There is provided an information processing device to make it possible to perform a more intuitive operation on a display object while preventing an erroneous operation, the information processing device including: an input processing unit that performs input processing on the basis of a detected input operation; a tactile signal processing unit that generates a control signal for controlling a tactile feedback on the basis of the input operation; and a display control unit that controls a display object disposed in a user interface on the basis of an input strength according to the input operation. In addition, there is provided an information processing method including, by a processor performing input processing on the basis of a detected input operation; generating a control signal for controlling a tactile feedback on the basis of the input operation; and controlling a display object disposed in a user interface on the basis of an input strength according to the input operation.

The present invention provides an information input device, in which information is inputted by easy operations, even if a display unit size is limited. An information input device of the present invention has: a display unit displaying a plurality of figures; a detecting unit arranged in front of the display unit or behind the display unit, and detecting whether a physical contact from an outside exists or not and a contacted position at which the physical contact exists; and a control unit deciding a figure displayed on the display unit and a position at which the figure is displayed, and inputting information based on a signal from the detecting unit, and when the detecting unit detects the physical contact exists, the control unit determines a first figure displayed at a nearest position to the contacted position in the plurality of figures based on the contacted position and decides a second figure displayed at a position surrounding the contacted position based on a kind of the first figure.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller that performs control so that a portion including a specified character string, which is specified through an operation by a user, in a list linking plural character string groups belonging to plural groups is displayed in a display area, operator images are displayed to receive an operation performed by the user for selecting one or more groups out of the plural groups, and an index associated with the one or more selected groups is displayed among plural indexes that are associated with the plural groups and used for receiving an operation for selecting a specific character string included in the character string groups, and a specifier that specifies, as the specified character string, the specific character string selected through the operation for the displayed index.

In some embodiments, a device displays content on a touch screen display and detects input by finger gestures. In response to the finger gestures, the device selects content, visually distinguishes the selected content, and/or updates the selected content based on detected input. In some embodiments, the device displays a command display area that includes one or more command icons; detects activation of a command icon in the command display area; and, in response to detecting activation of the command icon in the command display area, performs a corresponding action with respect to the selected content. Exemplary actions include cutting, copying, and pasting content.

An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display and a processor, which implements the method, including: displaying virtual reality image, a virtual keyboard including a plurality of keys indicating a plurality of characters, and a representation of an external electronic device superimposed on the virtual reality image, wherein the virtual keyboard is displayed in a virtual touch pad area of the representation corresponding to a touch pad of the external electronic device, receiving information regarding a first touch input, transmitted from the external electronic device in response to detecting the first touch input on the touch pad, identifying, using the received information, a key corresponding to the first touch input from among the plurality of keys, and displaying, in at least a portion of the virtual reality image, a character indicated by the identified key on at least portion of the image.

A portable electronic device for instant messaging is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a graphical user interface (GUI) on a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. The GUI has a set of messages exchanged between a user of the device and another person. The set of messages are displayed in a chronological order. In response to detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially vertical movement of a user contact with the touch screen display, the display of messages are scrolled in accordance with a direction of the scrolling gesture. The detecting of the scrolling gesture is substantially independent of a horizontal position of the user contact with the touch screen display.

Embodiments of this application disclose a terminal control method and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal, text information that is input in a preset area of the first terminal, and determining an operation type of the text information; recognizing, by the first terminal, the text information based on the operation type, to obtain at least one key matching the text information; and generating, by the first terminal, a key value of each key, and sending the generated key value to a second terminal, to control the second terminal by using the key value. According to the embodiments of this application, processing efficiency and convenience of operation can be improved.

A keyboard interface enables the efficient selection of one or more data items from a set of data items. The appearance of the keyboard interface can be dynamically generated and updated based on characteristics of the data items in the set. When a user selects a user interface element associated with a set of data items, the data items in the set can be evaluated to determine a number of keys to include in the keyboard interface as well as which characters are assigned to each included key. The number of keys and which characters are assigned to these keys can be determined by identifying a first character in each of the data items in the set. When the user selects a key, the keyboard interface can be updated in a similar manner but based on characters at a subsequent position in data items that matched the previously selected key.

The present disclosure includes methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for receiving one or more user inputs from a user via a user interface, transmitting the one or more user inputs to a remote server, obtaining an expected user input interval and an expected response latency, and displaying, via the user interface, either one or more predicted inputs associated with a content of a local cache or one or more predicted inputs received from the remote server, based at least on whether the expected user input interval is greater than a product of the expected response latency and a factor.

A mobile phone device includes a housing having a substantially rectangular shape wherein its height dimension substantially corresponds to a distance between an ear and a mouth of a user and wherein its width dimension is less than its height dimension. A display unit is integrated within the front surface of the mobile phone device. The display unit substantially entirely covers the front surface of the mobile phone device. The mobile phone device does not include a physical key on the front surface.