DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120306911A1
• Filed: 05/09/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Okazaki, Tomohiko, Kohno, Michinari, Kobori, Yoichi, Tanaka, Yoshiki, Nobori, Fujio, Hosoki, Mitsuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,805,390 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/625
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address

Abstract

According to an illustrative embodiment, a display control method is provided. The method includes defining at least one clipping region, within an image to be displayed, according to detected object information, and defining clipping region content for displaying in the clipping region.

Claims

1. A display control method comprising:

defining at least one clipping region, within an image to be displayed, according to detected object information; and

defining clipping region content for displaying in the clipping region.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the image to be displayed in a still image.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the image to be displayed is a dynamic image.

4. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying the image to be displayed with the clipping region content displayed in the at least one clipping region of the image to be displayed.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detected object information is detected on the basis of a captured image.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the captured image is an image corresponding to a display direction of a display screen.

7. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the detected object information is detected by performing face detection on the captured image.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detected object information is information indicating an object'"'"'s distance from a display screen.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detected object information is information indicating a number of detected objects.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the clipping region content is advertisement content.

11. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detected object information is information indicating that a detected object is one of a male person and a female person.

12. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detected object information is information indicating an age group of a person.

13. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the detected object information is information indicating a size of a detected object.

14. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the clipping region content is related to the detected object.

15. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising changing the clipping region content based on a size of at least one clipping region.

16. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising changing the clipping region content based on a distance between a detected object and a display screen.

17. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one clipping region corresponds to two or more detected objects.

18. A display control apparatus comprising:

means for defining at least one clipping region, within an image to be displayed, according to detected object information; and

means for defining clipping region content for displaying in the clipping region.

19. A display control apparatus comprising a processing circuit for:

defining at least one clipping region, within an image to be displayed, according to detected object information, and defining clipping region content for displaying in the clipping region.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer-readable program for implementing a display control method comprising:

defining at least one clipping region, within an image to be displayed, according to detected object information; and

defining clipping region content for displaying in the clipping region.