Image display device, image pickup apparatus, image display control method, and program

• US 7,999,872 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2008
• Issued: 08/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Yasufumi, Furukawa, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye; Lin
• Assistant Examiner(s): BEMBEN, RICHARD M
• Application Number:
  US12/117,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20090002540A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,194 Days
• Field of Search: 34833301-33313, 345173-178, 396373-386, 4555561-5562
• US Class Current: 348/333.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators

Abstract

An image display device includes a display unit configured to display at least an image and an icon relating to a predetermined setting, a touch panel which allows input of operations, and on which a predetermined inhibited area is set, and a control unit configured to perform control so that, after the control unit sets the predetermined inhibited area, when an operation has been input by the touch panel, the control unit determines whether or not the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, by erasing the icon displayed by the display unit, a user is allowed to recognize that an unintended operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a display unit configured to display at least an image and a plurality of icons each relating to a different predetermined setting;

a touch panel which allows input of operations, and on which a predetermined inhibited area is set, wherein one of the plurality of icons is displayed in the predetermined inhibited area; and

a control unit configured to perform control so that, after the control unit sets the predetermined inhibited area, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, the control unit determines whether the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area the control unit controls the display to remove the one of the plurality of icons displayed in the predetermined inhibited area by the display unit.

2. The image display device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit controls the display unit to erase the one of the plurality of icons and to display a predetermined alert.

3. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image pickup unit configured to obtain an image signal by picking up an image of a subject;

a display unit configured to display at least a picked-up image based on the image signal and a plurality of icons each relating to a different predetermined setting;

a touch panel which allows input of operations, and on which a predetermined inhibited area is set, wherein one of the plurality of icons is displayed in the predetermined inhibited area;

a control unit configured to perform control so that, after the control unit sets the predetermined inhibited area, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, the control unit determines whether the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the predetermined inhibited area the control unit controls the display unit to remove the one of the plurality of icons displayed in the predetermined inhibited area by the display unit.

4. The image pickup apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the control unit controls the display unit to erase the one of the plurality of icons and to display a predetermined alert.

5. An image display method comprising:

displaying at least a picked-up image and a plurality of icons each relating to a different predetermined setting; and

performing control so that, after an inhibited area is set on a touch panel and one of the plurality of icons is displayed in the predetermined inhibited area, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, it is determined whether the operation has been input within the inhibited area, and, in a case where the operation has been input within the inhibited area, the one of the plurality of icons displayed in the predetermined inhibited area is removed.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program instructions, which when executed by an image display device, cause the image display device to perform a method comprising:

displaying a plurality of icons each relating to a different predetermined setting of the image display device;

an inhibited area setting function that sets an inhibited area on a touch panel, wherein one of the plurality of icons is displayed in the predetermined inhibited area;

a main control function that, when an operation has been input by using the touch panel, determines whether the operation has been input within the inhibited area; and

a display control function that, in a case where the operation has been input within the inhibited area, removes the one of the plurality of icons displayed in the predetermined inhibited area.