DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20200133972A1
• Filed: 10/29/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: YAMADA, Yusuke
• Application Number:
  US16/666,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20200133972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof

Abstract

A display method for displaying a file image on a display section, the file image containing thumbnail images to be so displayed as to be disposed along a first imaginary axis, rotated around second imaginary axes that intersect the first imaginary axis, and further rotated around the first imaginary axis, the method including generating, when the file image has revisions, preview images corresponding to the file image for each of the revisions, and displaying the plurality of generated preview images in such a way that the preview images partially overlap with each other.

Claims

1. A display method for displaying a file image on a display section, the file image containing images to be so displayed as to be disposed along a first imaginary axis, rotated around second imaginary axes that intersect the first imaginary axis, and further rotated around the first imaginary axis, the method comprising:

generating, when the file image has revisions, preview images corresponding to the file image for each of the revisions; and

displaying the plurality of generated preview images in such a way that the plurality of generated preview images partially overlap with each other.

2. The display method according to claim 1,

wherein the preview images are generated in correspondence with an image selected from the plurality of images.

3. The display method according to claim 1,

wherein the file image includes

an image bundle in which the plurality of images are juxtaposed in a first direction, and

the preview images juxtaposed with the image bundle.

4. The display method according to claim 3,

wherein the image bundle and the preview images are generated for each of the revisions, and

the image bundles and the preview images are juxtaposed and displayed along a second direction that intersects the first direction.

5. The display method according to claim 1,

wherein identification marks that identify the revisions of the preview images are displayed in the preview images.

6. The display method according to claim 1,

wherein when an instruction of movement of one of the preview images so displayed as to overlap with each other on a revision basis is issued, the instructed preview image is so moved that the preview image displayed as a main-display image is switched to another.

7. A display method for displaying a file image on a display section, the file image containing images to be so displayed as to be disposed along a first imaginary axis, rotated around second imaginary axes that intersect the first imaginary axis, and further rotated around the first imaginary axis,

wherein the file image contains an image bundle in which the plurality of images are juxtaposed in a first direction, and

when the file image has revisions, a plurality of revision images corresponding to an image having the revisions out of the images that form the image bundle are generated, and the revision images are so displayed as to partially overlap with each other.

8. The display method according to claim 7,

wherein in addition to the image having the revisions, second revision images corresponding to all the images that form the image bundle are generated on a revision basis, and

the second revision images generated on a revision basis are so displayed as to partially overlap with each other.

9. The display method according to claim 7,

wherein when an instruction of movement of one of the revision images so displayed as to overlap with each other on a revision basis is issued, the instructed revision image is so moved that the revision image displayed as a main-display image is switched to another.

10. A display apparatus comprising:

a display section that displays a file image containing images;

a thumbnail image generator that generates a plurality of the images to be so displayed as to be disposed along a first imaginary axis, rotated around a second imaginary axis that intersect the first imaginary axis, and further rotated around the first imaginary axis; and

a display image generator that generates, when the file image has revisions, a preview image selected from the plurality of images on a revision basis and generates a display image in which the plurality of preview images are displayed with part thereof overlapping with each other.

11. A display apparatus comprising:

a display section that displays a file image containing images;

a thumbnail image generator that generates a plurality of the images to be so displayed as to be disposed along a first imaginary axis, rotated around a second imaginary axis that intersect the first imaginary axis, and further rotated around the first imaginary axis; and

a display image generator that generates, when the file image has revisions, a plurality of revision images corresponding to an image having the revisions out of the plurality of images and generates a display image in which the plurality of revision images are displayed with part thereof overlapping with each other.