INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20120139947A1
• Filed: 11/28/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kishima, Koichiro, Kimoto, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US13/305,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20120139947A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• 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 2310/0232 Special driving of display border areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/08 Biomedical applications

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information processor including: a display setup information acquisition section adapted to acquire, as display setup information, information about the layout of a plurality of displays in a display space formed by arranging the plurality of displays adjacently; and an image adjustment section adapted to adjust, based on the display setup information, at least either the position or size of a subimage so as to ensure that the subimage does not spread across a boundary between the displays when an image including a main image and the subimage smaller than the main image is displayed in the display space.

Claims

1. An information processor comprising:

a display setup information acquisition section adapted to acquire, as display setup information, information about a layout of a plurality of displays in a display space formed by arranging the plurality of displays adjacently; and

an image adjustment section adapted to adjust, based at least in part on the display setup information, at least either a position or size of a subimage to ensure that the subimage does not spread across a boundary between the displays when an image including a main image and the subimage smaller than the main image is displayed in the display space.

2. The information processor of claim 1, wherein the image adjustment section is configured to display a frame adapted to indicate the display area of the main image in a manner superimposed on the subimage.

3. The information processor of claim 2, wherein when the plurality of main images are displayed side by side, the image adjustment section is configured to adjust, based at least in part on the display setup information, at least either positions or sizes of the plurality of main images so that at least one of boundaries between the plurality of main images overlaps [[the]] boundary between the displays.

4. The information processor of claim 3, wherein when the plurality of subimages, each associated with one of the plurality of main images, are displayed, the image adjustment section is configured to adjust, based at least in part on the display setup information, at least the position or size of the subimage so that one side of at least one of the plurality of subimages overlaps the boundary.

5. The information processor of claim 2, wherein when the plurality of subimages are arranged in a row and displayed as a subimage sequence, the image adjustment section is configured to adjust, based at least in part on the display setup information, at least either the positions or sizes of the plurality of subimages so that at least one of the boundaries between the plurality of subimages overlaps the boundary between the displays.

6. The information processor of claim 2, wherein when a text display area is secured to display text information in the display space, the image adjustment section is configured to adjust, based at least in part on the display setup information, a position of the text display area to ensure that the text display area does not spread across the boundary between the displays.

7. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring information about a layout of a plurality of displays in a display space formed by arranging the plurality of displays adjacently; and

adjusting at least either a position or size of a subimage based at least in part on the display setup information to ensure that the subimage does not spread across a boundary between the displays when an image including a main image and the subimage smaller than the main image is displayed in the display space.

8. A program allowing an information processor to function as:

a display setup information acquisition section adapted to acquire, as display setup information, information about a layout of a plurality of displays in a display space formed by arranging the plurality of displays adjacently; and

an image adjustment section adapted to adjust, based at least in part on the display setup information, at least either a position or size of a subimage to ensure that the subimage does not spread across a boundary between the displays when an image including a main image and the subimage smaller than the main image is displayed in the display space.