DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS

• US 20090207297A1
• Filed: 04/22/2009
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KATSUURA, Hironori
• Application Number:
  US12/428,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20090207297A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.10
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/043 Preventing or counteracting the effects of ageing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators

Abstract

A display apparatus (for example, digital camera) includes a display section (for example, LCD monitor) that selectively displays one of a plurality of display patterns, and has a plurality of operation modes, an operation section (for example, operation button) that receives a short-time operation which is operated by a user for a shorter period than a specified time and a long-time operation which is operated by a user for a longer period than the specified time, and a controller that controls the display section so that the display pattern of the display section is changed over every time the operation section receives the short-time operation while the operation mode of the display section is changed over every time the operation section receives the long-time operation.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus having an imaging mode to capture images and a playback mode to reproduce images, comprising:

a display section that has a first mode to provide brightness of the screen which is relatively bright and a second mode to provide brightness of the screen which is relatively dark;

an operation section that receives user instructions; and

a controller that controls the display section so that the brightness of the display section is made dark when the operation section does not receive any user instruction for the time exceeding a specified time in the imaging mode, and in the playback mode the brightness of the display section is not changed even when the operation section does not receive user instruction for the time exceeding the specified time, during the first mode.

2. An imaging apparatus having an imaging mode to capture images, comprising:

a display section that has a first mode to provide brightness of the screen which is relatively bright and a second mode to provide brightness of the screen which is relatively dark;

a first operation section that receives user instruction with respect to change-over of the first mode and the second mode;

a second operation section that receives user instruction with respect to matters other than the change-over of the first mode and the second mode; and

a controller that controls the display section so that the brightness of the display section is made dark when the operation section does not receive any user instruction for the time exceeding a specified time in the imaging mode, and when the first or second operation section receives user instruction after the display section becomes dark, the brightness of the display section is returned to the bright state, during the first mode.