DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20150033180A1
• Filed: 07/18/2014
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SAWAI, Kunihito, MIZUNUMA, Hiroyuki, YAMANO, Ikuo, YAMAOKA, Keisuke, NAKAGAWA, Yusuke, TAKI, Yuhei
• Application Number:
  US14/335,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20150033180A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

There is provided a display control apparatus including a display control unit configured to move a cursor position displayed on a display unit or to scroll a screen displayed on the display unit in accordance with a change amount of an indicated direction of a direction indicator, and a switching control unit configured to switch the display control unit moving the cursor position and the display control unit scrolling the screen. After the switching control unit switches the display control unit scrolling the screen to the display control unit moving the cursor position, the display control unit reduces a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to move a cursor position displayed on a display unit or to scroll a screen displayed on the display unit in accordance with a change amount of an indicated direction of a direction indicator; and

a switching control unit configured to switch the display control unit moving the cursor position and the display control unit scrolling the screen,

wherein, after the switching control unit switches the display control unit scrolling the screen to the display control unit moving the cursor position, the display control unit control unit reduces a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, after the display control unit reduces the movement amount of the cursor position, the display control unit releases reduction of the movement amount.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit releases the reduction of the movement amount at timing according to a changing speed and a changing time of the indicated direction in scrolling the screen before the switching control unit switches the display control unit scrolling the screen to the display control unit moving the cursor position.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an estimation unit configured to estimate the indicated direction in accordance with the change amount,

wherein the display control unit releases the reduction of the movement amount when the indicated direction estimated by the estimation unit overlaps with the cursor position.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit releases the reduction of the movement amount on the basis of a changing speed of the indicated direction after the switching control unit switches the display control unit scrolling the screen to the display control unit moving the cursor position.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit releases the reduction of the movement amount on the basis of a changing direction of the indicated direction after the switching control unit switches the display control unit scrolling the screen to the display control unit moving the cursor position.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit fixes the cursor position as reduction of the movement amount.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit keeps the cursor position fixed while scrolling the screen.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive information indicating the change amount from the direction indicator.

10. A display control method comprising:

moving a cursor position displayed on a display unit or scrolling a screen displayed on the display unit in accordance with a change amount of an indicated direction of a direction indicator;

switching moving the cursor position and scrolling the screen; and

reducing a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount after scrolling the screen is switched to moving the cursor position.

11. A program for causing a computer to execute:

moving a cursor position displayed on a display unit or scrolling a screen displayed on the display unit in accordance with a change amount of an indicated direction of a direction indicator;

switching moving the cursor position and scrolling the screen; and

reducing a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount after scrolling the screen is switched to moving the cursor position.

12. A display control signal generating apparatus comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect a change amount of an indicated direction;

a generation unit configured to generate a display control signal that requests a cursor position displayed on a display unit to be moved or a display control signal that requests a screen displayed on the display unit to be scrolled in accordance with the change amount detected by the detection unit; and

a switching control unit configured to switch the generation unit generating the display control signal that requests the cursor position to be moved and the generation unit generating the display control signal that requests the screen to be scrolled,

wherein, after the switching control unit switches the generation unit generating the display control signal that requests the screen to be scrolled to the generation unit generating the display control signal that requests the cursor position to be moved, the generation unit generates a display control signal in which a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount is reduced.

13. A display control signal generating method comprising:

detecting a change amount of an indicated direction;

generating a display control signal that requests a cursor position displayed on a display unit to be moved or a display control signal that requests a screen displayed on the display unit to be scrolled in accordance with the detected change amount;

switching generating the display control signal that requests the cursor position to be moved and generating the display control signal that requests the screen to be scrolled; and

generating a display control signal in which a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount is reduced after generating the display control signal that requests the screen to be scrolled is switched to generating the display control signal that requests the cursor position to be moved.

14. A program for causing a computer to execute:

detecting a change amount of an indicated direction;

generating a display control signal that requests a cursor position displayed on a display unit to be moved or a display control signal that requests a screen displayed on the display unit to be scrolled in accordance with the detected change amount;

switching generating the display control signal that requests the cursor position to be moved and generating the display control signal that requests the screen to be scrolled; and

generating a display control signal in which a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount is reduced after generating the display control signal that requests the screen to be scrolled is switched to generating the display control signal that requests the cursor position to be moved.

15. A display control system comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect a change amount of an indicated direction;

a display control unit configured to move a cursor position displayed on a display unit or to scroll a screen displayed on the display unit in accordance with the change amount detected by the detection unit; and

a switching control unit configured to switch the display control unit moving the cursor position and the display control unit scrolling the screen,

wherein, after the switching control unit switches the display control unit scrolling the screen to the display control unit moving the cursor position, the display control unit reduces a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount.