Image display apparatus, image display controlling method, and image display program

• US 20050083351A1
• Filed: 10/14/2004
• Published: 04/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Kawamoto, Kyouichi, Nagatomo, Shoichi, Ishida, Shinjiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,443,404 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/021 using combined folding and rotation motions combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0243 using the relative angle between housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/531 being rotatable or detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 : for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0122 : the input and the output signals having different aspect ratios
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 : Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 : Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

When opening of a lens barrier is detected, a camera mode processing starts. An object image is displayed in the aspect ratio of 4:3, and a user can carry out photographing by carrying out a shutter operation using a first side switch with the right forefinger while holding a portable telephone with the right hand. When opening of the lens barrier is not detected, a wide-screen display is set and a movie playback mode processing starts. The user can watch a playing-back movie while holding the both ends of the portable telephone in a state of being folded with the both hands so as to keep the display device with the longer side at the top.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus comprising:

an image pickup device;

a display device of an aspect ratio corresponding to a wide-display; and

a first display control unit configured to display an image on the display device in full-screen when the image is in an aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display or an image on the display device in a manner according to an aspect ratio based on a capture size of the image pickup device.

2. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a receiver which receives an image in the aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display.

3. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a moving picture acquiring unit which acquires a moving picture formed of image sequentially picked up by the image pickup device;

a first selecting unit which selects whether the moving picture is acquired by the moving picture acquiring means as a moving picture suitable for a playback display in the aspect ratio based on the capture size of the image pickup device or as a moving picture suitable for a playback display in the wide-display; and

a first storage device which stores a result of selection by the first selecting unit so as to be associated with the moving picture acquired by the moving picture acquiring unit.

4. An image display apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a second display control unit which displays a list of a top frame of a moving picture suitable for the playback display in the aspect ratio based on the capture size of the image pickup device and a top frame of a moving picture suitable for the playback display in the wide-display which are stored in the first storage device, so as to be mixed together on the display device;

a second selecting unit which selects one of the top frames displayed by the second display control unit; and

a third display control unit which displays a moving picture corresponding to the top frame selected by the second selecting unit on the display device.

5. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first speaker disposed in the vicinity of the display device;

a second speaker disposed at a side opposite to the first speaker with respect to the display device;

a determining unit which determines whether the display device is used with a longer side at a top or with a shorter side at the top; and

a first sounding control unit which operates the first speaker and the second speaker when it is determined by the determining unit that the display device is used with the longer side at the top, and operates one of the first speaker and the second speaker when it is determined by the determining unit that the display device is used with the shorter side at the top.

6. An image display apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a first body which houses the display device, the first speaker, and the second speaker;

a second body;

a first hinge which has a first rotation shaft rotating in a direction in which the second body overlaps the first body, and which connects the first body and the second body so as to be freely rotatable by the first rotation shaft; and

a second hinge which has a second rotation shaft rotating in a direction perpendicular to the first rotation shaft, and which connects the first body and the first hinge so as to be freely rotatable by the second rotation shaft,

wherein the determining unit determines whether the display device is used with the longer side at the top or with the shorter side at the top based on a positional relationship between the display device and the second body due to the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft.

7. An image display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the second body comprises:

a wireless communication device;

a first input device; and

a second sounding control unit which drives the first speaker when communication processing by the wireless communication device is being carried out based on information input by the first input device.

8. An image display apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a first body which houses the display device and the first speaker;

a second body;

a first hinge which has a first rotation shaft rotating in a direction in which the second body overlaps the first body, and which connects the first body and the second body so as to be freely rotatable by the first rotation shaft, and at which the second speaker is disposed; and

a second hinge which has a second rotation shaft rotating in a direction perpendicular to the first rotation shaft, and which connects the first body and the first hinge so as to be freely rotatable by the second rotation shaft,

wherein the determining unit determines whether the display device is used with the longer side at the top or with the shorter side at the top based on a positional relationship between the display device and the second body due to the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft.

9. An image display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second body comprises:

a wireless communication device;

a first input device; and

a second sounding control unit which drives the first speaker when communication processing by the wireless communication device is being carried out based on information input by the first input device.

10. An image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the first body comprises a magnetic detector which detects a magnetism of the first speaker, and

the determining unit determines whether the display device is used with the longer side at the top or with the shorter side at the top based on a result of detection by the magnetic detector.

11. An image display method for an electronic apparatus which comprises an image pickup device and a display device of an aspect ratio corresponding to a wide-display, the method comprising:

displaying an image on the display device in full-screen when the image is in an aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display or an image on the display device in a manner according to the aspect ratio based on the capture size of the image pickup device.

12. An image display method according to claim 11, further comprising:

receiving an image in the aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display.

13. An image display method according to claim 11, further comprising:

a moving picture acquiring step which acquires a moving picture formed of image sequentially picked up by the image pickup device;

a first selecting step which selects whether the moving picture is acquired by the moving picture acquiring step as a moving picture suitable for a playback display in the aspect ratio based on the capture size of the image pickup device or as a moving picture suitable for a playback display in the wide-display; and

a first storage step which stores a result of selection by the first selecting step so as to be associated with the moving picture acquired by the moving picture acquiring step.

14. An image display method according to claim 13, further comprising:

a first display control step which displays a list of a top frame of a moving picture suitable for the playback display in the aspect ratio based on the capture size of the image pickup device and a top frame of a moving picture suitable for the playback display in the wide-display which are stored by the first storage step, so as to be mixed together on the display device;

a second selecting step which selects one of the top frames displayed by the first display control step; and

a second display control step which displays a moving picture corresponding to the top frame selected by the second selecting step on the display device.

15. A computer program product for use with an electronic apparatus which has an image pickup device and a display device of an aspect ratio corresponding to a wide-display, the computer program product being stored in a computer usable medium including computer readable program means, the computer program product comprising:

first computer readable program means for displaying an image on the display device in full-screen when the image is in an aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display or an image on the display device in a manner according to an aspect ratio based on a capture size of the image pickup device.

16. A computer program product according to claim 15, further comprising:

second computer readable program means for

receiving an image in the aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display.

17. A computer program product according to claim 15, further comprising:

second computer readable program means for acquiring a moving picture formed of image sequentially picked up by the image pickup device;

third computer readable program means for selecting whether the moving picture is acquired by the second computer readable program means as a moving picture suitable for a playback display in the aspect ratio based on the capture size of the image pickup device or as a moving picture suitable for a playback display in the wide-display; and

fourth computer readable program means for storing a result of selection by the third computer readable program means so as to be associated with the moving picture acquired by the second computer readable program means.

18. A computer program product according to claim 17, further comprising:

fifth computer readable program means for displaying a list of a top frame of a moving picture suitable for the playback display in the aspect ratio based on the capture size of the image pickup device and a top frame of a moving picture suitable for the playback display in the wide-display which are stored by the first storage step, so as to be mixed together on the display device;

sixth computer readable program means for selecting one of the top frames displayed by the fourth computer readable program means; and

seventh computer readable program means for displaying a moving picture corresponding to the top frame selected by the sixth computer readable program means on the display device.

19. An image display apparatus comprising:

means for picking-up an image;

displaying means of an aspect ratio corresponding to a wide-display; and

means for displaying an image on the displaying means in full-screen when the image is in an aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display or an image on the displaying means in a manner according to an aspect ratio based on a capture size of the means for picking-up an image.