Display device with scaling of selected object images

• US 9,154,578 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2009
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Murakami, Keiichi, Kamiya, Dai, Onda, Yasushi, Kano, Izua, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Hashida, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Koziol, Stephen R
• Assistant Examiner(s): PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A
• Application Number:
  US13/003,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20110148933A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,220 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

In a communication terminal device, in a case where the arrangement of the windows is changed in a list screen, an overhead screen is initially displayed, in which the list screen is overviewed, and the arrangement of the windows is subsequently changed in the overhead screen, and a magnified screen (original screen) of the overhead screen, in which the arrangement of the windows has been changed, is displayed last, as described in the foregoing. By displaying a magnified image, it is possible to make windows better visible in a small display area of a mobile phone. Also, in a case where a window exists that cannot be displayed in a magnified screen, by displaying an overhead screen, it becomes possible for a user to recognize a fact that a window that cannot be displayed exists in a magnified screen, and also recognize a position of the window.

Claims

1. An information-processing device comprising:

a computer processor for causing a display unit to display in a display area at least a part of an object image group including plural object images in a size corresponding to a first scale, wherein;

at least one of the plural object images overlaps at least another of the plural object images displayed in the display area;

each of the plural object images is a window assigned to a widget,

a first operation mode is carried out when the window assigned to the widget is selected, and a second operation mode is carried out when the window assigned to the widget is not selected; and

the computer processor;

(a) carries out a first processing for causing the display unit to display in the display area a first arrangement of the object image group in which relative positional relation in a planar direction of the plural object images in relation to a first selected window has not been changed, in a size corresponding to a second scale that is smaller than the first scale, a size of all of the plural object images in the object image group being reduced when displayed in the second scale size within the display area;

(b) thereafter carries out a second processing for causing the display unit to display in the display area, in the second scale size, a second arrangement of the object image group in which the relative positional relation in the planar direction of the plural object images in relation to the first selected window has been changed; and

(c) thereafter carries out a third processing for causing the display unit to randomly display in the display area a third arrangement, in the first scale size, of a portion of the object image group of the second arrangement; and

the computer processor, in response to a single selection of a key by a user received by the information-processing device, carries out the first processing, the second processing, and the third processing; and

the computer processor, in response to an operation instruction by a user received by the information-processing device to select a second selected window of an object image included in the third arrangement of the portion of the object image group in the display area in the first scale size, executes a processing corresponding to the second selected window.

2. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the computer processor determines whether all the plural object images of the object image group including the object image whose display position has been changed, can be displayed on the display unit in the first scale size, and in response to the determination being negative, carries out the first processing, the second processing, and the third processing.

3. An information-processing device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the computer processor selects at least one of the plural object images; and

the computer processor displays at least a part of the object image group so that all object images that have been selected by the computer processor are displayed on the display unit.

5. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the plural object images are arranged in an order that applications corresponding to the plural object images are downloaded.

6. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein arrangement of the plural object images is determined based on number of executions of each of applications corresponding to the plural object images.

7. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein arrangement of the plural object images is determined using a predetermined random function.

8. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the computer processor changes the arrangement of the object image group, using a predetermined random function.

9. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the computer processor determines whether a number of the plural object images is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and in response to the determination being affirmative, carries out the first processing, the second processing, and third processing.

10. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the computer processor calculates a total boundary length of the plural object images, determines whether the calculated length is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and in response to the determination being affirmative, carries out the first processing, the second processing, and the third processing.

11. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the computer processor calculates a total area of the plural object images, determines whether the calculated area is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and in response to the determination being affirmative, carries out the first processing, the second processing and the third processing.

12. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein a time period in which the object image group is displayed in the second scale size is determined based on number of the plural object images.

13. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein a time period in which the object image group is displayed in the second scale size is determined based on a difference between the first scale and the second scale.

14. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein a time period in which the object image group is displayed in the second scale size is determined based on an amount of the change in arrangement of the plural object images.

15. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein a time period taken for changing the object image group displayed in the second scale size to the object image group displayed in the first scale size is determined based on number of the plural object images.

16. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein a time period taken for changing the object image group displayed in the second scale size to the object image group displayed in the first scale size is determined based on a total area of the plural object images.

17. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein a time period taken for changing the object image group displayed in the second scale size to the object image group displayed in the first scale size is determined based on a difference between the first scale and the second scale.

18. An information-processing device according to claim 1, wherein a time period taken for changing the object image group displayed in the second scale size to the object image group displayed in the first scale size is determined based on an amount of the change in arrangement of the plural object images.

4. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program product, for causing a computer to carry out:

(a) causing a display unit for displaying an image, to display in a display area at least a part of an object image group including plural object images in a size corresponding to a first scale, at least one of the plural object images overlaps at least another of the plural object images displayed in the display area, each of the plural object images is a window assigned to a widget, a first operation mode is carried out when the window assigned to the widget is selected, and a second operation mode is carried out when the window assigned to the widget is not selected;

(b) a first processing for causing the display unit to display in the display area a first arrangement of the object image group in which relative positional relation in a planar direction of the plural object images in relation to a first selected window has not been changed, in a size corresponding to a second scale that is smaller than the first scale, a size of all of the plural object images in the object image group being reduced when displayed in the second scale size within the display area;

(c) a second processing, subsequent to step (b), for causing the display unit to display in the display area, in the second scale size, a second arrangement of the object image group in which the relative positional relation in the planar direction of the plural object images in relation to the first selected window has been changed;

(d) a third processing, subsequent to step (c), for causing the display unit to randomly display in the display area a third arrangement, in the first scale size, of a portion of the object image group of the second arrangement; and

in response to an operation instruction by a user received by the computer to select a second selected window of an object image included in the third arrangement of the portion of the object image group displayed in the display area in the first scale size, executing a processing corresponding to the second selected window, the steps (b), (c), and (d) being carried out in response to a single selection of a key by a user received by the computer.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 4, further comprising determining whether a number of the plural object images is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and in response to the determination being affirmative, carrying out the first processing, the second processing, and the third processing.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 4, further comprising:

calculating a total boundary length of the plural object images; and

determining whether the calculated length is equal to or greater than a threshold value; and

in response to the determination being affirmative, carrying out the first processing, the second processing, and the third processing.

21. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 4, further comprising:

calculating a total area of the plural object images; and

determining whether the calculated area is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and

in response to the determination being affirmative, carrying out the first processing, the second processing, and the third processing.