# US 10,120,465 B2 · Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,120,465 B2 - Document ID: US10120465B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/308,402 - Filed: 2015-02-19 - Published: 2017-03-09 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-05-14 - Assignees: Linfiny Corporation - Applicants: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Tsutomu Tomokiyo; Hiroyuki Kaneko - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10120465B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/0416: {Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers} - G06F 3/03545: {Pens or stylus} - G06F 3/038: Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry - G06F 3/041: Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means - G06F 3/048: Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G06F 3/04883: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text - G09G 5/003: {Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto (specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092)} - G09G 5/24: Generation of individual character patterns - G06F 2203/04108: Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction - G09G 2354/00: Aspects of interface with display user - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract [Object] To propose an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of preventing deterioration in responsiveness of handwriting input. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result from a detector that detects proximity of an operating object to an operation subject; and a display controller configured to, in a case where the display controller recognizes that a distance between the operation subject and the operating object, which are spaced apart from each other, exceeds a threshold on the basis of the detection result, cause a display to display an image in a display mode different from a display mode used in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result from a detector that detects proximity of an operating object to an operation subject; and a display controller configured to, in a case where the display controller recognizes that a distance between the operation subject and the operating object, which are spaced apart from each other, exceeds a threshold on the basis of the detection result, cause a display to display an image in a display mode different from a display mode used in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold, wherein, in a case where the display controller recognizes that the distance exceeds the threshold, the display controller causes the display to display the image in a bit depth different from a bit depth used in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, on a basis of a time point at which the distance exceeds the threshold, the display controller causes the display to redisplay the image, which has been displayed in a first bit depth, in a second bit depth that is different from the first bit depth. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second bit depth is greater than the first bit depth. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first bit depth is a bit depth of 2 bits. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the display controller recognizes that the distance exceeds the threshold, the display controller causes the display to display an image with respect to the image displayed on the display in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the proximity of the operating object to the operation subject is not detected, the display controller recognizes that the distance exceeds the threshold. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the display controller recognizes that the distance between the operation subject and the operating object is less than or equal to another threshold, the another threshold being less than the threshold, the display controller controls drawing of the image. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the acquisition unit acquires contact or proximity of the operating object to the operation subject as the detection result from the detector, and in a case where the display controller recognizes that the operating object is in contact with the operation subject, the display controller controls the drawing of the image. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the acquisition unit acquires a trajectory of a motion of the operating object with respect to the operation subject in a case where the distance between the operation subject and the operating object is less than or equal to the another threshold, and the display controller controls the drawing of the image showing the trajectory. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus includes the detector. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus includes the display. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the display is a bistable display. ### Claim 13 An information processing method comprising: acquiring a detection result from a detector that detects proximity of an operating object to an operation subject; and causing, by a processor, in a case where the display controller recognizes that a distance between the operation subject and the operating object, which are spaced apart from each other, exceeds a threshold on the basis of the detection result, a display to display an image in a display mode different from a display mode used in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold, wherein, in a case where the display controller recognizes that the distance exceeds the threshold, the display controller causes the display to display the image in a bit depth different from a bit depth used in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold. ### Claim 14 A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute: acquiring a detection result from a detector that detects proximity of an operating object to an operation subject; and causing, in a case where the display controller recognizes that a distance between the operation subject and the operating object, which are spaced apart from each other, exceeds a threshold on the basis of the detection result, a display to display an image in a display mode different from a display mode used in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold, wherein, in a case where the display controller recognizes that the distance exceeds the threshold, the display controller causes the display to display the image in a bit depth different from a bit depth used in a case where the distance is less than or equal to the threshold.