Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image display program

• US 9,063,646 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2009
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ozawa, Hiroyuki, Furue, Nobuki, Akagawa, Satoshi, Iwase, Ayako
• Primary Examiner(s): Merouan, Abderrahim
• Application Number:
  US12/607,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20100123734A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,064 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/179, 345/419, 715/722, 715/863, 715/823
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/346 for systems having a bit-mapped display memory

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a pointed-position detecting section that accepts a pointing operation via an operating surface provided on a display screen of an image display device, and detects and outputs a position pointed at by the pointing operation on the operating surface. The image processing apparatus also includes a display control section that displays on the image display device an image. The display control section controls the image display device to display a first size image for a predetermined time while the pointing operation continues and then displays a plurality of images having a size smaller than the first size in response to a determination that the pointing operation has held the position for the predetermined time.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

control performing a scrolling process of an image at a first size on a display screen of an image display device in a case a pointing operation is detected at a position on an operating surface of the display screen;

control continuing the scrolling process while simultaneously displaying a plurality of images at a second size smaller than the first size in response to a determination that the pointing operation is maintained at the position for a predetermined time; and

control a termination of the scrolling process of the plurality of images at the second size and control displaying on the entire area of the display screen an image located at a center of the display screen at an end of the scrolling process, in response to a termination of the pointing operation.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the scrolling process is one of a scrolling process of a display image, an enlarged display process of the display image, a reduced display process of the display image, a fast-forward playback process of a moving image, and a fast-reverse playback process of the moving image.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to measure, when the pointing operation is accepted on the operating surface, a duration of pointing according to the pointing operation on the operating surface.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the circuitry performs, when the scrolling process that is being performed is a scrolling process of a display image, the scrolling process after displaying information related to a date related to the display image, the plurality of images having the second size, and information related to an attribute of the display image, in different display areas.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pointing operation accepted on the operating surface is a tracing operation or a pinch operation;

the circuitry is further configured to

detect a distance of the tracing operation or the pinch operation on the basis of a detection output,

provide time information, and

detect a speed of the tracing operation or the pinch operation on the basis of the detection output, and the time information, and

control a manner of display of an image by the scrolling process on the basis of one or both of the distance of the tracing operation or the pinch operation which is detected, and the speed of the tracing operation or the pinch operation which is detected.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the scrolling process that is being performed is a scrolling process of the plurality of images, a scrolling is performed to shift plural images of the plurality of images at a time.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the pointing operation is stationary contact with the operating surface after a tracing operation across the operating surface,

when the stationary contact is accepted, the circuitry starts and continues the scrolling process of scrolling through images displayed at the first size,

when the stationary contact with the operating surface has been maintained for the predetermined time, the circuitry continues the scrolling while displaying a plurality of images having the second size smaller than the first size, and

when the stationary contact with the operating surface ends, the circuitry stops the scrolling.

8. An image display method, comprising:

controlling performing a scrolling process of an image at a first size on a display screen of an image display device in a case a pointing operation is detected at a position on an operating surface of the display screen;

controlling continuing the scrolling process while simultaneously displaying a plurality of images at a second size smaller than the first size in response to a determination that the pointing operation is maintained at the position for a predetermined time; and

controlling a termination of the scrolling process of the plurality of images at the second size and control displaying on the entire area of the display screen an image located at a center of the display screen at an end of the scrolling process, in response to a termination of the pointing operation.

9. The image display method according to claim 8, wherein

the pointing operation is stationary contact with the operating surface after a tracing operation across the operating surface,

when the stationary contact is accepted, the performing includes starting and continuing the scrolling process of scrolling through images displayed at the first size,

when the stationary contact with the operating surface has been maintained for the predetermined time, the controlling includes continuing the scrolling while displaying a plurality of images having the second size smaller than the first size, and

when the stationary contact with the operating surface ends, the controlling includes stopping the scrolling.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with an image display program for causing a computer incorporated in an imaging processing apparatus to execute a method comprising:

controlling performing a scrolling process of an image at a first size on a display screen of an image display device in a case a pointing operation is detected at a position on an operating surface of the display screen;

controlling continuing the scrolling process while simultaneously displaying a plurality of images at a second size smaller than the first size in response to a determination that the pointing operation is maintained at the position for a predetermined time; and

controlling a termination of the scrolling process of the plurality of images at the second size and control displaying on the entire area of the display screen an image located at a center of the display screen at an end of the scrolling process, in response to a termination of the pointing operation.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10, wherein

the pointing operation is stationary contact with the operating surface after a tracing operation across the operating surface,

when the stationary contact is accepted, the performing includes starting and continuing the scrolling process of scrolling through images displayed at the first size,

when the stationary contact with the operating surface has been maintained for the predetermined time, the controlling includes continuing the scrolling while displaying a plurality of images having the second size smaller than the first size, and

when the stationary contact with the operating surface ends, the controlling includes stopping the scrolling.

12. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

means for controlling performing a scrolling process of an image at a first size on a display screen of an image display device in a case a pointing operation is detected at a position on an operating surface of the display screen;

means for controlling continuing the scrolling process while simultaneously displaying a plurality of images at a second size smaller than the first size in response to a determination that the pointing operation is maintained at the position for a redetermined time; and

means for controlling a termination of the scrolling process of the plurality of images at the second size and control displaying on the entire area of the display screen an image located at a center of the display screen at an end of the scrolling process, in response to a termination of the pointing operation.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

the pointing operation is stationary contact with the operating surface after a tracing operation across the operating surface,

when the stationary contact is accepted, the means for displaying starts and continues the scrolling process of scrolling through images displayed at the first size,

when the stationary contact with the operating surface has been maintained for the predetermined time, the means for displaying continues the scrolling while displaying a plurality of images having the second size smaller than the first size, and

when the stationary contact with the operating surface ends, the means for displaying stops the scrolling.