DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20130307767A1
• Filed: 07/23/2013
• Published: 11/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: FUJIWARA, Kazunari, NARITA, Atsushi, SAKAI, Mika, SATO, Shinichi, TSUBOI, Naoyuki, KUREBAYASHI, Naoko
• Application Number:
  US13/949,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20130307767A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03 Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• 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 device in which continuity of content displayed on a screen is maintained between before and after a rotation of the screen, including: a display screen which is fixed to the display device and displays a partial region of an image; an operation detecting unit which specifies a position in the partial region of the image displayed on the display screen; a rotation detecting unit which detects rotation information which indicates a rotation of the display device in a plane including the display screen; and a display image determining unit which updates display content on the display screen to display the partial region of the image after the rotation on the display screen by rotating, based on the rotation information detected by the detecting unit, the partial region of the image around the position specified by the specifying unit.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display screen which is fixed to the display device and displays a partial region of an image;

a specifying unit configured to specify a position in the partial region of the image displayed on the display screen;

a detecting unit configured to detect rotation information which indicates a rotation of the display device in a plane including the display screen; and

an updating unit configured to update display content on the display screen to display the partial region of the image after the rotation on the display screen by rotating, based on the rotation information detected by the detecting unit, the partial region of the image around the position specified by the specifying unit,

wherein the updating unit is configured to maintain the position on the display screen before the rotation of the partial region of the image even after the rotation when updating the display content, the position being specified by the specifying unit.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the detecting unit includes a rotation detecting unit configured to detect, as the rotation information, that the display screen is rotated in the plane including the display screen,

the specifying unit includes an operation detecting unit configured to specify the position by detecting a specified position on the display screen, the specified position being specified through an operation by a user,

the updating unit includes:

a display image determining unit configured to determine, as a display image, an image included in a display region in a content image; and

a display controlling unit configured to display the display image determined by the display image determining unit on the display screen, and

when the rotation information is detected by the rotation detecting unit, the display image determining unit is configured to rotate, based on the rotation information, the display region around a center of rotation detected by the operation detecting unit, and determine an image included in the display region after the rotation as a new display image, the center of rotation being the specified position.

3. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein the operation detecting unit is configured to detect the specified position which is specified by the user bringing an object into contact with the display screen.

4. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein when the specified position is not detected, the display image determining unit is configured to rotate the display region around a center of rotation on the display screen, and determine an image included in the display region after the rotation as a new display image, the center of rotation being a predetermined position.

5. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein the rotation detecting unit is configured to detect, as the rotation information, a rotation angle by which the display screen is rotated in the plane including the display screen, and

the display image determining unit is configured to rotate the display region by the rotation angle included in the rotation information, and determine an image included in the display region after the rotation as a new display image.

6. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein the display image determining unit is configured to clip the display region in the content image which is larger than the display screen, and determine an image included in the clipped display region as the display image.

7. A display method for a display device including a display screen which is fixed to the display device and displays a partial region of an image, the display method comprising:

specifying a position in the partial region of the image displayed on the display screen;

detecting rotation information which indicates a rotation of the display device in a plane including the display screen; and

updating display content on the display screen to display the partial region of the image after the rotation on the display screen by rotating, based on the rotation information detected in the detecting, the partial region of the image around the position specified in the specifying,

wherein in the updating, the position on the display screen before the rotation of the partial region of the image is maintained even after the rotation when updating the display content, the position being specified by the specifying unit.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a computer program recorded thereon for causing a computer to execute the display method according to claim 7.