Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

• US 8,878,868 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2009
• Issued: 11/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kurosaki, Daisuke, Tsuzuki, Akiko, Koizumi, Naoshi, Kitagawa, Tomoyuki, Tsuyuhara, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Caschera, Antonio A
• Application Number:
  US12/535,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20100053189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,918 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/593
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0613 The adjustment depending on the type of the information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0666 for control of colour parameters, e.g. colour temperature
• 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

Abstract

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having: a display controlling unit for starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen; a determining unit for determining the application program started by the display controlling unit; and a changing unit for changing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen in accordance with the application program determined by the determining unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

start any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen;

determine at least one of identification information of a type of the display screen and identification information of a type of graphics model used with the display screen;

obtain a plurality of image quality modes set for respective display purposes based upon the at least one of the identification information of the type of the display screen and the identification information of the type of graphics model, each of the image quality modes prescribing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen;

determine the application program started;

determine whether a user has manually selected one of the image quality modes;

change the plurality of image quality parameters in accordance with the determined application program when the user has not manually selected one of the image quality modes; and

change the plurality of image quality parameters in accordance with the one of the image quality modes manually selected by the user when the user has manually selected one of the image quality modes.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to

store identification information of the application program as associated with the image quality parameters,

determine the identification information of the application program started, and

change the image quality parameters for setting the image quality of the display screen to the image quality parameters associated with the determined identification information of the application program.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to:

select any of the image quality modes in accordance with the determined application program, and

change the image quality parameters for setting the image quality of the display screen to the image quality parameters associated with the selected image quality mode.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the circuitry is configured to store a predetermined number of the image quality modes as associated with identification information of the application programs.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the application programs are programs for displaying static image contents or moving image contents on the display screen.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image quality parameters include parameters for correcting image quality of static image contents or moving image contents.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image quality parameters include parameters for correcting panel color temperature.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a case that a plurality of the plurality of application programs run simultaneously, the circuitry is configured to determine the application program started as the application program that is in a foreground of the display screen.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to invalidate change of the image quality parameters when the display screen is mounted on a display device external to the information processing apparatus.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein to invalidate change of the image quality parameters, the circuitry is configured to set the image quality parameters to default values.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein to invalidate change of the image quantity parameters, the circuitry is configured to set at least one of the image quality parameters to a default value.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image quality modes includes at least:

a standard mode,

a DVD/BD mode,

a television mode,

an x. v. Color mode,

a print mode, and

an external output mode.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein each of the plurality of image quality modes prescribes settings for at least:

display gamma correction,

moving image color correction,

static image color space conversion,

moving color space conversion, and

panel color temperature.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein each of the plurality of image quality modes prescribes settings for at least one of:

display gamma correction,

moving image color correction,

static image color space conversion,

moving color space conversion, and

panel color temperature.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image quality modes includes at least one of:

a standard mode,

a DVD/BD mode,

a television mode,

an x. v. Color mode,

a print mode, and

an external output mode.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein each of the plurality of image quality modes prescribes settings for at least:

display gamma correction,

moving image color correction,

static image color space conversion,

moving color space conversion, and

panel color temperature.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of image quality modes prescribes settings for at least:

display gamma correction,

moving image color correction,

static image color space conversion,

moving color space conversion, and

panel color temperature.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of image quality modes prescribes settings for at least one of:

display gamma correction,

moving image color correction,

static image color space conversion,

moving color space conversion, and

panel color temperature.

19. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

starting, via circuitry of an information processing apparatus, any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen;

determining, via the circuitry, at least one of identification information of a type of the display screen and identification information of a type of graphics model used with the display screen;

obtaining, via the circuitry, a plurality of image quality modes set for respective display purposes based upon the at least one of the identification information of the type of the display screen and the identification information of the type of graphics model, each of the image quality modes prescribing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen;

determining, via the circuitry, the application program started;

determining, via the circuitry, whether a user has manually selected one of the image quality modes;

changing, via the circuitry, the plurality of image quality parameters for in accordance with the application program determined when the user has not manually selected one of the image quality modes; and

;

changing, via the circuitry, the plurality of image quality parameters in accordance with the one of the image quality modes manually selected by the user when the user has manually selected one of the image quality modes.

20. A non-transitory medium storing a program for making circuitry of an information processing apparatus function as:

a display controlling unit for starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen;

a determining unit for

determining at least one of identification information of a type of the display screen and identification information of a type of graphics model used with the display screen,

obtaining a plurality of image quality modes set for respective display purposes based upon the at least one of the identification information of the type of the display screen and the identification information of the type of graphics model, each of the image quality modes prescribing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen,

determining the application program started by the display controlling unit, and;

determining whether a user has manually selected one of the image quality modes; and

a changing unit for

changing the plurality of image quality parameters in accordance with the application program determined by the determining unit when the user has not manually selected one of the image quality mode, and

changing the plurality of image quality parameters in accordance with the one of the image quality modes manually selected by the user when the user has manually selected one of the image quality modes.