DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20160364128A1
• Filed: 06/07/2016
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: NAKAGAWA, Tomohiro
• Application Number:
  US15/175,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20160364128A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00456 for layout preview, e.g. page layout

Abstract

A printer server includes a display unit that can display a recording region which indicates an area in a continuous paper sheet on which information is recorded and the information to be recorded in the recording region and a display control unit that controls display contents of the display unit. The display control unit causes the display unit to display the recording region and the information in each of a layout view and a pre-view which are display forms different from each other, and causes the display unit to display a slider that can perform an enlargement and reduction operation of the recording region in each of the layout view and the pre-view, and a switching operation between the layout view and the pre-view.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a display unit that can display a recording region which indicates an area in a medium in which information is recorded and the information to be recorded in the recording region; and

a display control unit that controls display contents of the display unit,

wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display the recording region and the information in each of a first display form and a second display form which are display forms different from each other, and causes the display unit to display a slider that can perform an enlargement and reduction operation of the recording region in each of the first display form and the second display form, and a switching operation between the first display form and the second display form.

2. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the slider includes an operation element that can move by an operation and a slide bar that indicates a movable range of the operation element, and

wherein the slide bar is formed with a first slide region as a movable range of the operation element for the enlargement and reduction of the recording region in the first display form, and a second slide region as a movable range of the operation element for the enlargement and reduction of the recording region in the second display form, which are arranged side by side in a row.

3. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein an enlargement and reduction ratio of the recording region per unit movement amount of the operation element in the first slide region is different from an enlargement and reduction ratio of the recording region per unit movement amount of the operation element in the second slide region.

4. The display control device according to claim 3,

wherein the enlargement and reduction ratio of the recording region per unit movement amount of the operation element in the second slide region is larger than the ratio in the first slide region,

wherein the first display form is a layout view that indicates an arrangement form of the recording region with respect to the medium, and

wherein the second display form is a pre-view that indicates detailed information of the recording region.

5. The display control device according to claim 4,

wherein the display control unit includes a selection unit that can select the recording region which is displayed in the display unit.

6. The display control device according to claim 5,

wherein, when the operation element is operated in the first slide region, the display control unit enlarges or reduces the recording region that is displayed in the layout view centering on the recording region which is selected by the selection unit.

7. The display control device according to claim 5,

wherein, when the selection unit selects a portion of the recording region that is displayed in the display unit and the operation element is operated in the second slide region, the display control unit enlarges or reduces the recording region that is selected by the selection unit centering on the portion of the recording region which is selected by the selection unit.

8. The display control device according to claim 4,

wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display a layout tab which displays the layout view in the display unit and a pre-view tab which displays the pre-view in the display unit, and can switch the layout view and the pre-view based on the selection between the layout tab and the pre-view tab.

9. The display control device according to claim 8,

wherein the display control unit moves the operation element to a position of the slide region corresponding to the selected tab based on the selection between the layout tab and the pre-view tab.

10. The display control device according to claim 9,

wherein, when the layout tab and the pre-view tab are switched, the display control unit moves the operation element step by step to a position of the slide region corresponding to the switched tab.

11. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit sets the display form of the first slide region and the display form of the second slide region to be different from each other.