JP5246811B2 - Switching operation using a pointing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save a user the trouble of operation for a difficult case of area selection without increasing operation steps for selecting a single object. <P>SOLUTION: When an object is present under a cursor, it is determined whether a smaller child object is present within the object, based on which the type of operation performed by a user is determined. If a prescribed time has elapsed since the operation was accepted without any following operation being accepted, the determined operation type is automatically changed saving the user the trouble of having to select a single object. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for eliminating the trouble of operating a single object or a plurality of objects in a computer system including a display device that can display an object that can be operated by a pointing device.

In a computer system having a display device that can move a cursor on the screen with a pointing device such as a mouse and operate an object under the cursor, as shown in FIG. 1, an instruction button is displayed when the cursor is on the object. Click to select the object. Further, the object can be moved to the moved cursor position by moving the cursor while pressing the instruction button and releasing the instruction button in another place. When the cursor is in a place where there is no object (background), if you press the instruction button, move the cursor and release the instruction button in another place, the cursor position (starting point) and the instruction button when the instruction button is pressed In general, it is possible to select an object in a rectangular area whose opposite vertex is the cursor position (end point) when is released. If the instruction button is pressed while the cursor is on the object, the object will be grabbed, and the range cannot be selected starting from the object. By clicking an object while pressing a specific key on the keyboard, an unselected object can be additionally selected, and conversely, the selected object can be deselected.

  In a system in which another object can be displayed on an object, there is a case where it is difficult to select a target object because a range cannot be selected starting from the object. In FIG. 2, objects that do not need to be selected no matter what range is specified starting from the background must be selected together, and these objects must be unselected one after another. Since there is no background in the visible range in Fig. 3, you must operate the screen so that you can see the background, press the instruction button on the background, and operate the screen to select the range so that you can see the object you want to select as it is I must. Or you have to select the objects you want to select one by one. Such an operation is very troublesome for the user.

As for the former problem, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 list means for saving the trouble of releasing the selected state later. Since these means are different from the single selection of the object, it is considered that the range can be selected starting from the object, and the latter problem can be solved.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 03-198164 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-282621

In Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, it is considered to eliminate the trouble of selecting an object range. However, it is troublesome to input a switching operation in order to switch between single object selection and object range selection. Has occurred. An object of the present invention is to reduce the trouble of switching between single object selection and object range selection using operation time information .

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention is an information processing apparatus having a display unit that displays a display screen including a plurality of objects, and an object editing function on the display screen, the cursor for specifying a position for receiving an operation An operation accepting unit that accepts an operation on a first object that is an object located at the coordinates, and a process of determining whether or not a certain time has passed without accepting an operation by the operation accepting unit When the determination means and the progress determination means determine that a certain time has elapsed, the operation received by the operation reception means is changed from an object selection operation for selecting the first object to a range selection operation for selecting a range. Switching or switching from the range selection operation to an object selection operation for selecting the first object Determining means for determining that that, in accordance with the content determined by said determining means, the operation accepted by the operation acceptance means, switching the range selected from the object selection operation, or, switching means for switching a range selected from the It characterized the Turkey with and.

According to the present invention, a user without special switching operation, by using the information of the operation time, Ru can reduce the effort of switching the range selection of a single selection and object of the object.

It is a figure which shows the Example of the object operation by a general pointing device. It is a figure which shows the Example of operation which is difficult to select a range because the selection object which is not desired is contained in the selectable range by the general range selection method. It is a figure which shows the Example of operation which is difficult to select by the general range selection method since the background is not visible. It is a figure which shows the function structure of the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the terminal in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the data structure for switching operation with respect to the object which the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention has. It is a flowchart which shows the outline | summary of the flow of the process which the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention performs. It is a flowchart which shows the detail of the process which changes the operation classification which is the range selection, single selection, and movement operation which the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention performs. It is a flowchart which shows the detail of the range selection process which the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention performs. It is a figure which shows the Example of the range selection operation from the background which the information processing apparatus in this invention receives and performs operation. It is a figure which shows the Example of the process of the object operation which makes the starting point on the object which does not have a child object which the information processing apparatus in this invention receives and performs operation. It is a figure which shows the Example of the process of the object operation which made the starting point on the object which has a child object which the information processing apparatus in this invention receives and performs operation.

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

  With reference to FIG. 4, the functional configuration of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention. The function of the apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  The information processing apparatus 400 includes an operation reception unit 401, an image display unit 402, an operation detection position determination unit 403, an operation time storage unit 404, an object specification unit 405, a child object existence determination unit 406, an operation type determination unit 407, and a selection process execution. Unit 408, movement processing execution unit 409, and the like.

  The operation reception unit 401 receives an operation from the user to the information processing apparatus 400. For example, an operation input by a keyboard 509 or a mouse 510 (described later with reference to FIG. 5) in FIG. 5 is received (that is, an operation receiving unit that receives an operation on an object displayed by the display control unit).

  The image display unit 402 displays an image object, an instruction cursor, a movement cursor, and the like on a display 511 (described later with reference to FIG. 5), and switches display of an image according to an operation.

  The operation detection position determination unit 403 detects an operation from the start to the end of the operation for performing the process when executing the selection process, the range selection process, the movement process, and the like of the object displayed on the image display unit 402. The operation detection position that is the determined position is determined (that is, the detection position specifying means for specifying the position where the operation is received by the operation receiving means). The operation time storage unit 404 stores the time when the start of the operation is received, and calculates the time until the next operation is received.

  The object specifying unit 405 specifies an object when there is an object at the operation position based on the coordinates of the operation position determined by the operation detection position determination unit 403. The child object existence determination unit 406 determines whether or not a child object exists on the object specified by the object specifying unit 405.

  A child object is another object that is displayed in front of a certain object, at least a part of which is located on the certain object, and a rectangle that includes the other object starting from the certain object Is the other object at a location other than the background displayed on the display screen. The background here is, for example, a work area displayed on the display screen for editing work using selection and movement of an object (background 1212 in FIGS. 2, 3, and 12). That is, it has an editing function for the object displayed on the display unit.

  The child object sets the certain object as a parent object for the child object, and the CPU 501 sets the child object as an object belonging to the parent object.

  The operation type determination unit 407 determines whether to change the operation type of the object range selection, single selection, and movement operation based on the operation time stored in the operation time storage unit 404 and the determination result determined by the child object determination unit. Determine whether. For example, when it is determined that there is a child object on the specified object, reception of the range selection operation is started without executing the selection operation of the object even if the operation position is on the specified object (see FIG. 8).

  Based on the determination result determined by the operation type determination unit 407, the selection process execution unit 408 starts receiving an object selection process operation, and executes the object selection process according to the received operation.

  Based on the determination result determined by the operation type determination unit 407, the movement process execution unit 409 starts accepting an operation of the object movement process, and executes the object movement process according to the received operation. The above is the description of the functions of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention shown in FIG.

  Next, the hardware configuration of the terminal according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the terminal in the embodiment of the present invention.

  The CPU 501 comprehensively controls each device and controller connected to the system bus 504 using programs and data stored in the RAM 502 and ROM 503.

  The RAM 502 has an area for temporarily storing programs and data loaded from the external memory 512 and a work area used by the CPU 501 for performing various processes.

  The ROM 503 stores various programs such as a computer boot program and BIOS. The external memory 512 stores an OS (operating system), programs and data for causing the CPU 501 to execute processes described later performed by the information processing apparatus 400, and these are stored in the RAM 502 under the control of the CPU 501 as necessary. It will be read and executed.

  Further, the ROM 503 or the external memory 512 has a BIOS (Basic Input / Output System), an operating system program (hereinafter referred to as OS), which is a control program of the CPU 501, and various programs necessary for realizing functions executed by each PC. Etc. are stored. The RAM 502 functions as a main memory, work area, and the like for the CPU 501.

The CPU 501 implements various operations by loading a program necessary for execution of processing into the RAM 502 and executing the program.
An input controller (input C) 505 controls input from a pointing device such as a keyboard 509 or a mouse 510.

  A video controller (VC) 506 controls display on a display device such as the display 511. The display device may be a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a CRT display (that is, display control means for displaying a display screen including a plurality of objects on the display unit).

  A memory controller (MC) 507 is a hard disk (HD) or floppy (registered trademark) disk (registered trademark FD) that stores a boot program, browser software, various applications, font data, user files, edit files, various data, and the like. Alternatively, access to an external memory 512 such as a compact flash (registered trademark) memory connected to the PCMCIA card slot via an adapter is controlled.

  A communication I / F controller (communication I / FC) 508 connects and communicates with an external device via a network, and executes communication control processing in the network.

  Note that the CPU 501 enables display on the display 511 by executing outline font rasterization processing on a display information area in the RAM 502, for example. In addition, the CPU 501 enables a user instruction with a mouse cursor (not shown) on the display 511.

  A program for realizing the present invention is stored in the external memory 512 and is executed by the CPU 501 by being loaded into the RAM 502 as necessary. The above is the description of the hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus in FIG.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 6, a data configuration of data stored in the information processing apparatus 400 and used by the information processing apparatus 400 to switch operations on objects will be described. FIG. 6 shows a data structure necessary for execution of a program stored and called by the CPU 501 in the RAM 502.

  The object information 610 holds information on the position and size of the object. The object ID 611 is used to uniquely identify the object. X-coordinate 612 and Y-coordinate 613 represent the X-coordinate and Y-coordinate at the upper left corner of the object, and are used to specify the range occupied by the object together with width 615 and height 616.

  The parent ID 617 sets the object ID 611 of another object as a value. Thus, the CPU 501 sets the object having the parent ID 617 as the parent object, the object having the same value as the parent ID 617 as the object ID 611, and the object having the object ID 611 as the parent ID 617 as the child object belonging to the parent object. .

  The parent ID 617 is used to specify that there is a parent object to which the child object belongs and to specify the parent object.

  The X coordinate 612, the Y coordinate 613, and the Z coordinate 614 correspond to the coordinates of the smallest rectangle that includes all the grouped objects when the object having the respective coordinates is grouped with other objects. Represents relative coordinates, otherwise it represents absolute coordinates.

  The Z coordinate 614 represents the arrangement order of the objects in the depth direction, and is used not only for specifying the foreground object under the cursor but also for determining whether it is included in the occupied area of other objects. .

  The cursor information 620 holds information on the cursor being operated. The start X coordinate 621, the start Y coordinate 622, and the start time 623 represent the X coordinate, Y coordinate, and time of the cursor when the instruction button is pressed, and the end point X coordinate 624 and the end point Y coordinate 625 are the cursor after the instruction button is pressed. Represents the X and Y coordinates. In the end point X coordinate 624 and the end point Y coordinate 625, the same values as the start point X coordinate 621 and the start point Y coordinate 622 are set as initial values.

  The state 626 takes no value (initial value) or takes either “movement” or “range selection” as a value, and is used to check whether a movement operation or a range selection operation is accepted. The confirmation 627 takes one of the values “unconfirmed” (initial value) and “confirmed”, and is used to confirm an operation to be accepted together with the state 626.

  The guess setting information 630 holds information necessary for performing processing for guessing the purpose and accepting an operation. The process of accepting an operation by inferring the purpose is to process the operation that the CPU 501 estimates and accepts whether the user wants to move the object under the cursor or selects a range starting from the cursor position. is there.

  The CPU 501 estimates a user-desired operation using necessary information in the object information 610, the cursor information 620, the estimation setting information 630, and the selection object information 640 described later, and executes processing. Details will be described later with reference to FIG.

  The confirmation waiting time 631 represents the maximum time until the confirmation 627 of the cursor information 620 is set to “confirmation” after the instruction button is pressed. By accepting an operation that the cursor is not moved after the instruction button is pressed, the operation type to be executed is switched from the movement operation to the range selection operation and from the range selection operation to the movement operation.

  The selected object information 640 holds information for specifying the object being selected. The selection number 641 represents the selection order of objects, and the selection object ID 642 is used to check whether the object under the cursor is being selected with the object ID 611 of the object being selected as a value. When an object is selected, its object ID 611 is added, and when the selection is canceled, it is deleted. In the description of the flowchart to be described later, the description of the processing for the selected object information 640 stored in the RAM 502 by the CPU 501 is omitted. The above is the description of the data configuration of data that is stored in the information processing apparatus 400 in FIG. 6 and that is used by the information processing apparatus 400 to switch operations on objects.

  Next, details of processing performed by the information processing apparatus 400 will be described with reference to FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 are flowcharts showing the flow of processing performed by the information processing apparatus 400. Details will be described later in the description of each drawing. In explaining each figure, first, the premise of the processing will be explained.

  The processing of each flowchart in FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 is performed by the CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 according to control of a program stored in the external memory 512. The CPU 501 loads the program into the RAM 502, loads information necessary for processing the program stored in the external memory 512 into the RAM 502, and starts monitoring user operations.

  When ending the program, the CPU 501 stores the window and display area information stored in the RAM 502 in the external memory 512 and deletes the information from the RAM 502, ends the monitoring of the user operation, and deletes the program from the RAM 502.

  An overview of the flow of processing performed by the information processing apparatus 400 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an overview of the flow of processing performed by the information processing apparatus 400.

  The CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 stores the cursor information 620 in the RAM 502 in response to the pressing of the instruction button in the accepting state of the cursor instruction operation (step S701). From the cursor information 620 and the object information 610 stored in the RAM 502, it is confirmed whether there is an object under the cursor (step S702). That is, it is a first determination unit that determines whether or not the first object exists under the cursor for specifying the position of the operation received by the operation reception unit.

  If there is no object under the cursor, a known range selection operation is received and executed (step S706). When there is an object under the cursor, an object under the cursor is specified (that is, an object specifying unit for specifying an object based on the operation detection position specified by the specifying unit), and a handle for receiving processing for the object under the cursor It is confirmed whether there is any (step S703). The handle here is a knob for accepting a change in the size of an object to be displayed when an object is selected.

  If there is a handle under the cursor, an operation on the handle is accepted and executed (step S707). If there is no handle under the cursor, the purpose is estimated and the operation is accepted (step S704). In other words, the CPU 501 processes an operation that is accepted by the CPU 501 as to whether the user wants to move the object under the cursor or selects a range from the cursor position.

  The CPU 501 estimates and processes an operation using necessary information in the object information 610, cursor information 620, estimation setting information 630, and selection object information 640 shown in FIG. Details will be described later with reference to FIG.

  When the CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 finishes accepting and executing the operations in steps S704, S706, and S707, it deletes the cursor information 620 stored in the RAM 502 and returns to the cursor instruction operation accepting state (step S705). The above is the description of the flowchart of FIG. 7 showing the flow of processing for switching operations by the pointing device.

  Next, a process for estimating and receiving a target operation will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing details of the process of accepting an operation by estimating the purpose of FIG. 7 (step S704 in FIG. 7).

  The CPU 501 confirms from the selected object information 640 stored in the RAM 502 whether or not the object under the cursor is in a selected state (step S801). If the object under the cursor has been selected in step S801, the process proceeds to step S807. On the other hand, if the object under the cursor is not selected, it is confirmed from the object information 610 stored in the RAM 502 whether the object has a child object (step S802). (That is, when the first determination means determines that the first object exists, a second object that is an object different from the first object exists on the first object. Or second determination means for determining whether or not).

  If the object has a child object, the state 626 of the cursor information 620 is set to “range selection”, and the cursor on the screen is changed to a range selection cursor (step S803). That is, when the second determination means determines that the second object exists, the operation type of the cursor is in a range selection operation state in which a range is selected using the cursor, or exists under the cursor Determining means for determining that it is possible to switch to an object selection operation state for selecting the first object to be performed.

  If the object under the cursor and the child object belong to the same group, the processing may be shifted to step S808 without changing the cursor on the screen to range selection. The case of belonging to the same group is a case of being grouped with another object, for example. That is, when the group determination unit determines that the first object and the second object belong to the same group, the first object and the second object as a single object, The operation type of the cursor is set to the object selection state.

  Next, the CPU 501 determines whether or not an instruction to move the cursor is received within a predetermined time without receiving an operation of releasing the instruction button (step S804). That is, it is a third determination unit that determines whether or not a predetermined time has passed without receiving the next operation after receiving the operation by the operation receiving unit.

  Here, the certain time is a time from the start time 623 until the fixed waiting time 631 passes. If the cursor is moved within a certain time, the end point X coordinate 624 and end point Y coordinate 625 of the cursor information 620 are updated, and the confirmation 627 is set to “confirm” to accept and execute the range selection operation (step S805). That is, according to the result determined by the third determining means, the operation type of the cursor determined to be switched between the range selection operation state and the object selection operation state by the determination means is switched.

  If the cursor is not moved within a certain time without accepting the operation of releasing the instruction button (NO in step S804), the object under the cursor is selected (that is, the object specified by the object specifying means is selected). Means), the state 626 of the cursor information 620 is changed to “move”, the cursor on the screen is changed to a move cursor (in accordance with the result determined by the third determining means, the range selecting operation state is determined by the determining means) And a switching means for switching the operation type of the cursor that is determined to switch the object selection operation state.) The confirmation 627 is set to “confirmation” (step S806), and an operation for moving the object is received and executed. (Step S810). Details of the processing (step S805) to be executed upon receiving the range selection operation will be described later with reference to FIG.

  When the object under the cursor is in the selected state in step S801, the state 626 of the cursor information 620 is set to “move”, the cursor is changed to a moving cursor, and an operation for moving the object under the moving cursor is accepted. (Step S807). That is, moving means for moving the object selected by the object selecting means or the range selecting means.

  If it is determined in step S802 that the object under the cursor does not have a child object, the selection of the object under the cursor is accepted (S808, if the second determination means does not have the second object). If it is determined, the operation type of the cursor is set to an object selection operation state for selecting the first object existing under the cursor), and the state 626 of the cursor information 620 is set to “move”. Then, the cursor is changed to a moving cursor, and an operation for moving the object under the moving cursor is accepted (step S807).

  If the object under the cursor belongs to the same group as the other object in step S808 (when the second determination unit determines that the second object exists on the first object) In addition, the first object and the second object correspond to group determination means for determining whether or not they belong to the same group), and as a single object belonging to the same group as the object under the cursor. Choose one.

  Next, the CPU 501 determines whether or not an instruction to move the cursor is received within a certain time without receiving an operation of releasing the instruction button (step S809). If the cursor moves within a certain time, the end point X coordinate 624 and the end point Y coordinate 625 of the cursor information 620 are updated, and the confirmation 627 is set to “confirm” to accept and execute a known movement operation (step S810).

  If the cursor does not move within a certain time without accepting the operation of releasing the instruction button (NO in step 809), the selection of all objects is canceled and the cursor is changed to the range selection cursor, and the state 626 of the cursor information 620 is changed to “ In the “range selection”, the confirmation 627 is set to “confirmation” (step S811), and the range selection operation is accepted and executed (step S805). The above is the description of the flowchart in FIG. 8 showing the flow of processing for estimating and receiving the target operation.

  Next, details of the process (step S805 in FIG. 8) for receiving and executing the range selection operation will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing details of the flow of the process (step S805 of FIG. 8) that receives and executes the range selection operation of FIG.

The CPU 501 accepts an operation of releasing the instruction button (step S901), and confirms the confirmation 627 of the cursor information 620 stored in the RAM 502 (step S902). When the confirmation 627 is “confirmation”, that is, when the cursor is moved, all objects included in the rectangular range having the starting point and the ending point as the opposite vertexes are selected (step S903). When the confirmation 627 is “unconfirmed”, that is, when the cursor is not moved, the object under the cursor is selected (step S904). That is, it is range selection means for selecting an object range starting from the position specified by the detection position specifying means. The above is the description of the flowchart of FIG. 9 showing the flow of processing to be executed upon receiving a range selection operation.

  Next, details of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 10, FIG. 11, and FIG. 10 to 12 are an example of an implementation of a process of switching an operation that has received an input by the pointing device performed by the information processing apparatus 400 illustrated in FIGS. 7 to 9 described above. With reference to FIG. 10, an embodiment of a range selection operation starting from the background will be described. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation for performing range selection starting from the background.

  In the state 1010, if the instruction button is pressed when there is no object under the instruction cursor 1001 (step S701 in FIG. 7), the instruction cursor 1001 is changed to the range selection cursor 1004 shown in the state 1020 (step S702, step S706). ).

When a cursor movement instruction is received in a state where the range selection cursor 1004 is displayed, as shown in a state 1030, a rectangular selection range having the cursor position when the instruction button is pressed and the cursor position after the movement as the opposite vertex are selected. When 1005 is displayed and it is accepted that the instruction button is released, the objects 1002 and 1003 included in the range are selected. The above is the description of the embodiment of the range selection operation starting from the background.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 11, an embodiment of an operation for performing single selection or movement or range selection of an object starting from an object having no child object will be described. FIG. 11 shows an example of an operation for performing single selection or movement or range selection of an object starting from an object having no child object.

  As shown in state 1110, when there is an object 1102 under the pointing cursor 1101 (YES in step S702) and the pressing of the pointing button is accepted with no handle under the pointing cursor 1101 (NO in step S703). Since the object 1102 is in an unselected state and has no child object (NO in step S801, NO in step S802), the CPU 501 places the object 1102 in a selected state as shown in state 1120 (step S808). The instruction cursor 1101 is changed to the movement cursor 1104 (step S807).

  If an instruction to move the cursor is received within a certain time without receiving an operation to release the instruction button after that, the movement destination 1105 is displayed along with the movement of the cursor (steps S809 and S810), and the instruction button is released. Is received and the object 1102 is moved to the destination 1105 (state 1130 in FIG. 11). If an instruction to move the cursor is not received within a certain time (NO in step S809), the selection of the object 1102 is canceled and the moving cursor 1104 is changed to the range selection cursor 1106 (step S811, state 1150 in FIG. 11).

  When an instruction to move the cursor is received in a state where the range selection cursor 1106 is displayed as shown in the state 1150, the state moves to the state 1160 and the selection range 1107 is displayed. In response to the release of the instruction button (step S901), the object 1103 in the selection range 1107 is selected (YES in step S902, S903).

  On the other hand, when it is accepted from the state 1150 that the instruction button has been released without moving the cursor, as shown in the state 1140, the object 1102 is selected and the range selection cursor 1106 is changed to the instruction cursor 1101 (steps S902 and S904). ). The above is an example of the operation shown in FIG. 11 for performing single selection or movement or range selection of an object starting from an object having no child object.

  Next, an example of an operation for selecting or moving an object or selecting a range starting from an object having a child object will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 12 shows an example of an operation for selecting or moving an object or selecting a range starting from an object having a child object.

  As shown in a state 1210, when the object 1202 is under the instruction cursor 1201 (YES in step S702) and the instruction button is pressed with no handle under the instruction cursor 1101 (NO in step S703, step S701). ) Since the object 1202 is in an unselected state and has the object 1203 and the object 1204 as child objects (NO in step S801, YES in step S802), the CPU 501 changes the pointing cursor 1201 to the range selection cursor 1205 (S803, State 1220 in FIG.

  When the cursor movement instruction is received within a certain period of time without accepting the operation of releasing the instruction button from state 1220 (YES in step S804), when the operation of releasing the instruction button is received, When moving from the starting point which is the reception start point of the selection operation (YES in step S901 and step S902), the objects 1203 and 1204 in the selection range 1206 are selected (step S903, state 1230 in FIG. 12).

  On the other hand, if the cursor movement instruction is not accepted within a certain time without accepting the operation of releasing the instruction button from the state 1220, the object 1202 under the cursor is changed to the selected state, and the range selection cursor 1205 is changed to the movement cursor 1207. (NO in step S804, step S806, state 1250 in FIG. 12).

  In the state 1220, when an operation for releasing the pressed button is accepted, the process proceeds to the state 1240, and the object 1209 is selected.

  When a cursor movement instruction is received with the movement cursor 1207 displayed, the movement destination 1208 is displayed, and when the instruction button is released, the object 1202 is moved to the movement destination 1208 (step S810, state 1260 in FIG. 12). ).

  As described above, according to the above-described implementation system, the user can perform single selection of an object and range selection of an object starting from the object without any special switching operation, thereby eliminating the trouble of overall operation for the object. can do. It should be noted that the configuration and contents of the various data described above are not limited to this, and it goes without saying that the various data and configurations are configured according to the application and purpose.

  In the embodiment of the present invention, when the instruction button is pressed when an object having a child object is under the cursor, the cursor is switched to range selection, and then the operation is accepted for a certain period of time. In the case where there is not, the embodiment in which the object under the cursor is selected and the cursor is switched to the moving cursor has been described, but the embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily limited to this.

  For example, if an instruction button is pressed when there is an object that has a child object under the cursor, the object under the cursor is selected, and if no operation is accepted for a certain period of time, the cursor is moved. An embodiment of switching to range selection may be taken.

  Furthermore, in the embodiment of the present invention, it is described that the cursor state is changed when the instruction button is pressed on an object having a child object. For example, the child object is the same as another child object. In the area on the parent object having the vertical angle of the corner on the parent object under the cursor, out of the corners of the rectangle including the entire group of objects to which the child object belongs (see FIG. The state of the cursor on the screen may be changed when the instruction button is pressed while the cursor is positioned in the 12 area 1211). (That is, when the second determination unit determines that the second object exists, the operation detection position specified by the detection position specification unit includes a single or a plurality of the second objects. If the cursor is within the area on the first object having the vertical angle of the corner on the first object, the operation type of the cursor can be switched to the range selection operation state. To decide.)

  In the above implementation system, the predetermined condition for changing the operation type of the cursor that is determined to be switched between the range selection operation state and the object selection operation state is set as whether or not a certain time has passed. The predetermined condition is not limited to this. For example, the predetermined condition may be to accept an operation of releasing the instruction button.

  Further, in FIG. 12 showing the embodiment of the present invention, the object 1203 and the object 1204 as child objects are entirely included in the object 1202, but the embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily limited to this. It is not a thing. For example, when the entire child object is not included in the parent object but the background 1212 is not displayed on the display screen, or when a part of the child object protrudes outside the background. When the instruction button is pressed on the parent object, the cursor state on the screen may be changed.

  Although one embodiment has been described above, the present invention can take an embodiment as, for example, a system, apparatus, method, program, or recording medium, and specifically includes a plurality of devices. The present invention may be applied to a system including a single device.

  By supplying a recording medium recording a program for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or apparatus, and reading and executing the program stored in the recording medium by a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus However, it goes without saying that the object of the present invention is achieved.

  In this case, the program itself read from the recording medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the recording medium storing the program constitutes the present invention.

  As a recording medium for supplying the program, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, EEPROM, silicon A disk, solid state drive, or the like can be used.

  Further, by executing the program read by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also an OS (operating system) operating on the computer based on an instruction of the program is actually It goes without saying that a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by performing part or all of the processing and the processing is included.

  Furthermore, after the program read from the recording medium is written to the memory provided in the function expansion board inserted into the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function expansion board is based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that the case where the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

  Furthermore, by downloading and reading a program for achieving the present invention from a server, database, etc. on a network using a communication program, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention. In addition, all the structures which combined each embodiment mentioned above and its modification are also included in this invention.

400 Information processing device 401 Operation receiving unit 402 Image display unit 403 Operation receiving position specifying unit 404 Operation time storage unit 405 Object specifying unit 406 Child object existence determining unit 407 Operation type determining unit 408 Selection process executing unit 409 Moving process executing unit 501 CPU
502 RAM
503 ROM
504 System bus 505 Input controller 506 Video controller 507 Memory controller 508 Communication I / F controller 509 Keyboard 510 Mouse 511 Display 512 External memory

Claims (13)

An information processing apparatus having a display unit for displaying a display screen including a plurality of objects, and an object editing function on the display screen,
Operation accepting means for accepting an operation on the first object, which is an object located at the coordinates of the cursor for specifying the position for accepting the operation;
A progress determination unit that determines whether or not a predetermined time has passed without receiving a next operation after receiving an operation by the operation receiving unit;
When it is determined that the predetermined time has passed by the progress determination unit, the operation received by the operation reception unit is switched from an object selection operation for selecting the first object to a range selection operation for performing range selection, or Determining means for determining to switch from the range selection operation to an object selection operation for selecting the first object ;
Depending on the content determined by said determining means, the operation accepted by the operation acceptance means, switching the range selected from the object selection operation, or the feature and Turkey and a switching means for switching a range selected from the Information processing apparatus. The determination unit is configured to perform an operation received by the reception unit when the second object, which is an object different from the first object, is positioned so as to overlap the first object. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein it is determined to switch from an object selection operation for selecting the object to a range selection operation. The determining means is a case where at least a part of the second object is positioned to overlap the first object, and the first object and the second object are arranged on the display surface. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the operation is determined to be switched when a certain background is not displayed. Coordinate position specifying means for specifying the coordinate position of the cursor,
The determining means is a rectangular corner including the whole of a single object or a plurality of second objects, wherein the coordinate position specified by the coordinate position specifying means is an object different from the first object, If it is in a region having a vertical angle closest to the operation coordinate position, it is determined to switch the operation received by the operation reception means from the object selection operation to a range selection operation, and the coordinate position is the vertical angle 4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: deciding not to switch the operation received by the operation receiving unit from the object selection operation to the range selection operation when the region is not within the region having The information processing apparatus described. Further comprising group determination means for determining whether or not the first object and a second object that is different from the first object belong to the same group;
The operation accepting unit simply identifies the first object and the second object when the group determining unit determines that the first object and the second object belong to the same group. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an operation is received as one of the first objects. Said switching means, in response to switching of the operation, the information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that for switching the display of the cursor. A display unit for displaying a display screen including a plurality of objects, and a control method for an information processing apparatus having an object editing function on the display screen,
An operation accepting step in which an operation accepting unit accepts an operation on a first object, which is an object located at the coordinates of a cursor for specifying a position to accept an operation;
A progress determination step for determining whether or not a certain period of time has elapsed without receiving a next operation after the progress determination means has received an operation in the operation reception step;
When the determining unit determines that a certain time has passed in the progress determining step, the operation received in the operation receiving step is changed from an object selecting operation for selecting the first object to a range selecting operation for selecting a range. A determination step for switching or determining to switch from the range selection operation to an object selection operation for selecting the first object ;
Switching means, in accordance with the contents determined by the determining step, the operation accepted by the operation accepting step is switched to the range selected from the object selection operation, or, and this including a switching step of switching the range selected from the A method for controlling an information processing apparatus. A program that is executed by an information processing apparatus having a display unit that displays a display screen including a plurality of objects, and an object editing function on the display screen;
The information processing apparatus;
Operation accepting means for accepting an operation on the first object, which is an object located at the coordinates of the cursor for specifying the position for accepting the operation;
A progress determination unit that determines whether or not a predetermined time has passed without receiving a next operation after receiving an operation by the operation receiving unit;
When it is determined that the predetermined time has passed by the progress determination unit, the operation received by the operation reception unit is switched from an object selection operation for selecting the first object to a range selection operation for performing range selection, or Determining means for determining to switch from the range selection operation to an object selection operation for selecting the first object ;
Depending on the content determined by said determining means, the operation accepted by the operation acceptance means, switching the range selected from the object selection operation, or, characterized that you function as switching means for switching a range selected from the Information processing apparatus program. The determination unit is configured to perform an operation received by the reception unit when the second object, which is an object different from the first object, is positioned so as to overlap the first object. The information processing apparatus program according to claim 8, wherein it is determined to switch from an object selection operation for selecting an object to a range selection operation. The determining means is a case where at least a part of the second object is positioned to overlap the first object, and the first object and the second object are arranged on the display surface. The information processing apparatus program according to claim 9, wherein the operation is switched when the background is not displayed. The information processing apparatus;
Function as coordinate position specifying means for specifying the coordinate position of the cursor,
The determining means is a rectangular corner including the whole of a single object or a plurality of second objects, wherein the coordinate position specified by the coordinate position specifying means is an object different from the first object, If it is in a region having a vertical angle closest to the operation coordinate position, it is determined to switch the operation received by the operation reception means from the object selection operation to a range selection operation, and the coordinate position is the vertical angle 11. The method according to claim 8, further comprising: deciding not to switch the operation received by the operation receiving unit from the object selection operation to the range selection operation when the region is not within the region having The program of the information processing apparatus described. The information processing apparatus;
The first object and a second object that is different from the first object function as group determination means for determining whether or not they belong to the same group,
The operation accepting unit simply identifies the first object and the second object when the group determining unit determines that the first object and the second object belong to the same group. 12. The information processing apparatus program according to claim 8, wherein an operation is accepted as one of the first objects. Said switching means, in response to said switching of operation, the program of the information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 8 to 12, characterized in that switch the display of the cursor.

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