Image display apparatus, image display controlling method, and image display program

• US 7,443,404 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2004
• Issued: 10/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Nagatomo, Shoichi, Ishida, Shinjiro, Kawamoto, Kyouichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Amini; Javid A
• Application Number:
  US10/965,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20050083351A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: 345/659, 345/660, 455/566, 455/556.1, 455/575.1, 455/575.3
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/021 using combined folding and rotation motions combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0243 using the relative angle between housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/531 being rotatable or detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 : for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0122 : the input and the output signals having different aspect ratios
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 : Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 : Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

When opening of a lens barrier is detected, a camera mode processing starts. An object image is displayed in the aspect ratio of 4:3, and a user can carry out photographing by carrying out a shutter operation using a first side switch with the right forefinger while holding a portable telephone with the right hand. When opening of the lens barrier is not detected, a wide-screen display is set and a movie playback mode processing starts. The user can watch a playing-back movie while holding the both ends of the portable telephone in a state of being folded with the both hands so as to keep the display device with the longer side at the top.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus comprising:

an image pickup device;

a display device having an aspect ratio corresponding to a wide-display;

a first display control unit configured to display an image on the display device in full-screen when the image is in an aspect ratio corresponding to the wide-display, or in a manner according to an aspect ratio based on a capture size of the image pickup device;

a first speaker disposed in a vicinity of the display device;

a second speaker disposed at a side opposite to the first speaker with respect to the display device;

a determining unit which determines whether the display device is used with a longer side at a top or with a shorter side at the top;

a first sounding control unit which operates the first speaker and the second speaker when it is determined by the determining unit that the display device is used with the longer side at the top, and which operates one of the first speaker and the second speaker when it is determined by the determining unit that the display device is used with the shorter side at the top;

a first body which houses the display device and the first speaker;

a second body;

a first hinge which has a first rotation shaft rotating in a direction in which the second body overlaps the first body, and which connects the first body and the second body so as to be freely rotatable by the first rotation shaft, and at which the second speaker is disposed; and

a second hinge which has a second rotation shaft rotating in a direction perpendicular to the first rotation shaft, and which connects the first body and the first hinge so as to be freely rotatable by the second rotation shaft, wherein the determining unit determines whether the display device is used with the longer side at the top when the first body overlaps the second body such that the display device is outwardly set;

wherein the first body comprises a magnetic detector which detects a magnetism of the first speaker, and the determining unit determines whether the first body overlaps the second body such that the display device is outwardly set based on a result of detection by the magnetic detector.

2. An image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second body comprises:

a wireless communication device;

a first input device; and

a second sounding control unit which drives the first speaker when communication processing by the wireless communication device is being carried out based on information input by the first input device.