Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

• US 9,891,737 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2013
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Homma, Fuminori, Matsuda, Kouichi, Nashida, Tatsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Sasinowski, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/949,368
• Publication Number:
  US 20130328831A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,665 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-178
• 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 apparatus for displaying a content, the apparatus comprising:

a control circuitry configured to generate and display a slider object associated with a timeline related to the content, wherein the content is a video content and the slider object represents a playback range of the video content, the slider object indicating a first range of the timeline comprising a start edge value of the first range and an end edge value of the first range,

wherein, when a user selects a position on the slider object by touching the screen of the apparatus for a period of time exceeding a threshold time amount, the control circuitry is configured to identify and display a time on the timeline corresponding to the selected position on the slider object, wherein

the control circuitry is configured to display a thumb on the slider object that indicates a current position of the user selection on the slider object, wherein the control circuitry is configured to calculate an interval corresponding to a second range of the timeline and generate an updated start edge value which replaces the start edge value of the first range displayed by the slider object based on the current position of the user selection on the slider object indicated by the thumb, wherein the control circuitry is configured to generate an updated end edge value which replaces the end edge value of the first range displayed by the slider object, wherein

the slider object displays the second range of the timeline without displaying the entirety of the first range of the timeline, and wherein the control circuitry is further configured to display an indication of a time on the timeline corresponding to the current position of the user selection on the slider object indicated by the thumb.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the user ceases using the thumb, the display reverts to the slider object and the start edge value of the first range replaces the updated start edge value.

3. A method for displaying a content, the method comprising:

generating a display object associated with a parameter related to the content, wherein the content is a video content and the display object represents a playback range of the video content, the display object displaying a first range of the parameter; and

replacing the display object according to an operation of a user,

wherein, when the user selects a position on the display object by touching the screen of the display for a period of time exceeding a threshold time amount, a zoomed display object replaces the display object, wherein

the zoomed display object corresponds to an interval that is calculated from the user selection and the zoomed display object displays a second range of the parameter having an updated start edge value which replaces the start edge value of the first range, and an updated end edge value which replaces the end edge value of the first range, without displaying the entirety of the first range of the parameter.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein, when the user ceases using the zoomed display object, the display reverts to the display object and the first range of the parameter replaces the second range of the parameter.

5. An apparatus for displaying a content, the apparatus comprising:

a control circuitry configured to generate and display a slider object associated with a timeline related to the content, wherein the content is a video content and the slider object represents a playback range of the video content,

wherein, when a user selects a position on the slider object by touching the screen of the display, the control circuitry is configured to display a thumb on the slider object that indicates a current position of the user selection on the slider object and displays a playback value, and

wherein the control circuitry is further configured to identify an orthogonal movement from the user'"'"'s selected position on the timeline and display a predetermined interval around the thumb to adjust the playback speed,

wherein the slider object is enlarged around the thumb.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the distance of orthogonal movement dictates the predetermined interval around the thumb to adjust the playback speed.