Computer-readable storage medium having activation control program stored therein and activation control apparatus

• US 8,972,896 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2013
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Matsushima, Yoshihiro, Onozawa, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): LEGGETT, ANDREA C.
• Application Number:
  US14/087,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20140082556A1
• Time in Patent Office: 466 Days
• Field of Search: 715/857, 715/835, 715/830
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/20 Input arrangements for video game devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/26 having at least one additional display device, e.g. on the game controller or outside a game booth
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/206 Game information storage, e.g. cartridges, CD ROM's, DVD's, smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A system is disclosed including a first display control section 218 for selectively displaying, in a first display area, a second predetermined number of first objects among first objects, corresponding to a first predetermined number of game programs, for which an order is set, a second display control section for displaying a position designation image at a position corresponding to a position, of subject software, in an order set for the first predetermined number of pieces of software; a display change section for designating a first object to be displayed in the first display area, based on an operation input received by using the position designation image; and an activation execution section for activating software corresponding to one first object which is selected from among the second predetermined number of first objects displayed in the first display area, based on the operation input.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a control program causing a computer to perform:

first display control for selectively displaying, in a first display area, a partial subset of a first number of first objects for which an order is set;

second display control for displaying, in a second display area that is different from the first display area, a second number of second objects corresponding to first objects; and

first scroll control for scrolling the first objects displayed in the first display area in response to a user input on the both edge areas of the second display area.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the second display control displays respective second objects corresponding to respective first objects.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein

the second number is the same as the first number.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 3, wherein

the control program causing a computer to further perform:

second scroll control for scrolling the first objects displayed in the first display area in response to a user input on the first display area.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the first display control displays the first objects in the first display area on a touchscreen and the second display control displays the second objects in the second display area on the touchscreen.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the first display control displays the first objects in line and the second display control displays the second objects in line.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein

the direction of the arrangement of the first objects and the direction of the arrangement of the second objects are the same.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the control program causing a computer to further perform:

indication control for indicating, in the second display area, the position of the first object currently displayed in the first display area.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the control program causing a computer to further perform:

change control for changing, in appearance, a second object corresponding to a first object which satisfies a predetermined condition.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

each second object comprises a smaller image than the image of the first object.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 10, wherein

each second object comprises a dot-image.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the control program causing a computer to further perform:

third display control for displaying, in response to a user input on the second display area, the first objects which corresponds to the input position.