IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM

• US 20150178033A1
• Filed: 02/12/2015
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sano, Ikuya, Nishizawa, Kazuto, Nishiuchi, Iori
• Granted Patent: US 10,430,149 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/16 Digital picture frames
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/363 Graphics controllers

Abstract

An image display device includes: a storing section configured to store associating information that associates information indicating one or more providing sources of image data with each of one or more display areas set within a display screen; an obtaining section configured to obtain image data from a providing source corresponding to each of one or more display areas on the basis of the associating information stored in the storing section; a forming section configured to form display image data of a display image to be displayed on the display screen on the basis of the image data being obtained by said obtaining section for each of one or more display areas; and a display processing section configured to display the display image corresponding to the display image data formed by the forming section on the display screen.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A communication device comprising:

circuitry configured to

associate information indicating providing sources with a plurality of display areas of a display screen;

obtain data from the providing sources;

generate a plurality of images using the data obtained from the providing sources; and

control display of the plurality of images in the plurality of the display areas so that each image is displayed in an associated display area of the plurality of display areas,

wherein the data from the providing sources is obtained via the Internet based on results of automatic checking of the providing sources by periodically accessing the providing sources to determine if new data is available at the providing sources, in which the automatic checking determines data of a latest time indicated by the data obtained from the providing sources at a time of the periodically accessing, and the images are updated based on the data obtained from the providing sources.