JP2007065724A - Information processing program and information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the operation load of a pointing device for a user. <P>SOLUTION: A cursor moving direction deciding part 103a decides the moving direction of a mouse cursor on a picture to a target object to be processed. A display object determining part 103b extracts a processing object for performing processing to the target object existing in the predetermined range of the moving direction destination of the mouse cursor decided by the cursor moving direction deciding part 103a. Then, a display position is decided so that the extracted processing object can be displayed in the neighborhood of the target object. An object display part 103c displays the processing object as a display object at the display position decided by the display object determining part 103b. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing program that executes a selected process on an object, and an information processing apparatus.

  The following mouse cursor control device is known from Patent Document 1. In this mouse cursor control device, when the user operates the mouse, a straight line is displayed in the moving direction of the mouse cursor displayed on the screen. Further, the color or shape of the manipulable object existing in the straight line is changed to a selectable state.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-40018

  However, in the conventional apparatus, in order to select an object, it is necessary for the user to delicately operate the mouse while looking at both the mouse cursor and the object far from the mouse cursor. Has occurred.

The information processing program according to claim 1 displays a target object to be processed and a processing object to be processed on the target object in a predetermined display area, and any of the processing objects is selected as a selection object. A detection procedure for detecting that a predetermined process has been performed on the target object by operating a pointing device on a computer in order to select and perform the process assigned to the selected object on the target object; When the detection procedure detects that the target object has been subjected to the predetermined process, the distance from the target object to the process object is greater than the distance before the target object is subjected to the predetermined process. Display the processing object as a display object at a shorter position Characterized in that to execute the 示手 order.
The information processing program according to claim 2 is the information processing program according to claim 1, wherein the detection procedure includes a procedure for determining a direction from the target object to the processing object to be selected as the selection object, and the display procedure is determined. Including a procedure of selecting a processing object existing within a predetermined range of the orientation as a selection processing object and displaying the selection processing object as a display object.
An information processing program according to a third aspect is the information processing program according to the first aspect, wherein the display procedure includes a procedure for displaying a copy of the processing object as a display object.
The information processing program according to claim 4 is the information processing program according to claim 1, wherein when the display procedure displays the display object, the processing object corresponding to the displayed display object is erased from the predetermined display area. Including a procedure to perform.
The information processing program according to claim 5 is the information processing program according to claim 1, wherein the display procedure is a procedure for selecting a processing object corresponding to the processing for the target object from the processing objects and displaying the processing object as a display object. It is characterized by including.
An information processing program according to claim 6 is the information processing program according to claim 1, wherein a designation operation detection procedure for detecting an operation of a pointing device indicating that the computer designates the selected object from display objects, A determination procedure for determining a selected object from display objects is further executed based on the operation detected by the designated operation detection procedure.
The information processing program according to claim 7 further causes the computer to further execute an execution procedure for executing the process assigned to the selected object determined in the determination procedure on the target object. It is characterized by that.
The information processing program according to claim 8 is the information processing program according to claim 1, wherein when the predetermined processing for the target object is completed in the computer, the display of the display object is erased, and the predetermined processing for the target object is performed. A recovery procedure for recovering the display state of the processing object before the processing is performed is further executed.
The information processing program according to claim 9 is the information processing program according to claim 1, wherein when there are a plurality of display objects, the display procedure includes a procedure for arranging the display objects so as not to overlap each other. And
The information processing program according to claim 10 is the information processing program according to claim 1, wherein the display procedure includes a procedure of displaying a part of each display object in a superimposed manner when there are a plurality of display objects. Features.
An information processing apparatus according to an eleventh aspect includes an execution unit for executing the information processing program according to any one of the first to tenth aspects, a pointing device according to the first to tenth aspects, And a monitor for displaying the predetermined display area according to 1 to 10.

  According to the present invention, the display object corresponding to the processing object is displayed at a position shorter than the distance between the target object to be processed and the processing object that performs processing on the target object. Therefore, the user can select an object by a simple pointing device operation.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to this embodiment. The display control apparatus 100 is a personal computer (PC), for example, and includes a mouse 101, an HDD 102, a control apparatus 103, and a monitor 104.

  The mouse 101 is a pointing device operated by a user. The user can use the mouse 101 to click or drag and drop an object such as a button or icon displayed on the monitor 104. Note that clicking and dragging and dropping are general mouse operation methods, and thus description thereof is omitted.

  The HDD 102 stores an information processing program executed by the control device 103 and other various data as will be described later. The monitor 104 is a liquid crystal monitor or a CRT, for example, and displays an application screen output from the information processing program. In this embodiment, when the entire application screen output from the information processing program cannot be displayed on the monitor 104, only the displayable range is displayed on the monitor 104, and the user can use the mouse for the other ranges. It can be displayed by operating 101 and scrolling the application screen.

  The control device 103 includes a CPU, a memory, and other peripheral circuits, and reads and executes an information processing program from the HDD 102 as will be described later. The control device 103 functionally includes a cursor movement direction determination unit 103a, a display object determination unit 103b, an object display unit 103c, and a process execution unit 103d. In the present embodiment, the control device 103 activates the functions 103a to 103d by executing an information processing program stored in the HDD 102.

  When the information processing program is executed by the control device 103, the application screen is displayed on the monitor 104 by the output from the information processing program as described above. This application screen is a display area that occupies a predetermined range on the monitor 104. For example, when the information processing program is an individual application program such as an image editing program installed in the display control apparatus 100, a screen (window) unique to the application is displayed. Alternatively, when the information processing program is an OS program for managing tasks executed by the display control apparatus 100, a desktop screen output by the OS program is displayed.

  In the following description, the case where the information processing program is an OS program will be described. An application screen displayed based on an output from the information processing program is simply referred to as a “screen”.

  On this screen, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, a target object A to be processed and processing objects B to F that perform processing on the target object A are displayed. The target object A has links to files to be processed by various applications provided by the OS program, such as text files and image files, and by various applications installed in the display control apparatus 100. Icon or button.

  The processing objects B to F are icons and buttons arranged on the screen displayed by the OS program. Various processes provided by the OS program and processes executed by various applications installed in the display control apparatus 100 are assigned to each processing object in advance by the OS program. In other words, the processing object is provided with a link to a file for executing a program for processing the target object.

  In the present embodiment, when the user operates the mouse 101 and the target object A is dragged and dropped onto any one of these processing objects B to F, the control device 103 is assigned to the corresponding processing object. The process is applied to the target object A.

  Specifically, the OS program running on the control device 103 monitors the drag and drop of the target object A to any of the processing objects B to F. When it is detected that the target object A has been dragged and dropped onto any of the processing objects B to F, the OS program starts processing by the processing object of the drag and drop destination, and the drag and drop destination The process assigned to the process object is performed on the target object A.

  In this embodiment, the processing objects B to F are objects to which the following processing is assigned. In the following description, the case where both the target object A and the processing objects B to F are icons will be described. However, as described above, each object may be a button.

(1) Processing object B
The processing object B is an icon with a link to an arbitrary folder used for storing a file. The processing object B is assigned a process of copying the target object A dragged and dropped onto the processing object B to a folder linked to the processing object B. That is, when the user operates the mouse 101 and drags and drops the target object A onto the processing object B, the control device 103 copies the target object A to a folder linked to the processing object B.

(2) Processing object C
The processing object C is an icon with a link to a trash box used for deleting a file. Processing object C is assigned processing for moving target object A dragged and dropped onto processing object C to the trash box linked to processing object B and deleting it. That is, when the user operates the mouse 101 and drags and drops the target object A onto the processing object C, the control device 103 moves the target object A to the trash box.

(3) Processing object D
The processing object D is an icon with a link to an individual file stored in an arbitrary folder, for example, a text file or an image file. The processing object D is not assigned processing when the target object A is dragged and dropped onto the processing object D. That is, when the target object A is dragged and dropped on the processing object D, the control device 103 performs no processing.

(4) Processing object E
The processing object E is an icon with a link to an image processing application installed in the HDD 102. In this processing object E, when the target object A is an icon of an image file and the target object A is dragged and dropped onto the processing object E, the image processing application is set to the target object A as an image processing target. The process to be started is assigned. That is, when the user operates the mouse 101 and drags and drops the target object A (image file) onto the processing object E, the control device 103 activates the image processing application with the target object A as an image processing target. . That is, the image processing application is activated with the target object A initially displayed.

(5) Processing object F
The processing object F is an icon with a link to a word processor application installed in the HDD 102. This processing object F is a process for starting a word processor application with the target object A as an editing target when the target object A is an icon of a text file and the target object A is dragged and dropped onto the processing object F. Is assigned. That is, when the user operates the mouse 101 and drags and drops the target object A (text file) onto the processing object F, the control device 103 activates a word processor application with the target object A as an editing target document. That is, the word processor application is activated with the target object A initially displayed.

  Hereinafter, when the target object A is a text file or an image file, the user operates the mouse 101 and drags the target object A to the processing objects B to F described above in (1) to (5). A process when & drop is described.

  In this case, in the processing object E described in (4) or the processing object F described in (5), control is performed depending on whether the target object A to be dragged and dropped by the user is a text file or an image file. Whether or not the device 103 executes the process assigned to the process object E or the process object F is different. For the processing object D described above in (3), the control device 103 does not execute the process regardless of the type of file dragged and dropped onto the processing object D.

  The relationship between the file type of the target object A and whether to execute the process assigned to the process objects B to F is managed by a process determination table as shown in FIG. 3, for example. This processing determination table is automatically created by the OS program at the time of OS setup or when an individual application is installed. The user can also change the data in the table by operating the mouse 101.

  In the example shown in FIG. 3, whether or not the process assigned to each of the processing objects B to F can be executed for each file type of the target object A is indicated by “O” and “X”. That is, when the target object A is a text file, the processing assigned to the processing objects B, C, and F can be performed on the target object A. When the target object A is an image file, the processing assigned to the processing objects B, C, and E can be executed on the target object A.

  Below, the process of each part 103a-103d of the control apparatus 103 is demonstrated, giving a specific example. In the specific example described below, it is assumed that the target object A is a text file.

  When the user operates the mouse 101 and starts dragging and dropping the target object A on the screen displayed on the monitor 104, the cursor movement direction determination unit 103a determines the movement direction of the mouse cursor on the screen. . For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when the user starts dragging and dropping the target object A on the screen toward the processing object C, the moving direction 2a is determined. The cursor movement direction determination unit 103a further sets an extension line of the movement direction 2a of the mouse cursor, that is, the movement axis of the mouse cursor as the first movement axis 2b.

  The display object determination unit 103b sets a predetermined angle, for example, a range of 10 degrees for each side of the first movement axis 2b set by the cursor movement direction determination unit 103a as a display object search range, and searches for the display object. A processing object existing in the range is extracted as a selection processing object. Then, the display object determination unit 103b determines whether or not the extracted selection processing object is an object that can execute the target object A with reference to the processing determination table described above with reference to FIG. As a result, only selection processing objects that can execute the target object A are extracted as display object candidates.

  For example, in the example shown in FIG. 2, when the target object A is a text file, the display object determination unit 103b extracts the processing objects B to F as selection processing objects from the display object search range. Then, the display object determining unit 103b refers to the process determination table described above with reference to FIG. 3 and extracts selection process objects B, C, and F that can execute the text file as display object candidates. That is, a processing object within the display object search range that corresponds to the processing for the target object A is selected as a display object candidate.

  Next, the display object determination unit 103b extracts only the display object candidates existing on the first movement axis 2b from the extracted display object candidates as the first display object candidates. If there is only one extracted first display object candidate, a copy of the first display object candidate is placed at a position (near) where the distance to the target object A on the screen becomes short, and the first The display position of the display object is determined so as to be displayed on one moving axis 2b.

  On the other hand, when a plurality of first display object candidates are extracted, the display object determination unit 103b selects the first display object candidate having the shortest distance from the target object A. Then, the display position of the display object is determined so that a copy of the selected first display object candidate is displayed near the target object A on the screen and on the first movement axis 2b.

  Further, the display object determination unit 103b selects the first display object candidate having the shortest distance from the target object A from the other first display object candidates excluding the first display object candidate that displayed the copy. select. Then, the display position of each display object is determined so that a copy of the first display object candidate is displayed at a position that does not overlap the display object already displayed on the first movement axis 2b.

  The display object determination unit 103b executes this process on all the extracted first display object candidates, thereby changing the display positions of the display objects based on all the first display object candidates to the first movement axis. It can be determined that the display position is near the target object A on 2b and does not overlap each other.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 2, the display object determination unit 103b performs the first display object only on the processing object C existing on the first movement axis 2b from the processing objects B, C, and F extracted as display object candidates. Extract as a candidate. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, a copy of the processing object C is displayed on the first moving axis 2b in the vicinity of the target object A on the screen and in the same direction as the moving direction 2a of the mouse cursor from the target object A. As described above, the display position of the display object C ′ can be determined.

  Next, the display object determination unit 103b extracts other display object candidates obtained by removing the first display object candidate from the display object candidates extracted as described above as second display object candidates. That is, only display object candidates that do not exist on the first moving axis 2b are extracted as display object candidates from the display object candidates.

  For example, in the example illustrated in FIG. 2, the display object determination unit 103 b includes the processing objects B, C, and F as display object candidates except the processing object C that is the first display object candidate. F is extracted as a second display object candidate.

  The display object determining unit 103b then displays the display position of the display object on the screen so that the extracted copy of the second display object candidate does not overlap with the display object based on the first display object candidate already displayed. To decide. For this purpose, the display object determination unit 103b first calculates an angle α formed by a straight line connecting the second display object candidates extracted from the target object A by the display object determination unit 103b and the moving axis 2b.

  The display object determining unit 103b is a straight line that passes through the center of the target object A and forms an angle α × 9 with respect to the movement axis 2b, and connects the target object A and the second display object candidate to the movement axis 2b. A straight line existing on the straight line side is set as the second movement axis. The second movement axis is set for each second display object candidate.

  Then, the display object determination unit 103b copies each second display object candidate to the display object on the position (near) where the distance to the target object A on the screen becomes short and on the set second movement axis. The display position of the display object based on the second display object candidate is determined so as to be displayed. At this time, when there are a plurality of second display object candidates having the same second movement axis, the display object determination unit 103b determines that the distance from the target object A is the same as the first display object candidate described above. The display positions of the respective display objects are determined so as not to overlap each other in order from the closest second display object candidate.

  As a result, as shown in FIG. 4, the display object determination unit 103b makes copies of the processing objects B and F extracted as the second display object candidates by the display object determination unit 103b in FIG. The display positions of the display objects B ′ and F ′ can be determined so as to be displayed in the vicinity of A and on the set second movement axes.

  The object display unit 103c thus displays the display position of the display object determined by the display object determination unit 103b, that is, the display position of the display object based on the first display object candidate, and the display based on the second display object candidate. Each display object is displayed at the display position of the object.

  Thus, in the screen shown in FIG. 2, the processing objects B to F are arranged at positions away from the target object A by the OS program. However, by the processing described above, the display objects B ′, C ′, and F ′ corresponding to the processing object extracted as shown in FIG. 4 are separated from the target object A by the distance from the target object A. It can be arranged and displayed at a position shorter than the distance to C and F.

  As described above, the process execution unit 103d operates the mouse 101 by the user, and when the target object A is dragged and dropped onto the display object B ′, C ′, or F ′, the target object A is processed. The same processing as when dragging and dropping to B, C, or F is executed. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, when the user operates the mouse 101 and drags the target object A onto the display object C ′, the process execution unit 103d inverts the display color of the display object C ′. Then, it is clearly shown that the target object A has been dragged onto the display object C ′.

  Thereafter, when the user moves the target object A onto the display object C ′ and releases the button of the mouse 101, that is, when the target object A is dropped onto the display object C ′, the processing execution unit 103d executes processing assigned to the processing object C. That is, the text file linked to the target object A is moved to the trash box and deleted.

  Accordingly, the user may drag and drop the target object A to the display object C ′ in order to perform the process assigned to the process object C. In other words, it is only necessary to drag and drop the target object A by a shorter distance than dragging and dropping the target object A to the original processing object C, and the user's work load can be reduced.

  When the user releases the button of the mouse 101 while the target object A is not on any display object, the object display unit 103c erases all the displayed display objects from the screen. Thus, the screen is returned to the display state before the user starts dragging and dropping the target object A.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing processing of the information processing apparatus 100 according to this embodiment. The processing shown in FIG. 6 is executed by starting an information processing program read from the HDD 102 by the control device 103 when the user operates the mouse 101 and clicks the target object A.

  In step S10, the cursor movement direction determination unit 103a determines whether or not the user has operated the mouse 101 to start dragging and dropping the target object A, and the target object A has moved a predetermined distance on the screen. . If it is determined that the target object A has moved a predetermined distance, the process proceeds to step S20. In step S20, as described above, the cursor movement direction determination unit 103a determines the movement direction 2a of the mouse cursor and sets the movement axis of the mouse cursor as the first movement axis 2b. Then, it progresses to step S30.

  In step S30, the display object determination unit 103b sets a predetermined angle, for example, a range of 10 degrees for each side of the first movement axis 2b set by the cursor movement direction determination unit 103a as a display object search range. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S40, and the display object determination unit 103b detects a processing object existing within the display object search range as a selection processing object, and proceeds to step S50. In step S50, the display object determination unit 103b determines whether or not the detected selection processing object is an object that can execute the target object A with reference to the processing determination table described above with reference to FIG. As a result, only selection processing objects that can execute the target object A are extracted as display object candidates. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S60.

  In step S60, the display object determination unit 103b selects a display object candidate that is on the first movement axis 2b from among the extracted display object candidates and whose display position has not been determined and is closest to the target object as the first display object candidate. Choose as. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S70, and the display object determination unit 103b displays the copy of the selected first display object candidate in the vicinity of the target object A on the screen and on the first movement axis 2b. Determine the display position of the object. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S71.

  In step S71, the display object determination unit 103b determines whether the display positions of all the first display object candidates existing on the first movement axis 2b have been determined. If it is determined that the display positions of all the first display object candidates have not been determined, the process returns to step S60 and the process is repeated. In the display position processing of the first display object candidate that is repeatedly performed, the display position is determined so as not to overlap the first display object candidate whose display position has already been determined.

  In contrast, if it is determined that the display positions of all the first display object candidates have been determined, the process proceeds to step S80. In step S80, the display object determination unit 103b extracts other display object candidates obtained by removing the first display object candidate from the display object candidates as second display object candidates. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S81, and the display object determination unit 103b selects a display object candidate whose display position has not yet been determined and is closest to the target object from the extracted second display object candidates. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S90.

  In step S90, the display object determining unit 103b moves the straight line connecting the target object A and the second display object candidate from the target object A to the second display object candidate in the direction away from the first movement axis 2b on the screen. Tilt the angle α up to 9 times. Then, the inclined straight line is set as the second movement axis in the second display object candidate. Then, it progresses to step S100.

  In step S100, the display object determination unit 103b determines a display position for displaying a copy of the selected second display object candidate as a display object. That is, the display position is determined so that the display object is displayed on the position (near) where the distance to the target object A is reduced on the screen and on the set second movement axis. Then, it progresses to step S101.

  In step S101, the display object determination unit 103b determines whether the display positions of all the second display object candidates have been determined. If it is determined that the display positions of all the second display object candidates have not been determined, the process returns to step S81 and the process is repeated. In the display position processing of the second display object candidate that is repeatedly performed, the display position is determined so as not to overlap with the second display object candidate whose display position has already been determined. On the other hand, if it is determined that the display positions of all the second display object candidates have been determined, the process proceeds to step S110.

  In step S110, the object display unit 103c displays each display object at the display position of the display object determined by the display object determination unit 103b. Then, it progresses to step S120.

  In step S120, the process execution unit 103d determines whether or not the target object A overlaps any display object as a result of the target object A being dragged by the user. If it is determined that they overlap, the process proceeds to step S130, the display object on which the target object A overlaps is displayed in reverse, and the process proceeds to step S140. On the other hand, if it is determined that they do not overlap, the process proceeds to step S140 as it is.

  In step S140, the process execution unit 103d determines whether or not the button (mouse button) of the mouse 101 has been released by the user. That is, it is determined whether or not the user has finished dragging the target object A. If it is determined that the mouse button has not been released, the process returns to step S120. On the other hand, if it is determined that the mouse button has been released, the process proceeds to step S150.

  In step S150, the process execution unit 103d determines whether the release of the mouse button by the user is on any display object displayed on the screen. If it is determined that the mouse button has been released on any display object, the process proceeds to step S160. In step S160, since the target object A is dropped onto the display object whose mouse button is released, the process execution unit 103d assigns the process assigned to the process object corresponding to the display object to the target object A. Apply to. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S170.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the mouse button has been released in an area on the screen other than the display object, the user determines that the dragging of the target object A has been cancelled, and proceeds directly to step S170. In step S170, the object display unit 103c erases the display object displayed in the above-described process from the screen, and ends the process.

According to the present embodiment described above, the following operational effects can be obtained.
(1) Display objects corresponding to the respective processing objects are displayed at positions shorter than the distances from the target object A to be processed to the processing objects B to F that perform processing on the target object A. did. Then, when the user operates the mouse 101 and the target object A is dragged and dropped on the display object, the process assigned to the processing object corresponding to the display object is performed on the target object A. I did it. Thereby, the operation amount of the mouse 101 by the user can be reduced, and the operation load of the user's mouse 101 can be reduced. The user can select a display object by a simple pointing device operation.

(2) The display object determination unit 103b sets a predetermined angle range on each side of the first moving axis 2b as a display object search range, and sets a processing object existing in the display object search range as a selection processing object I tried to extract. Accordingly, there is a possibility that the target object A will be dropped in consideration of the high possibility that there is a processing object in which the user wants to drop the target object A in the direction in which the mouse 101 is operated by the user. Can be extracted as a selection processing object with high accuracy.

(3) The cursor movement direction determination unit 103a sets an extension line of the movement direction 2a of the mouse cursor as the first movement axis 2b, and the display object determination unit 103b performs processing objects existing on the first movement axis 2b. Is displayed as a display object in the vicinity of the target object A on the first movement axis 2b. Accordingly, a display object is displayed at a position closer to the moving direction 2a of the mouse cursor, considering that the processing object existing on the extension line of the moving direction 2a of the mouse cursor is most likely to be selected by the user. Thus, the amount of operation of the mouse 101 by the user can be accurately reduced.

(4) The display object determination unit 103b extracts only objects that can execute the target object A with reference to the process determination table described above with reference to FIG. 3 from the selection process objects existing in the display object search range. Display object candidate. As a result, only processing objects that can process the target object A can be displayed in the vicinity of the target object A.

-Modification-
Note that the information processing apparatus of the above-described embodiment can be modified as follows.
(1) In the above-described embodiment, the example in which the user operates the mouse 101 to drag and drop the target object has been described. However, the pointing device operated by the user is not limited to the mouse, and for example, a trackball may be used.

(2) In the embodiment described above, the display object determination unit 103b can execute the target object A with reference to the process determination table described above with reference to FIG. 3 from among the selection process objects existing within the display object search range. An example in which only a simple object is extracted as a display object candidate has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and all the processing objects arranged on the screen may be extracted as display object candidates.

(3) In the above-described embodiment, the display object determining unit 103b has described the example in which the display position is determined so that the display objects displayed in the vicinity of the target object A do not overlap each other. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and if the entire display objects do not overlap, the display position may be determined so that the respective parts overlap. According to this, the display space of the display object can be saved, and more display objects can be displayed in the vicinity of the target object A.

(4) In the above-described embodiment, the display object determination unit 103b determines the display position of each display object so that the display position of the second display object candidate is on the set second movement axis. An example was described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. If the position is close to the target object A, that is, if the position is closer than the distance from the target object A to the processing object included in the second display object candidate, It does not have to be.

(5) In the above-described embodiment, the example in which the information processing program executes processing in the procedure shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the information processing program is not limited to the procedure shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6 as long as the characteristic functions of the present invention are not impaired.

(6) In the above-described embodiment, an example in which a personal computer is used as the information processing apparatus has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to apply a pointing device and a monitor to other devices that can operate various objects displayed on the monitor using the pointing device.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the configurations in the above-described embodiments as long as the characteristic functions of the present invention are not impaired.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of one Embodiment of information processing apparatus. It is a 1st figure which shows the specific example of the screen in this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the specific example of a process determination table. It is a 2nd figure which shows the specific example of the screen in this Embodiment. It is a 3rd figure which shows the specific example of the screen in this Embodiment. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing processing of the information processing apparatus 100.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Display control apparatus, 101 Mouse, 102 HDD, 103 Control apparatus, 103a Cursor movement direction determination part, 103b Display object determination part, 103c Object display part, 103d Process execution part, 104 Monitor

Claims (11)

A target object to be processed and a processing object for processing the target object are displayed in a predetermined display area, and one of the processing objects is selected as a selection object, and the target object In order to perform the process assigned to the selected object on the computer,
A detection procedure for detecting that predetermined processing has been performed on the target object by operating a pointing device;
When it is detected by the detection procedure that a predetermined process has been performed on the target object, the distance from the target object to the process object is determined before the predetermined process is performed on the target object. An information processing program for executing a display procedure for displaying the processing object as a display object at a position shorter than the distance. The information processing program according to claim 1,
The detection procedure includes a procedure of determining a direction from the target object to the processing object to be selected as the selection object,
The display procedure includes a procedure of selecting the processing object existing in a predetermined range of the determined orientation as a selection processing object and displaying the selection processing object as the display object. . The information processing program according to claim 1,
The information processing program characterized in that the display procedure includes a procedure of displaying a copy of the processing object as the display object. The information processing program according to claim 1,
The display procedure includes a procedure for deleting the processing object corresponding to the displayed display object from the predetermined display area when the display object is displayed. The information processing program according to claim 1,
The information processing program characterized in that the display procedure includes selecting the one corresponding to the processing for the target object from the processing objects and displaying the selected processing object as the display object. The information processing program according to claim 1,
On the computer,
A designated operation detection procedure for detecting an operation of the pointing device indicating designating the selected object from the display objects;
An information processing program for further executing a determination procedure for determining the selected object from among the display objects based on an operation detected by the designated operation detection procedure. The information processing program according to claim 6,
On the computer,
An information processing program for further executing an execution procedure for executing, on the target object, a process assigned to the selected object determined in the determination procedure. The information processing program according to claim 1,
On the computer,
When the predetermined process for the target object is completed, the display procedure is performed to erase the display of the display object and restore the display state of the process object before the predetermined process is performed on the target object. Information processing program for further executing. The information processing program according to claim 1,
The information processing program characterized in that, when there are a plurality of display objects, the display procedure includes a procedure for arranging the display objects so as not to overlap each other. The information processing program according to claim 1,
The information processing program characterized in that, when there are a plurality of the display objects, the display procedure includes a procedure of displaying a part of each display object in an overlapping manner. Execution means for executing the information processing program according to any one of claims 1 to 10,
A pointing device according to claim 1;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a monitor for displaying the predetermined display area according to claim 1.

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