CONTENT DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140006988A1
• Filed: 04/03/2012
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamamura, Hiroyuki, Hinode, Haruo
• Application Number:
  US14/005,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006988A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

The content display device includes (i) a display section for displaying, on a screen (20), a plurality of thumbnail images (12) arranged in a first arrangement, (ii) an input operation section for accepting, from a user, an input of an instruction on changing a display size of the thumbnail image (12), a scaling up/down display processing section for changing a display size of a predetermined number of thumbnail images (12), and a moving display processing section for moving the predetermined number of thumbnail images (12) on the screen (20) such that the predetermined number of thumbnail images (12) are displayed in a second arrangement.

Claims

1. A content display device comprising:

display means for displaying a plurality of contents on a screen in a first arrangement, which is a predetermined arrangement order of contents;

input means for accepting, from a user, an input of an instruction on changing a display size of a specified content which is any of the plurality of contents displayed on the screen;

changing means for changing a display size of a predetermined number of contents when the input has been accepted, the predetermined number of contents (i) including the specified content and (ii) being sequentially arranged on the screen in accordance with the predetermined arrangement order; and

moving means for moving the predetermined number of contents on the screen such that the predetermined number of contents are displayed on the screen in a second arrangement, which is a predetermined arrangement order of contents and is different from the first arrangement.

2. The content display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the moving means moves the predetermined number of contents so that a display location of the content, whose display size has been changed, at least partially overlaps with a display location of the specified content whose display size has not been changed.

3. The content display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

coordinates of a display location of each of the contents, which are arranged in the first arrangement, are determined in advance;

coordinates of a display location of each of the contents, which are arranged in the second arrangement, are determined in advance; and

the moving means determines a destination of each of the predetermined number of contents based on the coordinates of the content arranged in the first arrangement and on the coordinates of the content arranged in the second arrangement.

4. The content display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the instruction is an instruction on scaling up the display size of the plurality of contents;

in the first arrangement, the plurality of contents are arranged in a first matrix; and

in the second arrangement, contents, which are fewer than the plurality of contents, are arranged in a second matrix, the number of rows or the number of columns of the second matrix being smaller than that of the first matrix or the number of rows and the number of columns of the second matrix being smaller than those of the first matrix.

5. The content display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the instruction is an instruction on scaling down the display size of the plurality of contents;

in the first arrangement, the plurality of contents are arranged in a first matrix; and

in the second arrangement, contents, which are more than the plurality of contents, are arranged in a second matrix, the number of rows or the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than that of the first matrix or the number of rows and the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than those of the first matrix.

6. The content display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

after the changing means changes the display size of the predetermined number of contents, the moving means moves the predetermined number of contents whose display size has been changed.

7. The content display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

a process for changing the display size of the predetermined number of contents is carried out by the changing means simultaneously with a process for moving the predetermined number of contents which is carried out by the moving means.

8. The content display device as set forth in claim 1 wherein the input means detects the input which is made by the user pressing on the screen.

9. The content display device as set forth in claim 1 wherein each of the contents is a thumbnail image.

12. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium in which a program for causing a computer to operate as a content display device as in claim 1 is stored.

13. The content display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

coordinates of a display location of each of the contents, which are arranged in the first arrangement, are determined in advance;

coordinates of a display location of each of the contents, which are arranged in the second arrangement, are determined in advance; and

the moving means determines a destination of each of the predetermined number of contents based on the coordinates of the content arranged in the first arrangement and on the coordinates of the content arranged in the second arrangement.

14. The content display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

the instruction is an instruction on scaling up the display size of the plurality of contents;

in the first arrangement, the plurality of contents are arranged in a first matrix; and

in the second arrangement, contents, which are fewer than the plurality of contents, are arranged in a second matrix, the number of rows or the number of columns of the second matrix being smaller than that of the first matrix or the number of rows and the number of columns of the second matrix being smaller than those of the first matrix.

15. The content display device as set forth in claim 3, wherein:

the instruction is an instruction on scaling up the display size of the plurality of contents;

in the first arrangement, the plurality of contents are arranged in a first matrix; and

in the second arrangement, contents, which are fewer than the plurality of contents, are arranged in a second matrix, the number of rows or the number of columns of the second matrix being smaller than that of the first matrix or the number of rows and the number of columns of the second matrix being smaller than those of the first matrix.

16. The content display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

the instruction is an instruction on scaling down the display size of the plurality of contents;

in the first arrangement, the plurality of contents are arranged in a first matrix; and

in the second arrangement, contents, which are more than the plurality of contents, are arranged in a second matrix, the number of rows or the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than that of the first matrix or the number of rows and the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than those of the first matrix.

17. The content display device as set forth in claim 3, wherein:

the instruction is an instruction on scaling down the display size of the plurality of contents;

in the first arrangement, the plurality of contents are arranged in a first matrix; and

in the second arrangement, contents, which are more than the plurality of contents, are arranged in a second matrix, the number of rows or the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than that of the first matrix or the number of rows and the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than those of the first matrix.

18. The content display device as set forth in claim 4, wherein:

the instruction is an instruction on scaling down the display size of the plurality of contents;

in the first arrangement, the plurality of contents are arranged in a first matrix; and

in the second arrangement, contents, which are more than the plurality of contents, are arranged in a second matrix, the number of rows or the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than that of the first matrix or the number of rows and the number of columns of the second matrix being larger than those of the first matrix.

19. The content display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

after the changing means changes the display size of the predetermined number of contents, the moving means moves the predetermined number of contents whose display size has been changed.

20. The content display device as set forth in claim 3, wherein:

after the changing means changes the display size of the predetermined number of contents, the moving means moves the predetermined number of contents whose display size has been changed.

21. The content display device as set forth in claim 4, wherein:

after the changing means changes the display size of the predetermined number of contents, the moving means moves the predetermined number of contents whose display size has been changed.

10. A method for displaying a content with use of a content display device, said method comprising the steps of:

displaying a plurality of contents on a screen in a first arrangement, which is a predetermined arrangement order of contents;

accepting, from a user, an input of an instruction on changing a display size of a specified content which is any of the plurality of contents displayed on the screen;

changing a display size of a predetermined number of contents when the input has been accepted, the predetermined number of contents (i) including the specified content and (ii) being sequentially arranged on the screen in accordance with the predetermined arrangement order; and

moving the predetermined number of contents on the screen such that the predetermined number of contents are displayed on the screen in a second arrangement, which is a predetermined arrangement order of contents and is different from the first arrangement.

11. (canceled)