WEARABLE APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20170178596A1
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Published: 06/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iwatsu, Takeshi, Akagawa, Satoshi, Kajihara, Chisako, Kanema, Yasuki, Ishikawa, Hirotaka, Tsukahara, Tsubasa
• Granted Patent: US 10,388,256 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/34 for rolling or scrolling

Abstract

A wearable apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display unit, an operation section, a storage unit, and a display control unit. The display unit is configured to display an image. The operation section is configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching an image to be displayed on the display unit. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of images to be displayed on the display unit. The display control unit is configured to be capable of sequentially switching the images to be displayed on the display unit every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to cause the display unit to display a first middle image during switching between the individual images from a top image to be first displayed on the display unit to a last image to be last displayed and cause the display unit to display a second middle image different from the first middle image during switching between the last image and the top image.

Claims

1. A wearable apparatus, comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image;

an operation section configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching an image to be displayed on the display unit;

a storage unit configured to store a plurality of images to be displayed on the display unit; and

a display control unit configured to be capable of sequentially switching the images to be displayed on the display unit every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to cause the display unit to display a first middle image during switching between the individual images from a top image to be first displayed on the display unit to a last image to be last displayed and cause the display unit to display a second middle image different from the first middle image during switching between the last image and the top image.

2. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first middle image has a first reproduction time, and

the second middle image has a second reproduction time longer than the first reproduction time.

3. The wearable apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the first middle image includes a first animation image in which the currently displayed first image disappears from the display unit while moved in a predetermined direction and at the same time the second image to be displayed subsequently to the first image is displayed on the display unit while moved the second image in the predetermined direction.

4. The wearable apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the second middle image includes a second animation image in which one image of the top image and the last image disappears from the display unit while moved in the predetermined direction and then the other image is displayed on the display unit while moved in the predetermined direction.

5. The wearable apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the second animation image further includes a predetermined image to be displayed after the one image disappears from the display unit and before the other image is displayed on the display unit.

6. The wearable apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the display control unit is configured to display the second animation image smaller than the first animation image.

7. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the top image and the last image include predetermined images to be displayed at symmetrical positions.

8. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control unit is configured to cause the display unit to further display a scroll bar that is moved synchronously with switching between the images.

9. The wearable apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the display control unit is configured to cause the display unit to divide and display the scroll bar when causing the display unit to display the second middle image.

10. The wearable apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the display control unit is configured to cause the scroll bar to disappear from the display unit when causing the display unit to display the second middle image.

11. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a sound output unit configured to

reproduce a first sound when the first middle image is displayed on the display unit, and

reproduce a second sound different from the first sound when the second middle image is displayed on the display unit.

12. The wearable apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a mounting unit that includes the display unit and is configured to be mountable on a user'"'"'s head.

13. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image;

an operation section configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching an image to be displayed on the display unit;

a storage unit configured to store a plurality of images to be displayed on the display unit; and

a display control unit configured to be capable of sequentially switching the images to be displayed on the display unit every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to cause the display unit to display a first middle image during switching between the individual images from a top image to be first displayed on the display unit to a last image to be last displayed and cause the display unit to display a second middle image different from the first middle image during switching between the last image and the top image.

14. An image control apparatus, comprising:

an operation section configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching an image to be displayed on a display unit of an electronic apparatus;

a storage unit configured to store a plurality of images to be displayed on the display unit; and

a display control unit configured to be capable of sequentially switching the images to be displayed on the display unit every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to cause the display unit to display a first middle image during switching between the individual images from a top image to be first displayed on the display unit to a last image to be last displayed and cause the display unit to display a second middle image different from the first middle image during switching between the last image and the top image.

15. A display control method for an electronic apparatus including a display unit, comprising:

sequentially switching images to be displayed on the display unit every time a predetermined operation event is received;

causing the display unit to display a first middle image during switching between the individual images from a top image to be first displayed on the display unit to a last image to be last displayed; and

causing the display unit to display a second middle image different from the first middle image during switching between the last image and the top image.

16. A wearable apparatus, comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image;

an operation section configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching an image to be displayed on the display unit;

a storage unit configured to store a plurality of images to be displayed on the display unit; and

a display control unit configured to be capable of sequentially switching the images to be displayed on the display unit every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to display predetermined images, which are not present in the other images, in a top image to be first displayed on the display unit and a last image to be last displayed.