DISPLAY CONTROLLER, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20080170075A1
• Filed: 01/15/2008
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MURAMATSU, Seiji, Funabashi, Yoshimitsu, Tanigawa, Takeshi, Imai, Atsushi, Okamoto, Tomoharu, Adachi, Akihiko, Matsuzawa, Takeshi, Nishimura, Tatsuhiko, Irimajiri, Mayu, Hiraoka, Keiko, Tsuda, Takamoto
• Granted Patent: US 8,059,139 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/467
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A display controller includes a character display unit for displaying character information on a display unit; a keyword detecting unit for detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the character display unit; an image information detecting unit for detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the keyword detected by the keyword detecting unit, from image information including predetermined additional information and stored in a storing unit; and a thumbnail image displaying unit for displaying on the display unit a thumbnail image(s) of the image information detected by the image information detecting unit.

Claims

1. A display controller comprising:

character display means for displaying character information on display means;

keyword detecting means for detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the character display means;

image information detecting means for detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the keyword detected by the keyword detecting means, from image information including predetermined additional information and stored in storing means; and

thumbnail image displaying means for displaying on the display means a thumbnail image(s) of the image information detected by the image information detecting means.

2. A display controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the keyword detecting means performs a highlight display process so that character information being used as the detected predetermined keyword among character information displayed by the character display means is highlighted and displayed on the display means; and

when a selection operation has been performed to select the keyword used as the character information subjected to the highlight display process of the keyword detecting means, the thumbnail image displaying means operates so that, among the image information detected by the image information detecting means, thumbnail images of the image information corresponding to the selected keyword are list-displayed on the display means.

3. A display controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the thumbnail image displaying means operates so that the thumbnail image detected by the image information detecting means is displayed on the display means together with the character information being displayed by the character display means.

4. A display controller as claimed in claim 3, wherein the thumbnail image displaying means operates so that the thumbnail images of the image information selected by the image information detecting means are list-displayed on a remaining display field on the display means where the character information is being displayed.

5. A display controller comprising:

a character display unit for displaying character information on a display unit;

a keyword detecting unit for detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the character display unit;

an image information detecting unit for detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the keyword detected by the keyword detecting unit, from image information including predetermined additional information and stored in the storing unit; and

a thumbnail image displaying unit for displaying on the display unit a thumbnail image(s) of the image information detected by the image information detecting unit.

6. A display controller as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

the keyword detecting unit performs a highlight display process so that character information being used as the detected predetermined keyword among character information displayed by the character display unit is highlighted and displayed on the display unit; and

when a selection operation has been performed to select the keyword used as the character information subjected to the highlight display process of the keyword detecting unit, the thumbnail image displaying unit operates so that, among the image information detected by the image information detecting unit, thumbnail images of the image information corresponding to the selected keyword are list-displayed on the display unit.

7. A display controller as claimed in claim 5, wherein the thumbnail image displaying unit operates so that the thumbnail image detected by the image information detecting unit is displayed on the display unit together with the character information being displayed by the character display unit.

8. A display controller as claimed in claim 7, wherein the thumbnail image displaying unit operates so that the thumbnail images of the image information selected by the image information detecting unit are list-displayed on a remaining display field on the display unit where the character information is being displayed.

9. A display control method comprising the steps of:

displaying character information on display means;

detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed in the step of displaying image information;

detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the keyword detected in the step of detecting a predetermined keyword, from image information including predetermined additional information and stored in storing means; and

displaying on the display means a thumbnail image(s) of the image information detected in the step of detecting image information.

10. A display control program to be operated in a computer, the program comprising:

a function of displaying character information on display means;

a function of detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the function of displaying image information;

a function of detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the keyword detected by the function of detecting a predetermined keyword, from image information including predetermined additional information and stored in storing means; and

a function of displaying on the display means a thumbnail image(s) of the image information detected by the function of detecting image information.

11. A mobile terminal device comprising:

character display means for displaying character information on display means;

keyword detecting means for detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the character display means;

storing means for storing image information including predetermined additional information;

image information detecting means for detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the keyword detected by the keyword detecting means, from image information stored in the storing means; and

thumbnail image displaying means for displaying on the display means a thumbnail image(s) of the image information detected by the image information detecting means.

12. A mobile terminal device comprising:

a character display unit for displaying character information on a display unit;

a keyword detecting unit for detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the character display unit;

a storing unit for storing image information including predetermined additional information;

an image information detecting unit for detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the keyword detected by the keyword detecting unit, from image information stored in the storing unit; and

a thumbnail image displaying unit for displaying on the display unit a thumbnail image(s) of the image information detected by the image information detecting unit.