JP2006260575A - Information processor, image moving indication method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor, an image moving indication method, and a program for selecting an arbitrary image from among a plurality of images and indicating its travel destination by simple operation. <P>SOLUTION: This information processor includes an image display means for displaying one or a plurality of object images 60 on a display screen, a locus acquisition means for acquiring a finite locus 64 of a position on the display screen indicated by a user, an image selection means for selecting all or a part of one or the plurality of object images 60 based on the locus 64 acquired by the locus acquisition means, and an image moving means for moving the object image 60 selected by the image selection means to a position corresponding to an end point 62e of the locus 64 acquired by the locus acquisition means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an image movement instruction method, and a program, and more particularly to a novel user interface for arbitrarily selecting a part or all of a plurality of images and instructing a movement destination of the selected image.

As a technique for moving an image such as an icon displayed on a display screen of a computer using a pointing device such as a mouse, there is a technique called “drag and drop”. In this method, a cursor can be displayed on a computer screen, and the cursor can be moved by a pointing device. Then, press the button provided on the pointing device to indicate the icon at the cursor display position, move the cursor while pressing the button, and release the button by pressing the button. The icon can be moved to the display position. According to this method, the icon can be moved by an intuitive operation.
JP 2003-84884 A

  However, the “drag and drop” is not always a convenient method for moving the display positions of a plurality of icons. That is, if the display position of a plurality of icons is to be moved by the “drag and drop”, the icons are first moved by enclosing the icons in a rectangle designated by the cursor, or by designating the icons one by one with the cursor. It is necessary to select a target icon, and the operation becomes complicated.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to select an arbitrary image from a plurality of images by a simple operation, and to specify the movement destination, and image movement It is to provide an instruction method and a program.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, an information processing apparatus according to the present invention acquires an image display unit that displays one or more images on a display screen, and a finite trajectory of a position on the display screen instructed by a user. A trajectory acquisition means, an image selection means for selecting all or part of the one or more images based on the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition means, and an end point of the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition means Image moving means for moving the image selected by the image selecting means to a position corresponding to the image selecting means, the image moving means aligning the images selected by the image selecting means on the display screen according to a predetermined standard. Including a means for causing.

  The image movement instruction method according to the present invention includes an image display step of displaying one or a plurality of images on a display screen, and a locus acquisition step of acquiring a finite locus of positions on the display screen instructed by a user. Based on the trajectory acquired in the trajectory acquisition step, an image selection step for selecting all or part of the one or more images, and a position corresponding to the end point of the trajectory acquired in the trajectory acquisition step And an image moving step for moving the image selected in the image selecting step, wherein the image moving step includes a step for aligning the images selected in the image selecting step on the display screen according to a predetermined standard. Including.

  The program according to the present invention includes an image display unit that displays one or more images on a display screen, a trajectory acquisition unit that acquires a finite trajectory of a position on the display screen that is instructed by a user, and the trajectory acquisition unit. Image selecting means for selecting all or part of the one or a plurality of images based on the trajectory acquired by the above, and the image selecting means at a position corresponding to the end point of the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquiring means. A program for causing a computer to function as image moving means for moving an image selected by the image moving means, wherein the image moving means aligns the images selected by the image selecting means on the display screen according to a predetermined standard. It is characterized by including.

  Here, the computer is, for example, a home game machine, an arcade game machine, a portable game machine, a personal computer, a portable information terminal, a mobile phone, or the like. The program may be stored in any computer-readable information storage medium such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or ROM cartridge.

  According to the present invention, when the user designates a finite trajectory on the display screen, an image is selected based on the trajectory, and the selected image moves to the end point of the trajectory. The trajectory may be specified by, for example, a plurality of passing points at the position indicated by the user. In this case, an image may be selected based on the plurality of passing points. According to the present invention, the user can select an arbitrary image from a plurality of images and instruct the movement destination by a simple operation. In addition, image alignment can be performed together with image movement.

  The image selecting means may select one or a plurality of images surrounded by the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquiring means. The image moving means may move the image selected by the image selecting means to the end point of the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquiring means.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an appearance of a portable game machine according to the present embodiment. A portable game machine 10 shown in FIG. 1 includes an upper housing 12 and a lower housing 14. The upper housing 12 and the lower housing 14 are coupled via a hinge portion 16. The portable game machine 10 has a play state in which the user can see the surfaces of the upper housing 12 and the lower housing 14 as shown in the figure, and the surface of the upper housing 12 and the surface of the lower housing 14. It is designed to be in a folded state. According to the portable game machine 10, the user can play the game regardless of the place by battery driving.

  A liquid crystal display panel 18 is provided on the surface of the upper housing 12. The upper housing 12 has a built-in speaker. On the other hand, on the surface of the lower housing 14, a touch screen 20, a cross key 22, and buttons 24a, 24b, 24c, and 24d are provided. The touch screen 20 is configured by overlaying a known touch panel (touch panel unit 56 in FIG. 2) on a known liquid crystal display panel (first liquid crystal display panel unit 40 in FIG. 2). Further, a cartridge slot 26 configured to allow the game cartridge to be attached and detached is provided on the front side surface of the lower housing 14. The cartridge slot 26 is also provided on the back side surface of the lower housing 14 (not shown). Note that other members (not shown) such as a power switch are also attached to the portable game machine 10.

  FIG. 2 shows a hardware configuration of the portable game machine 10. The portable game machine 10 according to the present embodiment is a known computer game system, in which a game cartridge 48 incorporating a ROM is mounted on a cartridge interface (cartridge I / F) 46, and a game program stored in the ROM is stored. It is read into the portable game machine 10. Here, the game cartridge 48 is used to supply the game program to the portable game machine 10, but any other computer-readable information storage medium such as a CD-ROM or DVD can also be used. In addition, it is possible to supply a game program to the portable game machine 10 from a remote place via a communication network such as the Internet, and a stationary game machine or personal computer using various data communication such as infrared communication. It is also possible to supply the game program to the portable game machine 10 from the above.

  The portable game machine 10 includes a bus 32, a microprocessor 34, a main memory 36, an image processing unit 38, a first liquid crystal display panel unit 40, a second liquid crystal display panel unit 42, an input / output processing unit 44, a cartridge I / F 46, This is a known computer game system including an audio processing unit 50, a speaker 52, an operation key unit 54, and a touch panel unit 56. These are housed in a casing together with a battery, and are driven by the battery and are portable.

  The bus 32 is used for exchanging addresses and data among the units of the portable game machine 10. The microprocessor 34, the main memory 36, the image processing unit 38, and the input / output processing unit 44 are connected to each other via the bus 32 so that mutual data communication is possible.

  The microprocessor 34 controls each part of the portable game machine 10 based on an operating system stored in a ROM (not shown) and a game program read from the game cartridge 48. The main memory 36 includes, for example, a RAM, and a game program read from the game cartridge 48 is written as necessary. The main memory 36 is also used for work of the microprocessor 34.

  The 1st liquid crystal display panel part 40 and the 2nd liquid crystal display panel part 42 are comprised by a well-known liquid crystal display panel. The first liquid crystal display panel unit 40 includes a liquid crystal display panel of the touch screen 20 provided in the lower housing 14. Further, the second liquid crystal display panel unit 42 includes the liquid crystal display panel 18 of the upper housing 12. The image processing unit 38 causes the first liquid crystal display panel unit 40 and / or the second liquid crystal display panel unit 42 to display and output the game image data generated by the microprocessor 34 at a predetermined timing.

  The input / output processing unit 44 is an interface for the microprocessor 34 to access the cartridge I / F 46, the sound processing unit 50, the operation key unit 54, and the touch panel unit 56. A cartridge I / F 46, a sound processing unit 50, an operation key unit 54, and a touch panel unit 56 are connected to the input / output processing unit 44.

  The cartridge I / F 46 has an opening for accommodating the game cartridge 48, and a signal input / output terminal is provided at the back of the cartridge I / F 46. Then, the game cartridge 48 is pushed into the opening and the signal input / output terminal and the terminal (not shown) of the game cartridge 48 are connected to each other so that signals can be exchanged with the game cartridge 48. Yes.

  The sound processing unit 50 includes a sound buffer, and outputs various sound data such as game music, game sound effects, and messages read from the game cartridge 48 and stored in the sound buffer from the speaker 52.

  The operation key unit 54 is an input means for a user to perform a game operation, and includes the cross key 22, buttons 24a, 24b, 24c, 24d and the like shown in FIG. The input / output processing unit 44 scans the state of each unit of the operation key unit 54 at regular intervals (for example, every 1/60 seconds), and passes an operation signal representing the scan result to the microprocessor 34 via the bus 32. The microprocessor 34 determines the user's game operation based on the operation signal.

  The touch panel unit 56 is input means for a user to input a game operation. The touch panel unit 56 acquires position coordinates indicating the position on the touch screen 20 that is pressed by a user's finger or stylus at predetermined time intervals, and supplies the position coordinates to the microprocessor 34.

  Further, as described above, the touch panel unit 56 is provided so as to overlap the first liquid crystal panel unit 40, and is configured by a known resistive film type (pressure sensitive type) touch panel, for example. That is, the touch panel unit 56 includes an upper conductive film (resistance film) and a lower conductive film (resistance film). A space is formed between these films, and only when the touch panel portion 56 is pressed, these films come into contact with each other and are energized. The touch panel unit 56 detects a voltage output when the upper conductive film and the lower conductive film are in contact with each other, and outputs the position coordinates of the pressed position acquired based on the output voltage. Here, the touch panel unit 56 is described as being configured by a resistive film type touch panel, but the touch panel unit 56 may be configured by another type of touch panel. In the present embodiment, the user touches an arbitrary position of the touch panel unit 56 directly or indirectly, moves the contact position in a state of being touched as it is, and then stops contact with the touch panel unit 56 (releases the hand). A trajectory having a finite length can be input to the portable game machine 10.

  Here, using the portable game machine 10 having the above hardware configuration, a method for realizing an information processing apparatus capable of selecting an arbitrary one from a plurality of images by a simple operation and instructing the destination Will be described.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of a game screen displayed on the touch screen 20, and FIG. 3A shows a game screen before an image movement instruction is given by the user, and FIG. FIG. 4C shows a game screen after an image is moved in accordance with an image movement instruction from the user.

  In the portable game machine 10, when the user touches the surface of the touch screen 20 with a stylus or the like, the contact position is input to the portable game machine 10. As shown in FIG. 2A, object images 60a to 60f are represented on the game screen displayed on the touch screen 20, and these object images 60a to 60f represent, for example, game characters. In the state where this game screen is displayed, as shown in FIG. 5B, the user touches the touch start position 62s of the touch screen 20 with the stylus and so on (with the stylus etc. in contact with the touch screen 20). ) A finite length from the contact start position 62s to the contact end position 62e by moving the contact position so as to surround the display positions of the object images 60b to 60e and separating the stylus from the touch screen 20 at the contact end position 62e. Can be input to the portable game machine 10. As described above, the trajectory 64 is input to the portable game machine 10 as a plurality of position coordinates (position coordinate sequence) on the trajectory 64.

  In the portable game machine 10, the object 60 b to 60 e surrounded by the trajectory 64 among the object images 60 a to 60 f is selected as a movement target based on the trajectory 64 thus input. Then, the object images 60b to 60e selected by the locus 64 of the designated position input by these users are the first toward the contact end position 62e that is the end point of the locus 64, as shown in FIG. The display position on the liquid crystal display panel unit 40 is moved. At this time, the object images 60b to 60e are arranged in an order according to a predetermined standard from the vicinity of the contact end position 62e to the far side while moving toward the contact end position 62e. This predetermined reference may be, for example, the ascending order or descending order of various attribute values of the object image 60 (if the object image 60 indicates a game character, the various attribute values of the game character).

  As described above, in the portable game machine 10, a trajectory 64 having a finite length is drawn on the touch screen 20 with a stylus or the like, and the trajectory 64 surrounds one or a plurality of object images 60 to be moved. The object image 60 surrounded by 64 can be moved toward the contact end position 62e, which is the end point of the locus 64, and the selected object images 60 can be aligned in a predetermined order.

  4 and 5 are diagrams showing an example of the configuration of an object database stored / updated in the main memory 36 in order to realize such a user interface. FIG. 4 shows an object database before a movement instruction for the object image 60 is shown. FIG. 5 shows the contents of the object database after the movement instruction to the object image 60 is shown. As shown in FIG. 4, the object database includes an object ID for identifying the object images 60 a to 60 f displayed on the touch screen 20, and when the object image 60 is displayed in alignment on the touch screen 20. The object ID (previous object ID) of the object image 60 located immediately before, the object ID (rear object ID) of the object image 60 located immediately after, the display position and direction of each object image 60 on the touch screen 20, The attributes of each object image 60 are stored in association with each other, and before the movement instruction for the object image 60, “NULL” indicating that there is no corresponding object is stored in the column of the previous object ID and the subsequent object ID. Has been.

  Then, when an instruction to move the object image 60 is given from the user as shown in FIG. 3B, the fields of the front object ID, the rear object ID, and the position / direction of the object image 60 selected by the user are displayed. It has been updated. Specifically, the attributes of the selected object images 60 are read from the object database, and the selected object images 60 are ordered according to their values. In the previous object ID column corresponding to each object image 60, the object ID of the object image 60 that will be located immediately before the object image 60 in the row of the object images 60 according to the ordering is stored. Further, the object ID of the object image 60 to be located immediately after is stored in the rear object ID column. In addition, “NULL” is stored in the front object ID column of the object image 60 that is positioned at the head and the rear object ID column of the object image 60 that is positioned at the end as a result of the ordering. . At this time, the display position and direction of each object image 60 after movement are stored in the position / direction column.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing object image movement processing executed by the portable game machine 10 according to the present embodiment. The object image movement process shown in the figure is a process realized by the microprocessor 34 executing a program stored in the game cartridge 48. First, data of the locus 64 of the indicated position on the touch screen 20 is acquired. (S101). Here, the data of the locus 64 includes a plurality of position coordinates 70-1 to 70-12 on the locus 64, as shown in FIG. Next, the portable game machine 10 selects the object image 60 surrounded by the locus 64 (S102). For example, as shown in FIG. 7, a plurality of (for example, two) virtual straight lines extending in a predetermined direction through the display position 72 of each object image 60 displayed on the touch screen 20 on the touch screen 20. It is determined whether all of 74 have two intersections across the locus 64 and the display position 72 of the object image 60. If all of the plurality of virtual straight lines 74 have two intersections with the locus 64, it is determined that the object image 60 is surrounded by the locus 64.

  Thereafter, each attribute of the object image 60 selected by the trajectory 64 is read from the object database, and its ascending order or descending order is obtained. Thereby, the arrangement order of the selected object images 60 is determined (S103). Then, the display position and direction of each object image 60 after movement, the previous object ID and the rear object ID related to each object image 60 are written in the object database (S104). Then, the selected object images 60 are moved on the touch screen 20 so as to be aligned toward the position coordinates 70-12 that is the end point of the trajectory 64 in that order (S105), and the processing is ended.

  According to the portable game machine 10 described above, a plurality of object images 60 are displayed on the touch screen 20 that is a display screen, and a finite locus 64 of the indicated position on the touch screen 20 by the user is acquired. Then, all or some of the plurality of object images 60 are selected based on the acquired trajectory 64. Then, the selected object image 60 moves to the contact end position 62e that is the end point of the acquired trajectory 64. For this reason, the user touches the touch screen 20 with a stylus or the like, draws a locus 64, and only releases the stylus or the like from the touch screen 20. Can be moved toward. For this reason, it becomes possible to select an arbitrary image from a plurality of images and to instruct the movement destination by a very simple operation. At this time, since the object images 60 are arranged in the order corresponding to the attributes, the convenience for the user can be improved.

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment.

  For example, in the above embodiment, the touch screen 20 (touch panel unit 56) is used to input the trajectory 64, but the trajectory 64 having a finite length may be input using a pointing device such as a mouse. In this case, a cursor may be displayed on the display screen, and a portion of the locus while the button provided on the pointing device is pressed may be used as the locus 64 having a finite length. The present invention is applicable not only to the portable game machine 10 but also to any other computer.

  Furthermore, the selected object image 60 may move linearly toward the contact end position 62e, or may move along another route. For example, as shown in FIG. 8A, when the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d are surrounded and selected by a locus 64 that passes through the position coordinates 70-1 to 70-6, the object images 60b, 60c are selected. , 60d are ordered according to their attribute values, and the foremost object image (here, object image 60b) is moved to the position coordinate 70-1 that is the contact start position, and then the object image 60b is moved along the locus 64 from there. May be moved to the position coordinates 70-6 which is the contact end position. The other object images 60c and 60d may be moved following the object image 60b in the order according to the attribute values. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8B, after the movement is completed, the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d are aligned at the end of the locus 64 along the locus 64 in the order according to the attribute value. Become.

  Further, instead of moving the object image 60 from the start point to the end point of the trajectory 64, the intersection 80 of the trajectory 64 is calculated, and the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d have position coordinates 70-1 to 70-70 as shown in FIG. When the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d are surrounded by the trajectory 64 passing through -9 and selected, the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d are ordered by their attribute values, and the first object image (also referred to as object image 60b) is moved to the intersection 80 From there, the object image 60b may be moved along the locus 64 to the position coordinates 70-9 that is the contact end position. In this case, the object image 60b may be moved to the position coordinates 70-2 and then moved to the position coordinates 70-3, 70-4,..., 70-9, or the position coordinates 70-8, 70-. 9 may be moved. Also at this time, the other object images 60c and 60d may be moved following the object image 60b in the order according to the attribute values. In addition, after the movement is completed, the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d are aligned with the end of the locus 64 along the locus 64 in the order according to the attribute value as shown in FIG. 8B.

  Furthermore, instead of aligning all the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d along the locus 64 after the movement is completed as shown in FIG. 8B, the object image 60b on a straight line regardless of the bending of the locus 64. , 60c, 60d may be aligned. That is, as shown in FIG. 10A, when the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d are surrounded and selected by the locus 64 that passes through the position coordinates 70-1 to 70-9, the object images 60b, 60c, 60d is ordered according to its attribute value, and the foremost object image (also referred to as object image 60b) is moved to the start point or intersection of the locus 64, and the object image 60b is moved along the locus 64 from the contact end position. To position coordinates 70-9. The other object images 60c and 60d are moved following the object image 60b in the order according to the attribute values. At the end of the movement, the object image 60 other than the top object image 60b, that is, the object images 60c and 60d following the top object image 60b, deviates from the locus 64 and specifies the position coordinate sequence 70- 1 to 70-9, it is moved on a straight line connecting the position coordinate 70-9, which is the position coordinate input last, and the position coordinate 70-8, which is the position coordinate input immediately before. In this way, as shown in FIG. 10B, the attribute value is set on the straight line connecting the position coordinate 70-9 that is the contact end position and the position coordinate 70-8 that is the position coordinate input immediately before the position coordinate. The object images 60b, 60c, and 60d can be aligned in a corresponding order.

  As described above, when aligning the object images 60b, 60c, and 60d, by selecting at least a part of the object images 60b along the trajectory 64, an arbitrary image can be selected from a plurality of images with a very simple operation. At the same time, not only can the movement destination be designated, but also the alignment direction can be designated.

1 is an external view of a portable game machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the portable game machine which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows transition of the game screen before and behind the locus | trajectory input by a user. It is a figure which shows the structure of an object database. It is a figure which shows the structure of an object database. It is a flowchart which shows an object image movement process. It is a figure explaining the process which judges the object image enclosed by the locus | trajectory input by the user. It is a figure which shows the variation of the movement path | route of an object image. It is a figure which shows the variation of the movement path | route of an object image. It is a figure which shows the variation of the movement path | route of an object image.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Portable game machine, 12 Upper housing | casing, 14 Lower housing | casing, 16 Hinge part, 18 Liquid crystal display panel, 20 Touch screen, 22 Cross key, 24 button, 26 Cartridge slot, 32 bus | bath, 34 Microprocessor, 38 Image processing 40, first liquid crystal display panel unit, 42 second liquid crystal display panel unit, 44 input / output processing unit, 46 cartridge interface, 48 game cartridge, 50 sound processing unit, 52 speaker, 54 operation key unit, 56 touch panel unit, 60 Object image, 62s contact start position, 62e contact end position, 64 locus, 70 position coordinates, 72 (object image) display position, 74 straight line, 80 intersection.

Claims (5)

Image display means for displaying one or more images on a display screen;
Trajectory acquisition means for acquiring a finite trajectory of the position on the display screen instructed by the user;
Image selecting means for selecting all or part of the one or more images based on the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquiring means;
Image moving means for moving the image selected by the image selecting means to a position corresponding to the end point of the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquiring means,
The image moving means includes means for aligning the images selected by the image selecting means on the display screen according to a predetermined standard.
An information processing apparatus characterized by that. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The image selecting means selects one or more images surrounded by the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquiring means;
An information processing apparatus characterized by that. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
The image moving means moves the image selected by the image selecting means to the end point of the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquiring means;
An information processing apparatus characterized by that. An image display step for displaying one or more images on the display screen;
A trajectory acquisition step of acquiring a finite trajectory of the position on the display screen instructed by the user;
An image selection step of selecting all or part of the one or more images based on the trajectory acquired in the trajectory acquisition step;
An image moving step of moving the image selected in the image selection step to a position corresponding to an end point of the trajectory acquired in the trajectory acquisition step,
The image moving step includes a step for aligning the images selected in the image selecting step on the display screen according to a predetermined standard.
An image movement instruction method characterized by the above. Image display means for displaying one or more images on a display screen;
Trajectory acquisition means for acquiring a finite trajectory of the position on the display screen instructed by the user,
Based on the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition unit, an image selection unit that selects all or part of the one or more images, and a position corresponding to an end point of the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition unit, A program for causing a computer to function as image moving means for moving an image selected by the image selecting means,
The image moving means includes means for aligning the images selected by the image selecting means on the display screen according to a predetermined standard.
A program characterized by that.

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