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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2006
Kotaro Asaka, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kinouchi, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Takatsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Junichiro Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Tsukazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Ozawa, Chiba, JP;
Kotaro Asaka, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kinouchi, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Takatsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Junichiro Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Tsukazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Ozawa, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, includes: display control means for displaying, on the display, an item associated with predetermined content; detection means for detecting a contact of a user with the touch panel; determination means for determining whether or not the contact of the user is released, the contact being detected by the detection means; selection means for completing, when the determination means determines that the contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by the display control means on a position where the contact of the user was detected by the detection means until just before; and playback means for playing back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by the selection means.