Wearable apparatus, electronic apparatus, image control apparatus, and display control method

• US 10,388,256 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Hirotaka, Akagawa, Satoshi, Iwatsu, Takeshi, Kajihara, Chisako, Tsukahara, Tsubasa, Kanema, Yasuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tseng, Charles
• Application Number:
  US15/118,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20170178596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,719 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/34 for rolling or scrolling

Abstract

A wearable apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display unit, an operation section, a storage unit, and a display control unit. The display unit is configured to display an image. The operation section is configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching an image to be displayed on the display unit. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of images to be displayed on the display unit. The display control unit is configured to be capable of sequentially switching the images to be displayed on the display unit every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to cause the display unit to display a first middle image during switching between the individual images from a top image to be first displayed on the display unit to a last image to be last displayed and cause the display unit to display a second middle image different from the first middle image during switching between the last image and the top image.

Claims

1. A wearable apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display a plurality of images;

an input device configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching between the plurality of images to be displayed on the display;

a storage device configured to store the plurality of images to be displayed on the display; and

a display controller including a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the CPU, are configured to sequentially switch the plurality of images to be displayed on the display every time the predetermined operation event is received, to cause the display to display a first transition image during switching between individual images of the plurality of images from a top image of the plurality of images to be first displayed on the display to a last image of the plurality of images to be last displayed and to cause the display to display a second transition image different from the first transition image during switching across a loop gap between the last image and the top image, wherein the second transition image is different from the plurality of images to be displayed on the display, wherein the first transition image includes a first animation image in which a currently displayed first image disappears from the display while moved in a predetermined direction and at the same time a second image to be displayed subsequently to the first image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, wherein the second transition image includes a second animation image in which one image of the top image and the last image disappears from the display while moved in the predetermined direction and then the other image of the top image and the last image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, and wherein the display controller is configured to display the second animation image smaller than the first animation image.

2. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

he first transition image has a first reproduction time, and

the second transition image has a second reproduction time longer than the first reproduction time.

3. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second animation image further includes a predetermined image to be displayed after the one image of the top image and the last image disappears from the display and before the other image of the top image and the last image is displayed on the display.

4. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the top image and the last image include predetermined images to be displayed at symmetrical positions.

5. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display controller is configured to cause the display to further display a scroll bar that is moved synchronously with switching between the plurality of images.

6. The wearable apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the display controller is configured to cause the display to divide the scroll bar and display the divided scroll bar when causing the display to display the second transition image.

7. The wearable apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the display controller is configured to cause the scroll bar to disappear from the display when causing the display to display the second transition image.

8. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a sound output device configured to

reproduce a first sound when the first transition image is displayed on the display, and

reproduce a second sound different from the first sound when the second transition image is displayed on the display.

9. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a mounting unit that includes the display and is configured to be mountable on a user'"'"'s head.

10. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display a plurality of images;

an input device configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching between the plurality of images to be displayed on the display;

a storage device configured to store the plurality of images to be displayed on the display; and

a display controller including a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the CPU, are configured to sequentially switch the plurality of images to be displayed on the display every time the predetermined operation event is received, to cause the display to display a first transition image during switching between individual images of the plurality of images from a top image of the plurality of images to be first displayed on the display to a last image of the plurality of images to be last displayed and to cause the display to display a second transition image different from the first transition image during switching across a loop gap between the last image and the top image, wherein the second transition image is different from the plurality of images to be displayed on the display, wherein the first transition image includes a first animation image in which a currently displayed first image disappears from the display while moved in a predetermined direction and at the same time a second image to be displayed subsequently to the first image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, wherein the second transition image includes a second animation image in which one image of the top image and the last image disappears from the display while moved in the predetermined direction and then the other image of the top image and the last image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, and wherein the display controller is configured to display the second animation image smaller than the first animation image.

11. An image control apparatus, comprising:

an input device configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching between a plurality of images to be displayed on a display of an electronic apparatus;

a storage device configured to store the plurality of images to be displayed on the display; and

a display controller including a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the CPU, are configured to sequentially switch the plurality of images to be displayed on the display every time the predetermined operation event is received, to cause the display to display a first transition image during switching between individual images of the plurality of images from a top image of the plurality of images to be first displayed on the display to a last image of the plurality of images to be last displayed and to cause the display to display a second transition image different from the first transition image during switching across a loop gap between the last image and the top image, wherein the second transition image is different from the plurality of images to be displayed on the display, wherein the first transition image includes a first animation image in which a currently displayed first image disappears from the display while moved in a predetermined direction and at the same time a second image to be displayed subsequently to the first image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, wherein the second transition image includes a second animation image in which one image of the top image and the last image disappears from the display while moved in the predetermined direction and then the other image of the top image and the last image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, and wherein the display controller is configured to display the second animation image smaller than the first animation image.

12. A display control method for an electronic apparatus including a display, comprising:

sequentially switching, by a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory, a plurality of images stored in the memory to be displayed on the display every time a predetermined operation event is received;

causing, by the CPU and the memory, the display to display a first transition image during switching between individual images of the plurality of images from a top image to the plurality of images to be first displayed on the display to a last image of the plurality of images to be last displayed; and

causing, by the CPU and the memory, the display to display a second transition image different from the first transition image during switching across a loop gap between the last image and the top image, wherein the second transition image is different from the plurality of images to be displayed on the display, wherein the first transition image includes a first animation image in which a currently displayed first image disappears from the display while moved in a predetermined direction and at the same time a second image to be displayed subsequently to the first image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, wherein the second transition image includes a second animation image in which one image of the top image and the last image disappears from the display while moved in the predetermined direction and then the other image of the top image and the last image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, and wherein the CPU and the memory are configured to display the second animation image smaller than the first animation image.

13. A wearable apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display a plurality of images;

an input device configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching between the plurality of images to be displayed on the display;

a storage device configured to store the plurality of images to be displayed on the display; and

a display controller including a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the CPU, are configured to sequentially switch the plurality of images to be displayed on the display every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to display predetermined transition images, which are not present in the other plurality of images to be displayed on the display, in a top image of the plurality of images to be first displayed on the display and a last image of the plurality of images to be last displayed, wherein a first transition image includes a first animation image in which a currently displayed first image disappears from the display while moved in a predetermined direction and at the same time a second image to be displayed subsequently to the first image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, wherein a second transition image includes a second animation image in which one image of the top image and the last image disappears from the display while moved in the predetermined direction and then the other image of the top image and the last image is displayed on the display while moved in the predetermined direction, and wherein the display controller is configured to display the second animation image smaller than the first animation image.