Display control
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1. A display controller comprising:
- a brightness-increase operator which is operated one step at a time in a predetermined manner by a user in order to increase the brightness of a display;
a brightness increaser which increases the brightness of the display on the basis of an operation on the brightness-increase operator;
a brightness selector which selects as a selected brightness a first brightness or a second brightness lower than the first brightness;
a maximum brightness limiter which limits the maximum brightness of the display to the brightness selected by said brightness selector;
a particular operation detector which detects a particular operation in operations on the brightness-increase operator in the predetermined manner by regarding the particular operation as a user'"'"'s request for increasing the maximum brightness; and
a changer which makes said brightness selector change the selected brightness from the second brightness to the first brightness on condition that the a particular operation is detected when the brightness selected by said brightness selector is the second brightness.
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Abstract
A maximum brightness limiting mechanism limits the maximum brightness of the display to a brightness selected by a brightness selecting mechanism. If a user operates the brightness-increasing operating member a number of times in a unit time equal to or larger than a predetermined number of times when the brightness of the display is a second brightness, a particular operation detecting mechanism detects this operation as a particular operation. Upon this detection, the brightness selecting mechanism changes the selected brightness from the second brightness to a first brightness.
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18 Claims
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1. A display controller comprising:
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a brightness-increase operator which is operated one step at a time in a predetermined manner by a user in order to increase the brightness of a display;
a brightness increaser which increases the brightness of the display on the basis of an operation on the brightness-increase operator;
a brightness selector which selects as a selected brightness a first brightness or a second brightness lower than the first brightness;
a maximum brightness limiter which limits the maximum brightness of the display to the brightness selected by said brightness selector;
a particular operation detector which detects a particular operation in operations on the brightness-increase operator in the predetermined manner by regarding the particular operation as a user'"'"'s request for increasing the maximum brightness; and
a changer which makes said brightness selector change the selected brightness from the second brightness to the first brightness on condition that the a particular operation is detected when the brightness selected by said brightness selector is the second brightness. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A display controller comprising:
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a brightness-change operator which is operated one step at a time in a predetermined manner by a user in order to change the brightness of the display;
a step determiner which determines the present step on the basis of the operation on the brightness-change operator;
a table selector which selects as a selected brightness table a first brightness table or a second brightness table, the brightness of the display being related to a finite number of steps in each brightness table in such a manner that the brightness increases in correspondence with the order from the lowest step to the highest step, the brightness related to the highest step in the first brightness table being higher than the brightness related to the highest step in the second brightness table;
a brightness controller which controls the brightness of the display so that the actual brightness of the display is set to the brightness related to the step determined by said step determiner in the brightness table selected by said table selector;
a particular operation detector which detects a particular operation in operations on the brightness-change operator in the predetermined manner when the brightness table selected by said table selector is the second brightness table, by regarding the particular operation as a user'"'"'s request for increasing the maximum brightness; and
a selection controller which makes said table selector change the selected brightness table from the second brightness table to the first brightness table on the basis of detection of the particular operation. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method comprising:
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increasing the brightness of a display having a brightness-increasing operating member which is operated one step at a time in a predetermined manner by a user in order to increase the brightness of the display, the brightness increase being performed on the basis of an operation on the brightness-increasing operating member;
selecting as a selected brightness a first brightness or a second brightness lower than the first brightness;
limiting, if the selected brightness is changed, the maximum brightness of the display on the basis of the changed selected brightness;
detecting a particular operation in operations on the brightness-increasing operating member in the predetermined manner by regarding the particular operation as a user'"'"'s request for increasing the maximum brightness; and
changing the selected brightness from the second brightness to the first brightness if the particular operation is detected when the selected brightness is the second brightness. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A display control method for a display device having a brightness-changing operating member which is operated one time in a predetermined manner by a user in order to change the brightness of the display one step, said method comprising:
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a step-determination act of determining the present step on the basis of the operation on the brightness-increasing operating member;
a selecting act of selecting as selected brightness table a first brightness table or a second brightness table, the brightness of the display being related to a finite number of steps in each brightness table in such a manner that the brightness increases in correspondence with the order from the lowest step to the highest step, the brightness related to the highest step in the first brightness table being higher than the brightness related to the highest step in the second brightness table;
a brightness control act of executing, on condition that the selected brightness table or the present step is changed, such control that the actual brightness of the display is set to the brightness related to the present step in the selected brightness table;
a particular operation detecting act of detecting a particular operation in operations on the brightness-changing operating member in the predetermined manner when the selected brightness table is the second brightness table, by regarding the particular operation as a user'"'"'s request for increasing the maximum brightness; and
a selection control act of changing the selected brightness table from the second brightness table to the first brightness table on the basis of detection of the particular operation. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A product comprising:
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a computer usable medium having computer readable program code stored therein for controlling a display device having a brightness-increasing operating member which is operated one time in a predetermined manner by a user in order to increase the brightness of the display one step, the computer readable program code in said product being effective to;
increase the brightness of the display on the basis of an operation on the brightness-increasing operating member;
select as a selected brightness a first brightness or a second brightness lower than the first brightness;
limit the maximum brightness of the display to the brightness selected by the brightness selection;
detect a particular operation in operations on the brightness-increasing operating member in the predetermined manner by regarding the particular operation as a user'"'"'s request for increasing the maximum brightness; and
change the selected brightness from the second brightness to the first brightness if the particular operation is detected when the brightness selected by the brightness selection is the second brightness.
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18. A product comprising:
a computer usable medium having computer readable program code stored therein for controlling a display device having a brightness-changing operating member which is operated one step at a time in a predetermined manner by a user in order to change the brightness of the display, the computer readable program code in said product being effective to;
determine the present step on the basis of the operation on the brightness-changing operating member;
select as a selected brightness table a first brightness table or a second brightness table, the brightness of the display being related to a finite number of steps in each brightness table in such a manner that the brightness increases in correspondence with the order from the lowest step to the highest step, the brightness related to the highest step in the first brightness table being higher than the brightness related to the highest step in the second brightness table;
control the brightness of the display so that the actual brightness of the display is set to the brightness related to the step determined by the determination in the brightness table selected by the table selection;
detecting a particular operation in operations on the brightness-changing operating member in the predetermined manner when the brightness table selected by the table selection is the second brightness table, by regarding the particular operation as a user'"'"'s request for increasing the maximum brightness; and
changing the selected brightness table from the second brightness table to the first brightness table on the basis of detection of the particular operation.
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