DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20110096096A1
• Filed: 10/20/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuki, Yoshitaka
• Granted Patent: US 9,035,973 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/684
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00469 with enlargement of a selected area of the displayed information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A display device according to the present invention has: a display section; an image storage section that stores, as subjects to be displayed on the display section, a plurality of combinations of images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels; a display controller that sequentially scroll-displays on the display section the images stored in the image storage section; a touch panel that accepts from an operator designation of a coordinate position within a display area of the display section; and a speed detector that detects a speed change at which the coordinate position designated from the touch panel changes, wherein the display controller reduces the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, as the speed of change detected by the speed detector increases.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a display section that displays images;

an image storage section that stores, as subjects to be displayed on the display section, plurality of combinations of images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels;

a display controller that sequentially scroll-displays on the display section the images stored in the image storage section; and

a speed detector that detects a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed,

wherein the display controller reduces the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, as the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector increases.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller reduces the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, as the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector increases, and increases the number of items as the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector decreases.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller scroll-displays continuously, on the display section, images exhibiting items at congruent levels, and hides the items that are congruent with those of any adjacent images among the images scroll-displayed on the display section, when the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector reaches a predetermined first speed.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein, when the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector reaches a predetermined second speed, the display controller extracts a predetermined number of images from the images exhibiting congruent items at the highest hierarchical level, and displays these predetermined number of images.

5. A display control method for displaying a plurality of images on a display section of an electronic device,

the display control method comprising:

an image display step of sequentially scroll-displaying on the display section the images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels;

a coordinate position designation accepting step of accepting, from an operator, designation of a coordinate position within a display area of the display section;

an instruction accepting step of accepting input of an instruction that is associated with an image displayed in the coordinate position designated in the coordinate position designation accepting step;

a speed detection step of detecting a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed; and

a display image number increasing/reducing step of reducing the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, as the scroll display speed detected in the speed detection step increases.

6. The display control method according to claim 5, wherein the display image number increasing/reducing step reduces the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, as the scroll display speed detected in the speed detection step increases, and increases the number of items as the scroll display speed detected in the speed detection step decreases.

7. A display device, comprising:

a display section that displays images;

an image storage section that stores a plurality of the images displayed on the display section;

a display controller that sequentially scroll-displays on the display section each of the images stored in the image storage section; and

a stop instruction accepting section that accepts a stop instruction for stopping the scroll display performed by the display controller,

wherein, when the stop instruction is accepted by the stop instruction accepting section during the scroll display of each of the images, the display controller stops the scroll display while the images that are sequentially scroll-displayed at the time of the acceptance are shifted back by a predetermined number of images.

8. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising a speed detector that detects a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed, wherein the display controller changes the predetermined number of images in accordance with a scroll display speed that is detected by the speed detector when the stop instruction is accepted by the stop instruction accepting section.

9. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising a speed detector that detects a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed, wherein each of the images stored in the image storage section is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels, and wherein the display controller reduces the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section in accordance with an increment of the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector, and, when the stop instruction is accepted by the stop instruction accepting section during the scroll display of the images, the display controller shifts back, by a predetermined number of images, the images that are sequentially scroll-displayed at the time of the acceptance and then stops the scroll display while displaying all of the items configuring each of the images.

10. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising a speed detector that detects a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed, wherein

each of the images stored in the image storage section is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels, and wherein

when the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector reaches a predetermined speed, the display controller displays only the item corresponding to a predetermined high hierarchical level for each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, and when the stop instruction is accepted by the stop instruction accepting section during the scroll display of the images, the display controller stops the scroll display while displaying all of the items configuring each image, without shifting back, by the predetermined number of images, the images that are scroll-displayed and that exhibit congruent items at the high hierarchical level.

11. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising a speed detector that detects a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed, wherein each of the images stored in the image storage section is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels, and wherein, when the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector reaches a predetermined speed, the display controller displays only the item corresponding to a highest hierarchical level for each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, and when the stop instruction is accepted by the stop instruction accepting section during the scroll display of the images, the display controller shifts back, by the predetermined number of images, the images that are scroll-displayed at the time of the acceptance and that exhibit congruent items at the highest hierarchical level, and stops the scroll display while displaying all of the items configuring each image.

12. The display device according to claim 11, wherein the predetermined number used by the display controller to perform display control means the number of images that suspends the scroll-display, while, at the point of time when the stop instruction is accepted by the stop instruction accepting section, the images that are scroll-displayed and that exhibit congruent items at the highest hierarchical level are displayed, with the first image being arranged at the top.

13. A display control method for displaying a plurality of images on a display section of an electronic device,

the display control method comprising:

an image display step of sequentially scroll-displaying the images on the display section;

a stop instruction accepting step of accepting a stop instruction for stopping the scroll display performed in the image display step; and

a display stopping step of, when the stop instruction is accepted in the stop instruction accepting step during the scroll display of each of the images, stopping the scroll display while the images that are sequentially scroll-displayed at the time of the acceptance are shifted back by a predetermined number of images.

14. The display control method according to claim 13, further comprising a speed detection step of detecting a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed, wherein the display stopping step changes the predetermined number of images in accordance with a speed of change that is detected in the speed detection step when the stop instruction is accepted in the stop instruction accepting step.

15. A display device, comprising:

a display section that displays images;

an image storage section that stores a plurality of the images displayed on the display section;

a display controller that sequentially scroll-displays on the display section each of the images stored in the image storage section;

a coordinate position designating section that accepts, from an operator, designation of a coordinate position within a display area of the display section;

a stop instruction accepting section that accepts a stop instruction for stopping the scroll display during the scroll display of the images by the display controller;

a restart instruction accepting section that accepts an instruction for restarting the stopped scroll display; and

an instruction accepting section that accepts input of an instruction associated with an image that is displayed in the coordinate position designated by the coordinate position designating section,

wherein, when the coordinate position is designated by the coordinate position designating section during the scroll display of each of the images, the display controller stops and displays, on the display section, the image that is scroll-displayed in the coordinate position at the time of the designation, and when a display position of the stopped and displayed image is designated again by the coordinate position designating section in this image stop display condition, the instruction accepting section accepts an instruction associated with the image displayed in the designated display position, and then when the restart instruction is accepted by the restart instruction accepting section during the image stop display condition, the display controller restarts the scroll-display, starting from an image that is scrolled further than the stopped and displayed image.

16. The display device according to claim 15, wherein when the restart instruction is accepted by the restart instruction accepting section during the image stop display condition, the display controller restarts the scroll display in the same manner as the case where previous scroll display is performed continuously, without performing the image stop display.

17. The display device according to claim 15, wherein when the coordinate position is designated by the coordinate position designating section during the scroll display of the images, the display controller stops and displays, on a front surface of the display section, the image that is scroll-displayed in the designated coordinate position, and continues the scroll display of the images on a back surface of the stopped and displayed image.

18. A display control method for displaying a plurality of images on a display section of an electronic device,

the display control method comprising:

an image display step of sequentially scroll-displaying the images on the display section;

a coordinate position accepting step of accepting, from an operator, designation of a coordinate position in a display area of the display section;

a stop instruction accepting step of accepting a stop instruction for stopping the scroll display during the scroll display of the images in the image display step;

a restart instruction accepting step of accepting an instruction for restarting the stopped scroll display;

an instruction accepting step of accepting input of an instruction associated with an image that is displayed in the coordinate position, the designation of which is accepted in the coordinate position accepting step; and

a display restarting step in which, when the designation of the coordinate position is accepted in the coordinate position accepting step during the scroll display of each of the images, the image that is scroll-displayed in the coordinate position at the time of the designation is stopped and displayed on the display section, and when in this image stop display condition the designation of the coordinate position of a display position of this image is accepted in the coordinate position accepting step, an instruction associated with the image displayed in the designated display position is accepted in the instruction accepting step, and then when the restart instruction is accepted in the restart instruction accepting step during the image stop display condition, the scroll display is restarted, starting from an image that is scrolled further than the stopped and displayed image.

19. The display control method according to claim 18, wherein when the restart instruction is accepted in the restart instruction accepting step during the image stop display condition, the display restart step restarts the scroll display in the same manner as the case where previous scroll display is performed continuously without the image stop display.