Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Yuichi Ando

Satoshi Yamazaki

Isao Watanabe

Takeshi Ota

Keisuke Ishii

Kenji Nagashima

Tomohiro Ogawa

Hiroshi Amano

Takashi Hatakeda

Takumi Arie

To make it possible to exclusively treat an operating input to a touch sensor or an operating input to an operating key different from the touch center as an operating input serving as a basis for the performance of processing. A processing executing section performs processing according to an operating input to a touch sensor or an operating input to an operating section. When the operating inputs to both of the touch sensor and the operating section are received, the processing executing section performs only processing according to one of the operating inputs.

Information processing device, information processing method, program, and information storage medium

A navigation device that obtains the current position based on information from a satellite, and guides a travel path from the current position to the destination on a map image includes: a display unit that displays the map image; a touch sensor unit that is arranged on the front surface of the display unit; an icon generation unit that generates a smooth scroll operation icon which is available for continuous performs smooth scroll processing for the map image and displays the smooth scroll operation icon on the map image; and a scroll control unit that executes the smooth scroll processing when the touch sensor unit detects that the smooth scroll operation icon is touched to be operated, and executes a predetermined scroll processing when the touch sensor unit detects that a region other than the smooth scroll operation icon is touched to be operated on the screen of the display unit.

Navigation device and map scroll processing method

A map display apparatus is provided to allow a user to easily find out destinations on maps without forcing him/her to perform troublesome operations. An apparatus displays a main map image showing a current position at substantially a center of a screen. The apparatus also disposes a plurality of map images around the main map image in thumbnail format such that each map image corresponds to each direction on the main map image. In this manner, the apparatus provides the user with information about wider area than the main map image by showing him/her the thumbnails , which are disposed around the main map image such that each thumbnail corresponds to each direction on the main map image That allows the user to easily find out destinations on maps without forcing him/her to perform troublesome operations.

Map display apparatus and map display method

A drawing processing apparatus and method wherein scrolling display which provides no sense of incongruity is achieved in 3D display. 3D information is produced using information in a drawing object range extracted as a predetermined range on map data. The drawing object range of an object of the 3D drawing process is moved in response to a scrolling operation. While the drawing object range is moved, 3D image data are successively produced using the drawing object range at every point of time and outputted to implement 3D display on a display screen. Thereupon, the drawing object range to be used for the 3D drawing is moved such that individual portions in the drawing object range are moved by movement amounts determined with reference to a distance in a perpendicular direction at a reference position in the drawing object range.

Drawing processing apparatus, display apparatus, drawing processing method and navigation apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuichi Ando