Display control apparatus, display control method and display control program

• US 10,216,407 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2018
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyazawa, Yusuke, Homma, Fuminori
• Primary Examiner(s): Buttram, Todd
• Application Number:
  US15/880,046
• Publication Number:
  US 20180150214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A display control apparatus includes: a display section; a detecting section which detects an indication manipulation for a manipulation surface; and a control section which detects, if the indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected by the detecting section, an area in the manipulation surface indicated through the indication manipulation, and enlarges an image on the basis of the detected area to be displayed on the display section.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display;

a touch sensor; and

at least one processor configured to

detect a user operation to a manipulation area of the touch sensor and a number of fingers associated with the user operation,

determine a relative scale of a target area of the display based on the number of fingers, and

control to display, upon the display, the target area at the relative scale,

wherein the target area is displayed at a smaller relative scale when a greater number of fingers are detected, and

wherein the target area and the manipulation area are not overlapped.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a network interface configured to receive data from a server on a network.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data comprises web page data.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the at least one processor controls to display, within the target area, a page image associated with the web page data.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor controls to display, within the target area, a web page via a web browser application.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein a relative scale of the web page is changed based on the user operation.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the web page is scrolled based on the user operation.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a proximity sensor configured to detect a proximity of one or more fingers associated with the user operation.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second display,

wherein the touch sensor is arranged in conjunction with a surface of the second display.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second display is provided adjacent to the display.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the touch sensor is an electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel.

12. An information processing apparatus comprising:

at least one processor configured to

detect a user operation to a manipulation area of a touch sensor and a number of fingers associated with the user operation,

determine a relative scale of a target area of the display based on the number of fingers, and

control to display the target area at the relative scale,

wherein the target area is displayed at a smaller relative scale when a greater number of fingers are detected, and

wherein the target area and the manipulation area are not overlapped.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

a proximity sensor configured to detect a proximity of one or more fingers associated with the user operation.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

a first display upon which the target area is displayed; and

a second display in conjunction with which the touch sensor is arranged.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the second display is provided adjacent to the first display.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the user operation is electrostatically detected by an electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel having the touch sensor.

17. An information processing method comprising:

detecting a user operation to a manipulation area of a touch sensor and a number of fingers associated with the user operation;

determining a relative scale of a target area of the display based on the number of fingers; and

displaying the target area at the relative scale,

wherein the target area is displayed at a smaller relative scale when a greater number of fingers are detected, and

wherein the target area and the manipulation area are not overlapped.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

detecting a user operation to a manipulation area of a touch sensor and a number of fingers associated with the user operation;

determining a relative scale of a target area of the display based on the number of fingers; and

displaying the target area at the relative scale,

wherein the target area is displayed at a smaller relative scale when a greater number of fingers are detected, and

wherein the target area and the manipulation area are not overlapped.