Display apparatus, display method, and display program

• US 7,814,418 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2007
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Chosokabe, Yoshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): DESAI, RACHNA SINGH
• Application Number:
  US11/655,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20070182741A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• Field of Search: 715/273, 846/00
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display control section configured to cause a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content with which the mark is associated; and a selection section configured to select two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image. When the two or more content indication marks are selected by the selection section, the display control section displays, on the image, a line segment that joins the selected two or more content indication marks so as to indicate an order in which the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor adapted to;

cause a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content of a plurality of contents, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content associated;

select two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image;

when the two or more content indication marks are selected display, on the image, a line segment that joins the selected two or more content indication marks so as to indicate an order in which the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged; and

when the contents are reproduced in the order indicated by the line segment, change a mode of display of the line segment in accordance with a current reproduction position of the contents.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said at least one processor is adapted to select the two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image based on at least one piece of attribute information each indicating an attribute of a separate content of the plurality of contents.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein,

each piece of attribute information includes first attribute information and second attribute information,

wherein said at least one processor is further adapted to:

select the two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image based on the first attribute information, and

join the two or more content indication marks by the line segment such that the selected two or more content indication marks as joined by the line segment are divided into separate groups based on the second attribute information, the separate contents associated with to the content indication marks in a separate group having the same second attribute information.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

generate a list that indicates an order in which the contents are arranged, the order being indicated by the line segment.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

erase an arbitrary line segment that joins the selected two or more content indication marks or display a new line segment;

if the arbitrary line segment is erased, generate a list that contains the content associated with one of the two content indication marks that were joined by the arbitrary line segment, and also generate a list that contains the content associated with the other of the two content indication marks that were joined by the arbitrary line segment, and

if the new line segment is displayed, generate a list composed of a combination of a list that contains the content associated with one of the two content indication marks joined by the new line segment and a list that contains the content associated with the other of the two content indication marks joined by the new line segment.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

display, on the image, a transfer destination icon that represents the external transfer destination;

move, on the image, the line segment displayed on the image; and

when the line segment is moved onto the transfer destination mark, transfer, to an external transfer destination, the list and, as necessary, one or more of the contents indicated in the list.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

when the one or more of the contents are transferred, change a mode of display of the content indication marks corresponding to the one or more of the contents that are transferred in accordance with a current state of the transfer of the one or more of the contents.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

display, on the image, an acquisition source mark that represents the external acquisition source;

move, on the image, the line segment displayed on the image; and

when the line segment is moved onto the acquisition source mark, acquire, from an external acquisition source, one or more of the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks joined by the line segment.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

when the one or more of the contents are acquired, change a mode of display of the content indication mark or marks associated with the one or more of the contents that are acquired so as to indicate a current state of the acquisition of the one or more of the contents.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

to reproduce the contents associated with the selected two or more content indication marks in the order indicated by the displayed line segment.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

acquire, from an external acquisition source, one or more of the contents associated with the selected two or more content indication marks joined by the line segment when reproducing the contents associated with the selected two or more content indication marks joined by the line segment.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

with respect to each of the one or more of the contents acquired from the external acquisition source reproduce the content after the acquisition thereof is completed or in course of the acquisition thereof.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to:

with respect to each of the selected two or more content indication marks, reproduce a content selected from among the content associated with the selected content indication mark and one or more contents associated with one or more content indication marks that are placed close to the selected content indication mark.

14. A display method comprising:

causing a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content associated;

selecting two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image;

displaying, on the image, a line segment that join the two or more content indication marks selected in said selecting step so as to indicate an order in which the contents associated with the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged; and

when the contents are reproduced in the order indicated by the line segment, changing a mode of display of the line segment in accordance with a current reproduction position of the contents.

15. At least one computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform the steps of:

causing a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position associated with an impression of the content associated;

selecting two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image;

displaying, on the image, a line segment that join the two or more content indication marks selected in said selecting step so as to indicate an order in which the contents associated with the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged; and

when the contents are reproduced in the order indicated by the line segment, changing a mode of display of the line segment in accordance with a current reproduction position of the contents.