ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130194396A1
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: SONOBE, Hajime
• Application Number:
  US13/614,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20130194396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/30 Image reproducers optical systems for producing stereoscopic or other three-dimensional effects G02B30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an area setting module, a display controller and a 3D function controller. The area setting module outputs a request for displaying a 3D image to a display device via a first interface in order to cause the display device to set a 3D area. The display controller outputs a video signal of the 3D image to the display device via a second interface in order to cause the display device to display the 3D image in the 3D area. The 3D function controller outputs, if abnormality occurs in operation of an OS executed on the electronic apparatus, a signal for disabling a 3D function to the display device via a third interface in order to set an entire screen of the display device to be a 2D area.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus connected to a display capable of displaying a three-dimensional image, the apparatus comprising:

an area setting module configured to output a request for displaying the three-dimensional image to the display via a first interface in order to cause the display to set a three-dimensional area which displays the three-dimensional image;

a display controller configured to output a video signal for displaying the three-dimensional image to the display via a second interface in order to cause the display to display the three-dimensional image in the three-dimensional area; and

a three-dimensional function controller configured to output, when an abnormality occurs in operation of an operating system executed on the electronic apparatus, a control signal for disabling a function of displaying the three-dimensional image to the display via a third interface in order to set an entire screen of the display to be a two-dimensional area which displays a two-dimensional image.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first interface comprises an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) for a display data channel.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first interface comprises a display port auxiliary channel for a display data channel.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the request comprises coordinates indicative of the three-dimensional area, and

the area setting module is configured to cause the display to set the three-dimensional area based on the coordinates.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 4, wherein the display comprises first registers, second registers, and a third register, and

the area setting module is configured to write the coordinates indicative of the three-dimensional area in the first registers via the first interface, and to write, in response to completion of the write of the coordinates, a first value in the third register via the first interface in order to copy the coordinates written in the first registers into the second registers, thereby causing the display to set the three-dimensional area based on the coordinates copied in the second registers.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional function controller is configured to output the control signal for disabling the function of displaying the three-dimensional image to the display via the third interface, when the three-dimensional function controller has detected that a screen for notifying an abnormality in operation of the operating system is displayed on the display.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional function controller is configured to output the control signal for disabling the function of displaying the three-dimensional image to the display, in response to pressing of a first button provided on the electronic apparatus for a first period or more.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display is built in the electronic apparatus.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display comprises a display layer on which an image is displayed, and a barrier layer comprising a plurality of barriers for emitting, in first directions, a plurality of light rays corresponding to a plurality of pixels in the image, and

the display is configured to electrically switch on the plurality of barriers in order to set the three-dimensional area.

10. A display capable of displaying a three-dimensional image, comprising:

an area setting module configured to receive a request for displaying the three-dimensional image from an electronic apparatus via a first interface and to set a three-dimensional area which displays the three-dimensional image;

a display controller configured to receive a video signal for displaying the three-dimensional image from the electronic apparatus via a second interface and to display the three-dimensional image in the three-dimensional area; and

a three-dimensional function controller configured to set an entire screen of the display to be a two-dimensional area which displays a two-dimensional image, upon receiving a control signal for disabling a function of displaying the three-dimensional image from the electronic apparatus via a third interface.

11. The display of claim 10, wherein the first interface comprises an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) for a display data channel.

12. The display of claim 10, wherein the request comprises coordinates indicative of the three-dimensional area, and

the area setting module is configured to set the three-dimensional area based on the coordinates.

13. The display of claim 12, further comprising first registers, second registers, and a third register, and

the area setting module is configured to copy, in response to completion of write of a first value in the third register after completion of write of coordinates indicative of the three-dimensional area in the first registers via the first interface, the coordinates written in the first registers into the second registers, and to set the three-dimensional area, based on the coordinates copied in the second registers.

14. A display control method of controlling an electronic apparatus connected to a display capable of displaying a three-dimensional image, the method comprising:

outputting a request for displaying the three-dimensional image to the display via a first interface in order to cause the display to set a three-dimensional area which displays the three-dimensional image;

outputting a video signal for displaying the three-dimensional image to the display via a second interface in order to cause the display to display the three-dimensional image in the three-dimensional area; and

outputting, when an abnormality occurs in operation of an operating system executed on the electronic apparatus, a control signal for disabling a function of displaying the three-dimensional image to the display via a third interface in order to set an entire screen of the display to be a two-dimensional area which displays a two-dimensional image.