Patent ID: 8610740
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a display section which has a display surface and is capable of displaying information on the display surface; a storage section which stores pieces of object position information indicating positions of a plurality of objects on the display surface, and also stores cursor position information indicating a position of a cursor on the display surface and attention information for specifying at least one of the pieces of object position information; an object display control section which causes the plurality of objects to be displayed at the positions on the display surface indicated by the pieces of object position information; a reception section which receives, from an information input apparatus which accepted input of a vector on the display surface, the vector; a cursor position determination section which determines new cursor position information based on the vector received by the reception section; a cursor display control section which causes the cursor to be displayed at a position on the display surface indicated by the cursor position information stored in the storage section, and also causes the cursor to move to a position on the display surface indicated by the new cursor position information determined by the cursor position determination section; an attention object selection section which selects, from the pieces of object position information, information indicating the closest position from the position indicated by the new cursor position information as new attention object position information indicating a position of an object that is to be newly attended to; and a focus position control section which causes a focus to be displayed at a position on the display surface indicated by the object position information specified by the attention information, and also causes the focus to move to a position on the display surface indicated by the new attention object position information, wherein, in moving the focus, the focus position control section causes the focus during stages of movement to be displayed on the display surface, and the focus position control section gradually decreases and then increases a transmittance of the focus in accordance with time elapses of the stages of movement, and wherein, in moving the focus, the focus position control section gradually decreases the transmittance of the focus from when the focus is displayed at the position on the display surface indicated by the object position information specified by the attention information, to when the focus is displayed at a position that is located in-between the position on the display surface indicated by the object position information specified by the attention information and the position on the display surface indicated by the new attention object position information, and the focus position control section gradually increases the transmittance of the focus from when the focus is displayed at the position that is located in-between the position on the display surface indicated by the object position information specified by the attention information and the position on the display surface indicated by the new attention object position information, to when the focus is displayed at the position on the display surface indicated by the new attention object position information.