Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakumi MIYAKAWA
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Abstract
The invention aims to enable, with respect to an application for which user authentication is necessary, to perform an operation for selecting the application and an operation for the user authentication as easily as possible. A swipe of an icon as an example of the operation for selecting the application to be activated and subsequent acceptance of a touching operation of a finger to a sensor detection area of a fingerprint authenticating device as an example of the operation for the user authentication are performed based on a series of operations.
Claims15
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- an accepting unit configured to accept a first operation of indicating an instruction to select an application;
- an acquiring unit configured to acquire authentication information to be used for user authentication, based on a second operation;
- a tracking unit configured to track that the first operation is continuously performed so as to approach an area where the second operation is performed, and the second operation is performed as a part of the first operation;
- and
- an activating unit configured to activate the application selected by the first operation, in a case where a predetermined user is identified based on the authentication information.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- an accepting unit configured to accept a first operation of indicating an instruction to select an application;
- an acquiring unit configured to acquire, based on a second operation, authentication information to be used for user authentication, at a position where the first operation is accepted;
- and
- an activating unit configured to activate the application selected by the first operation, in a case where the user authentication is permitted based on the authentication information.
An information processing method comprising:
- accepting a first operation of indicating an instruction to select an application;
- acquiring authentication information to be used for user authentication, based on a second operation;
- tracking that the first operation is continuously performed so as to approach an area where the second operation is performed, and the second operation is performed as a part of the first operation;
- and
- activating the application selected by the first operation, in a case where a predetermined user is identified based on the authentication information.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of storing a program to cause a computer to perform an information processing method comprising:
- accepting a first operation of indicating an instruction to select an application;
- acquiring authentication information to be used for user authentication, based on a second operation;
- tracking that the first operation is continuously performed so as to approach an area where the second operation is performed, and the second operation is performed as a part of the first operation;
- and
- activating the application selected by the first operation, in a case where a predetermined user is identified based on the authentication information.
An information processing method comprising:
- accepting a first operation of indicating an instruction to select an application;
- acquiring, based on a second operation, authentication information to be used for user authentication, at a position where the first operation was accepted;
- and
- activating the application selected by the first operation, in a case where the user authentication was permitted based on the authentication information.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of storing a program to cause a computer to perform an information processing method comprising:
- accepting a first operation of indicating an instruction to select an application;
- acquiring, based on a second operation, authentication information to be used for user authentication, at a position where the first operation was accepted;
- and
- activating the application selected by the first operation, in a case where the user authentication was permitted based on the authentication information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.