JP2005284404A - Information processor and information processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor which easily copes even with any erroneous operation or the change of operations. <P>SOLUTION: When a button depressed by a user is a control object button (a step 3: Yes), an integral control part 207 reads an initial residual cancellation time from a storage part 204 (a step 4), and notifies a GUI display switching part 208 of the result of the depression of the control object button and the initial residual cancellation time, and starts the timer of a counting part 206 (a step 5). The GUI display switching part 208 switches the display of the "processing execution" button notified from the integral control part 207 to the display of the "cancellation" button, and displays the residual cancelable time (a step 6). At the time of confirming the depression of the "cancellation" button within a predetermined time (a step 8: Yes), the integral control part 207 notifies the GUI display switching part 208 to return the display of the "cancellation" button to the display of the original "processing execution " button (a step 9). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus having a GUI (Graphical User Interface) function, and more particularly, to an input control technique for displayed buttons in the GUI function.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, personal computers, mobile phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and the like have a function of providing a user with a GUI and receiving an instruction from the user through the GUI. In recent years, regarding the GUI function, proposals for new functions and function improvements have been made.

For example, when a button is selected by the user, a technique for improving visibility in button operation by highlighting the button for a certain period of time (inverted, blinking, changing display color, etc.) has been proposed ( For example, see Patent Document 1).
JP 2003-216301 A

However, the technique of the above-mentioned Patent Document 1 only performs highlighting of the button selected as described above.
Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide an information processing apparatus and the like that can easily cope with an erroneous operation or a change in operation.

    In order to achieve the above object, an information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a button display unit that displays a button that receives an instruction from a user, a press reception unit that receives a press of the displayed button, and a predetermined button after the press. And an operation delay means for starting time countdown, displaying information indicating the countdown, and executing processing corresponding to the accepted button when the predetermined time has elapsed.

  As a result, the processing of the button pressed by the user is delayed for a certain time, so that another operation (for example, an operation for canceling) can be performed during the delayed time.

  Furthermore, in order to achieve the above object, the operation delay means of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention cancels the button instead of displaying the pressed button when it is determined that the button can be canceled. A display changing unit for changing to a display indicating a possible time, and when the button relating to the display after the change is pressed within the cancelable time, the pressing of the button pressed in the press receiving means is invalidated It is good also as providing the press invalidation part to perform.

  As a result, the display of a general button pressed by the user is changed to a countdown display, and cancellation of the button is accepted until the count reaches 0, so that the button that has been pressed once can be invalidated. It becomes possible.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is realized as an information processing method having the characteristic functional configuration of the information processing apparatus as steps, or causes a personal computer or the like to execute a program including all these steps. It is also possible to do. Needless to say, the program can be distributed not only in a ROM or the like provided in the information processing apparatus but also via a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a transmission medium such as a communication network. .

  According to the present invention, when a user who operates while looking at a GUI screen, etc., operates the wrong button, or wants to change the designated operation content, the user can cancel the wrong button operation, The contents can be changed.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. The information processing apparatus 100 is an apparatus that accepts a “cancel” instruction from a user for a certain time after a specific button is pressed, and includes an input key 101, a pointing device 102, a display 103, a CPU 104, a main storage device 105, an auxiliary device A storage device 106 and an internal bus 107 are provided.

  The input key 101 is, for example, a keyboard or a button key, and receives instructions such as numbers and characters from the user. The pointing device 102 is, for example, a mouse or a pen, and accepts designation of an arbitrary coordinate position from the user. The display 103 is, for example, a liquid crystal panel, and displays windows, buttons, and the like based on an application program 114 described later. The CPU 104 is an arithmetic unit for performing overall control of the information processing apparatus 100. The main storage device 105 is, for example, a RAM, and stores programs, variables, and the like at the time of calculation in the CPU 104.

  The auxiliary storage device 106 is, for example, a hard disk device, and stores a GUI control program 111, a remaining cancellation time file 112, a control target button list 113, an application program 114, and the like. Here, the “GUI control program” refers to a program for controlling a display indicating that cancellation is possible for a specific button displayed on the display and a process associated with the cancellation. The “remaining cancellation time file” is a file that stores an “initial remaining cancellation time” that indicates the maximum time that can be canceled for a specific button and a “remaining cancellation time” that is a variable of time. The “control target button list” is a file for storing information indicating buttons to be canceled on the application.

The internal bus 107 is, for example, a PCI bus, and is a path for exchanging data between the above hardware.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. The information processing apparatus 100 includes an input unit 201, an input data separation unit 202, an initial setting unit 203, a storage unit 204, a timing unit 206, an overall control unit 207, a GUI display switching unit 208, a display control unit 209, a display unit 210, and an application An execution unit 211 is provided.

  The input unit 201 is a department corresponding to the input key 101 and the pointing device 102 in FIG. 1 and receives various instructions from the user. The input data separation unit 202 identifies the instruction received via the input unit 201, transmits the content stored in the storage unit 204 to the initial setting unit 203, and transmits other content to the overall control unit 207.

  The initial setting unit 203 stores the content received from the input data separation unit 202 in the storage unit 204. The storage unit 204 is a department mainly corresponding to the auxiliary storage device 106 in FIG. 1 and holds the GUI control program 111, the remaining cancellation time file 112, the control target button list 113, the application program 114, and the like.

  The timer unit 206 is a timer that measures time based on an instruction from the overall control unit 207. The overall control unit 207 is a department corresponding to the CPU 104 in FIG. 1 and controls the entire apparatus 100.

  The GUI display switching unit 208 displays that the button can be canceled for a certain period of time when a previously specified button is pressed based on an instruction from the overall control unit 207 (for example, , The display control unit 209 is instructed to switch to “display of“ cancel ”button”.

  The display control unit 209 controls display on the display unit 210 based on instructions from the overall control unit 207 and the GUI display switching unit 208. The display unit 210 is a department corresponding to the display 103 in FIG. 1, and performs display related to the application program 114 based on the control of the display control unit 209.

  The application execution unit 211 executes the application program 114 read via the overall control unit 207.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of data stored in the storage unit 204. FIG. 3A shows a specific example of “initial remaining cancellation time” and variable “remaining cancellation time” stored in the remaining cancellation time file 112. The “remaining cancellation time” is a variable that is decremented every 1 second from the “initial remaining cancellation time”.

  FIG. 3B is an example of information for specifying a button that is stored in the control target button list 113 and can be “cancelled” on the application. In the example of FIG. 3B, the “control target button name” indicating the name of the button presented to the user on the application is associated with the “widget name” in the GUI control program 111 corresponding thereto. Stored.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a process flow of the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. In the following flowchart, it is assumed that the “execute processing” button is pressed to change to a “cancel” button as an example of a control target button.

  First, the overall control unit 207 instructs the application execution unit 211 to start an application program, and reads a control target button list from the storage unit 204 to identify a control target button (step 1).

  Next, the overall control unit 207 monitors the pressing of the button from the user, and when the button is pressed (step 2: Yes), if the button is a control target button (step 3: Yes), the storage unit 204. The initial remaining cancellation time (for example, 10 seconds) is read from (step 4), and the GUI display switching unit 208 is notified that the control target button has been pressed and the initial remaining cancellation time. Immediately after this, the timer of the time measuring unit 206 is started (step 5).

  Thereby, the GUI display switching unit 208 switches the display of the “process execution” button received from the overall control unit 207 to “cancel” and also displays the remaining cancelable time (step 6).

  Thereafter, the overall control unit 207 starts accepting input of the “cancel” button (step 7), and confirms that the “cancel” button is pressed within a predetermined time (step 8: Yes), and displays the “cancel” button. The GUI display switching unit 208 is notified to return to the original “process execution” button display. Thereby, the GUI display switching unit 208 returns the display of the “cancel” button to the display of the original “process execution” button (step 9). In this case, the overall control unit 207 treats the “process execution” button as not pressed, and returns to the process of monitoring the button press (step 2) (step 10).

  On the other hand, if the “cancel” button is not pressed by the user (step 8: No), the overall control unit 207 remains based on the elapsed time per second (step 11: Yes) notified from the time measuring unit 206. The value of the cancellation time is decremented (step 12), and the value of the remaining cancellation time is notified to the GUI display switching unit 208. Thereby, the GUI display switching unit 208 updates the time display on the “cancel” button (step 13).

  If the “cancel” button is not pressed within a predetermined time (ie, within 10 seconds) by the user (step 14: Yes), the overall control unit 207 performs processing according to the pressed control target button. Is executed (step 15).

  FIG. 5 is a screen example displayed on the display unit 210 when the processing of FIG. 4 is executed. FIG. 5A is a display example when a “process execution” button, which is one of the control target buttons, is pressed. As shown in FIG. 5A, when the “process execution” button 502 is pressed by the user, the display changes to a “cancel (10 seconds)” button 503. Further, the display of the portion indicating the remaining cancelable time changes every 1 (that is, when the “execution of process” button 502 is pressed and 9 seconds have passed thereafter, the button is “cancel (1 second)”. Button 504).

  FIG. 5B is an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 210 when setting the initial remaining cancellation time. The setting screen 510 in FIG. 5B shows an example of accepting an “initial remaining cancellation time” from the user when the “setting” button 501 in FIG. 5A is pressed by the user. ing.

  FIG. 6 is another example of a screen displayed on the display unit 210 when the control target button is pressed. As shown in FIG. 6, when the “restart (R)” button 601 is pressed by the user, the button changes to a “cancel (10)” button 602. The “Cancel (10)” button 602 is a button having a larger size than the “Restart (R)” button 601, and an erroneous operation of pressing another button (for example, the “Power off” button 604). Avoid it. Further, in the “cancel (10)” button 602, the portion representing the time changes as the time elapses after being pressed (for example, changes to the “cancel (1)” button 603). As described above, the “Cancel (10)” button 602 and the “Cancel (1)” button 603 cancel the pressing of the “Restart (R)” button for a time during which the buttons can be pressed. Is possible time) is displayed. As shown in the changed buttons 602 and 603 in FIG. 6, a button that can be pressed is displayed (for example, “(restart (R))” in parentheses). It is good as well.

As described above, by using the information processing apparatus according to the present invention, it is possible to cancel pressing of a predetermined button within a certain time.
In the above-described embodiment, the cancelable time is “10 seconds”, but other values may be set.

  The present invention can be used for a terminal having a GUI function, such as a personal computer, a cellular phone, or a PDA, and a computer system including these terminals.

It is a block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the information processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the information processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. (A) is a figure which shows the specific example of the "initial remaining cancellation time" and the "remaining cancellation time" stored in the remaining cancellation time file. (B) is a figure which shows an example of the information for specifying the button which is stored in the control object button list and which can be "cancel" on an application. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of the information processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a display when the "process execution" button which is one of the control object buttons is pressed down. (B) is a figure which shows the example of a screen in the case of setting the initial remaining cancellation time. It is a figure which shows the other example of a screen when a control object button is pressed down.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Information processing apparatus 101 Input key 102 Pointing device 103 Display 104 CPU
105 Main storage device 106 Auxiliary storage device 107 Internal bus 111 GUI control program 112 Cancel time file 113 Control target button list 114 Application program 201 Input unit 202 Input data separation unit 203 Initial setting unit 204 Storage unit 205 Timekeeping unit 207 Overall control unit 208 GUI display switching unit 209 Display control unit 210 Display unit 211 Application execution unit

Claims (10)

Button display means for displaying a button for receiving an instruction from the user;
A press receiving means for receiving a press of the displayed button;
An operation delay unit that starts counting down for a predetermined time after the pressing, displays information indicating the countdown, and executes processing corresponding to the accepted button when the predetermined time has elapsed. An information processing apparatus characterized by that. The operation delay means is
Instead of displaying the pressed button, if it is determined that it can be canceled, a display change unit that changes to a display indicating a cancelable time for the button;
A press invalidating unit that invalidates the pressing of the pressed button in the press receiving means when the button related to the display after the change is pressed within the cancelable time. Item 6. The information processing apparatus according to Item 1. The display change unit further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a display indicating that the button is a button capable of canceling the button received by the press receiving unit is performed on the button related to the change. The display change unit
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the button related to the display after the change is displayed in a size larger than the size of the button pressed in the press receiving unit. The size of the button after the change is
The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the information processing apparatus has a size that covers a button displayed in the vicinity of a button pressed by the pressing reception unit. The cancellation display unit further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein information indicating a button pressed by the pressing reception unit is also written. A button display step for displaying a button for receiving an instruction from the user;
A press accepting step for accepting a press of the displayed button;
An operation delay step of starting a countdown for a predetermined time after the pressing, displaying information indicating the countdown, and executing a process corresponding to the accepted button when the predetermined time has elapsed. An information processing method characterized by the above. The operation delay step includes:
A display change sub-step for changing to display of a cancelable time for the button instead of displaying the pressed button when it is determined that cancellation is possible;
A press invalidation substep for invalidating the press of the button pressed in the press receiving means when the button related to the display after the change is pressed within the cancelable time. The information processing method according to claim 7. On the computer,
A button display step for displaying a button for receiving an instruction from the user;
A press accepting step for accepting a press of the displayed button;
An operation delay step of starting a countdown for a predetermined time after the pressing and displaying information indicating the countdown and executing a process corresponding to the accepted button when the predetermined time has elapsed. A program characterized by letting The operation delay step includes:
A display change sub-step for changing to display of a cancelable time for the button instead of displaying the pressed button when it is determined that cancellation is possible;
A press invalidation substep for invalidating the press of the button pressed in the press receiving means when the button related to the display after the change is pressed within the cancelable time. The program according to claim 9.

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