Patent ID: 9671897
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to identify a position of a manipulation body in relation to a detector and a distance between the detector based on an output of the detector; identify a first object of a plurality of objects displayed on the display based on the detected position of the manipulation body; determine a change in distance between the manipulation body and the first object over a predetermined period of time based on the output of the detector after the first object has been identified on the display; identify the first object of the plurality of objects displayed on the display to be in a selected state based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the first object over the predetermined period of time: and cause the display to indicate that the first object is placed in the selected state by modifying a visual appearance of the first object so that a visual depth of the first object appears to sink into the display, while a visual depth of other of the plurality of objects is unchanged, based on the determined change in distance between the manipulation body and the first object over the predetermined period of time.