Presentation apparatus and presentation control method

• US 8,977,946 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2007
• Issued: 03/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Sato, Noriaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Frank D
• Application Number:
  US11/773,999
• Publication Number:
  US 20080031488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,804 Days
• Field of Search: 715/204
• US Class Current: 715/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A presentation apparatus stores parts data that includes parts data that includes type, location, and size of component parts that are displayed within a selected screen area, together with a selection rule that depicts the type of the component part that is to change a drawing state when the presentation apparatus is running in a presentation mode. When executing a presentation process, the apparatus selects a component part from the parts data, according to the selection rule, processes the selected screen area by changing an image of the selected component part, and generates the image to be used in the presentation.

Claims

1. A presentation apparatus, which can operate in a plurality of modes, including an application mode and a presentation mode, the presentation apparatus comprising:

at least a CPU and a memory, which function as;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire type information and size information of one or more component parts displayed on an application window in an application mode;

a specifying unit configured to specify, from the one or more component parts displayed on the application window in the application mode, based on the type information and the size information, a component part whose type information corresponds to a button and a component part smaller than a predetermined size; and

a processing unit configured to change a drawing state of the component part specified by the specifying unit so as to indicate that the operation of the application via the component part is impossible and does not change a drawing state of a component part having a size bigger than the predetermined size and is other than the component part whose type information corresponds to the button, in a case where a mode is changed from the application mode to the presentation mode.

2. The presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the CPU and the memory further cooperate to function as a holding unit configured to hold image data of each of the component parts displayed in the application mode, wherein the processing unit changes the image data of the component part specified by the specifying unit using the image data held in the holding unit.

3. The presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit:

captures an image that includes the application window displayed in the application mode;

generates a first mask image by changing a drawing state of the component part specified by the specifying unit as the component part via which the operation of the application is impossible in the presentation mode;

generates a second mask image for a component part other than the specified component part by extracting a relevant portion from the captured image; and

displays the captured image based on the first and second mask images in the presentation mode.

4. The presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit generates an image to be displayed in the presentation mode by:

generating a first mask image by changing a drawing state of the component part specified by the specifying unit; and

generating a transparent mask image for a component part other than the specified component part.

5. The presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the acquisition unit is further configured to acquire shape information of the one or more component parts displayed on the application window in the application mode,

the specifying unit is further configured to specify, from the one or more component parts displayed on the application window in the application mode, a component part corresponding to a predetermined shape based on the shape information, and

the processing unit is further configured to change a drawing state of one or more component parts, including a component part whose type information corresponds to the button, a component part smaller than the predetermined size, and a component part corresponding to the predetermined shape, and does not change a drawing state of a predetermined component part which is not specified by the specifying unit, in a case where a mode is changed from the application mode to the presentation mode.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit changes the drawing state of the component part specified by the specifying unit such that a description in the component part is maintained as readable by a user.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the type information of the one or more component parts displayed on the application window, corresponding to the application whose mode is changed from the application mode to the presentation mode, from property information of an operating system.

8. A presentation control method of a presentation apparatus that can operate in a plurality of modes, including an application mode and a presentation mode, the control method comprising steps of:

acquiring type information and size information of one or more component parts displayed on an application window in an application mode;

specifying, from the one or more component parts displayed on the application window in the application mode, based on the type information and the size information, a component part whose type information corresponds to a button and a component part smaller than a predetermined size; and

changing a drawing state of the component part specified in the specifying step so as to indicate that the operation of the application via the component part is impossible, in a case where a mode is changed from the application mode to the presentation mode,

wherein a drawing state of a component part which is not specified in the specifying step is not changed in the changing step.

9. The control method according to claim 8, further comprising a step of holding image data of each of the component parts displayed in the application mode, wherein the changing step includes changing the image data of the component part specified in the specifying step using the image data held in the holding step.

10. The control method according to claim 8, wherein the changing step includes:

capturing an image that includes the application window displayed in the application mode;

generating a first mask image by changing a drawing state of the component part specified in the specifying step as a component part via which the operation of the application is impossible in the presentation mode;

generating a second mask image for a component part other than the specified component part, by extracting a relevant portion from the captured image; and

displaying the captured image based on the first and second mask images in the presentation mode.

11. The control method according to claim 8, wherein the changing step includes generating an image to be displayed in the presentation mode by:

generating a mask image by changing a drawing state of the component part specified in the specifying step; and

generating a transparent mask image for a component part other than the specified component part.

12. The control method according to claim 8,

wherein the acquiring step includes acquiring shape information of the one or more component parts displayed on the application window in the application mode,

wherein the specifying step includes specifying, from the one or more component parts displayed on the application window in the application mode, a component part corresponding to a predetermined shape based on the shape information, and

wherein the changing step includes changing a drawing state of one or more component parts, including a component part whose type information corresponds to the button, a component part smaller than the predetermined size, and a component part corresponding to the predetermined shape, and does not change a drawing state of a predetermined component part which is not specified in the specifying step, in a case where a mode is changed from the application mode to the presentation mode.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that when executed causes a computer to perform a control method of a presentation apparatus, the control method comprising steps of:

acquiring type information and size information of one or more component parts displayed on an application window in an application mode;

specifying, from the one or more component parts displayed on the application window in the application mode, based on the type information and the size information, a component part whose type information corresponds to a button and a component part smaller than a predetermined size; and

changing a drawing state of the component part specified in the specifying step so as to indicate that the operation of the application via the component part is impossible, in a case where a mode is changed from the application mode to the presentation mode,

wherein a drawing state of a component part which is not specified in the specifying step is not changed in the changing step.