DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS

• US 20150100919A1
• Filed: 10/03/2014
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Takagi, Yousuke
• Application Number:
  US14/506,519
• Publication Number:
  US 20150100919A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/798
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00469 with enlargement of a selected area of the displayed information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators

Abstract

There is provided a display control apparatus in which an image is smoothly switched to another image by a touch operation while maintaining an enlargement position. A control unit of the display control apparatus controls, when a first image is enlarged and displayed on a display unit, switching from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of a second image on the display unit, based on a position instructed with respect to the first image, in response to touch positions of at least two points being touched moving in a same direction in a state where a touch detection unit has detected that the at least two points are being touched.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch operation on a display unit;

an enlargement display unit configured to enlarge and display a range of a portion of an image displayed on a display area of the display unit;

an enlargement position instruction unit configured to instruct, in a case where an image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, changing an enlargement position of the image, which has been enlarged and displayed, based on movement of a touch position of one point in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the one point has been touched; and

a control unit configured to control, in a case where a first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, switching a display on the display unit from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of a second image based on a position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit with respect to the first image, according to touch positions of at least two points moving in a same direction in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the at least two points are being touched.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a magnification instruction unit configured to instruct changing magnification of the enlarged and displayed image,

wherein the control unit controls, in a case where the second image is to be enlarged and displayed, to perform enlargement display of the second image based on an enlargement position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit and magnification instructed by the magnification instruction unit with respect to the first image.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a storing unit configured to store information on an enlargement position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit,

wherein the control unit performs control, in a case where the second image is to be enlarged and displayed, to perform enlargement display of an enlargement position based on the information on the enlargement position stored in the storing unit.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the storing unit further stores information on display magnification instructed by the magnification instruction unit, and

wherein the control unit performs control, in a case where the second image is to be enlarged and displayed, to perform enlargement display at magnification based on the information on the magnification stored in the storing unit.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the enlargement position instruction unit instructs, in a case where the touch position of the point is moved at least a predetermined distance, changing an enlargement position of the enlarged and displayed image.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the enlargement position instruction unit instructs, in a case where the touch position of the point is moved for at least a predetermined period, changing an enlargement position of the enlarged and displayed image.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a guide display unit configured to control, in a case where two points are touched on the display unit and moved in a same direction in a state where the enlargement display unit is performing enlargement display of an image, displaying a guide on a touch operation method for performing enlargement display of another image based on an enlargement position instructed on an image before switching.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a guide on a touch operation method for performing enlargement display of another image based on an enlargement position instructed on an image before switching in response to at least a predetermined period elapsing while one point has been touched on the display unit in a state where the enlargement display unit is performing enlargement display of an image is displayed.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit performs control, in a case where at least a predetermined period has elapsed while the one point has been touched on the display unit and the point is then moved in a predetermined direction in a state where the enlargement display unit is performing enlargement display of an image, to perform enlargement display of the second image based on an enlargement position instructed with respect to the first image when enlargement display of the second image the second image is to be performed.

10. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a hover detection unit configured to detect a hover state in which a finger is placed close to the display unit without touching,

wherein the control unit does not change, in a case where the hover detection unit has detected a hover state when the touch detection unit has detected that the one point has been touched, an enlargement position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit.

11. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit performs control, in a case where enlargement display of the first image is performed on the display unit, to change magnification of the first image according to touch positions of two points moving in directions away from each other or closer to each other in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the at least two points are being touched.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the control unit performs control to switch displaying on the display unit from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of the second image based on a position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit with respect to the first image, in response to touching of two points among the at least two points detected to be touched by the touch detection unit being released after touch positions of the two points moving in the same direction from the state where the at least two points have been detected to be touched by the touch detection unit without changing magnification of the first image based on movement of the touch positions of the two points in directions away from each other or closer to each other.

13. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit performs control to switch displaying on the display unit from an enlargement display of the first image to an enlargement display of the second image based on a position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit with respect to the first image, in response to touching of two points among the at least two points detected to be touched by the touch detection unit becoming released after touch positions of the two points have moved in a same direction from the state where the at least two points have been detected to be touched by the touch detection unit.

14. A control method for a display control apparatus comprising:

detecting a touch operation on a display unit;

enlarging and displaying a range of a portion of an image displayed on a display area of the display unit;

instructing, in a case where an image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, changing an enlargement position of the image which has been enlarged and displayed, based on movement of a touch position of one point in a state where it has been detected that the one point has been touched; and

controlling, in a case where a first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, switching a display on the display unit from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of a second image based on the instructed position with respect to the first image, in response to touch positions of two points moving in a same direction in a state where it has been detected that the at least two points are being touched.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as each unit in a display control apparatus comprising:

a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch operation on a display unit;

an enlargement display unit configured to enlarge and display a range of a portion of an image displayed on a display area of the display unit;

an enlargement position instruction unit configured to instruct, in a case where an image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, changing an enlargement position of the image, which has been enlarged and displayed, based on movement of a touch position of one point in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the one point has been touched; and

a control unit configured to control, in a case where a first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, switching a display on the display unit from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of a second image based on a position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit with respect to the first image, according to touch positions of at least two points moving in a same direction in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the at least two points are being touched.

16. A display control apparatus comprising:

a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch operation on a display unit;

an enlargement display unit configured to enlarge and display a range of a portion of an image displayed on a display area of the display unit;

an enlargement position instruction unit configured to instruct, in a case where a first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, changing an enlargement position of the first image which has been enlarged and displayed, based on movement of a touch position of one point in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the one point has been touched; and

a control unit configured to control, in a case where the first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, switching a display on the display unit from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of a second image based on a position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit with respect to the first image, according to touch positions of at least two points moving in a same direction in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the at least two points are being touched.

17. A control method for a display control apparatus comprising:

detecting a touch operation on a display unit;

enlarging and displaying a range of a portion of a first image displayed on a display area of the display unit;

instructing changing an enlargement position of the image which has been enlarged and displayed; and

controlling, in a case where the first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, switching a display on the display unit from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of a second image based on the instructed position with respect to the first image, in response to touch positions of at least two points moving in a same direction in a state where it has been detected that the at least two points are being touched.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as each unit in a display control apparatus comprising:

a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch operation on a display unit;

an enlargement display unit configured to enlarge and display a range of a portion of an image displayed on a display area of the display unit;

an enlargement position instruction unit configured to instruct, in a case where a first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, changing an enlargement position of the first image which has been enlarged and displayed, based on movement of a touch position of one point in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the one point has been touched; and

a control unit configured to control, in a case where the first image is enlarged and displayed on the display unit, switching a display on the display unit from enlargement display of the first image to enlargement display of a second image based on a position instructed by the enlargement position instruction unit with respect to the first image, according to touch positions of at least two points moving in a same direction in a state where the touch detection unit has detected that the at least two points are being touched.