Patent ID: 8854324

Claim:
An information processing device comprising: a display; a touch panel that detects a gesture operation; a memory that stores a correlation between each of a plurality of effects that can be applied to an object displayed on the display and one of a plurality of gesture operations; and a processor that applies one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display, and controls the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied, wherein the memory stores a correlation between an effect of copying, consecutively pasting and changing a case of a character and a gesture operation defined by a movement of a touch input on the touch panel in the horizontal and vertical directions, and the effect of copying, consecutively pasting and changing the case of the character includes copying and consecutively pasting the character according to the movement of the touch input in the horizontal direction; controlling the consecutively pasted characters to be capital case while the movement distance vertically upward is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; and controlling the consecutively pasted characters to be lower case when the movement distance vertically downward is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.