Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11460997-B2
Application number	US-202117515828-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2021
Priority date	Dec 15, 2008
Publication date	Oct 4, 2022
Grant date	Oct 4, 2022

Abstract

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for playback of a video content, the apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
generate and display a slider object representing a playback range timeline of the video content, the slider object displaying at least one time value associated with playback;
display a thumb on the slider object that indicates a first position on the slider object;
receive an indication that a user has touched the thumb and scrolled the thumb to a second position; and
display an indication of the time on the timeline corresponding to the second position.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to display an indication of the time on the timeline corresponding to the first position.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to identify a time on the timeline corresponding to the second position on the slider object indicated as being touched by the user.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to resume playback from the second position.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to update the at least one time value associated with playback in response to movement of the thumb.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the at least one time value associated with playback is a time value associated with a current playback position.

7. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the at least one time value associated with playback is a time value indicating a time until playback ends.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the time value indicating a time until playback ends is determined by subtracting a time value associated with a current playback position from a maximum value of the playback range timeline.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one time value associated with playback is a time value associated with a current playback position and a time value indicating a time until playback ends.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second position is earlier in the playback range timeline than the first position.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second position is later in the playback range timeline than the first position.

12. An apparatus for playback of a video content, the apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
generate and display a slider object representing a playback range timeline of the video content;
display a thumb on the slider object that indicates a position associated with playback;
display a start edge value indicating a time value associated with playback corresponding to the position of the thumb;
receive an indication that a user has touched the thumb and scrolled the thumb to a second position; and
update the start edge value to display an indication of the time on the timeline corresponding to the second position.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processor is further configured to update the start edge value in response to movement of the thumb.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the start edge value is a time value associated with a current playback position.

15. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processor is further configured to display an end edge value indicating a time value associated with a time until playback ends.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to update the end edge value in response to movement of the thumb.

17. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the end edge value is determined by subtracting a time value associated with a current playback position from a maximum value of the playback range timeline.

18. A method for playback of a video content, the method comprising:
generating and displaying a slider object representing a playback range timeline of the video content;
displaying at least one time value associated with playback;
displaying a thumb on the slider object that indicates a first position associated with playback;
determining that a user has touched the thumb and scrolled the thumb to a second position on the slider object;
displaying an indication of the time on the timeline corresponding to the second position; and
resuming playback from the second position.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the second position is earlier in the playback range timeline.

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the second position is later in the playback range timeline.

Assignees

• Drnc Holdings Inc

Inventors

• Homma Fuminori
• Matsuda Kouichi
• Nashida Tatsushi

Classifications

• G06F3/04847 Primary

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F3/04855

  Interaction with scrollbars · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title