Scrolling a subsequently displayed block with a delay from a previously displayed block

• US 8,595,643 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2010
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Horagai, Jinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kells, Asher
• Application Number:
  US12/820,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20110099509A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,253 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A storage unit is configured to store a document to be displayed in a predetermined display area on a display. An instruction acknowledging unit is configured to receive a scroll instruction signal for scrolling the document displayed in the display area. A range identifying unit is configured to identify a previously displayed block displayed in the display area before the scrolling operation and a subsequently displayed block displayed in the display area as updated by the scrolling operation. A delay control unit is configured to cause the previously displayed block to be scrolled in the display area by the predetermined amount of movement and displayed accordingly, and causing the subsequently displayed block to be scrolled and displayed accordingly with a delay from the previously displayed block.

Claims

1. A scroll display program embedded in a non-transitory recording medium, comprising:

a storage module configured to store in a memory a document to be displayed in a predetermined display area on a display;

an instruction acknowledging module configured to receive a scroll instruction signal for scrolling the document displayed in the display area;

a range identifying module configured to refer to the document in the memory and identify, in according with a predetermined amount of movement, a previously displayed block displayed in the display area before scrolling and a subsequently displayed block displayed in the display area as updated by scrolling; and

a delay control module configured to output an image signal to the display, the image signal causing the previously displayed block to be scrolled in the display area by the predetermined amount of movement and displayed accordingly, and causing the subsequently displayed block to be scrolled and displayed accordingly with a delay from the previously displayed block,

wherein the delay control module causes the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block to be moved in the display area while the document is being scrolled, causing a line spacing between the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block to grow larger than a static line spacing between the blocks when the document is displayed in a static manner, and, after scrolling is completed, shrinking the line spacing between the blocks to the size of the static line spacing.

2. The scroll display program according to claim 1, wherein the delay control module configures the moving speed of the subsequently displayed block to be lower than the moving speed of the previously displayed block at least when the scrolling operation is started.

3. The scroll display program according to claim 1, wherein the delay control module configures the moving speed of the subsequently displayed block to be higher than the moving speed of the previously displayed block when the scrolling operation is near completion.

4. The scroll display program according to claim 1, wherein the delay control module delays the timing of starting scrolling the subsequently displayed block with respect to the timing of starting scrolling the previously displayed block.

5. The scroll display program according to claim 1, wherein the delay control module controls a moving speed of the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block so that the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block become stationary substantially at the same time when scrolling is completed.

6. The scroll display program according to claim 1, wherein the range identifying module identifies the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block in the document based on the predetermined amount of movement.

7. The scroll display program according to claim 6, wherein, when a part of the last line of the previously displayed block is displayed in the display area, the range identifying module identifies the subsequently displayed block, placing the last line at the head.

8. The scroll display program according to claim 1, wherein, when a part of an image is included in the subsequently displayed block, the range identifying module extends a range of the subsequently displayed block so as to include the entirety of the image irrespective of the predetermined amount of movement.

9. The scroll display program according to claim 1, wherein, when a part of an image is included in the subsequently displayed block, the range identifying module reduces a range of the subsequently displayed block so that the subsequently displayed block immediately follows the image irrespective of the predetermined amount of movement.

10. A scroll display device, comprising:

a storage unit configured to store a document to be displayed in a predetermined display area on a display;

an instruction acknowledging unit configured to receive a scroll instruction signal for scrolling the document displayed in the display area;

a range identifying module configured to refer to the document in the memory and identify, in accordance with a predetermined amount of movement, a previously displayed block displayed in the display area before scrolling and a subsequently displayed block displayed in the display area as updated by the scrolling; and

a delay control module configured to cause the previously displayed block to be scrolled in the display area by the predetermined amount of movement and displayed accordingly, and causing the subsequently displayed block to be scrolled and displayed accordingly with a delay from the previously displayed block,

wherein the delay control module causes the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block to be moved in the display area while the document is being scrolled, causing a line spacing between the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block to grow larger than a static line spacing between the blocks when the document is displayed in a static manner, and, after scrolling is completed, shrinking the line spacing between the blocks to the size of the static line spacing.

11. An electronic terminal provided with the scroll display device according to claim 10.

12. A scroll display method comprising:

storing in a memory a document to be displayed in a predetermined display area on a display;

receiving a scroll instruction signal for scrolling the document displayed in the display area;

referring to the document in the memory and identifying, in accordance with a predetermined amount of movement, a previously displayed block displayed in the display area before scrolling and a subsequently displayed block displayed in the display area as updated by the scrolling; and

outputting an image signal to the display, the image signal causing the previously displayed block to be scrolled in the display area by the predetermined amount of movement and displayed accordingly, and causing the subsequently displayed block to be scrolled and displayed accordingly with a delay from the previously displayed block,

wherein the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block are moved in the display area while the document is being scrolled to cause a line spacing between the previously displayed block and the subsequently displayed block to grow larger than a static line spacing between the blocks when the document is displayed in a static manner, and, after scrolling is completed, shrinking the line spacing between the blocks to the size of the static line spacing.