DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20130050274A1
• Filed: 08/13/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Eiju, Ohashi, Yoshinori
• Granted Patent: US 9,609,261 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/671
• 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: G09G 2340/04 Changes in size, position or resolution of an image
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/20 Details of the management of multiple sources of image data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4222 Remote control device emulator integrated into a non-television apparatus, e.g. a PDA, media center or smart toy remote control device for a television receiver integrated into a mobile phone H04M1/72415
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72

Abstract

There is provided a control apparatus including a command acquiring unit that acquires selection commands of pieces of content transmitted from a plurality of controllers, and a display processing unit that, when at least a part of users who use the plurality of controllers view same content, enlarges a display area of the content.

Claims

1. A control apparatus comprising:

a command acquiring unit that acquires selection commands of pieces of content transmitted from a plurality of controllers; and

a display processing unit that, when at least a part of users who use the plurality of controllers view same content, enlarges a display area of the content.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an authority calculating unit that calculates authorities regarding the pieces of content selected by the selection commands,

wherein the display processing unit changes the display areas of the pieces of content based on the calculated authorities.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display processing unit enlarges the display areas of the pieces of content with increase in values of the calculated authorities.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein values of the authorities increase with increase in the number of controllers selecting the pieces of content.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the authorities are determined according to the plurality of controllers.

6. A display system comprising:

controllers; and

a control apparatus that is operated remotely by the controllers,

wherein the control apparatus includes a command acquiring unit that acquires selection commands of pieces of content transmitted from the plurality of controllers and a display processing unit that, when at least a part of users who use the plurality of controllers view same content, enlarges a display area of the content.

7. A display method comprising:

transmitting, by a plurality of controllers, selection commands of pieces of content;

acquiring, by a control apparatus, the selection commands transmitted from the plurality of controllers; and

enlarging, by the control apparatus, when at least a part of users who use the plurality of controllers view same content, a display area of the content.