Information processing apparatus
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorKenji Tokutake
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus including a touch panel that detects a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller that determines a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance, and controls a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a display configured to display one or a plurality of objects;
- a touch panel configured to detect a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel;
- and
- circuitry configured to
- control the display to display a first object selected by a user through the non-contact operation from among a plurality of objects on the display in a first display form different from display forms of the other objects when it is determined that the non-contact operation is within a predetermined range of the touch panel;
- and
- control the display to display the first object in a second display form different from the first display form when it is determined that the non-contact operation is not within the predetermined range of the touch panel,
- wherein the plurality of objects comprises a plurality of representations each representing one of a plurality of data files, and
- wherein the first display form comprises a first graphical representation of the object, the second display form comprises a second graphical representation of the object, and the first graphical representation and the second graphical representation differ in a respect other than size.
A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- displaying one or a plurality of objects;
- detecting a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of a touch panel;
- displaying a first object selected by a user through the non-contact operation from among a plurality of objects on the display in a first display form different from display forms of the other objects when it is determined that the non-contact operation is within a predetermined range of the touch panel;
- and
- displaying the first object in a second display form different from the first display form when it is determined that the non-contact operation is not within the predetermined range of the touch panel,
- wherein the plurality of objects comprises a plurality of representations each representing one of a plurality of data files, and
- wherein the first display form comprises a first graphical representation of the object, the second display form comprises a second graphical representation of the object, and the first graphical representation and the second graphical representation differ in a respect other than size.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to:
- detect a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of a touch panel;
- display a first object selected by a user through the non-contact operation from among a plurality of objects on a display in a first display form different from display forms of the other objects when it is determined that the non-contact operation is within a predetermined range of the touch panel;
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- display the first object in a second display form different from the first display form when it is determined that the non-contact operation is not within the predetermined range of the touch panel,
- wherein the plurality of objects comprises a plurality of representations each representing one of a plurality of data files, and
- wherein the first display form comprises a first graphical representation of the object, the second display form comprises a second graphical representation of the object, and the first graphical representation and the second graphical representation differ in a respect other than size.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.