DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20090122085A1
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Iijima, Tadahiko
• Granted Patent: US 8,400,476 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A display device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire coordinates on a display screen designated by a coordinate input apparatus; a registering unit configured to register an enlargement target which is to be enlarged; an enlargement processing unit configured to enlarge and display a partial area, which includes the enlargement target, if a positional relationship between coordinates acquired by the acquisition unit and a position at which the enlargement target, which has been registered by the registering unit, is displayed on the display screen satisfies a predetermined condition; and a cancellation processing unit configured to cancel the enlarged display of the partial area by the enlargement processing unit based upon an input from the coordinate input apparatus.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire coordinates on a display screen designated by a coordinate input apparatus;

a registering unit configured to register an enlargement target which is to be enlarged;

an enlargement processing unit configured to enlarge and display a partial area, which includes the enlargement target, if a positional relationship between coordinates acquired by said acquisition unit and a position at which the enlargement target, which has been registered by said registering unit, is displayed on the display screen satisfies a predetermined condition; and

a cancellation processing unit configured to cancel the enlarged display of the partial area by said enlargement processing unit based upon an input from the coordinate input apparatus.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said enlargement processing unit enlarges the partial area that includes the enlargement target if moving speed of the coordinates acquired by said acquisition unit is within a prescribed range of speeds and distance between the acquired coordinates and the enlargement target is equal to or less than a prescribed distance.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said registering unit extracts and registers an enlargement target from an image, which is being displayed on the display screen, based upon the coordinates acquired by said acquisition unit.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein said registering unit registers an enlargement target based upon an operation by the user for selecting the enlargement target from one or a plurality of enlargement target candidates that have been registered in advance.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein said cancellation processing unit cancels the enlarged display of the partial area if there has been no input from the coordinate input apparatus for a prescribed period of time or longer.

6. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a cancellation registering unit configured to register an enlargement cancellation operation for canceling enlargement;

wherein said cancellation processing unit cancels the enlarged display of the partial area by said enlargement processing unit if the enlargement cancellation operation registered by said cancellation registering unit has been performed.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein said cancellation registering unit registers a specific input operation by the coordinate input apparatus as the enlargement cancellation operation.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein said cancellation registering unit registers the enlargement cancellation operation based upon an operation by the user for selecting the enlargement cancellation operation from one or a plurality of enlargement cancellation operation candidates that have been registered in advance.

9. The device according to claim 6, wherein said cancellation registering unit registers an enlargement cancellation operation, which is for canceling the enlarged display, for each enlargement target;

and

said cancellation processing unit cancels the enlarged display of the partial area by said enlargement processing unit if an enlargement cancellation operation which has been registered by said cancellation registering unit has been performed in relation to the enlargement target being enlarged and displayed.

10. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a converting unit, wherein if coordinates within an area enlarged and displayed have been acquired by said acquisition unit while the enlarged display of the partial area is being performed by said enlargement processing unit, said converting unit is configured to convert the acquired coordinates to coordinate information for the partial area prior to enlargement display.

11. A display processing method of a display device, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring coordinates on a display screen designated by a coordinate input apparatus;

registering an enlargement target which is to be enlarged;

enlarging and displaying a partial area, which includes the enlargement target, if a positional relationship between coordinates acquired in said acquiring step and a position at which the enlargement target, which has been registered in said registering step, is displayed on the display screen satisfies a predetermined condition; and

canceling the enlarged display of the partial area in said enlarging and displaying step based upon an input from the coordinate input apparatus.

12. A display processing program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer to function as:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire coordinates on a display screen designated by a coordinate input apparatus;

a registering unit configured to register an enlargement target which is to be enlarged;

an enlargement processing unit configured to enlarge and display a partial area, which includes the enlargement target, if a positional relationship between coordinates acquired by said acquisition unit and a position at which the enlargement target, which has been registered by said registering unit, is displayed on the display screen satisfies a predetermined condition; and

a cancellation processing unit configured to cancel the enlarged display of the partial area by said enlargement processing unit based upon an input from the coordinate input apparatus.