DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20090172596A1
• Filed: 12/10/2008
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamashita, Yumi
• Application Number:
  US12/331,647
• Publication Number:
  US 20090172596A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/834
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations

Abstract

A display control apparatus controls display of a graphical user interface including a plurality of choices which are presented to a user and from which the user selects a choice. The display control apparatus includes a ring display generating unit configured to generate a ring display serving as the GUI, the ring display being formed by annually arranging a plurality of marks corresponding to the choices in a predetermined order; a marker adding unit configured to add a marker indicating at least one of the position of the first mark and the position of the last mark, among the plurality of marks arranged in the predetermined order, to the ring display; and a display controlling unit configured to display the ring display to which the marker is added.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus controlling display of a graphical user interface including a plurality of choices which are presented to a user and from which the user selects a choice, the apparatus comprising:

ring display generating means for generating a ring display serving as the GUI, the ring display being formed by annually arranging a plurality of marks corresponding to the choices in a predetermined order;

marker adding means for adding a marker indicating at least one of the position of the first mark and the position of the last mark, among the plurality of marks arranged in the predetermined order, to the ring display; and

display controlling means for displaying the ring display to which the marker is added.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

marking means for adding a mark specified by a specification operation by the user in the plurality of marks forming the ring display.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

mark list generating means for generating a mark list that is a list of the marks added by the marking means,

wherein the display controlling means displays the mark list generated by the mark list generating means.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the mark list generating means generates the mark list including detailed information about the choices corresponding to the marks added by the marking means.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controlling means highlights a mark that is in focus in the plurality of marks forming the ring display.

6. A display control method for a display control apparatus controlling display of a graphical user interface including a plurality of choices which are presented to a user and from which the user selects a choice, the method comprising:

generating a ring display serving as the GUI, the ring display being formed by annually arranging a plurality of marks corresponding to the choices in a predetermined order;

adding a marker indicating at least one of the position of the first mark and the position of the last mark, among the plurality of marks arranged in the predetermined order, to the ring display; and

displaying the ring display to which the marker is added.

7. A computer-readable program for a display control apparatus controlling display of a graphical user interface including a plurality of choices which are presented to a user and from which the user selects a choice, the program comprising:

generating a ring display serving as the GUI, the ring display being formed by annually arranging a plurality of marks corresponding to the choices in a predetermined order;

adding a marker indicating at least one of the position of the first mark and the position of the last mark, among the plurality of marks arranged in the predetermined order, to the ring display; and

displaying the ring display to which the marker is added.

8. A display control apparatus controlling display of a graphical user interface including a plurality of choices which are presented to a user and from which the user selects a choice, the apparatus comprising:

a ring display generating unit configured to generate a ring display serving as the GUI, the ring display being formed by annually arranging a plurality of marks corresponding to the choices in a predetermined order;

a marker adding unit configured to add a marker indicating at least one of the position of the first mark and the position of the last mark, among the plurality of marks arranged in the predetermined order, to the ring display; and

a display controlling unit configured to display the ring display to which the marker is added.