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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1999
Mitsuru Hanajima, 7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo 141, JP;
Jochiku Muraoka, 7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo 141, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention discloses an information processing apparatus comprising a display device to display images and a touch panel device to output signals for a depressing position and a depressing pressure. The images of the icons that are displayed are changed depending on the output from the touch panel device. The composite icon display control is determined for the depressing pressure level information as the comparison result of the depressing pressure and reference depressing pressure and depressing position change information as the monitoring result of depressing position in addition to the depressing position information of the touch panel device. When the touch panel is depressed with a weak pressure, the icon corresponding to the depressing position is displayed in the highlight display mode. In addition, when the touch panel is depressed with a higher pressure to move the depressing position corresponding to the knob of an icon of the varying device such as a slide volume having the knob, both knob position and amount of control of the varying device change following the movement of the depressing position.
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