Program, information processing method, and information processing apparatus for indicating a search term in accordance with a user operation
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKouichi Matsuda
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus for indicating a search term in accordance with a user operation assigns an operating element of an operation input device to a search term having been input and displays an information image containing the search term on a screen on the basis of search processing using the search term. The information processing apparatus also indicates a position of the search term in the information image when operation information on the operating element assigned to the search term is input while the displaying is being performed. Therefore, a user can check where a search term is located in a displayed page using a variety of operation input devices.
Claims12
An information processing method comprising:
- inputting a plurality of search terms into a search term field;
- executing a search based upon the inputted search terms;
- obtaining a list of search results;
- selecting and opening a document from the search results;
- assigning an operating element of an operation input device to each of the inputted search terms;
- displaying the document containing the search terms on a screen;
- and
- while displaying the document on the screen and in response to operating the operating element that corresponds to one of the search terms, indicating a position of the corresponding search term in the document.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions thereon that when executed by an information processing apparatus cause the information processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:
- inputting a plurality of search terms into a search term field;
- executing a search based upon the inputted search terms;
- obtaining a list of search results;
- selecting and opening a document from the search results;
- assigning an operating element of an operation input device to each of the inputted search terms;
- displaying, on a screen, the document containing the search terms;
- and
- while displaying the document on the screen and in response to operating the operating element that corresponds to one of the search terms, indicating a position of the corresponding search term in the document.
An information processing apparatus comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions thereon that when executed performs a method comprising:
- inputting a plurality of search terms into a search term field;
- executing a search based upon the inputted search terms;
- obtaining a list of search results;
- selecting and opening a document from the search results;
- assigning an operating element of an operation input device to each of the inputted search terms;
- displaying the document containing the search terms on a screen;
- and
- while displaying the document on the screen and in response to operating the operating element that corresponds to one of the search terms, indicating a position of the corresponding search term in the document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.