ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD IN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20100321403A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Inadome, Masao
• Granted Patent: US 8,730,262 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions

Abstract

In an electronic device and its display method, which dissolves a feeling of wrongness given to users in the case where information displayed in the foreground image and its related information is displayed in the background image, thereby making it possible to reduce a burden imposed on users; when a wallpaper display processing is carried out and a background image displayed by a background image display unit (183) is included in information and its related information displayed by an information display unit (182), such as a clock, a date, a radio condition, a remaining battery charge, and the like; an information display suppression unit (184) suppresses display of either the information display by the information display unit (182) or the information display by the background image display unit (183).

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display part and

a control part controlling display content of the display part, wherein

the control part includes

an information acquisition part acquiring display information,

an information display part displaying the display information acquired at the information acquisition part on the display part, and

an information display suppression part suppressing display of either of the display information displayed by the information display part or related information contained in the display image displayed in the display region when related information related to the display information displayed by the information display part is contained in the image displayed in the display region of the display part.

2. An electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the control part makes it possible to superimpose a foreground image on the display image, and

the information display suppression part suppresses display of either of the display information or the related information when the information display part displays the display information in the foreground image.

3. An electronic device as set forth in claim 2, wherein the information display suppression part finds the display position of the related information in the display image and the display position of the display information in the foreground image and suppresses display of either of the display information or the related information when the related information and the display information are to be displayed at the same position or at positions close to each other based on these display positions.

4. An electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the information display suppression part does not suppress display when the display information and the related information are displayed at positions different from each other on the display part.

5. An electronic device as set forth in claim 4, wherein

the display image is displayed in a first display region of the display part, and

the information display suppression part does not suppress display when the display information is displayed in a second display region different from the first display region.

6. An electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein when one of the display information and related information contains information which is not contained in the other of the display information and related information, the information display suppression part suppresses display of the other of the display information and the related information.

7. An electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein when one of the display information or the related information contains predetermined information, the information display suppression part suppresses setting of display of the predetermined information when setting display of the other of the display information and the related information.

8. An electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the information display suppression part does not suppress display when the display format of the display information and the display format of the related information are different.

9. A display method in an electronic device having a display part and a control part controlling display content of the display part, comprising:

a step of acquiring display information and displaying the display information on the display part,

a step of displaying the display image in a display region of the display part, and

a step of suppressing display of either of the display information or related information contained in the display image when the display image contains related information related to the display information.