REPRODUCING DEVICE, SETTING CHANGING METHOD, AND SETTING CHANGING DEVICE

• US 20120212511A1
• Filed: 05/01/2012
• Published: 08/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MIYAZAWA, MASAAKI
• Granted Patent: US 8,681,097 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/659
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/606 by memory addressing or mapping
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A reproducing device that can reproduce data and operates on a battery includes displaying means, attitude detecting means for detecting an attitude of the reproducing device, determining means for determining whether the reproducing device satisfies a predetermined condition, and controlling means for changing a setting of the reproducing device on a basis of a result of detection of the attitude detecting means when the determining means determines that the reproducing device satisfies the predetermined condition.

Claims

1. A reproducing device that produces data and operates on a battery, the reproducing device comprising:

a display component;

a determining component configured to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied;

an operating component configured to receive instructions from a user;

an attitude detector configured to detect an attitude of the reproducing device when the predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when an operating instruction is received by the operating component;

a controller configured to change a setting of the reproducing device based on the attitude;

a fall detector configured to determine whether the reproducing device is falling based on input from an acceleration sensor and a gravitational sensor; and

a recording disk drive, wherein a head of the recording disk drive retracts if the reproducing device is falling.

2-23. -23. (canceled)

24. A reproducing device that produces data and operates on a battery, the reproducing device comprising:

a display component;

a determining component configured to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied;

an operating component configured to receive instructions from a user;

an attitude detector configured to detect an attitude of the reproducing device when the predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when an operating instruction is received by the operating component; and

a controller configured to change a setting of the reproducing device based on the attitude,

wherein the setting is a display orientation of data displayed on the display component,

wherein the display orientation is associated with the attitude before the detecting,

wherein the display component displays a screen-saver screen,

wherein the predetermined condition is further satisfied when a change is made from a first state to a second state,

wherein the first state is when a screen saver is displayed on the display component, and

wherein the second state is when data displayed on the display component before the screen saver is displayed on the display component instead of the screen saver.

25. The reproducing device according to claim 24,

wherein the display component displays the data in the display orientation when the attitude is identical for a predetermined period.

26. The reproducing device according to claim 24, further comprising a power supplier for supplying power to the reproducing device,

wherein the predetermined condition is further satisfied when a power supply from the power supplier to the reproducing device is started.

28. The reproducing device according to claim 24,

wherein the operating component comprises a plurality of operating buttons,

wherein the setting further comprises definitions assigned to the plurality of operating buttons, and

wherein the controller further changes functions of the plurality of operating buttons by changing the definitions assigned to the plurality of operating buttons.

29. The reproducing device according to claim 28,

wherein the functions of the plurality of operating buttons change when the attitude is identical for a predetermined period.

30. The reproducing device according to claim 28, further comprising a power supplier for supplying power to the reproducing device,

wherein the predetermined condition is further satisfied when a power supply from the power supplier to the reproducing device is started.

31. A reproducing device that produces data and operates on a battery, the reproducing device comprising:

a display component;

a determining component configured to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied;

an operating component configured to receive instructions from a user;

an attitude detector configured to detect an attitude of the reproducing device when the predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when an operating instruction is received by the operating component; and

a controller configured to change a setting of the reproducing device based on the attitude,

wherein the setting is a display orientation of data displayed on the display component,

wherein the display orientation is associated with the attitude before the detecting,

wherein the operating component comprises a plurality of operating buttons, and

wherein the operating instruction is received by the operating component when one of the operating buttons is operated.

32. A method for changing a setting of a reproducing device operating on a battery, the method comprising:

determining whether a predetermined condition is satisfied;

detecting an attitude of the reproducing device when the predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when an operating instruction is received by the reproducing device from a user; and

changing the setting of the reproducing device based on the attitude,

wherein the predetermined condition is further satisfied when a change is made from a first state to a second state,

wherein the first state is when a screen saver is displayed on a display screen, and

wherein the second state is when data displayed on the displaying screen before the screen saver is displayed on the displaying screen instead of the screen saver.

33. The method according to claim 32,

wherein the setting is a display orientation of data displayed on a display component of the reproducing device, and

wherein the display orientation is associated with the attitude before the detecting.

34. The method according to in claim 33, further comprising confirming that the attitude is identical for a predetermined period,

wherein changing the setting comprises changing the display orientation of the data displayed on the display component when the attitude is identical for the predetermined period.

35. The method according to claim 32,

wherein the predetermined condition is further satisfied when a power supply to the reproducing device is started.

36. The method according to claim 32,

wherein the operating instruction is received when a hold key is released by the user.

37. The method according to claim 32,

wherein changing the setting comprises changing functions of a plurality of operating buttons of the reproducing device by changing definitions assigned to the plurality of operating buttons.