IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20080320406A1
• Filed: 06/13/2008
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Takaragi, Yoichi, Fukada, Shinichi, Sekizawa, Toshikazu, Asasaka, Hidetoshi, Akiba, Rieko
• Application Number:
  US12/139,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20080320406A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/766
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• 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 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

It is controlled to determine priority for each of plural display objects, wherein the priority having plural levels, and to change displays of the plural display objects in the determined priority, in accordance with a display form of an image different from the plural display objects. To achieve this, the present invention provides an image displaying method of displaying the plural display objects on a display unit, the method comprising: determining the priority for each of the plural display objects, and changing the displays of the plural display objects in the determined priority, in accordance with a display form of the image different from the plural display objects.

Claims

1. An image displaying apparatus which displays plural display objects on a display unit, comprising:

a determining unit configured to determine priority for each of the plural display objects, the priority having plural levels; and

a display control unit configured to change displays of the plural display objects in the priority determined by the determining unit, in accordance with a display form of an image different from the plural display objects.

2. An image displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays the plural display objects in the priority determined by the determining unit so that a display area of the image does not overlap the display objects, in accordance with the display form of the image different from the plural display objects.

3. An image displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where a display area of the image displayed on the display unit is enlarged, the display control unit changes the display of the display object displayed on the display unit so that the display object does not overlap the enlarged display area of the image, in the priority determined by the determining unit.

4. An image displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plural display objects include a display object for executing an operation concerning the image displaying apparatus and a display object for executing an operation concerning the image.

5. An image displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display object is a display screen indicating a state of the image displaying apparatus.

6. An image displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display area of the image is determined based on an aspect ratio of the image to be displayed on the display unit.

7. An image displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the image displaying apparatus can execute at least one of a copy function and a print function, and

the display object is an operation key for executing an operation concerning at least one of the copy function and the print function.

8. An image displaying method which displays plural display objects on a display unit, comprising:

determining priority for each of the plural display objects, the priority having plural levels; and

changing displays of the plural display objects in the determined priority, in accordance with a display form of an image different from the plural display objects.

9. An image displaying method according to claim 8, wherein, in a case where the image different from the plural display objects is displayed on a display unit, the plural display objects are displayed in the determined priority so that a display area of the image does not overlap the display objects.

10. An image displaying method according to claim 8, wherein, in a case where a display area of the image displayed on a display unit is enlarged, the display object displayed on the display unit is displayed in the determined priority so that the display object does not overlap the enlarged display area of the image.

11. An image displaying method according to claim 8, wherein the plural display objects include a display object for executing an operation concerning an image displaying apparatus and a display object for executing an operation concerning the image.

12. An image displaying method according to claim 8, wherein the display object is a display screen indicating a state of an image displaying apparatus.

13. An image displaying method according to claim 8, wherein a display area of the image is determined based on an aspect ratio of the image to be displayed on a display unit.

14. An image displaying method according to claim 8, wherein

the image displaying method is a method which is used in an image displaying apparatus,

the image displaying apparatus can execute at least one of a copy function and a print function, and

the display object is an operation key for executing an operation concerning at least one of the copy function and the print function.

15. A recording medium readable by a computer and storing a computer-executable program for displaying plural display objects on a display unit, the computer-executable program comprising:

a code to determine priority for each of the plural display objects, the priority having plural levels; and

a code to execute control to display the plural display objects in the determined priority, in accordance with a display form of an image different from the plural display objects.

16. A computer-executable program for displaying plural display objects on a display unit, the computer-executable program comprising:

a code to determine priority for each of the plural display objects, the priority having plural levels; and

a code to execute control to display the plural display objects in the determined priority, in accordance with a display form of an image different from the plural display objects.