LINKED DISPLAY SYSTEM, LINKED DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20120262492A1
• Filed: 11/16/2010
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohashi, Yoshinori, Yamada, Eiju, Kinoshita, Akihiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,213,520 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3688 Systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices (not client-server), e.g. detachable faceplates, key fobs or multiple output screens
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1462 with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the remote displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/003 Maps
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

Provided is a linked display system capable of improving availability of information having different scales and amounts of information, a linked display method, and a program. A mobile terminal 100 includes a display unit 101 that displays operation display information I1, a range setting unit 105 that sets a predetermined range A containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position P over operation display information and a communication unit 109 that transmits the predetermined range to a TV set 200. The TV set includes a communication unit 209 that receives the predetermined range from the mobile terminal, a display information selection unit 205 that selects reference display information I2 capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of the reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity of a local apparatus and having a different scale and amount of information from those of the operation display information, and a display unit 201 that displays information corresponding to the predetermined range of the selected reference display information.

Claims

1. A linked display system comprising first and second display apparatuses,

wherein the first display apparatus includes:

a first display unit that displays operation display information;

a range setting unit that sets a predetermined range containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position over the operation display information; and

a first communication unit that transmits the predetermined range to the second display apparatus, and

the second display apparatus includes;

a second communication unit that receives the predetermined range from the first display unit;

a display information selection unit that selects the reference display information capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information; and

a second display unit that displays the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity.

2. The linked display system according to claim 1,

wherein the range setting unit sets a range that contains the specified position and is narrower than the operation display information displayed in the first display unit as the predetermined range.

3. The linked display system according to claim 2,

wherein the first communication unit receives a display range of the reference display information displayed in the second display unit from the second display unit, and

the first display unit displays a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information.

4. The linked display system according to claim 3,

wherein the range setting unit sets a range indicated by the reference display frame after movement in accordance with the operation to move the reference display frame on the first display unit as the predetermined range.

5. The linked display system according to claim 3,

wherein the range setting unit sets a range indicated by the reference display frame after a change in accordance with the operation to change a size of the reference display frame on the first display unit as the predetermined range, and

the display information selection unit selects the reference display information capable of displaying the information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least the one piece of the reference display information in accordance with the display capacity and having the different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information.

6. The linked display system according to claim 2,

wherein the range setting unit sets the predetermined range containing the specified position in accordance with the operation to change the scale of the operation display information on the first display unit, and

the display information selection unit selects the reference display information capable of displaying the information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least the one piece of the reference display information in accordance with the display capacity and having the different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information.

7. The linked display system according to claim 1,

wherein the range setting unit sets a range that contains the specified position and is wider than the operation display information displayed in the first display unit as the predetermined range.

8. The linked display system according to claim 7,

wherein the second communication unit receives a display range of the operation display information displayed in the first display unit from the first display unit, and

the second display unit displays an operation display frame indicating the display range of the operation display information by superimposing the operation display frame on the reference display information.

9. The linked display system according to claim 7,

wherein the second communication unit receives the predetermined range containing any position specified over the operation display information from each of a plurality of the first display apparatuses,

the display information selection unit selects the reference display information capable of displaying the information containing the information corresponding to the plurality of predetermined ranges from at least the one piece of the reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with the display capacity and having the different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information, and

the second display unit displays the information containing the information corresponding to the plurality of predetermined ranges of the selected reference display information.

10. The linked display system according to claim 1,

wherein the first display apparatus requests the second display apparatus to activate an application or start to use a service capable of displaying the reference display information, and

the second display apparatus activates the application or starts to use the service capable of displaying the reference display information in response to the request of activation.

11. A linked display method, comprising:

transmitting a predetermined range containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position over operation display information being displayed to a second display apparatus by a first display apparatus;

selecting the reference display information capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information by the second display apparatus; and

displaying the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity by the second display apparatus.

12. A program causing a computer to execute a linked display method, the method comprising:

transmitting a predetermined range containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position over operation display information being displayed to a second display apparatus by a first display apparatus;

selecting the reference display information capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information by the second display apparatus; and

displaying the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity by the second display apparatus.