Image Display Apparatus, Image Display Method, And Information Storage Medium

• US 20140320524A1
• Filed: 06/25/2014
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TSUDA, Munetaka, MATONO, Yoshinobu, HIRABAYASHI, Masato
• Application Number:
  US14/314,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20140320524A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/20 Perspective computation

Abstract

Provided is an image display apparatus capable of allowing a user to easily recognize an image belonging to a group. A library view image classifying unit (134) classifies a plurality of images into groups which have a rank order associated therewith. A library view group image layout unit (136) places a group image corresponding to each of the groups according to the rank order of the groups, along a group image layout reference line provided in a display region. A library view representative image layout unit (140) places, on a representative image layout region in the display region, an image belonging to any one of the groups falling within a range on the group image layout reference line associated with the representative image layout region, as a representative image. A library view space displaying unit (130) displays at least part of the display region on a screen.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus for displaying an image illustrating a scene viewed in a line of sight from a viewpoint disposed in a virtual three dimensional space, the image display apparatus comprising:

target image layout unit configured to place at least one target image on a layout plane in the virtual three dimensional space;

cursor image layout unit configured to place, on the layout plane, a cursor image indicating a closed region;

cursor image moving unit configured to move the cursor image along the layout plane, in response to an operation signal received from a user; and

image positional relation changing unit configured to change a relative positional relation between the cursor image and the target image such that a distance from the viewpoint to the target image becomes smaller than a distance from the viewpoint to the cursor image, in a case where a distance between a position of the cursor image and a position of the target image on the layout plane falls within a predetermined range.

2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image positional relation changing unit is configured to change a distance from the layout plane to the target image.

3. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cursor image is larger in size than the target image.

4. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cursor image moving unit is configured to bring the cursor image and the target image closer to each other according to a distance between a representative point in the cursor image and a representative point in the target image, in a case where the distance between the position of the cursor image and the position of the target image on the layout plane falls within a predetermined range.

5. An image display method of displaying an image illustrating a scene viewed in a line of sight from a viewpoint disposed in a virtual three dimensional space, the image display method comprising:

placing at least one target image on a layout plane in the virtual three dimensional space;

placing, on the layout plane, a cursor image indicating a closed region;

moving the cursor image along the layout plane, in response to an operation signal received from a user; and

changing a relative positional relation between the cursor image and the target image such that a distance from the viewpoint to the target image becomes smaller than a distance from the viewpoint to the cursor image, in a case where a distance between a position of the cursor image and a position of the target image on the layout plane falls within a predetermined range.

6. A non-transitory, computer-readable information storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as an image display apparatus for displaying an image illustrating a scene viewed in a line of sight from a viewpoint disposed in a virtual three dimensional space, the program further causing the computer to function as:

target image layout unit configured to place at least one target image on a layout plane in the virtual three dimensional space;

cursor image layout unit configured to place, on the layout plane, a cursor image indicating a closed region;

cursor image moving unit configured to move the cursor image along the layout plane, in response to an operation signal received from a user; and

image positional relation changing unit configured to change a relative positional relation between the cursor image and the target image such that a distance from the viewpoint to the target image becomes smaller than a distance from the viewpoint to the cursor image, in a case where a distance between a position of the cursor image and a position of the target image on the layout plane falls within a predetermined range.