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| 20090016645 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a taken-image acquisition section configured to acquire a taken image; and a to-be-processed area setting section configured to carry out an analysis on a taken image acquired by the taken-image acquisition section and configured to use the pixel area of a photographed-subject image of a specific type in the taken image as a to-be-processed area of an image conversion process in accordance with the size of the photographed-subject image if a result of the analysis indicates that the photographed-subject image exists in the taken image. The apparatus further includes an image conversion section configured to carry out the image conversion process on the photographed-subject image with the pixel area thereof used as the to-be-processed area in order to generate a post-conversion image obtained as a result of the image conversion process. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090146968 | INPUT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, INPUT METHOD, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image acquisition section | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090147027 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus that classifies objects having the respective attribute information which are disposed on a display screen of a graphical user interface, the apparatus including an operation information acquisition unit that acquires operation information containing movement information which indicates a position of a movement destination of the object on the display screen, an instructive request estimate unit that estimates an instructive request for classification processing on the object based on the attribute information and the movement information of the object, a classification processing unit that classifies the object based on the estimated instructive request, and a display control unit that controls display of the object on the display screen. Thus, the user can easily classify the objects without explicitly specifying classification conditions or instructing the performing of the classification processing. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090262091 | Information Processing Apparatus and Vibration Control Method in Information Processing Apparatus - 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. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090322926 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - 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. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100005418 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information display device includes: an image display unit that displays a plurality of images in a spiral manner according to a predetermined order; an operation information input, unit that, inputs operation information for the plurality of images; and a display processing unit that displays the plurality of images on the image display unit such that, in accordance with movement angle information and angular velocity information obtained from the operation information, the plurality of images are moved in a generally circumferential direction of a spiral formed of the plurality of images. Thus, the spirally arranged images are moved in the generally circumferential direction of the spiral, in accordance with the movement angle information and the angular velocity information obtained from the operation information. Therefore, compared to a case where an up-down-left-right key or the like is used, a particular one of the images can be selected through intuitive operation. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005428 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AUXILIARY INFORMATION - There is provided an information processing apparatus, including a direction detection unit that detects a drawing direction of a locus drawn in an input process of a gesture when the gesture is input, a gesture search unit that searches for the gesture matching the drawing direction of the locus detected by the direction detection unit from among a plurality of predetermined gestures, and an auxiliary information display unit that displays a search result by the gesture search unit in a screen as auxiliary information each time the drawing direction of the locus is detected by the direction detection unit. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100037183 | Display Apparatus, Display Method, and Program - A display method including the steps of displaying document data and/or content data including a plurality of objects, controlling an arrangement position of a translucent focus area on a display unit, where the focus area is provided to make the object enter a selection state, detecting a position on the display unit, where a user contacts the display unit at the position, and moving the focus area as the contact position is moved when the detected arrangement position of the focus area is approximately equivalent to the detected contact position is provided. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100097338 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A display apparatus is provided which includes a display control unit which displays predetermined information on a display screen, a position detecting unit which detects a touch position on the display screen touched by a touch substance, and a display splitting unit which, when the position detecting unit detects at least two touch positions, splits the display screen into at least two display areas according to movement of at least one of the at least two touch positions. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100103132 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display panel on which a plurality of objects of moving picture contents are displayed along a predetermined direction; an input position detecting unit that detects a position of an operator positioned on the display panel; a selected object detecting unit that detects an object selected by the operator; a block division unit that divides content data corresponding to the object detected by the selected object detecting unit into a plurality of blocks and generates an object corresponding to a block top image which is an image positioned at the top of each block; and a display controlling unit that arranges a plurality of block top images in a time order and hierarchically displaying them with the selected object as a reference. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100104177 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An input control unit that receives first content data from a content delivery apparatus via a communication unit, converts the first content data into first image data before causing a storage unit to store the first image data, receives second content data generated by a portion or all of the first content data being updated from the content delivery apparatus via the communication unit, and converts the second content data into second image data before causing the storage unit to store the second image data, a center of gravity candidate region extraction unit that calculates difference values of color information between corresponding pixels of the first image data and the second image data stored in the storage unit and extracts a center of gravity candidate region, which is a region constituted by pixels the difference values of which exceed a threshold value stored in the storage unit. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100110031 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus has: a touch operating unit touch-operating by at least operators; a detecting unit for detecting a touch state of each of the operators in touch with the touch operating unit; a coordinate system determining unit for determining a coordinate system of the touch operating unit in accordance with an operating direction of the operators detected by the detecting unit; a relative position calculating unit for calculating a relative position of each of the two or more operators from a touch position of the operators detected by the detecting unit and the coordinate system of the touch operating unit determined by the coordinate system determining unit; and a command issuing unit for issuing a predetermined operation command based on the touch state of each of the operators detected by the detecting unit at the relative position of the operators calculated by the relative position calculating unit. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100156830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100177121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a detection unit for detecting an angle of an operating body to a reference coordinate axis on a display screen and an execution unit for executing a predetermined processing in accordance with the angle of the operating body detected by the detection unit. | 07-15-2010 |
