DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20120221943A1
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: YAMADA, Yusuke
• Application Number:
  US13/404,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221943A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/243
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A display control method includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of thumbnail images for a document having a plurality of pages, the thumbnail images each presenting each of the plurality of pages reduced in size in a reference state, rotated about a virtual rotation axis as a center, and processed into a view overlooked from a certain viewpoint; obtaining a first search subject; obtaining a first tag image corresponding to the first search subject obtained; and displaying a thumbnail image group on a display device, the thumbnail image group including the plurality of thumbnail images in a state in which at least two thumbnail images among the plurality of thumbnail images are partially overlapped each other and the first tag image is added to a thumbnail image of a page including the first search subject.

Claims

1. A display control method comprising:

obtaining a plurality of thumbnail images for a document having a plurality of pages, the thumbnail images each presenting each of the plurality of pages reduced in size in a reference state, rotated about a virtual rotation axis as a center, and processed into a view overlooked from a certain viewpoint;

obtaining a first search subject;

obtaining a first tag image corresponding to the first search subject obtained; and

displaying a thumbnail image group on a display device, the thumbnail image group including the plurality of thumbnail images in a state in which at least two thumbnail images among the plurality of thumbnail images are partially overlapped each other and the first tag image is added to a thumbnail image of a page including the first search subject.

2. A display control method according to claim 1, wherein the tag image is processed so as to be rotated from the reference state through the same angle of rotation as that of the corresponding thumbnail image about the rotation axis of the thumbnail image, and into a view overlooked from the viewpoint of the thumbnail image.

3. A display control method according to claim 1, further comprising obtaining a second search subject, and obtaining a second tag image different from the first tag image,

the thumbnail image group including the second tag image added to a thumbnail image of a page that includes the second search subject.

4. A display control method according to claim 1, comprising receiving a selection of a first selected page from among the plurality of pages, and updating the thumbnail image group displayed on the display device upon receiving the selection,

an interval between a thumbnail image of the first selected page and a thumbnail image of a page before or after the first selected page in the thumbnail image group after update being wider than an interval between a thumbnail image of the first selected page and a thumbnail image of a page before or after the first selected page in the thumbnail image group before update.

5. A display control method according to claim 4, wherein the thumbnail image of the first selected page is positioned at the foremost plane among the thumbnail image group.

6. A display control method according to claim 5, wherein the thumbnail image of the first selected page is rotated about the virtual rotation axis as a center in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of a thumbnail image of a page before or after the first selected page about the virtual rotation axis as a center.

7. A display control method according to claim 4, comprising receiving a selection of a second selected page from among the plurality of pages, and updating the thumbnail image group displayed on the display device upon receiving the selection,

an interval between a thumbnail image of the second selected page and a thumbnail image of a page before or after the second selected page in the thumbnail image group after update being wider than an interval between a thumbnail image of the second selected page and a thumbnail image of a page before or after the second selected page in the thumbnail image group before update.

8. A display control method according to claim 1, wherein the display device has a plurality of pixels, and changes the gradation of the pixels by a write operation of applying a voltage to the pixels multiple times, the display control method including the steps of comparing image data representative of an image to be newly displayed on the display device with scheduled image data representative of an image scheduled to be displayed on the display device by the write operation in progress, thereby judging pixels whose gradation is to be changed among the plurality of pixels, and the steps of starting the write operation for a pixel to reach a gradation defined by the image data, when the pixel that is determined to be the pixel whose gradation is to be changed is not in the write operation, and starting the write operation for a pixel to reach a gradation defined by the image data, after the write operation in progress is completed, when the pixel that is determined to be the pixel whose gradation is to be changed is in the write operation.

9. A display apparatus comprising:

a display device that displays an image;

a thumbnail image obtaining device that obtains a plurality of thumbnail images for a document having a plurality of pages, the thumbnail images each presenting each of the plurality of pages reduced in size in a reference state, rotated about a virtual rotation axis as a center, and processed into a view overlooked from a certain viewpoint;

a search subject obtaining device that obtains a first search subject;

a tag image obtaining device that obtains a first tag image corresponding to the first search subject; and

a display control device that displays a thumbnail image group on the display device, the thumbnail image group including the plurality of thumbnail images in a state in which at least two thumbnail images among the plurality of thumbnail images are partially overlapped each other and the first tag image is added to a thumbnail image of a page including the first search subject.

10. An electronic apparatus comprising the display device recited in claim 9.