Patent ID: 9348443
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus provided with a display unit including a touch panel, the information processing apparatus comprising: a detection unit that detects a plurality of touch points being touched at a time on the touch panel; a division unit that divides, if a number of the plurality of touch points detected by the detection unit is a predetermined number or more, a plurality of display objects into two groups of display objects according to one of the plurality of touch points moving in an opposite direction on the touch panel to another of the plurality of touch points; a decision unit that decides one or more objects that are to be displayed in each of the two groups of display objects obtained by the division unit, according to an attribute, including an aggregation setting in which the plurality of display objects are constituted by a plurality of objects, of an object that is included in each of the plurality of display objects before the division; and a determination unit that determines, if the plurality of display objects before the division have the aggregation setting of a plurality of objects, whether or not to execute the division of the plurality of display objects by the division unit, on the basis of a number of display objects in the horizontal direction that are arranged in the plurality of display objects, wherein one of the two groups of display objects includes the one of the plurality of touch points and another of the two groups of display objects includes the another of the plurality of touch points.