Information processing apparatus and information processing method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTatsushi NASHIDA, Kazuhiro Hara
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Abstract
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a display panel for displaying a plurality of objects; an area region detection unit for detecting an operation body positioned on the display panel, and detecting an area region of the display panel corresponding to the operation body; a contacting object detection unit for detecting one or a plurality of objects contacting the area region detected by the area region detection unit; and an object selection unit for setting part of or all of the objects detected by the contacting object detection unit to a selected state.
Claims10
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a display panel for displaying a plurality of objects;
- an area region detection unit for detecting an operation body positioned on the display panel, and detecting an area region of the display panel corresponding to the operation body;
- a contacting object detection unit for detecting one or a plurality of objects contacting the area region detected by the area region detection unit;
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- an object selection unit for setting part of or all of the objects detected by the contacting object detection unit to a selected state.
An information processing method comprising the steps of:
- displaying a plurality of objects on a display panel;
- detecting an operation body positioned on the display panel and an area region of the display panel corresponding to the operation body;
- detecting one or a plurality of objects contacting the area region detected in the area region detection step;
- and
- setting part of or all of the objects detected in the contact object detection step to a selected state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.