Display device and display method

• US 20110047573A1
• Filed: 07/26/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Onogi, Ken, Tashiro, Koichi, Okamoto, Naoya
• Application Number:
  US12/804,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20110047573A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/41
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72

Abstract

Provided is a display device including a display mode controller for controlling a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a first panel on which information related to the contents is displayed, an information obtaining section for obtaining externally various information, and a panel display section for displaying the various information obtained in the whole screen display mode on a second panel.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display mode controller for controlling a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a first panel on which information related to the contents is displayed;

an information obtaining section for obtaining externally various information; and

a panel display section for displaying the various information obtained in the whole screen display mode on a second panel.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the panel display section displays a detailed information of the various information on the second panel by a user operation.

3. The display device according to claim 1 further comprising an icon image shape decision section for determining a shape of the icon image so that the shape of the icon image related to the various information indicates a layout configuration at a time when the various information is selected and a screen transition occurs.

4. The display device comprising:

controlling, by a display mode controller, a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a first panel on which information related to the contents is displayed;

obtaining externally various information by an information obtaining section; and

displaying, by a panel display section, the various information obtained in the whole screen display mode on a second panel.