DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130010003A1
• Filed: 06/27/2012
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamano, Ikuo, Okumura, Yasushi, Noda, Takuro, Wang, Qihong
• Application Number:
  US13/534,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20130010003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/32 semiconductive, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/36 using liquid crystals
• 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

Abstract

A display control device includes: a display control unit that controls displaying on a display allowing light, which is incident from a rear surface side opposite to an observation surface that is a surface of a side at which an observing user is present, to be transmitted through and to be observed by the user; and a state information acquiring unit that acquires state information representing a rear surface side state of the display, wherein the display control unit changes the displaying on the display in response to the state information.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a display control unit that controls displaying on a display allowing light, which is incident from a rear surface side opposite to an observation surface that is a surface of a side at which an observing user is present, to be transmitted through and to be observed by the user; and

a state information acquiring unit that acquires state information representing a rear surface side state of the display,

wherein the display control unit changes the displaying on the display in response to the state information.

2. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the state information acquiring unit acquires the state information including information that represents a first state in which the rear surface of the display is opposite to a first surface, and a second state in which the rear surface of the display is not opposite to the first surface, and

the display control unit changes the displaying on the display between a case in which the state information represents the first state and a case in which the state information represents the second state.

3. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the state information acquiring unit acquires, as the state information, operation state information of an engagement mechanism that makes a first section having the display and a second section having the first surface engage with each other, and that changes the first state that is a state in which the display overlaps the first surface and the second state that is a state in which the display is distant from the first surface.

4. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the second state is a state in which the rear surface of the display is not opposite to a specific surface.

5. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the second state is a state in which the rear surface of the display is opposite a second surface that is different from the first surface.

6. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the state information acquiring unit acquires the state information including information that represents a third state different from the first state and the second state, and

the display control unit causes a change, which is different from that in a case in which the state information represents either the first state or the second state, to the displaying on the display, in a case where the state information represents the third state.

7. The display control device according to claim 6,

wherein the third state is an intermediate state in which the rear surface side state of the display is in the course of varying between the first state and the second state, and

the display control unit makes the displaying on the display temporarily disappear, in a case where the state information represents the third state.

8. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit changes the displaying on the display in response to a pattern or a texture of the first surface, in a case where the state information represents the first state.

9. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit changes brightness in the displaying on the display in response to the state information.

10. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit vertically or horizontally inverts the displaying on the display in response to the state information.

11. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit changes display content of the display in response to the state information.

12. A display control method comprising:

controlling displaying on a display allowing light, which is incident from a rear surface side opposite to an observation surface that is a surface of a side at which an observing user is present, to be transmitted through and to be observed by the user;

acquiring state information representing a rear surface side state of the display; and

changing the displaying on the display in response to the state information.

13. A program that allows a computer to execute:

a function of controlling displaying on a display allowing light, which is incident from a rear surface side opposite to an observation surface that is a surface of a side at which an observing user is present, to be transmitted through and to be observed by the user;

a function of acquiring state information representing a rear surface side state of the display; and

a function of changing the displaying on the display in response to the state information.