IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20090002540A1
• Filed: 05/09/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Yasufumi, Furukawa, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 7,999,872 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.50
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators

Abstract

An image display device includes a display unit configured to display at least an image and an icon relating to a predetermined setting, a touch panel which allows input of operations, and on which a predetermined inhibited area is set, and a control unit configured to perform control so that, after the control unit sets the predetermined inhibited area, when an operation has been input by the touch panel, the control unit determines whether or not the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, by erasing the icon displayed by the display unit, a user is allowed to recognize that an unintended operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a display unit configured to display at least an image and an icon relating to a predetermined setting;

a touch panel which allows input of operations, and on which a predetermined inhibited area is set; and

a control unit configured to perform control so that, after the control unit sets the predetermined inhibited area, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, the control unit determines whether or not the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, by erasing the icon displayed by the display unit, a user is allowed to recognize that an unintended operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area.

2. The image display device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit controls the display unit to erase the displayed icon and to display a predetermined alert.

3. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image pickup unit configured to obtain an image signal by picking up an image of a subject;

a display unit configured to display at least a picked-up image based on the image signal and an icon relating to a predetermined setting;

a touch panel which allows input of operations, and on which a predetermined inhibited area is set;

a control unit configured to perform control so that, after the control unit sets the predetermined inhibited area, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, the control unit determines whether or not the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, by erasing the icon displayed by the display unit, a user is allowed to recognize that an unintended operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area.

4. The image pickup apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the control unit controls the display unit to erase the displayed icon and to display a predetermined alert.

5. An image display method comprising the steps of:

displaying at least a picked-up image and an icon relating to a predetermined setting; and

performing control so that, after an inhibited area is set on a touch panel, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, it is determined whether or not the operation has been input within the inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the inhibited area, the displayed icon is erased to allow a user to recognize that an unintended operation has been input within the inhibited area.

6. A program for causing a computer to perform:

an inhibited area setting function that sets an inhibited area on a touch panel;

a main control function that, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, determines whether or not the operation has been input within the inhibited area; and

a display control function that, in a case where the operation has been input within the inhibited area, erases a displayed icon to allow a user to recognize that an unintended operation has been input within the inhibited area.