Display apparatus, display method, and display program

• US 20070182741A1
• Filed: 01/18/2007
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Chosokabe, Yoshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,814,418 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display control section configured to cause a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content associated; and a selection section configured to select two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image. When the two or more content indication marks are selected by the selection section, the display control section displays, on the image, a line segment that join the selected two or more content indication marks so as to indicate an order in which the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display control section configured to cause a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content associated; and

a selection section configured to select two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image;

wherein when the two or more content indication marks are selected by said selection section, said display control section displays, on the image, a line segment that join the selected two or more content indication marks so as to indicate an order in which the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said selection section selects the two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image based on attribute information each indicating an attribute of a separate one of the contents.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein,

each piece of attribute information includes first attribute information and second attribute information,

said selection section selects the two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image based on the first attribute information, and

said display control section joins the two or more content indication marks selected by said selection section by the line segment such that the selected two or more content indication marks as joined by the line segment are divided into separate groups based on the second attribute information, the contents corresponding to the content indication marks that belong to the same group having the same second attribute information.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the contents are reproduced in the order indicated by the line segment, said display control section changes a mode of display of the line segment in accordance with a current reproduction position of the contents.

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

a list generation section configured to generate a list that indicates the order in which the contents are arranged, the order being indicated by the line segment.

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

a line editing section configured to cause said display control section to erase an arbitrary one of the line segment that join the selected two or more content indication marks or display a new line segment;

wherein if the arbitrary line segment is erased by said line editing section, said list generation section generates a list that contains the content corresponding to one of the two content indication marks that were joined by the erased arbitrary line segment, and also generates a list that contains the content corresponding to the other of the two content indication marks that were joined by the erased arbitrary line segment, and

if the new line segment is displayed by said line editing section, said list generation section generates a list composed of a combination of a list that contains the content corresponding to one of the two content indication marks joined by the new line segment and a list that contains the content corresponding to the other of the two content indication marks joined by the new line segment.

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

a line segment manipulation section configured to move, on the image, the line segment displayed on the image; and

a transfer section configured to transfer, to an external transfer destination, the list generated by said list generation section and, as necessary, one or more of the contents indicated in the list;

wherein said display control section displays, on the image, a transfer destination icon that represents the external transfer destination, and

if the line segment is moved onto the transfer destination mark by said line segment manipulation section, said transfer section transfers, to the external transfer destination, the list and, as necessary, the one or more of the contents indicated in the list.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein, when the one or more of the contents are transferred by said transfer section, said display control section changes a mode of display of the content indication marks corresponding to the one or more of the contents that are transferred in accordance with a current state of the transfer of the one or more of the contents.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a line segment manipulation section configured to move, on the image, the line segment displayed on the image; and

an acquisition section configured to acquire, from an external acquisition source, one or more of the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks joined by the line segment;

wherein said display control section displays, on the image, an acquisition source mark that represents the external acquisition source, and

when the line segment are moved onto the acquisition source mark by said line segment manipulation section, said acquisition section acquires, from the external acquisition source, the one or more of the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks joined by the line segment.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, when the one or more of the contents are acquired by said acquisition section, said display control section changes a mode of display of the content indication mark or marks corresponding to the one or more of the contents that are acquired so as to indicate a current state of the acquisition of the one or more of the contents.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reproduction section configured to reproduce the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks in the order indicated by the displayed line segment.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

an acquisition section configured to acquire, from an external acquisition source, one or more of the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks joined by the line segment;

wherein when reproducing the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks joined by the line segment, said reproduction section acquires the one or more of the contents from the external acquisition source via said acquisition section.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein, with respect to each of the one or more of the contents acquired from the external acquisition source via said acquisition section, said reproduction section reproduces the content after the acquisition thereof is completed or in course of the acquisition thereof.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, with respect to each of the selected two or more content indication marks, said reproduction section reproduces a content selected from among the content corresponding to the selected content indication mark and one or more contents corresponding to one or more content indication marks that are placed close to the selected content indication mark.

15. A display method comprising the steps of:

causing a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content associated;

selecting two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image; and

displaying, on the image, a line segment that join the two or more content indication marks selected in said selecting step so as to indicate an order in which the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged.

16. A display program for causing an information processing apparatus to perform the steps of:

causing a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content associated;

selecting two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image; and

displaying, on the image, a line segment that join the two or more content indication marks selected in said selecting step so as to indicate an order in which the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged.