Terminal Device With Display Function

• US 20110012931A1
• Filed: 03/11/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Abe, Tatsuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 8,581,939 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/671
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/026 Video wall, i.e. juxtaposition of a plurality of screens to create a display screen of bigger dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/04 Changes in size, position or resolution of an image
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/04 Display device controller operating with a plurality of display units
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40013 Details regarding a bus controller
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0247 comprising more than two body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

[Object] It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to easily select a desired image from stored images in a terminal device with a display function such as a cell phone.

[Constitution] If a display state is switched to a second display state after one of files is selected from a list of thumbnail images M5 in a first display state, a display controller 110 executes a comparison mode. In the comparison mode, the display controller 110 displays a magnified image M7 of the selected file on a first display area 11a at a size suitable for the number of magnified images M7 displayed on the first display area 11a at that time, i.e., at such a size that the magnified images M7 can just stay within the first display area 11a as large as possible.

Claims

1. A terminal device with a display function comprising:

a first display unit;

a second display unit;

a display controller for controlling display of the first and second display units;

a storage section for storing a plurality of sets of image information; and

a mechanism for disposing the first and second display units at positions where display areas of both the first and second display units face outside, wherein

the display controller displays a list of first images based on the image information on one of the first and second display units in a state where both of the display areas face outside, and the display controller displays, on the other display unit, one or more second images corresponding to one or more of the first images selected from the list at a size suitable for the number of the second images displayed on the display area of the other display unit.

2. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, wherein

when a predetermined position on the second image is specified, the display controller magnifies the specified second image and at least one of other second images at a predetermined magnification and displays these second images centering on the specified position.

3. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, wherein

the display controller displays the second image and information concerning that second image on the display area of the other display unit.

4. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 1, wherein

the mechanism supports the first and second display units such that it is possible to switch between a first disposition where only one of the two display areas faces outside and a second disposition where both of the display areas face outside, and

the display controller displays the list of the first images on the display area which faces outside in the first disposition, and when the disposition of the first and second display units is shifted to the second disposition in a state where any of the first images is selected from the list, the display controller displays one or more of the second images corresponding to one or more of the selected first image at the size on one of the first and second display units.

5. The terminal device with the display function according to claim 4, wherein

when the first image is not selected in the first disposition, the display controller displays the list of the first images on one or both of the display areas in the second disposition without displaying the second image, and if the first image is selected thereafter, the display controller displays a third image which is obtained to magnify the selected first image in a size larger than the size on one of the display areas.