Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a determination section for determining whether or not an input operation is valid on the basis of a proximity distance and a target object, and a process execution section for executing a process according to the input operation when it is determined that the input operation is valid. The proximity distance is a distance between a proximity detection type operation unit and an operating body performing the input operation using the proximity detection type operation unit. The target object is a target of the input operation.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control unit configured to acquire hover coordinates on the touch screen in accordance with a transition of mode to a hover mode, and determine both the acquired hover coordinates and coordinates obtained by adding a desired offset value to the hover coordinates as a range of a hover display to be displayed on the touch screen.

Abstract: An information processing device is disclosed. The information processing device includes an inclination detection unit configured to generate a first signal regarding inclination of the device. The information processing device also includes a display processing unit configured to, based on the first signal, generate a second signal to initiate a change in orientation of a display of content, and generate a third signal to cancel the change in orientation in response to receipt of a CANCEL command after initiation of the change.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control unit configured to identify hover coordinates displayed on a touch screen of a touch panel and a tilt of a device body, and determine an offset value of the identified hover coordinates in accordance with the identified tilt of the device body.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an event processing unit for performing in a background a process corresponding to an operation input that is estimated based on a state of an operating tool in a first state, and for performing, when the operating tool in the first state enters a second state, a feedback process for the operation input using the process performed in the background.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that moves a display position of an object in accordance with movement of a contact position when the position in a screen where the object is displayed is contacted and moved and a vibration control unit that vibrates the contact position with a vibration amount in accordance with a parameter amount of data associated with the object when the display position of the object moves.

Abstract: A method is provided for generating notifications. The method comprises obtaining position information of an operating member. The method further comprises determining an operation area based on the position information. The method also comprises generating a notification when the determined operation area corresponds to an edge region of a surface of a device.

Abstract: An operation control device includes a contact detection unit for detecting contact of an operation body with a display surface of a display unit on which information is displayed, a pressure detection unit, provided on the display unit, for detecting a pressure at which the operation body presses the display surface of the display unit, and an operation control unit for changing a display state of the information displayed on the display unit in a forward or reverse direction on the basis of an amount of pressure detected by the pressure detection unit until the operation body makes contact with and is separated from the display surface of the display unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting a contact operation and a pressure of an operating object on a contact operation surface, a display switching unit for switching display on a display screen according to the pressure of the operating object detected by the detection unit, and an execution unit for performing a predetermined process, in a case a predetermined operation of the operating object on the contact operation surface is detected by the detection unit while the display on the display screen is being switched by the display switching unit, according to the predetermined operation.

Abstract: A display control device according to the present invention includes a detection unit for detecting contact of an operating object on a display surface of a display unit, a position calculation unit for calculating a contact position, on the display surface, of the operating object whose contact has been detected by the detection unit, an operation process determination unit for determining, from a plurality of operation processes associated with a motion of the operating object, one operation process to be performed, according to a length of a contact time of continuously contacting the display surface within a first area including a reference contact position which is a contact position of the operating object at a time of the operating object being made to contact the display surface after a state of separation from the display surface, and an operation processing unit for changing display of the display unit by the operation process that is performed, based on a motion of the operating object that is furt

Abstract: A recording center station includes functions for receiving a broadcast wave and saving or recording received data. In response to a request from each receiving station, the recording center station substitutionally records a specified broadcast program and provides a recorded content. There may be the case where the receiving station cannot record a reserved program independently due to insufficient free space remaining in a recording medium or a recording apparatus failure. In this case, the receiving station can automatically issue a recording substitution request to the recording center station for substitution of the program recording.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying content stored as a plurality of pages is provided. The apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect a first user operation and a control unit configured to send signals to display one of the plurality of pages on a screen. The control unit is further configured to, when the detected first user operation comprises a page turn instruction, send signals to sequentially change the displayed page at a first rate when the displayed page is outside a first number of pages before or after a first marked page and sequentially change the displayed page at a second rate slower than the first rate when the displayed page is within the first number of pages before or after the first marked page.

Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display unit configured to display content to a user. The display unit includes a display surface, and the content is associated with at least a portion of a first page of an electronic document. A detection unit is configured to detect a first type of user activation associated with a first-type activation position on the display surface. A control unit is configured to determine whether the first-type activation position falls within a predetermined portion of the display screen, which is visually imperceptible to the user. The control unit is further configured to identify a first successive page of the electronic document based on at least the type of user activation, when the activation falls within the pre-determined portion.

Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction from a user to access portions of content associated with pages of an electronic document. The apparatus also includes a control unit configured to identify a page of the electronic document currently displayed to the user. The control unit is further configured to generate, in response to the instruction, sequential images corresponding to a transition between the identified page and a successive page, based on at least a position of the identified page within the electronic document.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a detection section configured to detect contact/proximity of an operating object with/to a display surface of a display section on which objects classified into groups in accordance with a relationship between the objects are displayed, a proximity determination section configured to determine a degree of proximity of the operating object to the display surface based on a detection result obtained by the detection section, and an operation-lock determination section configured, when the proximity determination section determines that the operating object touches the display surface, to disable an operation input to an object belonging to a group different from a group which an object that the operating object touches belongs to, until the operating object is positioned outside a proximity detection region, the proximity detection region being a region from the display surface to positions which are a predetermined distance away therefrom.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to prepare frame information that causes a frame to be displayed on a display unit at an operation target position that is an offset of a predetermined distance on said display from an operation detection position. The frame information is then sent to the display unit for displaying the frame. A recognition unit detects the operation detection position in response to a contact made with the display. The display may be a touch panel or a proximity detection display, and the frame has a shape with an interior portion, a border portion and an exterior portion.

Abstract: A touch panel is constructed by a display/sensor unit which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD and a sensor unit which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on the right. A finger of the user is touched to a selection item such as desired button, icon, or the like on the display/sensor unit and vertically moved on the sensor unit. A selection display constructed by a plurality of buttons is displayed along the side of the display screen by the LCD. A button beside the finger is highlighted. When the finger is released, the highlighted button is selected. If there are no buttons adjacent to the finger, the button is not highlighted. Even if the finger is released, the state is not changed. When finger is moved to the display/sensor unit, the selection display disappears.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation unit; and a control unit performing a process corresponding to dragging and displaying, on a display unit, a cursor which elongates from a start point of the dragging to an end point of the dragging and of which at least one of a size and a shape is different at one end portion, which is on a side of the start point of the dragging, and at the other end portion, which is on a side of the end point of the dragging, when the dragging is executed through the operation unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a display screen displaying a first image included in a continuously taken image group, a friction position detector detecting a friction position on the display screen rubbed by a user, and an image synthesizing unit synthesizing a pixel area of the first image corresponding to the friction position, and a pixel area of a second image included in the image group, wherein the image synthesizing unit switches the second image to be synthesized with the first image so as to increase an imaging time difference between the first image and the second image along with an increase in the amount of friction rubbed by the user.

Abstract: A user can be made to easily perform operation input without visually recognizing an operating face. Upon recognizing that an operation has been made as to the operating face of a touch panel (3C) where the contact portion of a finger is changed from the ball of the finger to the fingertip while keeping the finger in contact herewith, a music player device (1) estimates that the direction from the position where the fingertip has come into contact toward the position where the ball of the finger has come into contact is the wrist direction of the hand operating the touch panel (3C), and sets coordinate axes as to the operating face with this direction as the lower direction. The contact position where the finger has come into contact with the operating face is converted into coordinates based on the coordinate axes, and a command is input based on the coordinates.