Reproduction apparatus, camera, and display switch method of reproduction apparatus

• US 7,605,796 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2005
• Issued: 10/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Kaminaga, Tomomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe; Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shapiro; Leonid
• Application Number:
  US11/190,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20060022961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,546 Days
• Field of Search: 345/104, 345/688, 345/55
• US Class Current: 345/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras

Abstract

A reproduction apparatus of the present invention includes an image display device with a touch panel, a picked-up image is displayed on a display unit of the display device, and an annular object, for example, is superimposed on the picked-up image and displays the object when necessary. When the touch panel is manipulated so as to draw a circle or an arc by tracing the annular object with a finger, a displayed picked-up image to be displayed is continuously switched in a forward direction or in a reverse direction according to a drawing (turning) direction of the circle or the arc.

Claims

1. A reproduction apparatus comprising:

a touch panel disposed on a display screen;

a first display switch unit which continuously switches, when a slide motion for drawing a circular or arc locus is executed on the touch panel, an image on the display screen; and

an object display unit which causes an object, which guides the slide motion, to be superimposed on a displayed image and to be displayed the object on the display screen and causes an image pick-up date of each picked-up image to be displayed in a location corresponding to the center of the circle or the arc of the object.

2. A reproduction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second display switch unit which switches, when a single touch motion is executed to the touch panel, the image on the display screen to another image.

3. A reproduction apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the object display unit makes the object semi-transparent and displays the object so that the portion of the displayed image on which the object is superimposed is referred through the object.

4. A reproduction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first display switch unit continuously switches the image on the display screen according to the slide motion executed in the central portion of the display screen to draw the circular or arc locus.

5. A reproduction apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second display switch unit switches the image on the display screen to prior and subsequent images according to the touch motion executed in the peripheral portion of the display screen.

6. A reproduction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first display switch unit continuously switches the image on the display screen according to the slide motion executed in the peripheral portion of the display screen for drawing the arc locus.

7. A camera comprising:

the reproduction apparatus according to claim 1; and

an image pick-up device,

wherein first and second display switch units of the reproduction apparatus switch a display as to an image picked up by the image pick-up device.