JP5686089B2 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program - Google Patents

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 vertical angle 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, since it is necessary to perform an operation for switching between single object selection and object range selection, a new effort is required. Born. The present invention determines whether the received operation is a single selection of an object or a range selection of an object depending on whether or not the moving direction of the cursor approaches another object that overlaps the object under the cursor. An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus that can be determined, a control method thereof, and a program.

The information processing apparatus of the present invention is an information processing apparatus having a display unit for displaying a display screen including a plurality of objects, and operation acceptance means for accepting an operation on an object, cursor accepts before Symbol operation acceptance means from the start position of the operation is the operation starting position, the I operation start another object der the first object is an object which is in position, the first object and at least a part of the heavy Do that second when moving in the first direction is a direction toward the object, the operation accepted by the operation acceptance means as a range selection operation, when the cursor is moved in a direction different from the first direction, the operation determining means for determining determining that the operation accepted by the accepting means and object selection operation, among determined by the determining means Depending on the operation received by the operation reception means, characterized in that it comprises a selection operation control means for performing as the object selected operation or said range selecting operations.

According to the present invention, whether the operation accepted based on whether or not the moving direction of the cursor approaches another object that overlaps the object under the cursor is a single selection of an object or a range selection of an object It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus, a control method thereof, and a program.

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 process which switches operation classification according to the moving direction of a cursor 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 receiving unit 401, an image display unit 402, an operation detection position specifying unit 403, an operation direction determining unit 404, an object specifying unit 405, a child object existence determining unit 406, an operation type determining 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 specifying unit 403 specifies a position at which an operation for performing the process is started when performing the selection process, the range selection process, the movement process, and the like of the object displayed on the image display unit 402. Part.

  The operation direction determination unit 404 is a determination unit that determines in which direction the operation is performed from the operation detection position specified by the operation detection position specifying unit. For example, the direction in which the cursor has moved is determined from the start position of the pressing instruction using the cursor by the user while the pressing instruction is continued.

  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 specifying 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 overlaps with an object, at least a part of the object overlaps with the object, and another object angle that overlaps the 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. Further, when the diagonal vertex of the corner that overlaps the certain object overlaps with another object, it is determined that the diagonal vertex of the corner that overlaps the certain object is in a place other than the background.

  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 or not to change the operation type of the object range selection, single selection, and movement operation based on the operation direction determined by the operation direction determination unit 404 and the determination result determined by the child object determination unit. Determine whether.

  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.

  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. This corresponds to the group object specifying means in the claims.

  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 CPU 501 estimates a user's desired operation using necessary information in the object information 610, the cursor information 620, and the selected object information 630 described later, and executes processing. Details will be described later with reference to FIG.

  The selected object information 630 holds information for specifying the object being selected. The selection number 631 represents the selection order of objects, and the selection object ID 632 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 630 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 the user operation in addition to the movement of the cursor.

  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). The position of the cursor at the time when the instruction button is pressed, that is, the position where the instruction is received is set as the operation start position, and this position is specified and stored (corresponding to the operation start position specifying means in the claims).

  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).

  If there is no object under the cursor (NO in step S702), a known range selection operation is accepted and executed (step S706). If there is an object under the cursor (YES in step S702), the object under the cursor is specified, and it is confirmed whether there is a handle for accepting processing for the object under the cursor (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 (YES in step S703), an operation on the handle is accepted and executed (step S707). If there is no handle under the cursor (NO in step S703), the operation is accepted by guessing the purpose (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 of the information processing apparatus 400 estimates and processes an operation using necessary information in the object information 610, the cursor information 620, and the selected object information 630 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 state before accepting the cursor instruction operation (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 processing for switching the operation type by estimating the user's purpose.

  The CPU 501 confirms from the selected object information 630 stored in the RAM 502 whether the object under the cursor is in the selected state (step S801). If the object under the cursor has been selected in step S801 (YES in step S801), the process proceeds to step S806, the state 626 of the cursor information 620 is set to “move”, and the cursor is changed to a move cursor. Then, a state for accepting an operation of moving the object under the moving cursor is set (step S806).

  Thereafter, an instruction to move the cursor from the user is received, 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 execute a known movement operation (step S807).

  On the other hand, if the object under the cursor is not in the selected state (NO in step S801), it is confirmed from the object information 610 stored in the RAM 502 whether the object has a child object (step S802).

  If it is determined that the object does not have a child object (NO in step S802), the process proceeds to step S805, and an object located under the cursor is selected (step S805). This corresponds to the object selection operation in the claims. Then, the process proceeds to step S806.

  If it is determined that the object has a child object (YES in step S802), it is determined whether the cursor has moved in the direction of the child object (step S803).

Incidentally, the target and the child object of the determination in step S8 03 is a child object that can be contained in selected areas in the range selection starting from the position of the reception at the start of the pressing instructions.

  That is, at the time of accepting the pressing instruction within the vertical angle area that is the corner of the smallest rectangular area including the entire child object and is the rectangular area including the vertical angle of the corner closest to the start position when the pressing instruction is accepted If there is a position at the start, the child object is to be determined in step S803. This corresponds to the region determination means in the claims.

  The vertical angle region is a region such as the vertical angle region 1010 in FIG. The vertical angle region 1010 is a vertical angle region corresponding to the child object 1004. The child object 1004 and the vertical angle area 1010 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  If it is determined that the cursor has not moved in the direction of the child object (NO in step S803), the process proceeds to step S805, and an object positioned under the cursor is selected (step S805). Then, the process proceeds to step S806.

  If the object under the cursor and the child object belong to the same group, even if the cursor moves in the direction of the child object, the process may be shifted to step S805. The case of belonging to the same group is a case of being grouped with another object, for example.

  If it is determined that the cursor has moved in the direction of the child object (YES in step S803), the cursor is switched to the range selection cursor, the state 626 of the cursor information 620 is set to “range selection”, and the confirmation 627 is set to “confirmation”. The range selection process is executed (step S804). Details of the range selection process (step S804) will be described later with reference to FIG. The determination in step S803 corresponds to determination means in the claims. Further, the transition to each process based on the determination result corresponds to the switching means. 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 processing (step S804 in FIG. 8) that is executed upon receiving and executing the range selection operation in FIG.

  The CPU 501 accepts an operation of releasing the instruction button (step S901), and determines whether or not the object is included in a rectangular range whose diagonal is the starting point and the ending point (step S902).

  When it is determined that an object is included in the rectangular range (YES in step S902), all objects included in the rectangular range are selected (step S903). If it is determined that no object is included in the rectangular range (NO in step S902), the process ends. 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, with reference to FIG. 10, an embodiment of processing for switching the operation type according to the movement direction of the cursor, which the information processing apparatus according to the present invention receives and executes, will be described. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of an example of a process for switching the operation type according to the moving direction of the cursor, which the information processing apparatus according to the present invention receives and executes the operation.

  The CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 receives a pressing instruction from the user at the position of the pointing cursor 1001 on the parent object 1002. When the instruction cursor moves while the received pressing instruction is continued, the movement is detected.

  The CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 determines whether or not the direction in which the pointing cursor 1001 has moved is a direction that approaches the child object 1204.

  For example, it is determined whether the instruction cursor 1001 has moved to a position such as the range selection cursor 1009. If it is determined that the direction in which the instruction cursor 1001 has moved is a direction approaching the child object 1204, the operation type is switched to range selection, and the instruction cursor is switched to the range selection cursor.

  It is assumed that the CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 has no relation to the switching of the operation type as to whether or not the direction in which the pointing cursor 1001 has moved is the direction in which the child object 1203 approaches. Even if the direction of movement of the pointing cursor 1001 is a direction approaching the child object 1203 and the operation type is switched to range selection, the child object 1203 cannot be included in the selection area of the range selection. is there.

  In other words, when the cursor position at the start of pressing instruction reception is within the area of the smallest rectangular area that includes child objects and the vertical angle close to the cursor position at the start of pressing instruction reception In addition, it is determined whether or not the cursor has moved in a direction approaching the child object, and the operation type is switched according to the determination result.

  The CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 ends the range selection process with the end of the pressing instruction, and is the cursor position at the end of the range selecting process, for example, the position of the range selection cursor 1005 and the cursor at the start of the pressing instruction. All the objects included in the rectangle which is the diagonal with the position of the pointing cursor 1001 being the position as a vertex are selected.

  On the other hand, when the CPU 501 of the information processing apparatus 400 determines that the direction in which the instruction cursor 1001 has moved is not the direction in which the child object 1204 approaches, for example, the cursor has started moving toward a position such as the moving cursor 1007. In this case, the operation type is switched to the move operation, and the object selection process and the move process at the position at the start of the pressing instruction are executed.

  Note that the instruction cursor 1001 is switched to the movement cursor when it is determined that the direction in which the instruction cursor 1001 has moved is not the direction in which the instruction cursor 1001 moves closer to the child object 1204. The above is the description of the embodiment of the process of switching the operation type according to the moving direction of the cursor, which is executed by the information processing apparatus according to the present invention in FIG.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an information processing apparatus capable of easily switching between single object selection and object range selection, and a control method and program thereof.

  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.

  Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the embodiment has been described in which the operation type is switched depending on the moving direction of the cursor when a pressing instruction is received in a state where there is an object having a child object under the cursor. The embodiment is not necessarily limited to this.

  For example, even when an instruction button is pressed when there is an object that does not have a child object under the cursor, the position of the cursor when the pressing instruction is received is not the object under the cursor. When the object is included in the vertical angle area of the object, the operation type may be switched depending on the movement direction of the cursor.

  That is, the range selection process is started when the cursor moves so as to approach the other object, and the selection process is executed when the cursor does not move so as to approach the other object. You may make it start.

  Further, when the child object or the other object belongs to the same group as another object, the corner of the rectangle including the whole object of the group to which the child object or the other object belongs is pressed. When the vertical angle area, which is the area including the vertical angle of the corner closest to the position at the start of instruction reception, includes the position at the start of pressing instruction reception, the operation type to be executed is switched depending on the movement direction of the cursor. May be.

  Further, in FIG. 10 showing the embodiment of the present invention, the whole of the child object 1003 and the child object 1004 is completely included in the parent object 1002, but the embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily limited to this. It is not limited.

  For example, when the entire child object is not included in the parent object but the background 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 operation type to be executed may be switched depending on the movement direction of the cursor.

  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 apparatus 401 Operation receiving unit 402 Image display unit 403 Operation receiving position specifying unit 404 Operation direction determining 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 (9)

An information processing apparatus having a display unit for displaying a display screen including a plurality of objects,
An operation accepting means for accepting an operation on the object;
The cursor is an object different from the first object that is the object at the operation start position from the operation start position that is the operation start position received by the operation receiving means, and is at least one different from the first object. When moving in the first direction, which is a direction approaching the second object where the parts overlap, the operation received by the operation receiving means is set as a range selection operation, and the cursor moves in a direction different from the first direction A determination unit that determines to determine that the operation received by the operation reception unit is an object selection operation;
A selection operation control means for executing the operation received by the operation reception means as the object selection operation or the range selection operation according to the content determined by the determination means;
An information processing apparatus comprising: Whether or not the operation start position is located in a vertical angle region that is a region having a vertical angle of a rectangular corner that includes the whole of the single or plural second objects that are objects different from the first object. A region determination means for determining whether or not
The determination means is accepted by the operation acceptance means when the area determination means determines that the operation start position is located within the vertical angle area, and the cursor has moved in the first direction. When the cursor is moved in a direction different from the first direction, the operation received by the operation receiving unit is determined to be the object selection operation. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. A group object specifying means for specifying an object belonging to the same group as the second object;
Whether the region determination means is such that the operation start position is located in a vertical angle region with respect to a rectangular region including the second object and an object specified as an object belonging to the same group as the second object. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein it is determined whether or not. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a cursor switching unit that switches display of the cursor according to the operation type determined by the determination unit. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus having a display unit for displaying a display screen including a plurality of objects,
An operation accepting step in which the operation accepting means accepts an operation on the object;
The cursor is an object different from the first object that is the object at the operation start position from the operation start position that is the operation start position received in the operation reception step, and is at least one different from the first object. When moving in the first direction, which is the direction approaching the second object where the parts overlap, the operation received in the operation receiving step is set as a range selection operation, and the cursor moves in a direction different from the first direction A determination step for determining that the operation received in the operation reception step is to be an object selection operation;
A selection operation control step in which the selection operation control means executes the operation received in the operation reception step as the object selection operation or the range selection operation according to the content determined in the determination step;
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus, comprising: A program that can be executed by an information processing apparatus having a display unit that displays a display screen including a plurality of objects,
The information processing apparatus;
An operation accepting means for accepting an operation on the object;
The cursor is an object different from the first object that is the object at the operation start position from the operation start position that is the operation start position received by the operation receiving means, and is at least one different from the first object. When moving in the first direction, which is a direction approaching the second object where the parts overlap, the operation received by the operation receiving means is set as a range selection operation, and the cursor moves in a direction different from the first direction A determination unit that determines to determine that the operation received by the operation reception unit is an object selection operation;
An information processing apparatus that causes an operation received by the operation receiving unit to function as a selection operation control unit that executes the object selection operation or the range selection operation according to the content determined by the determination unit. program. The information processing apparatus;
Whether or not the operation start position is located in a vertical angle region that is a region having a vertical angle of a rectangular corner that includes the whole of the single or plural second objects that are objects different from the first object. Function as an area determination means for determining
The determination means is accepted by the operation acceptance means when the area determination means determines that the operation start position is located within the vertical angle area, and the cursor has moved in the first direction. When the cursor is moved in a direction different from the first direction, the operation received by the operation receiving unit is determined to be the object selection operation. A program for an information processing apparatus according to claim 6. The information processing apparatus;
Function as group object specifying means for specifying an object belonging to the same group as the second object,
Whether the region determination means is such that the operation start position is located in a vertical angle region with respect to a rectangular region including the second object and an object specified as an object belonging to the same group as the second object. The information processing apparatus program according to claim 7, wherein it is determined whether or not. The information processing apparatus;
The information processing apparatus program according to any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein the program functions as cursor switching means for switching display of the cursor according to the operation type determined by the determination means.

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