Patent ID: 8081166
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus having a coordinate input device and a display device and being operable in a drawing mode, in which an image is drawn on the display device based upon coordinate data that is input from the coordinate input device, and in an editing mode for moving the image that has been drawn based upon coordinate data that is input from the coordinate input device, the information processing apparatus comprising: a determination unit that determines if the coordinate data input from the coordinate input device has not changed for a prescribed time period; and a switching unit that, in a case where the determination unit determines that the coordinate data input from the coordinate input device has not changed for the prescribed time period while in the drawing mode, executes a first processing for switching from the drawing mode to the editing mode, and in a case where the coordinate data input from the coordinate input device is not detected after switching from the drawing mode to the editing mode by the first processing, executes a second processing for switching from the editing mode to the drawing mode; and a control unit that performs control, in a case where a first plurality of coordinate data is input from the coordinate input device in the drawing mode during a first time period and a second plurality of coordinate data is input from the coordinate input device in the drawing mode during a second time period, later than the first time period, so that the image, which is based upon the first and second plurality of coordinate data, is moved according to coordinate data input from the coordinate input device in the editing mode during a third time period later than the second time period, wherein the switching unit executes the first processing at the end of the first time period and the second processing at the beginning of the second time period.