Display control apparatus and method of controlling the same

• US 9,007,406 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Mori, Kurumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chu, David H
• Application Number:
  US13/198,625
• Publication Number:
  US 20120044266A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,349 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/688
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0442 Handling or displaying different aspect ratios, or changing the aspect ratio
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/34 for rolling or scrolling

Abstract

This invention provides a display control apparatus capable of more quickly displaying the next image while suppressing a decrease in viewability. The apparatus displays an image together with an added non-image area when displaying, in a display area of a display unit to be used to display an image, the image having an aspect ratio different from that of the display area. Upon accepting a scroll operation of instructing scroll display of the image displayed in the display area, the apparatus performs the scroll display in accordance with the scroll operation. At this time, the apparatus adjusts the non-image area to decrease the width of the non-image area in the moving direction of the scroll during execution of the scroll display as the operation amount of the accepted scroll operation increases.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to control to display an image together with an added non-image area when displaying, in a display area of a display unit to be used to display an image, the image having an aspect ratio different from that of the display area;

an acceptance unit configured to accept a scroll operation of instructing scroll display of the image displayed in the display area;

a scroll control unit configured to control to perform the scroll display in accordance with the scroll operation accepted by said acceptance unit with no alteration of display size of the image; and

an adjustment unit configured to adjust, when an end of images has not been reached, a space between adjacent images displayed on the same display area to decrease a width of the space in a moving direction of the scroll during execution of the scroll display as an operation amount of the scroll operation accepted by said acceptance unit increases,

wherein when displaying a first image in a case where the scroll display is not performing, said display control unit controls to display the first image and add the interval without displaying another image,

wherein when displaying a second image adjacent to the first image in a case where the scroll display is not performing, said display control unit controls to display the second image and add the interval without displaying another image,

wherein in a case where the scroll display is performing, said adjustment unit adjusts the interval between the first and second images so as to become narrower than a sum of the width of the interval on the side of the second image out of the intervals of the first image to be displayed in a case where the scroll display is not performing and the width of the interval of the side of the first image out of the intervals of the second image to be displayed in a case where the scroll display is not performing.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said scroll control unit controls to perform the scroll display at a higher scroll speed as the operation amount of the scroll operation accepted by said acceptance unit increases.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said scroll control unit

performs the scroll display at a predetermined scroll speed if the operation amount of the scroll operation accepted by said acceptance unit is not more than a predetermined threshold, and

performs the scroll display at a higher scroll speed as the operation amount increases if the operation amount of the scroll operation accepted by said acceptance unit is more than the predetermined threshold.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said adjustment unit performs adjustment to decrease the width as the number of scroll operations serving as the operation amount of the scroll operation increases.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said acceptance unit accepts a flick operation on a touch panel as the scroll operation, and

said adjustment unit performs adjustment to decrease the width as a moving speed of touch by the flick operation serving as the operation amount of the scroll operation increases.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said acceptance unit accepts a rotational operation on an operation member as the scroll operation, and

said adjustment unit performs adjustment to decrease the width as a rotational speed by the rotational operation serving as the operation amount of the scroll operation increases.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the operation amount of the scroll operation is more than a predetermined threshold, said adjustment unit sets the width to a fixed width independently of the operation amount of the scroll operation more than the predetermined threshold.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if a non-operation time of the scroll operation not less than a predetermined time has elapsed, said adjustment unit further decreases the width in accordance with the non-operation time.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to function as each unit of a display control apparatus of claim 1.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said adjustment unit performs adjustment to increase the width as the operation amount of the scroll operation is reduced.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display control unit controls the image to be displayed to resize one direction of the image so as to equal the display area, and to add a non-image area to the resized image in another direction in which the size does not match to the display area.

9. A method of controlling a display control apparatus, comprising the steps of:

controlling to display an image together with an added non-image area when displaying, in a display area of a display unit to be used to display one image, the image having an aspect ratio different from that of the display area;

accepting a scroll operation of instructing scroll display of the image displayed in the display area;

controlling to perform the scroll display in accordance with the scroll operation accepted in the accepting step with no alteration of display size of the image; and

adjusting, when an end of images has not been reached, a space between adjacent images displayed on the same display area to decrease a width of the space in a moving direction of the scroll during execution of the scroll display as an operation amount of the scroll operation accepted in the accepting step increases,

wherein when displaying a first image in a case where the scroll display is not performing, said display control step controls to display the first image and add the interval without displaying another image,

wherein when displaying a second image adjacent to the first image in a case where the scroll display is not performing, said display control step controls to display the second image and add the interval without displaying another image,

wherein in a case where the scroll display is performing, said adjustment step adjusts the interval between the first and second images so as to become narrower than a sum of the width of the interval on the side of the second image out of the intervals of the first image to be displayed in a case where the scroll display is not performing and the width of the interval of the side of the first image out of the intervals of the second image to be displayed in a case where the scroll display is not performing.

13. A display control apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to control to display an image together with an added non-image area when displaying, in a display area of a display unit to be used to display an image, the image having an aspect ratio different from that of the display area;

an acceptance unit configured to accept a scroll operation of instructing scroll display of the image displayed in the display area;

a scroll control unit configured to control to perform the scroll display in accordance with the scroll operation accepted by said acceptance unit with no alteration of at least display size of the image in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the scroll; and

an adjustment unit configured to adjust, when an end of images has not been reached, a space between adjacent images displayed on the same display area to decrease a width of the space in a moving direction of the scroll during execution of the scroll display as an operation amount of the scroll operation accepted by said acceptance unit increases,

wherein if a non-operation time of the scroll operation not less than a predetermined time has elapsed, said adjustment unit further decreases the width in accordance with the non-operation time.