Display control apparatus, display control method and information recording medium

• US 20020051098A1
• Filed: 08/08/2001
• Published: 05/02/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Murata, Toshiyuki, Sato, Hitoshi, Morita, Kenji, Yamashita, Rie, Mizumura, Yukari
• Granted Patent: US 7,133,085 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/836
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0028 Ceiling, e.g. roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0082 collapsible, e.g. for storing after use
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0092 with motorization
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0094 characterised by means for covering after user, e.g. boxes, shutters or the like

Abstract

A display control apparatus has a display panel, which is placed in its inactive state through a user'"'"'s operation when not being used, on the one hand, and is placed in is active state when being used, on the other hand. After completing the display of video, the display panel is received automatically, thus ensuring protection of the display panel. It also prevents a beginning part of video from being hidden for a user. All video can be displayed on the display panel that stands up in its prescribed active state. In the display control apparatus, a rotary motor driver and a slider motor driver are used for placing the display panel received in a receiver. An encoder detects whether or not the display panel is placed in its prescribed active state. When the active state of the display panel is detected, an output controller outputs a video signal to the display panel for display.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

an opening device for placing a display device received in a receiving device in an active state thereof;

a detection device for detecting whether or not the display device is placed in the active state; and

an output device for, when it is detected that the display device has been placed in the active state, outputting a video signal to be displayed on the display device to the display device so that the display device starts to display video based on the video signal.

3. The display control apparatus of claim 1 or 2, wherein the active state is a state at which the display device is placed so that the video displayed on the display device is visible.

2. A display control apparatus comprising:

a display device capable of being in an active state to display video;

a detection device for detecting whether or not display of the video is completed for all video; and

a receiving control device for placing the display device in the active state in a receiving device when it is detected that the display of all the video has been completed.

4. A display control method comprising the steps of:

placing a display device received in a receiving device in an active state thereof;

detecting whether or not the display device is placed in the active state; and

outputting, when it is detected that the display device has been placed in the active state, a video signal to be displayed on the display device to the display device so that the display device starts to display video based on the video signal.

6. The display control method of claim 4 or 5, wherein the active state is a state at which the display device is placed so that the video displayed on the display device is visible.

5. A display control method comprising the steps of:

detecting whether or not display of all video has been completed by display device under an active state; and

controllably receiving the display device in a receiving device so as to be placed in an inactive state from the active state, when it is detected that the display of all video has been completed.

7. An information recording medium in which a display control program is recorded readably by a computer included in a display control apparatus, the display control program causing the computer to serve as:

an opening device for placing a display device received in a receiving device in an active state;

a detection device for detecting whether or not the display device is placed in the active state; and

an output device for, when it is detected that the display device has been placed in the active state, outputting a video signal to be displayed on the display device to the display device so that the display device starts to display video based on the video signal.

9. The information recording medium of claim 7 or 8, wherein the active state is a state at which the display device is placed so that the video displayed on the display device is visible.

8. An information recording medium in which a display control program is recorded readably by a computer included in a display control apparatus, the display control program causing the computer to serve as:

a detection device for detecting whether or not display of all video has been completed by a display device to display the video under an active state; and

a receiving control device for controllably receiving the display device in a receiving device so as to be placed in an inactive state from the active state, when it is detected that the display of all video has been completed.