DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150370335A1
• Filed: 01/10/2014
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TSUKAHARA, Tsubasa, IKEDA, Takuo, IKEDA, Tetsuo, IZUMIHARA, Atsushi, KIMURA, Kentaro, KOGA, Yasuyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/766,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20150370335A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof

Abstract

A display control apparatus of an illustrative embodiment controls display of a movable object on a display plane such that, in response to a movement operation, a movement trajectory of the movable object has a component that appears perpendicular to the display plane, wherein the movement operation is initiated when an operation device receives a user input having a component perpendicular to the display plane.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus

to control display of a movable object on a display plane such that, in response to a movement operation, a movement trajectory of the movable object has a component that appears perpendicular to the display plane, wherein the movement operation is initiated when an operation device receives a user input having a component perpendicular to the display plane.

2. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the movable object is scrolled based on the movement operation.

4. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the component of the movement trajectory appearing perpendicular to the display plane is changed based on an acquisition state corresponding to the user input.

5. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the display plane is provided in a wearable display device.

6. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein the wearable display device is a head mounted display and the operation device is provided on a temple part of the head mounted display.

7. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein a component of the movement trajectory is along the display plane.

8. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the operation device is positioned at a side of the user and the component of the movement trajectory that appears perpendicular to the display plane is evident at the side o he user at which the operation device is positioned.

9. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein at least a part of the movement trajectory is bent or is a curved line.

10. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the apparatus displays the movement trajectory of the movable object based on a type of the operation device such that whether or not a component of the movement trajectory appears perpendicular to the display plane depends upon the type of operation device.

11. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the apparatus is operable to control display of a plurality of objects and to move a part of the plurality of objects along the movement trajectory in response to the movement operation.

12. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the movable object is displayed in perspective.

13. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the movable object is a cursor.

14. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the operation device is embedded in a wearable device and comprises a sensing surface to identify the user input.

15. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the operation device identifies the user input through one of a proximity sensor, a touch sensor, and an image sensor.

16. The display control apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the apparatus is one of a head mounted display device, a cellular phone, a personal computer, and a monocle.

3. The display control apparatus as recited in claim I, wherein a shape of the movement trajectory is changed based a location where the user input is received.

17. A head mounted display, comprising:

a display;

an operation device to receive a user input having a component perpendicular to a display plane of the display and indicating a movement operation; and

a display control apparatus to control display of a movable object on the display such that, in response to the movement operation, a movement trajectory of the movable object appears to have a component perpendicular to the display plane.

18. A display control apparatus comprising circuitry to control display of a movable object on a display plane such that, in response to a movement operation, a movement trajectory of the movable object appears to have a component perpendicular to the display plane, wherein the movement operation is initiated when an operation device receives a user input having a component perpendicular to the display plane.

19. A method for controlling a display comprising controlling display of a movable object on a display plane of the display such that, in response to a movement operation, a movement trajectory of the movable object appears to have a component perpendicular to the display plane, wherein the movement operation is initiated when an operation device receives a user input having a component perpendicular to the display plane.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer-readable program for implementing a method for controlling a display, the method comprising controlling display of a movable object on a display plane of the display such that, in response to a movement operation, a movement trajectory of the movable object appears to have a component perpendicular to the display plane, wherein the movement operation is initiated when an operation device receives a user input having a component perpendicular to the display plane.