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US 10,503,316 B1Granted
Information processor, information processing method, and computer program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShunichi Kasahara, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Ritsuko Kano, Tomoya Narita
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus including a detector that detects movement of a manipulation body in a vertical direction in relation to a display, and a processor that determines a speed of movement of the manipulation body based on an output of the detector, and determines a process to be executed based on the determined speed of movement.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- identify a position of a manipulation body in relation to a detector and a distance between the detector and the manipulation body based on an output of the detector;
- identify a first object of a plurality of objects to be selected by the user and displayed on a display;
- determine a change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector based on the output of the detector after the first object has been identified on the display;
- cause the display to indicate that the first object is placed in a selected state by modifying a visual appearance of the first object by causing the display to change the visual depth of the first object based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector;
- and
- initiate a function related to the first object based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector, wherein
- modifying the visual appearance of the first object includes modifying the visual appearance of the first object so that a visual depth of the first object is changed, while a visual depth of the other of the plurality of objects is unchanged.
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An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- identifying a position of a manipulation body in relation to a detector and a distance between the detector and the manipulation body based on an output of the detector;
- identifying a first object of a plurality of objects to be selected by the user and displayed on a display;
- determining a change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector based on the output of the detector after the first object has been identified on the display;
- causing the display to indicate that the first object is placed in the selected state by modifying a visual appearance of the first object by causing the display to change the visual depth of the first object based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector;
- and
- initiating a function related to the first object based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector, wherein
- modifying the visual appearance of the first object includes modifying the visual appearance of the first object so that a visual depth of the first object is changed, while a visual depth of the other of the plurality of objects is unchanged.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to:
- identify a position of a manipulation body in relation to a detector and a distance between the detector and the manipulation body based on an output of the detector;
- identify a first object of a plurality of objects to be selected by the user and displayed on a display;
- determine a change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector based on the output of the detector after the first object has been identified on the display;
- cause the display to indicate that the first object is placed in the selected state by modifying a visual appearance of the first object by causing the display to change the visual depth of the first object based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector;
- and
- initiate a function related to the first object based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the detector, wherein
- modifying the visual appearance of the first object includes modifying the visual appearance of the first object so that a visual depth of the first object is changed, while a visual depth of the other of the plurality of objects is unchanged.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.