Reproducing device, setting changing method, and setting changing device

• US 9,076,358 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2013
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyazawa, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharifi-Tafreshi, Koosha
• Application Number:
  US13/739,643
• Publication Number:
  US 20130127914A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/158, 345/168, 345/169, 345/173, 382/296, 715/744, 715/788, 715/799, 715/825, 715/863, 715/864, 715/866
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/606 by memory addressing or mapping
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A reproducing device that can reproduce data and operates on a battery includes displaying means, attitude detecting means for detecting an attitude of the reproducing device, determining means for determining whether the reproducing device satisfies a predetermined condition, and controlling means for changing a setting of the reproducing device on a basis of a result of detection of the attitude detecting means when the determining means determines that the reproducing device satisfies the predetermined condition.

Claims

1. A display controlling apparatus comprising:

an attitude detecting unit configured to detect an attitude of the display controlling apparatus and to provide one or more signals corresponding to the detected attitude;

a fall detection detecting unit configured to detect a fall of the display controlling apparatus;

a determining unit configured to determine whether the display controlling apparatus satisfies a predetermined condition; and

a controlling unit configured to change a setting of the display controlling apparatus based on the signals corresponding to the detected attitude provided by the attitude detecting unit, in a case that the determining unit determines that the display controlling apparatus satisfies the predetermined condition,

wherein the determining unit is configured to determine that the display controlling apparatus satisfies the predetermined condition in a case that an operating instruction is given to the controlling unit by an operating unit, and

wherein after a setting of the display controlling apparatus has been changed, the attitude detecting unit is configured to detect only a fall by stopping the detection of an attitude of the display control apparatus by the attitude detecting unit, and/or by stopping the providing of the signals corresponding to the detected attitude by the attitude detecting unit, until the predetermined condition is satisfied another time.

2. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting is a display orientation of displayed data.

3. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting is definitions assigned to buttons of the operation unit.

4. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controlling unit is further configured to, when the attitude is not detected by the attitude detecting unit, cause a menu screen to be displayed in an orientation of a previously displayed screen.

5. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controlling unit is further configured to change the setting of the display controlling apparatus in a case when the result of detection of the attitude detecting unit is constant for a predetermined period.

11. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is that a power supply to the display controlling apparatus is changed from an off state to an on state.

6. A method for controlling an apparatus having a display comprising:

detecting an attitude of the apparatus and providing one or more signals corresponding to the detected attitude;

detecting a fall of the apparatus;

determining whether the apparatus satisfies a predetermined condition;

changing a setting of the display based on the provided signals corresponding to the detected attitude, in a case that the apparatus is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, and

after a setting of the display has been changed, detecting only a fall of the apparatus by stopping the detection of an attitude of the apparatus and/or stopping the providing of the signals corresponding to the detected attitude, until the predetermined condition is satisfied another time,

wherein the apparatus is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition in a case that an operating instruction is given to the apparatus.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein changing a setting of the apparatus comprises changing a display orientation of displayed data.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein changing a setting of the apparatus comprises changing definitions assigned to buttons of an operation unit of the apparatus.

9. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

when the attitude is not detected, causing a menu screen to be displayed in an orientation of a previously displayed screen.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein changing a setting of the apparatus comprises changing the setting of the apparatus in a case when the result of detection is constant for a predetermined period.

12. The method according to claim 6, wherein the predetermined condition is that a power supply to the apparatus is changed from an off state to an on state.