Display device, program, and storage medium

• US 8,599,314 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2010
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Takamasa, Suzuki, Takayuki, Minehara, Aya, Ozaki, Michiharu, Iguchi, Eriko
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/497,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20130070164A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,166 Days
• Field of Search: 348553-570, 715/808, 725 39- 61
• US Class Current: 348/564
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04895 Guidance during keyboard input operation, e.g. prompting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440272 for performing aspect ratio conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

A display screen includes a video region in contact with a left side section of the display screen for performing a scaling display of an input video; a top region at the uppermost part of the display screen for displaying a plurality of items capable of being selected by a user; and a side region provided to the right or left of the display screen for displaying a plurality of items set at a lower level than an item selected by the user. Among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, an item currently selected by the user is so displayed as to be discriminated from the other items. After the item selected has been discriminatively displayed for a prescribed time period, a guidance describing the item being selected is displayed in the side region close to the item selected.

Claims

1. A display apparatus capable of performing a scaling display of an input video on a display screen,

the display screen including at least:

a video region provided in contact with a left side section of the display screen for performing a scaling display of the input video;

a top region provided at an uppermost part of the display screen for displaying a plurality of items capable of being selected by a user;

a side region provided to on either a right side or a left side of the display screen for at least displaying a plurality of items set at a level lower than a level of an item having been selected by the user in the top region; and

a key guidance region provided between the video region and the top region for displaying information describing a key for operating the display apparatus,

the display apparatus comprising;

item discriminating display means for displaying an item, being currently selected by the user from among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, in such a manner that the currently selected item is discriminated from another item among the plurality of items displayed in the side region; and

guidance display means for, after the item discriminating display means has discriminatively displayed the currently selected item for a prescribed time period, displaying a guidance, describing the currently selected item, in the side region closely to the currently selected item.

2. The display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the item discriminating display means (i) erases, among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, each item other than the item being currently selected by the user and (ii) displays the currently selected item at a fixed position in the side region.

3. The display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

display means for displaying, in a downward sequence from above in the side region, (i) the guidance on, among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, an item of which selection has been determined on by the user, (ii) a plurality of lower-level items set at a level lower than a level of the item of which the selection has been determined on, and (iii) a plurality of lower-level guidances each individually describing one of the plurality of lower-level items.

4. The display apparatus as set forth in claim 3,

wherein:

the display means displays the key guidance at a position in the side region which position is below the plurality of lower-level guidances.

5. The display apparatus as set forth in claim 3,

wherein:

the display means displays (i) a lower-level item, being currently selected by the user, among the plurality of lower-level items in such a manner that the currently selected lower-level item is discriminated from any other lower-level item, and (ii) a first guidance, describing the currently selected lower-level item, in such a manner that the first guidance is discriminated from any other guidance.

6. The display apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein:

the display apparatus displays, entirely over the display screen, (i) the guidance on, among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, an item of which selection has been determined on by the user, (ii) a plurality of lower-level items set at a level lower than a level of the item of which the selection has been determined on, (iii) a plurality of lower-level guidances each individually describing one of the plurality of lower-level items, and (iv) the key guidance.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing a program, which when executed by a computer performs a scaling display of an input video on a display screen,

the display screen including at least:

a video region provided in contact with a left side section of the display screen for performing the scaling display of the input video;

a top region provided at an uppermost part of the display screen for displaying a plurality of items capable of being selected by a user;

a side region provided to on either a right side or a left side of the display screen for at least displaying a plurality of items set at a level lower than a level of an item having been selected by the user in the top region; and

a key guidance region provided between the video region and the top region for displaying information describing a key for operating the display apparatus.

the computer further performs;

displaying an item discriminating display means, the item being currently selected by the user from among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, in such a manner that the currently selected item is discriminated from another item among the plurality of items displaced in the side region; and

after the item discriminating display means has discriminatively displayed the currently selected item for a prescribed time period, displaying a guidance, describing the currently selected item, in the side region closely to the currently selected item.