Reproducing device, setting changing method, and setting changing device

• US 8,194,033 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2006
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyazawa, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Mengistu, Amare
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sharifi-Tafreshi, Koosha
• Application Number:
  US11/396,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20060240875A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,254 Days
• Field of Search: 345/211, 345/156, 345/659, 345/158, 399/81, 715/701, 715/702, 715/788, 715/796, 715/798, 715/799, 715818-820, 715/828, 715/829
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/606 by memory addressing or mapping
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A reproducing device that can reproduce data and operates on a battery includes displaying means, attitude detecting means for detecting an attitude of the reproducing device, determining means for determining whether the reproducing device satisfies a predetermined condition, and controlling means for changing a setting of the reproducing device on a basis of a result of detection of the attitude detecting means when the determining means determines that the reproducing device satisfies the predetermined condition.

Claims

1. A setting changing device that reproduces data and operates on a battery, the setting changing device comprising:

a display component;

an attitude detecting component detecting an attitude of the setting changing device only when a power supply to the setting changing device is changed from an off state to an on state; and

a controlling component;

changing a setting of the setting changing device based on the attitude for at most one time after the power supply is changed from the off state to the on state and before the power supply is changed from the on state to the off state;

controlling, when the attitude component fails to detect the attitude, the display component to display a menu screen in an orientation of a screen displayed at a time of previous ending; and

stopping the attitude detecting component from detecting the attitude without instructions from a user when the controlling component finishes changing the setting while the power supply is in the on state.

2. The setting changing device according to claim 1,

wherein the setting includes a display orientation of data displayed on the displaying component, and

wherein the display orientation is associated with the attitude.

3. The setting changing device according to claim 1, further comprising an operating component,

wherein the operating component comprises a plurality of operating buttons,

wherein the setting includes definitions assigned to the plurality of operating buttons, and

wherein the controlling component further changes functions of the plurality of operating buttons by changing the definitions assigned to the plurality of operating buttons.