Information processing apparatus information processing method and program

• US 8,537,127 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2009
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Homma, Fuminori, Matsuda, Kouichi, Nashida, Tatsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sasinowski, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US12/637,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20100156830A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,373 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-176, 715/771, 715/784, 715/786, 715/856, 715173-176
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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 is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a touch panel having a contact surface that can come into contact with an operating body and capable of acquiring position information indicating a contact position on the contact surface with the operating body and displaying information;

a contact state quantity acquisition unit that acquires a contact state quantity indicating a contact state of the touch panel with the operating body, wherein the contact state quantity acquisition unit comprises a contact time measuring unit that measures a contact time indicating a time in which the operating body continues to be in contact with a substantially identical position of the touch panel up to a present time and acquires the contact time as the contact state quantity; and

a display control unit that controls the touch panel to display, in a slider bar region, a slider bar having a current position indicator which indicates a current playback position in a content, the current position indicator being repositionable along the slider bar based on the acquired position information,

wherein when the contact time measured by the contact time measuring unit of the contact by the operating body on the contact surface of the touch panel at the position where the slider is displayed exceeds a threshold time amount, the display control unit controls the touch panel to replace the slider bar with a zoomed slider bar.

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

the display control unit calculates an output value by accepting the contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit as an input value based on a predetermined calculation formula and decides the output value as an interval to decide a range of the zoomed slider bar.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a processing unit that performs processing in accordance with the position information indicating the position on the slider bar acquired by the touch panel.

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

when the operating body removes contact with the contact surface of the touch panel, the display control unit further controls the touch panel to display the slider bar in an original state within the slider bar region.

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

the display control unit controls the touch panel to replace the slider bar with the zoomed slider bar by displaying an interval of the slider bar surrounding the contact position to be zoomed and displayed on portions of the slider bar region in which portions of the slider bar other than the zoom target portion were previously displayed prior to the zooming of the interval.

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

the slider bar corresponds to a playback range of a video content.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a storage unit that stores a start edge value and an end edge value of a content associated with the slider bar,

wherein the slider bar is replaced with the zoomed slider bar by updating the start edge value and the end edge value stored in the storage unit with a new start edge value and a new end edge value obtained based on an interval of the zoomed slider bar.

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

the storage unit further stores a constant to decide the interval of the zoomed slider bar, and

the display control unit decides a value obtained by dividing a value obtained by subtracting the end edge value from the start edge value stored in the storage unit by the constant stored in the storage unit as the interval.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the storage unit further stores a constant to decide the interval of the zoomed slider bar, and

the display control unit decides a value obtained by dividing the end edge value stored in the storage unit by the constant stored in the storage unit as the interval.

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

the slider bar is replaced with the zoomed slider bar by updating a start edge value and an end edge value associated with the slider bar with a new start edge value and a new end edge value obtained based on a current position of playback of a content represented by the slider bar and a whole reproduction time of the content.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the current position of playback is indicated by the current position indicator positioned at the contact position within the slider bar.

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

when the operating body contacts the contact surface of the touch panel at a position where the slider bar is displayed, the display control unit controls the touch panel to display the current position indicator at the contact position where the operating body has contacted the contact surface.

13. An information processing method

for a display control unit of an information processing apparatus including a touch panel having a contact surface that can come into contact with an operating body and capable of acquiring position information indicating a contact position on the contact surface with the operating body and displaying information, a contact state quantity acquisition unit that acquires a contact state quantity indicating a contact state of the touch panel with the operating body, wherein the contact state quantity acquisition unit comprises a contact time measuring unit that measures a contact time indicating a time in which the operating body continues to be in contact with a substantially identical position of the touch panel up to a present time and acquires the contact time as the contact state quantity, the method comprising:

controlling the touch panel to display, in a slider bar region, a slider bar having a current position indicator which indicates a current playback position in a content, the current position indicator being repositionable along the slider bar based on the acquired position information,

wherein when the contact time measured by the contact time measuring unit of the contact by the operating body on the contact surface of the touch panel at the position where the slider bar is displayed exceeds a threshold time amount, the touch panel is controlled to replace the slider bar with a zoomed slider bar.

14. The information processing method according to claim 13, wherein

when the operating body removes contact with the contact surface of the touch panel, the touch panel is controlled to display the slider bar in an original state within the slider bar region.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute an information processing method

for a display control unit of an information processing apparatus including a touch panel having a contact surface that can come into contact with an operating body and capable of acquiring position information indicating a contact position on the contact surface with the operating body and displaying information, a contact state quantity acquisition unit that acquires a contact state quantity indicating a contact state of the touch panel with the operating body, wherein the contact state quantity acquisition unit comprises a contact time measuring unit that measures a contact time indicating a time in which the operating body continues to be in contact with a substantially identical position of the touch panel up to a present time and acquires the contact time as the contact state quantity, the method comprising:

controlling the touch panel to display, in a slider bar region, a slider bar having a current position indicator which indicates a current playback position in a content, the current position indicator being repositionable along the slider bar based on the acquired position information,

wherein when the contact time measured by the contact time measuring unit of the contact by the operating body on the contact surface of the touch panel at the position where the slider bar is displayed exceeds a threshold time amount, the touch panel is controlled to replace the slider bar with a zoomed slider bar.

16. The computer-readable medium according to claim 15, wherein

when the operating body removes contact with the contact surface of the touch panel, the touch panel is controlled to display the slider bar in an original state within the slider bar region.