Information processing apparatus, program, and operation control method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYoshihito Ohki, Yusuke Miyazawa, Ikuo Yamano
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Abstract
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a detection unit for detecting pressure applied by user input performed on a touch screen; a determination unit for determining which of two or more input states the user input belongs to, in accordance with the pressure detected by the detection unit; and an operation control unit for enabling or disabling a limitation imposed on operation with a user interface displayed on the touch screen, in accordance with the state of the user input determined by the determination unit.
Claims19
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a touch screen;
- and
- circuitry configured to
- determine that a first user input, performed on the touch screen, belongs to a first input state based on a first pressure applied by the first user input;
- determine that a second user input, performed on the touch screen, belongs to a second input state based on a second pressure applied by the second user input;
- and
- adjust an amount of pressure needed to be applied in the second input state to be recognized as the second user input, wherein the second pressure is higher than the first pressure, and
- wherein the adjusting of the amount of pressure needed to be applied in the second input state to be recognized as the second user input is an adjustment of a set pressure threshold value.
An information processing method comprising:
- detecting with circuitry that a first user input applied to a touch screen belongs to a first input state based on a first pressure applied by the first user input;
- detecting with the circuitry that a second user input applied to the touch screen belongs to a second input state based on a second pressure applied by the second user input;
- and
- adjusting with the circuitry an amount of pressure needed to be applied in the second input state to be recognized as the second user input, wherein the second pressure is higher than the first pressure, and
- wherein the adjusting of the amount of pressure needed to be applied in the second input state to be recognized as the second user input is an adjustment of a set pressure threshold value.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instruction stored thereon that when executed by processing circuitry causes the processing circuitry to execute a method, the method comprising:
- detecting that a first user input applied to a touch screen belongs to a first input state based on a first pressure applied by the first user input;
- detecting that a second user input applied to the touch screen belongs to a second input state based on a second pressure applied by the second user input;
- and
- adjusting an amount of pressure needed to be applied in the second input state to be recognized as the second user input, wherein the second pressure is higher than the first pressure, and
- wherein the adjusting of the amount of pressure needed to be applied in the second input state to be recognized as the second user input is an adjustment of a set pressure threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.