center of the circle or polygon, and displays a second plurality of items related to the selected second item on the circumference of the circle or polygon; and

playback means for playing back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by said selection means, wherein

said playback means plays back predetermined content during a period from when said contact of the user is detected by said detection means until said determination means determines that said contact of the user is released.

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

said predetermined content is part or all of the content associated with the item, said item being displayed, during the period from when said contact of the user is detected by said detection means until said determination means determines that said contact of the user is released, by said display control means on the position where said contact of the user was detected by said detection means.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said predetermined content is sound effects.

4. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, comprising:

a display control step of displaying, on said display, an item associated with predetermined content;

a detection step of detecting a contact of a user with said touch panel;

a determination step of determining whether or not said contact of the user is released, said contact being detected by the process of said detection step;

a selection step of completing, when the process of said determination step determines that said contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by the process of said display control step on a position where said contact of the user was detected by the process of said detection step until just before;

an acquisition step for acquiring related content that has a certain relationship to the content associated with the item selected by the selection step,

wherein the selection step selects, in accordance with the contact of the user detected by the detection step, the item associated with the content, and

wherein the display control step comprises displaying a first item on a center of circle or polygon, and displaying a first plurality of items related to the first item on a circumference of the circle or polygon, and

wherein when the selection step completes selection of a second item from the first plurality of items displayed on the circumference of the circle or polygon, the display control step further comprises displaying the second item selected from the circumference on the center of the circle or polygon, and displaying a second plurality of items related to the selected second item on the circumference of the circle or polygon;

a playback step of playing back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by the process of said selection step, wherein

the process of said playback step plays back predetermined content during a period from when said contact of the user is detected by the process of said detection step until the process of said determination step determines that said contact of the user is released.

5. A program for causing a computer to execute a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, said program comprising:

a display control step of displaying, on said display, an item associated with predetermined content;

a detection step of detecting a contact of a user with said touch panel;

a determination step of determining whether or not said contact of the user is released, said contact being detected by the process of said detection step;

a selection step of completing, when the process of said determination step determines that said contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by the process of said display control step on a position where said contact of the user was detected by the process of said detection step until just before;

an acquisition step for acquiring related content that has a certain relationship to the content associated with the item selected by the selection step,

wherein the selection step selects, in accordance with the contact of the user detected by the detection step, the item associated with the content, and

wherein the display control step displays comprises displaying a first item on a center of circle or polygon, and displaying a first plurality of items related to the first item on a circumference of the circle or polygon, and

wherein when the selection step completes selection of a second item from the first plurality of items displayed on the circumference of the circle or polygon, the display control step further comprises displaying the second item selected from the circumference on the center of the circle or polygon, and displaying a second plurality of items related to the selected second item on the circumference of the circle or polygon; and

a playback step of playing back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by the process of said selection step, wherein

the process of said playback step plays back predetermined content during a period from when said contact of the user is detected by the process of said detection step until the process of said determination step determines that said contact of the user is released.

6. An information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, comprising:

a display control section that displays, on said display, an item associated with predetermined content;

a detection section that detects a contact of a user with said touch panel;

a determination section that determines whether or not said contact of the user is released, said contact being detected by said detection section;

a selection section that completes, when said determination section determines that said contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by said display control section on a position where said contact of the user was detected by said detection section until just before;

an acquisition section for acquiring related content that has a certain relationship to the content associated with the item selected by the selection section,

wherein the selection section selects, in accordance with the contact of the user detected by the detection section the item associated with the content, and

wherein the display control section displays a first item on a center of circle or polygon, and displays a first plurality of items related to the first item on a circumference of the circle or polygon, and

wherein when the selection means selects a second item from the first plurality of items displayed on the circumference of the circle or polygon, the display control means displays the second item selected from the circumference on the center of the circle or polygon, and displays a second plurality of items related to the selected second item on the circumference of the circle or polygon; and

a playback section that plays back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by said selection section, wherein said playback section plays back predetermined content during a period from when said contact of the user is detected by said detection section until said determination section determines that said contact of the user is released.