Display control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, display control method, and storage medium

• US 8,760,555 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2013
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yoshimi, Takashi, Yoshio, Katsuhito
• Primary Examiner(s): Pasiewicz, Daniel M
• Application Number:
  US14/020,957
• Publication Number:
  US 20140002505A1
• Time in Patent Office: 288 Days
• Field of Search: 348/239, 34833301-33302, 348/333.05, 348/333.11, 715/702, 715/784, 715/863
• US Class Current: 348/333.05
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes

Abstract

A display control apparatus that enables to reliably and quickly search for a desired image. When a wheel is operated by a user by an amount less than a predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a first display mode where a plurality of images are displayed on an image display unit. When the wheel is operated by the user by an amount equal to or greater than the predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a second display mode where a larger number of images than in the first display mode are displayed on the image display unit in a smaller size than in the first display mode.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus having first and second display modes, comprising:

an operation unit configured to receive a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control unit configured to control the image feeding,

wherein in a case where image feeding is performed in a second display mode, the control unit controls the image feeding so as (i) to continue to be performed in the second display mode after completion of the user operation, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are smaller in size than the images displayed in the first display mode.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the image feeding to be performed after the completion of the user operation and controls the display mode to be switched from the second display mode to the first display mode when a number of remaining images to be subjected to the image feeding becomes equal to or less than a predetermined number.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls, while the operation unit is receiving the user operation, the image feeding so as to be performed in at least one display mode, in accordance with a manner of the user operation for the operation unit, among a plurality of display modes including the first display mode and the second display mode.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further including

a storage control unit configured to control a storage unit to store a user operation amount of the user operation to which the operation unit is subjected,

wherein a number of images to be subjected to the image feeding by the control unit after completion of the user operation is determined based on the user operation amount stored in the storage unit.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of display modes further includes a third display mode in which the display unit displays a single image, and

wherein the control unit controls the image feeding so as to be performed in the third display mode in a case where a user operation amount of the user operation to which the operation unit is subjected is less than a predetermined value.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a non-operation determination unit configured to determine, in the first display mode, whether or not a predetermined operation including the image feeding operation on the operation unit is performed for a predetermined time period; and

a mode switching unit configured to switch the display mode to the third display mode when the non-operation determination unit determines that the predetermined operation is not performed for the predetermined time period.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a button operation determination unit configured to determine whether or not a button operation member, which is an operation member other than the operation unit, is depressed,

wherein the control unit controls, in a case where the button operation determination unit determines that the button operation member is depressed in the first display mode, the image feeding so as to be performed for a number of images corresponding to a number of times by which the button operation member is depressed in the first display mode.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein when the image feeding is performed in a third display mode due to the user operation on the operation unit, the image feeding is performed with an animation effect of indicating an image feeding direction of the display unit, whereas when the image feeding is performed in the third display mode due to the operation of the button operation member, the image feeding is performed without the animation effect.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising an image switching unit configured to switch, in the first display mode, a currently selected image among a plurality of images displayed in the first display mode to an image associated with particular attribute information, according to an operation of another operation unit different from the operation unit.

10. The display control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the particular attribute information is date and time information as to the earliest time of a date in the date and time information for the image which has been displayed in the first display mode before switching of the image switching unit.

11. The display control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the particular attribute information is date and time information as to the earliest time of a next date next to a date in the date and time information for the image which has been displayed in the first display mode before switching of the image switching unit.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation unit is any one of a rotary encoder, a linear encoder, a touch sensor, a touch panel, and a track ball.

13. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls, in the first display mode and the second display mode, the image feeding so as to be performed with an animation effect of indicating an image feeding direction of the display unit.

14. An image pickup apparatus comprising the display control apparatus according to claim 1.

15. A display control method using first and second display modes, comprising:

an operation step of receiving a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control step of controlling the image feeding,

wherein in a case where image feeding is performed in a second display mode, the control step controls the image feeding so as (i) to continue to be performed in the second display mode after completion of the user operation, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are smaller in size than the images displayed in the first display mode.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a display control method using first and second display modes, the display control method comprising:

an operation step of receiving a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control step of controlling the image feeding,

wherein in a case where image feeding is performed in a second display mode, the control step controls the image feeding so as (i) to continue to be performed in the second display mode after completion of the user operation, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are smaller in size than the images displayed in the first display mode.

17. A display control apparatus having first and second display modes, comprising:

an operation unit configured to receive a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control unit configured to control the image feeding,

wherein in a case where (1) a user completes a user operation, (2) the completed user operation is received by the operation unit, and (3) image feeding corresponding to the completed user operation is not completed, the control unit controls the image feeding so as (i) to be performed in a second display mode, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are smaller in size than the images displayed in the first display mode.

18. A display control method using first and second display modes, comprising:

an operation step of receiving a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control step of controlling the image feeding,

wherein in a case where (1) a user completes a user operation, (2) the completed user operation is received at the operation step, and (3) image feeding corresponding to the completed user operation is not completed, the control step controls the image feeding so as (i) to be performed in a second display mode, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are smaller in size than the images displayed in the first display mode.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a display control method using first and second display modes,

the display control method comprising:

an operation step of receiving a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control step of controlling the image feeding,

wherein in a case where (1) a user completes a user operation, (2) the completed user operation is received at the operation step, and (3) image feeding corresponding to the completed user operation is not completed, the control step controls the image feeding so as (i) to be performed in a second display mode, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are smaller in size than the images displayed in the first display mode.

20. A display control apparatus having first and second display modes, comprising:

an operation unit configured to receive a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control unit configured to control the image feeding,

wherein in a case where image feeding is performed in a second display mode, the control unit controls the image feeding so as (i) to continue to be performed in the second display mode after completion of the user operation, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are larger in number than the images displayed in the first display mode.

21. A display control method using first and second display modes, comprising:

an operation step of receiving a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control step of controlling the image feeding,

wherein in a case where image feeding is performed in a second display mode, the control unit controls the image feeding so as (i) to continue to be performed in the second display mode after completion of the user operation, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are larger in number than the images displayed in the first display mode.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a display control method using first and second display modes, the display control method comprising:

an operation step of receiving a user operation that instructs image feeding in a state where a plurality of images are displayed on a display unit at the same time; and

a control step of controlling the image feeding,

wherein in a case where image feeding is performed in a second display mode, the control unit controls the image feeding so as (i) to continue to be performed in the second display mode after completion of the user operation, and (ii) subsequently to be performed in a first display mode, with the second display mode switched to the first display mode, and

wherein the images displayed in the second display mode are larger in number than the images displayed in the first display mode.