Patent ID: 8423916
Filing Date: 2013-04-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input a coordinate value of a position designated on a screen which displays one or a plurality of objects; a determination unit configured to compare an input locus expressed by a coordinate value string input by the input unit, and a second locus which is defined in advance as a locus used to instruct to execute a process for the object, and to determine whether the input locus is a first locus or the second locus; a selection unit configured to select, when the determination unit determines that the input locus is the first locus, object from the one or plurality of objects based on display positions of the input locus and the object on the screen; and an execution unit configured to execute, when the determination unit determines that the input locus is the second locus, a process designated by the input locus with respect to the object selected by the selection unit, wherein when a plurality of input loci determined as the first loci are input, the selection unit selects objects with regard to respective ones of the plurality of input loci, and the execution unit groups the objects selected by the plurality of input loci determined as the first loci for respective input loci having similar shapes, and selectively executes a process designated by the input locus determined as the second locus for respective grouped objects.