Patent ID: 9710096
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: at least one processor; a display unit configured to display an image having one or more objects on a screen based on image data using the at least one processor; at least one presence detection sensor; a proximity detection unit configured to detect at least one of contact and proximity between a user's hand and the screen, based on data received from the at least one presence detection sensor using the at least one processor; a covered area calculation unit configured to calculate a covered area of a covered region comprising the size of the area that the user's hand is in at least one of contact and in proximity to the at least one presence detection sensor using the at least one processor; an overlapped area calculation unit configured to calculate an overlapped area of the one or more objects with the user's hand, wherein the overlapped area is the size of the area where the covered region overlaps the object using the at least one processor; a covered time measurement unit configured to measure a covered time when the screen is covered by at least one of contact and proximity of the user's hand using the at least one processor; and an object display control unit configured to remove the one or more objects from the covered region based on the measured cover time and the calculated overlapped area using the at least one processor, wherein the object display control unit is configured to remove the one or more objects based on the covered region if the covered region represents at least a substantial portion of the user's hand, and wherein the at least the substantial portion of the user's hand is greater than a user's finger that is part of the user's hand.