Display control device and method to display a panoramic image

• US 10,218,897 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2011
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takaoka, Lyo, Nunomaki, Takashi, Amano, Ryoko, Nishikawa, Kenzo, Kano, Ritsuko, Narita, Tomoya, Kasahara, Shunichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Samantha (Yuehan)
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/314,486
• Publication Number:
  US 20120154442A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,637 Days
• Field of Search: 345667, 345634, 345173, 345629, 345660, 345428, 345684, 715786, 715 39, 715816, 348 39
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture

Abstract

A display control device includes a display controller executing display control to display, on a display screen of a display device displaying an image, a whole of a display target image that is to be displayed and that has an aspect ratio differing from an aspect ratio of the display screen, and to display a partial enlarged image, which is obtained by enlarging a partial image corresponding to a part of the display target image and which has a smaller size than the display screen, at a displayed position of the partial image in superimposed relation to the display target image.

Claims

1. A display control device, comprising:

circuitry configured to;

generate, based on a first user instruction, a partial target image of a display target image displayed on a display area, wherein the partial target image comprises a first width and a first length, the first width is equal to a second width of the display area, and the first length is shorter than a second length of the display area;

concurrently display a whole of the display target image and the partial target image at a position, wherein the position corresponds to an input position of the first user instruction on the display target image,

wherein the first user instruction to designate a part of the display target image as the partial target image is received in a state where the whole of the display target image is displayed on the display area, wherein the display area has an aspect ratio different from that of the display target image; and

display automatic scroll of the display target image from a scroll start position, based on a second user instruction to designate start of the automatic scroll of the display target image,

wherein the first user instruction is a touch operation, and the second user instruction is a release of the touch operation,

wherein the release of the touch operation is a trigger for the display of the automatic scroll of the display target image, and

wherein the scroll start position corresponds to a point on the display target image at which the touch operation is released.

2. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

receive the first user instruction based on the touch operation at a user selected position of the display area; and

receive the second user instruction based on the release of the touch operation.

3. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to adjust a size of the display target image for the automatic scroll so that the size of the display target image, in a direction of the automatic scroll, is larger than a size of the display area.

4. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to overlay the partial target image on the display target image based on the first user instruction.

5. A display control method, comprising:

in a display control device;

generating, based on a first user instruction, a partial target image of a display target image displayed on a display area, wherein the partial target image comprises a first width and a first length, the first width is equal to a second width of the display area, and the first length is shorter than a second length of the display area;

concurrently displaying a whole of the display target image and the partial target image at a position corresponding to an input position of the first user instruction on the display target image;

wherein the first user instruction to designate a part of the display target image as the partial target image is received in a state where the whole of the display target image is displayed on the display area, and wherein the display area has an aspect ratio different from that of the display target image; and

displaying automatic scroll of the display target image from a scroll start position, based on a second user instruction to designate starting of the automatic scroll of the display target image,

wherein the first user instruction is a touch operation, and the second user instruction is a release of the touch operation,

wherein the release of the touch operation is a trigger for the display of the automatic scroll of the display target image, and

wherein the scroll start position corresponds to a point on the display target image at which the touch operation is released.

6. The display control method according to claim 5, further comprising:

receiving the first user instruction based on the touch operation at a user selected position of the display area; and

receiving the second user instruction based on the release of the touch operation.

7. The display control method according to claim 5, further comprising:

adjusting a size of the display target image for the automatic scroll so that the size of the display target image, in a direction of the automatic scroll, is larger than a size of the display area.

8. The display control method according to claim 5, further comprising:

overlaying the partial target image on the display target image based on the first user instruction.

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

generating, based on a first user instruction, a partial target image of a display target image displayed on a display area, wherein the partial target image comprises a first width and a first length, the first width is equal to a second width of the display area, and the first length is shorter than a second length of the display area;

concurrently displaying a whole of the display target image and the partial target image at a position corresponding to an input position of the first user instruction on the display target image,

wherein the first user instruction to designate a part of the display target image as the partial target image is received in a state where the whole of the display target image is displayed on the display area; and

displaying automatic scroll of the display target image from a scroll start position, based on a second user instruction to designate starting of the automatic scroll of the display target image, wherein the scroll start position is based on an input position of one of the first user instruction or the second user instruction on the display target image,

wherein the first user instruction is a touch operation, and the second user instruction is a release of the touch operation,

wherein the release of the touch operation is a trigger for the display of the automatic scroll of the display target image, and

wherein the scroll start position corresponds to a point on the display target image at which the touch operation is released.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the first user instruction based on the touch operation at a user selected position of the display area; and

receiving the second user instruction based on the release of the touch operation.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

adjusting a size of the display target image for the automatic scroll so that the size of the display target image, in a direction of the automatic scroll, is larger than a size of the display area.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

overlaying the partial target image on the display target image based on the first user instruction.