ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20120162251A1
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MINAMINO, Takanori, Okumura, Mitsuo
• Granted Patent: US 9,496,005 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/00 Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes an operation reception unit that receives a switching operation for switching between a list display screen where index images for selecting content items belonging to one or a plurality of groups are disposed on a display surface of a display unit, and a group display screen where the index images are disposed on the display surface, and a display control unit that displays one of the list display screen and the group display screen on the display unit based on the switching operation, moves the index images with content item units from predetermined positions on one screen of the list display screen and the group display screen, displayed at the time of receiving the corresponding switching operation to predetermined positions on the other screen displayed after the corresponding switching operation is received, and displays the index images by animation during the movement.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an operation reception unit that receives a switching operation for switching between a list display screen where index images for selecting content items belonging to one or a plurality of groups are disposed at predetermined positions on a display surface of a display unit with content item units, and a group display screen where the index images are disposed at predetermined positions on the display surface with group units; and

a display control unit that displays one of the list display screen and the group display screen on the display unit based on the switching operation, moves the index images with content item units from predetermined positions on one screen of the list display screen and the group display screen, displayed at the time of receiving the corresponding switching operation to predetermined positions on the other screen displayed after the corresponding switching operation is received in a case of receiving the switching operation, and displays the index images which are movement targets by animation during the movement.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays a screen where the index images are arranged side by side in a matrix as the list display screen, sets synthesized images formed by superimposition synthesis of the index images corresponding to the respective content items forming one group as group images indicating the corresponding group, and displays a screen where the group images are disposed at predetermined positions with group units as the group display screen.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit moves the index images such that the rates of change of movement speeds per unit time of the respective index images adjacent in a specific direction on the list display screen are different from each other, in a case of receiving the switching operation.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, in a case of receiving the switching operation for switching from the group display screen to the list display screen, the display control unit moves the index images which are displayed at an upper side as the group images from the corresponding display positions to predetermined positions on the list display screen, and moves the index images which are not displayed at the upper side as the group images from predetermined positions in the corresponding group images to predetermined positions on the list display screen.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays a screen where the index images corresponding to respective content items forming one group are continuously arranged side by side, as the list display screen.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays a screen where the index images are arranged side by side such that a longer direction of the index image is a specific direction, as the list display screen, and displays a screen where at least one of the index images is rotated by a predetermined angle and is disposed at a predetermined position on the display surface, as the group display screen.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display control unit performs animation display while changing an angle of the corresponding index image during the movement between a movement source and a movement destination such that the index image which is the rotation target has an angle at the movement destination.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display control unit performs the animation display by correlating the rate of change of a rotation speed per unit time of the index image which is the rotation target with the rate of change of a movement speed per unit time of the corresponding index time between the movement source and the movement destination.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, in a case of receiving the switching operation for switching from the group display screen to the list display screen, the display control unit displays by animation only the index images related to group images disposed at a specific position among the group images included in the group display screen, displayed at the time of receiving the switching operation.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays an index image included in the group display screen and an index image included in the list display screen in different sizes, and performs animation display while changing the size of the index image which is the movement target such that the size of the index image included in one screen has the size of the index image included in the other screen during the movement between a movement source and a movement target in a case of receiving the switching operation.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the index image is in a substantially rectangular shape,

wherein the index image included in the group display screen is a trim image of which both ends in the longer direction of the index image included in the list display screen, and

wherein, in a case of receiving the switching operation for switching from the group display screen to the list display screen, the display control unit performs animation display while adding an original image to the trim image between the movement source and the movement destination, and, in a case of receiving the switching operation for switching from the list display screen to the group display screen, performs animation display while removing both ends of the index image in the longer direction between the movement source and the movement destination.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the display control unit performs animation display by correlating the rate of change of an addition ratio per unit time of the original image with the rate of change of a movement speed per unit time of the corresponding index image between the movement source and the movement destination.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, in a case of receiving the switching operation for switching from the list display screen to the group display screen, the display control unit displays by animation only index images related to content items forming a group related to the index images disposed at a specific position among the index images included in the list display screen, displayed at the time of receiving the switching operation.

14. A display control method comprising:

displaying one of a list display screen and a group display screen on a display unit, based on a switching operation for switching between the list display screen where index images for selecting content items belonging to one or a plurality of groups are disposed at predetermined positions on a display surface of the display unit with content item units, and the group display screen where the index images are disposed at predetermined positions on the display surface with group units; and

moving the index images with content item units from predetermined positions on one screen of the list display screen and the group display screen, displayed at the time of receiving the corresponding switching operation to predetermined positions on the other screen displayed after the corresponding switching operation is received in a case of receiving the switching operation, and displaying the index images which are movement targets by animation during the movement.

15. A program enabling a computer to perform a method comprising:

displaying one of a list display screen and a group display screen on a display unit, based on a switching operation for switching between the list display screen where index images for selecting content items belonging to one or a plurality of groups are disposed at predetermined positions on a display surface of the display unit with content item units, and the group display screen where the index images are disposed at predetermined positions on the display surface with group units; and

moving the index images with content item units from predetermined positions on one screen of the list display screen and the group display screen, displayed at the time of receiving the corresponding switching operation to predetermined positions on the other screen displayed after the corresponding switching operation is received in a case of receiving the switching operation, and displaying the index images which are movement targets by animation during the movement.