DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INFORMATION APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20160018933A1
• Filed: 02/20/2014
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: MORI, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US14/772,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20160018933A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• 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 3/0346 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 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• 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 5/36 characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory

Abstract

A display control device includes: detection means that detects an inclination and movement amount of the display control device; and control means that switches a display direction of an image according to the inclination if the movement amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and maintains the display direction of the image irrespective of the inclination if the movement amount does not satisfy the predetermined condition.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a detector that detects an inclination and movement amount of the display control device; and

a controller that switches a display direction of an image according to the inclination if the movement amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and maintains the display direction of the image irrespective of the inclination if the movement amount does not satisfy the predetermined condition.

2. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is a condition in which the movement amount is equal to or below a threshold.

3. An information apparatus comprising:

the display control device according to claim 1; and

a display that displays the image.

4. A display control method implemented by a display control device, the method comprising:

detecting an inclination and movement amount of the display control device; and

switching a display direction of an image according to the inclination if the movement amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and maintaining the display direction of the image irrespective of the inclination if the movement amount does not satisfy the predetermined condition.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a program is recorded, the program causing a computer to execute:

a detection procedure of detecting an inclination and movement amount of the computer; and

a control procedure of switching a display direction of an image according to the inclination if the movement amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and maintaining the display direction of the image irrespective of the inclination if the movement amount does not satisfy the predetermined condition.