Display control device, display control method, and recording medium

• US 10,025,456 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2013
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Ryo, Miura, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): BHARGAVA, ANIL K
• Application Number:
  US14/654,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20150346951A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,750 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing system switches to a first selected content that is included in a first content group based on a first switching operation. The first content group is oriented in a first direction. The system then switches from the first selected content to a second selected content in a second content group based on a second switching operation. The second content group is oriented in a second direction. The first content group includes content grouped according to a first standard, and the second content group includes content grouped according to a second standard that is different from the first standard, and the first selected content satisfies both the first standard and the second standard.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

a central processing unit configured to;

control a display screen to switch to a first selected content included in a first content group based on a first switching operation, wherein the first content group is oriented in a first direction;

switch the display screen from the first selected content to a second selected content in a second content group based on a second switching operation, wherein the second content group is oriented in a second direction,

wherein the first content group includes a first set of content that is grouped based on a first standard, and the second content group includes a second set of content that is grouped based on a second standard different from the first standard, and wherein the first selected content satisfies both the first standard and the second standard;

determine a display order for display of one of the first set of content or the second set of content, wherein the display order for the second set of content is determined based on a number of content items in the second content group; and

sequentially display at least one of the first set of content or the second set of content in the determined display order based on at least one of the first switching operation or the second switching operation.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to, based on the first switching operation, sequentially display content in the first content group until the first selected content is reached.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to use the first standard to group the first set of content in the first content group based on time information associated with the first set of content.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to display an indication on a displayed content that related content that relates to the displayed content exists.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the indication includes a first indication of a switching direction to display the related content.

6. The information processing system according to claim 5, wherein the indication further includes a second indication of an amount of the related content.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the second standard is determined based on a user operation.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to:

display an object to cause redisplay of a previously displayed content; and

redisplay the previously displayed content based on receipt of a user operation with respect to the object.

9. The information processing system according to claim 8, wherein the object indicates a direction of the previously displayed content that is to be redisplayed.

10. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the previously displayed content to be redisplayed is a determined number of contents from a currently displayed content in the direction indicated by the user operation.

11. The information processing system according to claim 8, wherein based on redisplay of the previously displayed content, the central processing unit is further configured to jump to the previously displayed content.

12. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to:

display a history list including previously displayed content; and

redisplay one of the previously displayed content based on a user operation that selects the one of the previously displayed content.

13. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to switch from the second selected content to a third selected content in a third content group based on a third switching operation, wherein the third content group is oriented in the first direction and includes a third set of content grouped based on the first standard, and

wherein the third selected content in the third content group is different from the first selected content in the first content group.

14. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first standard relates to time information of the first set of content.

15. The information processing system according to claim 14, wherein the time information of the first set of content is at least one of a shooting time of each of the first set of content or an update time of each of the first set of content.

16. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to use the second standard to group the second set of content based on a degree of similarity among the second set of content.

17. The information processing system according to claim 16, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to calculate the degree of similarity based on an amount of related information from the second set of content.

18. The information processing system according to claim 16, wherein the central processing unit is further configured to prioritize the display order of the second set of content in the second content group based on the degree of similarity.

19. An information processing method, comprising:

controlling a display screen to switch to a first selected content included in a first content group based on a first switching operation, wherein the first content group is oriented in a first direction; and

switching the display screen from the first selected content to a second selected content in a second content group based on a second switching operation, wherein the second content group is oriented in a second direction,

wherein the first content group includes a first set of content that is grouped based on a first standard, and the second content group includes a second set of content that is grouped based on a second standard different from the first standard, and

wherein the first selected content satisfies both the first standard and the second standard;

determining a display order for display of one of the first set of content or the second set of content, wherein the display order for the second set of content is determined based on a number of content items in the second content group; and

sequentially displaying at least one of the first set of content or the second set of content in the determined display order based on at least one of the first switching operation or the second switching operation.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute operations, the operations comprising:

controlling a display screen to switch to a first selected content included in a first content group based on a first switching operation, wherein the first content group is oriented in a first direction; and

switching the display screen from the first selected content to a second selected content in a second content group based on a second switching operation, wherein the second content group is oriented in a second direction,

wherein the first content group includes a first set of content that is grouped based on a first standard, and the second content group includes a second set of content that is grouped based on a second standard different from the first standard, and wherein the first selected content satisfies both the first standard and the second standard;

determining a display order for display of one of the first set of content or the second set of content, wherein the display order for the second set of content is determined based on a number of content items in the second content group; and

sequentially displaying at least one of the first set of content or the second set of content in the determined display order based on at least one of the first switching operation or the second switching operation.