Display device, display program storage medium, and displaying method

• US 20070206916A1
• Filed: 07/11/2006
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Matsuzaki, Eiichi, Funaki, Isao, Kita, Aki
• Granted Patent: US 8,107,791 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42661 for reading from or writing on a magnetic storage medium, e.g. hard disk drive
• 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 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A display device configured to display a list of programs stored in a storage device includes: a cutout image acquiring section which acquires a cutout image obtained by cutting out a scene in a program; a distribution date-time acquiring section which acquires distribution date and time when the program is distributed; and a three-dimensional display section which displays a three-dimensional space applying axes respectively of a time, a day of the week, and a week, and which arranges the cutout image acquired by the cutout image acquiring section in a position corresponding to the distribution date and time acquired by the distribution time-date acquiring section in the three-dimensional space.

Claims

1. A display device configured to display a list of programs stored in a storage device, the display device comprising:

a cutout image acquiring section which acquires a cutout image obtained by cutting out a scene in a program stored in the storage device;

a distribution date-time acquiring section which acquires distribution date and time when the program is distributed; and

a three-dimensional display section which displays a three-dimensional space formed by axes respectively of a time, a day of the week, and a week, and which arranges the cutout image acquired by the cutout image acquiring section in a position corresponding to the distribution date and time acquired by the distribution time-date acquiring section in the three-dimensional space.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the cutout image acquiring section acquires a set of a plurality of cutout images respectively obtained by cutting out a plurality of scenes in the program, and

the three-dimensional display section arranges at least one of the plurality of cutout images constituting the set in the three-dimensional space, and

the display device further comprises:

a cutout image selecting section which selects the cutout image arranged in the three-dimensional space in response to an operation; and

a set display section which displays the plurality of cutout images constituting the set containing the cutout image selected by the cutout image selecting section.

3. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein, when displaying the three-dimensional space, the three-dimensional display section displays the three-dimensional space except for a region where the cutout image is not arranged.

4. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a genre acquiring section which acquires a genre to which the program stored in the storage device is categorized among a plurality of genres each used for a program categorization according to the genre; and

an axis changing section which accepts a changing instruction for replacing the time axis in the three-dimensional space with a genre axis indicating the plurality of genres in response to an operation,

wherein, in a case where the axis changing section accepts the changing instruction, the three-dimensional display section displays a new three-dimensional space formed by axes respectively of the genre, the day of the week, and the week instead of the three-dimensional space and rearranges the cutout image in a position in the new three-dimensional space corresponding to the distribution date and time acquired by the distribution date-time acquiring section and the genre acquired by the genre acquiring section.

5. A display program storage medium storing a display program that is executed in a computer to construct, on the computer, a display device displaying a list of programs stored in a storage device, the display program storage medium storing the display program that constructs:

a cutout image acquiring section which acquires a cutout image obtained by cutting out a scene in a program stored in the storage device;

a distribution date-time acquiring section which acquires distribution date and time when the program is distributed; and

a three-dimensional display section which displays a three-dimensional space formed by axes respectively of a time, a day of the week, and a week and arranges the cutout image acquired by the cutout image acquiring section in a position corresponding to the distribution date and time acquired by the distribution time-date acquiring section in the three-dimensional space.

6. A displaying method which displays a list of programs stored in a storage device, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring a cutout image obtained by cutting out a scene in a program stored in the storage device;

acquiring distribution date and time when the program is distributed; and

displaying a three-dimensional space formed by axes respectively of a time, a day of the week, and a week and arranging the cutout image acquired by the cutout image acquiring section in a position corresponding to the distribution date and time acquired by the distribution time-date acquiring section in the three-dimensional space.