Image display device, image display method, image display system, image data transmitting device, program, and storage medium

• US 20080122734A1
• Filed: 06/21/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hirata, Masafumi, Kinoshita, Takuya, Takahashi, Masafumi, Kashito, Kiyotaka, Umemoto, Azusa, Sudo, Tatsuo, Enatsu, Aya, Nitta, Soichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,294,734 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00198 Creation of a soft photo presentation, e.g. digital slide-show
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234363 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for clients with a lower screen resolution
• 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 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image

Abstract

A control section of a slideshow display device includes a display control section. The display control section 115 causes a list of thumbnails to be displayed when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image is to be displayed comes before a predetermined point in time. As such, when display delay occurs, a list of thumbnails can be displayed, instead of the target image. This realizes an image display device which prevents a user from being subject to stress when display delay occurs in slideshow display.

Claims

1. An image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display device comprising:

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image of the image group is to be displayed comes before a given point in time.

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

image display instruction accepting means accepting an image display instruction from a user who gives an instruction to display the target image,

the display timing being (i) a point in time when the image display instruction accepting means accepts the image display instruction or (ii) a point in time when the image display instruction accepting means accepts the image display instruction a given number of times within a predetermined time period.

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

image display instruction accepting means accepting an image display instruction from a user who gives an instruction to display the target image,

the display timing being (i) a point in time when the image display instruction accepting means accepts the image display instruction after a predetermined waiting time has elapsed since display of the currently displayed image was started or (ii) a point in time when the image display instruction accepting means accepts the image display instruction a given number of times within a predetermined time period after a predetermined waiting time has elapsed since display of the currently displayed image was started.

4. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the given point in time is a point in time when the target image gets ready to be displayed on the display section.

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

target image acquiring means for acquiring image data of the target image from an external entity,

the given point in time being a point in time when the target image acquiring means completes acquisition of image data of the target image.

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

target image data expanding means expanding image data of the target image into a displayable form,

the given point in time being a point in time when the target image data expanding means completes expansion of image data of the target image.

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

reduced image acquiring means acquiring image data of the reduced images to be displayed in list view, in advance from an external entity before the display timing.

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

list view screen creating means creating a list view screen to be displayed on the display section at the list view display, in advance before the display timing.

9. An image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display device comprising:

instruction accepting means accepting an instruction given by a user; and

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when the instruction accepting means accepts an instruction given by a user a given number of times within a predetermined time period.

10. An image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display device comprising:

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, in a non-target-image-display-ready state where a target image to be displayed in the image group is not ready to be displayed on the display section.

11. An image data transmitting device which transmits image data to an image display device, the image display device being an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display device comprising:

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image of the image group is to be displayed comes before a given point in time,

the image data transmitting device comprising;

image data transmitting means transmitting to the image display device image data of the target image and image data of the reduced images to be displayed in list view.

12. An image data transmitting device which transmits image data to an image display device, the image display device being an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display device comprising:

instruction accepting means accepting an instruction given by a user; and

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when the instruction accepting means accepts an instruction given by a user a given number of times within a predetermined time period,

the image data transmitting device comprising;

image data transmitting means transmitting to the image display device image data of the target image and image data of the reduced images to be displayed in list view.

13. An image data transmitting device which transmits image data to an image display device, the image display device being an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display device comprising:

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, in a non-target-image-display-ready state where a target image to be displayed in the image group is not ready to be displayed on the display section,

the image data transmitting device comprising;

image data transmitting means transmitting to the image display device image data of the target image and image data of the reduced images to be displayed in list view.

14. An image display system comprising:

an image display device being an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display device comprising;

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image of the image group is to be displayed comes before a given point in time; and

an image data transmitting device transmitting to the image display device image data of the target image and image data of the reduced images to be displayed in list view.

15. An image display system comprising:

an image display device being an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display device comprising;

instruction accepting means accepting an instruction given by a user; and

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when the instruction accepting means accepts an instruction given by a user a given number of times within a predetermined time period; and

an image data transmitting device transmitting to the image display device image data of the target image and image data of the reduced images to be displayed in list view.

16. An image display system comprising:

an image display device being an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display device comprising;

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, in a non-target-image-display-ready state where a target image to be displayed in the image group is not ready to be displayed on the display section; and

an image data transmitting device transmitting to the image display device image data of the target image and image data of the reduced images to be displayed in list view.

17. An image display method of displaying images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display method comprising:

a reduced image list display step of causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when a display timing at which an image other than a currently displayed image is to be displayed comes before a given point in time.

18. An image display method of displaying images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display method comprising:

an instruction accepting step of accepting an instruction given by a user; and

a display control step of causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when an instruction given by a user is accepted in the instruction accepting step a given number of times within a predetermined time period.

19. An image display method of displaying images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display method comprising:

a display control step of causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, in a non-target-image-display-ready state where a target image to be displayed in the image group is not ready to be displayed on the display section.

20. An image display program for causing a computer to operate as an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display program being a program for causing the computer to function as display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image of the image group is to be displayed comes before a given point in time.

21. An image display program for causing a computer to operate as an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display program being a program for causing the computer to function as:

instruction accepting means accepting an instruction given by a user; and

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when the instruction accepting means accepts an instruction given by a user a given number of times within a predetermined time period.

22. An image display program for causing a computer to operate as an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group,

the image display program being a program for causing the computer to function as display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, in a non-target-image-display-ready state where a target image to be displayed in the image group is not ready to be displayed on the display section.

23. A computer-readable storage medium storing therein an image display program for causing a computer to operate as an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display program being a program for causing the computer to function as display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image of the image group is to be displayed comes before a given point in time.

24. A computer-readable storage medium storing therein an image display program for causing a computer to operate as an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display program being a program for causing the computer to function as:

instruction accepting means accepting an instruction given by a user; and

display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, when the instruction accepting means accepts an instruction given by a user a given number of times within a predetermined time period.

25. A computer-readable storage medium storing therein an image display program for causing a computer to operate as an image display device which displays images in succession on a display section while changing the images, the images being included in an image group, the image display program being a program for causing the computer to function as display control means causing the display section to display thereon a list of all or part of reduced images of a reduced image group, which reduced images correspond to the respective images of the image group, in a non-target-image-display-ready state where a target image to be displayed in the image group is not ready to be displayed on the display section.