INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20110102421A1
• Filed: 08/19/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MINAMINO, Takanori, OKUMURA, Mitsuo
• Application Number:
  US12/859,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20110102421A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing device includes an image generator that generates a first image representing a content and one or more second images from the content including the first image, and a display controller that displays the one or more first images on a first plane in a depth direction as seen from an image display screen, aligns one or more second images on an axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane on which the first images are displayed, and displays the images as a first screen.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an image generator that generates a first image representing a content and one or more second images from the content including the first image, and

a display controller that displays the one or more first images on a first plane in a depth direction as seen from an image display screen, aligns one or more second images on an axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane on which the first images are displayed, and displays the images as a first screen.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller switches the screen from a second screen in which the first images are arranged on a second plane different from the first plane displayed in the first screen in the image display screen to the first screen by animation.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein, when the display controller switches the screen from the second screen to the first screen, the display controller switches a display plane of the first images from the second plane to the first plane by animation, and when the switching of the first images is completed, the display controller aligns and displays the second images on the axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the display controller displays the second images as if the second images popped up from the first plane by animation.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein, when the display controller switches the screen from the second screen to the first screen, the display controller switches the display plane of the first images from the second plane to the first plane by animation after framing out a part of the first images from the image display screen.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller switches the screen from the first screen to the second screen in which the first images are arranged on the second plane different from the first plane displayed in the first screen in the image display screen by animation.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein, when the display controller switches the screen from the first screen to the second screen, the display controller switches the display plane of the first images from the first plane to the second plane by animation after erasing the display of the second images.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, wherein the display controller displays the second images as if the second images were moving to the first plane by animation.

9. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein, when the display controller switches the screen from the first screen to the second screen, the display controller switches the display plane of the first images from the first plane to the second plane by animation after framing out a part of the first images from the image display screen.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the second images show the content including the first image at a predetermined chronological interval, and chronologically newer second image is located nearer to the first plane on the axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller displays the second images so that the second image is tilted steeper as the distance between the second image and the first plane increases.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller displays the second images so that all the second images are tilted at the same angle on the axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane.

13. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller scrolls the second images on the axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane in accordance with a user operation.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller displays shades of the second images in accordance with the display of the second images.

15. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller displays the second images by adding an effect for floating the second images from an area around the second images.

16. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the first image is an image of a first frame of the content.

17. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller displays a calendar on the first plane, and the first image is an image captured for the first time on a date among images captured on the date.

18. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display controller semi-transparently displays the first images displayed on the first plane.

19. An image display method comprising the steps of:

generating a first image representing a content and one or more second images from the content including the first image; and

displaying the one or more first images on a first plane in a depth direction as seen from an image display screen, aligning one or more second images on an axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane on which the first images are displayed, and displaying the images as a first screen.

20. An image display method for causing a computer to execute the steps of:

generating a first image representing a content and one or more second images from the content including the first image; and

displaying the one or more first images on a first plane in a depth direction as seen from an image display screen, aligning one or more second images on an axis three-dimensionally perpendicular to the first plane on which the first images are displayed, and displaying the images as a first screen.