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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2012
Applicant:
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Minato-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Tatsuya Ooka, Minato-ku, JP;
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0489 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G01C 21/3652 (2013.01); G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 3/04812 (2013.01); G06F 3/04895 (2013.01); G06F 3/04897 (2013.01); G06F 9/4446 (2013.01);
Abstract
An information processing apparatus that determines a direction to browsed next as a guiding direction with a location of content displayed by a display of the information processing apparatus as a reference location; determines a perceptual strength of each of a plurality of active elements disposed in different locations on or within a casing of the information processing apparatus based on the guiding direction; and controls each of the plurality of active elements based on the perceptual strengths.