Display control apparatus, display control method and information recording medium

• US 7,133,085 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2001
• Issued: 11/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Murata, Toshiyuki, Sato, Hitoshi, Morita, Kenji, Yamashita, Rie, Mizumura, Yukari
• Primary Examiner(s): Natnael, Paulos M.
• Application Number:
  US09/924,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20020051098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,917 Days
• Field of Search: 348/836, 348/837, 348/789, 348/785, 348786- 9, 345/87
• US Class Current: 348/836
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0028 Ceiling, e.g. roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0082 collapsible, e.g. for storing after use
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0092 with motorization
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0094 characterised by means for covering after user, e.g. boxes, shutters or the like

Abstract

A display control apparatus has a display panel, which is placed in its inactive state through a user'"'"'s operation when not being used, on the one hand, and is placed in is active state when being used, on the other hand. After completing the display of video, the display panel is received automatically, thus ensuring protection of the display panel. It also prevents a beginning part of video from being hidden for a user. All video can be displayed on the display panel that stands up in its prescribed active state. In the display control apparatus, a rotary motor driver and a slider motor driver are used for placing the display panel received in a receiver. An encoder detects whether or not the display panel is placed in its prescribed active state. When the active state of the display panel is detected, an output controller outputs a video signal to the display panel for display.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

an opening device for placing a display device received in a receiving device in an active state thereof;

a detection device for detecting whether or not the display device is placed in the active state; and

an output device for outputting a video signal to be displayed on the display device to the display device to cause the display device to display video based on the video signal; and

an operation device through which a command to display the video on the display device is given by an input operation,

wherein;

when the command is given by the input operation to display the video while the display device is being placed in the active state, the output device starts to output the video signal only after detection by the detection device that the display device has completely reached the active state.

2. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the active state is a state at which the display device is placed so that the video displayed on the display device is visible.

3. A display control apparatus comprising:

a display device received in a receiving device so as to be capable of being in any one of an inactive state in which the display device is retracted in the receiving device to make the display device invisible and an active state in which the display device is exposed from the receiving device to make the display device visible;

a detection device for detecting whether or not display of all video to be displayed on the display device has actually been completed; and

a receiving control device for retracting the display device in the receiving device so as to be placed in the inactive state from the active state, when it is detected that the display of all the video has actually been completed.

4. A display control method comprising the steps of:

placing a display device received in a receiving device in an active state thereof;

detecting whether or not the display device is placed in the active state;

outputting a video signal to be displayed on the display device to the display device to cause the display device to display video based on the video signal; and

giving a command to display the video on the display device;

wherein;

when the command is given to display the video while the display device is being placed in the active state, the outputting step starts to output the video signal only after detection that the display device has completely reached the active state.

5. The display control method of claim 4, wherein the active state is a state at which the display device is placed so that the video displayed on the display device is visible.

6. A display control method comprising the steps of:

placing a display device in a receiving device so as to be capable of being in any one of an inactive state in which the display device is retracted in the receiving device to make the display device invisible and an active state in which the display device is exposed from the receiving device to make the display device visible;

detecting whether or not display of all video to be displayed on the display device has actually been completed under active state; and

retracting the display device in the receiving device so as to be placed in the inactive state from the active state, when it is detected that the display of all video has actually been completed.

7. An information recording medium in which a display control program is recorded readably by a computer included in a display control apparatus, the display control program causing the computer to serve as:

an opening device for placing a display device received in a receiving device in an active state;

a detection device for detecting whether or not the display device is placed in the active state;

an output device for outputting a video signal to be displayed on the display device to the display device to cause the display device to display video based on the video signal; and

an operation device through which a command to display the video on the display device is given by an input operation,

wherein;

when the command is given by the input operation to display the video while the display device is being placed in the active state, the output device starts to output the video signal only after detection by the detection device that the display device has completely reached the active state.

8. The information recording medium of claim 7, wherein the active state is a state at which the display device is placed so that the video displayed on the display device is visible.

9. An information recording medium in which a display control program is recorded readably by a computer included in a display control apparatus, the display control program causing the computer to serve as:

a detection device for detecting whether or not display of all video to be displayed on a display device has actually been completed under an active state in which the display device is exposed from a receiving device to make the display device visible; and

a receiving control device for retracting the display device in the receiving device so as to be placed in an inactive state in which the display device is retracted in the receiving device to make the display device invisible, from the active state, when it is detected that the display of all video has actually been completed.