DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED

• US 20150220166A1
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Yagihashi, Ayumu, Katou, Yumi, Aoki, Hiroyuki, Sugahara, Seiji, Murayama, Atsuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,684,393 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2092 Details of a display terminals using a flat panel, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/003; specific for a CRT G09G1/165
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

A display control device (500) is the display control device (500) that controls output of display data to a plurality of display units that are arranged on different surfaces of a case, comprising a posture detection unit (510), a visibility state determination unit (520), and a display data output unit (530). The posture detection unit (510) detects a posture of the case. The visibility state determination unit (520) determines a display unit that is visually recognizable to the user from among the plurality of display units according to the posture of the case detected by the posture detection unit (510). The display data output unit (530) outputs the display data to the display unit that the visibility state determination unit (520) determined as visually recognizable to the user.

Claims

1. A display control device that controls output of display data to a plurality of display units that are arranged on different surfaces of a case, comprising:

a posture detection unit that detects a posture of the case;

a visibility state determination unit that determines a display unit that is visually recognizable to a user from among the plurality of display units according to the posture of the case detected by the posture detection unit; and

a display data output unit that outputs the display data to the display unit that has been determined as visually recognizable to a user by the visibility state determination unit.

2. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display data includes data of a plurality of display items, and the display data output unit outputs data of a part of the display items from among the plurality of display items to the display unit that has been determined as visually recognizable to the user and outputs data of all the display items to a display unit that has not been determined as visually recognizable to the user.

3. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display data includes data of a plurality of display items, and the display data output unit outputs data of a part of the display items from among the plurality of display items to the display unit that has been determined as visually recognizable to the user, yet, does not output the display data to the display unit that has not been determined as visually recognizable to the user.

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

a display item setting unit that sets for each display item whether to display data of the display item on the display unit that has been determined as visually recognizable to the user.

5. The display control device according to claim 1 comprising:

a time determination unit that calculates elapsed time since the user started an action of taking the case in a hand and determines whether or not the calculated elapsed time is not less than predetermined time, wherein, when the elapsed time is determined as not less than the predetermined time by the time determination unit, the display data output unit outputs the display data to the display unit that has been determined as visually recognizable to the user.

6. The display control device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a contact detection unit that detects a contact between the case and a finger of a user; and

an acceleration detection unit that detects acceleration of the case, wherein, when the contact detection unit detects a contact between the case and a finger of a user, as well as, as a result of determining whether or not the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit is not less than a predetermined acceleration reference value, the acceleration is determined as not less than the reference value, the time determination unit determines that the user has started the action of taking the case in a hand and starts detecting the elapsed time.

7. The display control device according to claim 6, wherein the time determination unit determines that the user has not started the action of taking the case in a hand when the contact detection unit does not detect a contact between the case and a finger of the user or when the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit is less than the reference value, and the display data output unit does not output the display data to the display unit that is determined as visually recognizable to the user when the time determination unit determines that the user has not started the action of taking the case in a hand.

8. A communication terminal comprising:

the display control device according to claim 1.

9. A display control method that controls output of display data to a plurality of display units that are arranged on different surfaces of a case, the display control comprising:

a posture detection step that detects a posture of the case;

a visibility state determination step that determines a display unit that is visually recognizable to a user from among the plurality of display units according to the posture of the case detected at the posture detection step; and

a display data output step that outputs the display data to the display unit that has been determined as visually recognizable to the user at the visibility state determination step.

10. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer provided in a display control device that controls output of display data to a plurality of display units that are arranged on different surfaces of a case to function as:

a posture detection unit that detects a posture of the case;

a visibility state determination unit that determines a display unit that is visually recognizable to a user from among the plurality of display units according to the posture of the case detected by the posture detection unit; and

a display data output unit that outputs the display data to the display unit that has been determined as visually recognizable to the user by the visibility state determination unit.