METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTIPLE DISPLAYS

• US 20130162501A1
• Filed: 05/01/2012
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nitendo Company Limited
• Inventors: TSUDA, Munetaka, AOKI, Ryoma, KAKIMOTO, Yasuto
• Application Number:
  US13/461,501
• Publication Number:
  US 20130162501A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1438 using more than one graphics controller
• 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 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/34 for rolling or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/346 for systems having a bit-mapped display memory

Abstract

An information-processing system includes: a first display; a second display, which is a device separate from the first display; and a controller that causes the first display and the second display to display an image, wherein the controller includes: a first display controller that causes the first display to display a first image in accordance with image data; and a second display controller that causes the second display to display selectively the first image having a first magnification, or a second image that is a partial image of the first image and has a second magnification greater than the first magnification.

Claims

1. An information-processing system comprising:

a first display;

a second display, which is a device separate from the first display; and

a controller that causes the first display and the second display to display an image,

wherein the controller comprises;

a first display controller that causes the first display to display a first image in accordance with image data; and

a second display controller that causes the second display to display selectively the first image having a first magnification, or a second image that is a partial image of the first image and has a second magnification greater than the first magnification.

2. The information-processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the controller further comprises a position specifying unit that specifies a position in the first image, and

the second display controller causes the second display to display, as the second image, a portion of the image at the position specified by the position specifying unit with the second magnification.

3. The information-processing system according to claim 2, wherein the second display controller causes the second image displayed on the second display to scroll in accordance with the position specified by the position specifying unit.

4. The information-processing system according to claim 2, further comprising a motion detection unit that detects a motion of the second display, wherein the position specifying unit specifies the position of the second image based on the motion detected by the motion detection unit.

5. The information-processing system according to claim 4, further comprising a holding detection unit that detects holding of the second display by a user, wherein the position specifying unit specifies the position of the second image based on the motion detected by the motion detection unit in a case where holding of the second display by the user is detected by the holding detection unit.

6. The information-processing system according to claim 2, wherein, when the second image is displayed on the second display by the second display controller, the first display controller causes the first display to display additionally an indicator image indicating the position of the second image.

7. The information-processing system according to claim 6, wherein the first display controller causes the displayed indicator image to move in accordance with the position specified by the position specifying unit.

8. The information-processing system according to claim 7, wherein, when the indicator image reaches a boundary of a display area of the first display, the first display controller causes an image other than the first image displayed in the display area to be displayed.

9. The information-processing system according to claim 1, wherein

when causing the second display to display the first image with the first magnification, the second display controller reduces the image data and uses the reduced image data, and

when causing the second display to display the second image with the second magnification, the second display controller uses the same image data that is used when the first display controller causes the image to be displayed.

10. The information-processing system according to claim 1, wherein the second display controller:

when, in a state where the first image is displayed on the second display, a magnifying operation for magnifying the first image to display the second image is performed, causes the second image to be displayed on the second display;

when a state where the second image is displayed transitions to a state where another image including the second image is displayed, retains a position of the second image in the other image; and

when the magnifying operation is performed again after retention of the position, causes the second image at the retained position to be displayed on the second display.

11. The information-processing system according to claim 10, wherein, when a predetermined operation is performed by a user in a state where the first image is displayed on the second display, the second display controller causes the retained position to revert to a predetermined initial position.

12. The information-processing system according to claim 11, wherein, when an operation for scrolling the first image displayed on the first display or the second display is performed by a user in a state where the first image is displayed on the second display, the second display controller causes the retained position to revert to the predetermined initial position.

13. The information-processing system according to claim 1, wherein when the first image is displayed, the second display controller causes an object for performing an operation relating to the first image to be displayed, and when the second image is displayed, the second display controller causes the object not to be displayed.

14. The information-processing system according to claim 1, wherein the controller comprises an object selection unit that, when the second display controller causes the second image to be displayed, makes an object in the second image selectable in response to a predetermined operation by a user.

15. An information-processing system comprising:

a first display;

a second display, which is a device separate from the first display;

a first display controller that causes a first display to display a first image in accordance with image data; and

a second display controller that causes the second display to display selectively the first image having a first magnification, or a second image which is a partial image of the first image and has a second magnification greater than the first magnification.

16. A controller comprising:

a first display controller that causes the first display to display a first image in accordance with image data; and

a second display controller that causes a second display, which is a device separate from the first display, to display selectively the first image having a first magnification, or a second image which is a part of the first image and has a second magnification greater than the first magnification.

17. An image-displaying method comprising:

causing a first display to display a first image in accordance with image data; and

causing a second display, which is a device separate from the first display, to display selectively the first image having a first magnification, or a second image which is a partial image of the first image and has a second magnification greater than the first magnification.

18. A non-volatile computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute:

causing a first display to display a first image in accordance with image data; and

causing a second display, which is a device separate from the first display, to display selectively the first image having a first magnification, or a second image which is a partial image of the first image and has a second magnification greater than the first magnification.