Linked display system, linked display method and program

• US 9,213,520 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2010
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohashi, Yoshinori, Yamada, Eiju, Kinoshita, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoang, Phi
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLS, DIANE M
• Application Number:
  US13/516,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20120262492A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,855 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3688 Systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices (not client-server), e.g. detachable faceplates, key fobs or multiple output screens
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1462 with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the remote displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/003 Maps
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

Provided is a linked display system capable of improving availability of information having different scales and amounts of information, a linked display method, and a program. A mobile terminal 100 includes a display unit 101 that displays operation display information I1, a range setting unit 105 that sets a predetermined range A containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position P over operation display information and a communication unit 109 that transmits the predetermined range to a TV set 200. The TV set includes a communication unit 209 that receives the predetermined range from the mobile terminal, a display information selection unit 205 that selects reference display information I2 capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of the reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity of a local apparatus and having a different scale and amount of information from those of the operation display information, and a display unit 201 that displays information corresponding to the predetermined range of the selected reference display information.

Claims

1. A linked display system comprising first and second display apparatuses,

wherein the first display apparatus includes:

a first display device that displays operation display information;

an input device that enables a user to specify any position on the operation display information displayed on the first display device;

a range setting device that sets a predetermined range containing the specified position in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user; and

a first communication device that transmits the predetermined range to the second display apparatus, and

the second display apparatus includes;

a second communication device that receives the predetermined range from the first display device;

a display information selection device that selects reference display information capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information; and

a second display device that displays the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity,

the first communication device being arranged to receive a display range of the reference display information displayed in the second display device from the second display device and the first display device being arranged to display thereon a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information,

in which the range setting device sets a size of the predetermined range in accordance with an amount of information currently being displayed on the first display device in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user, and

in which a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than the size of the predetermined range set by the range setting device and the size of the predetermined range is less than a size of a range of the displayed operation display information.

2. The linked display system according to claim 1,

wherein the range setting device sets a range indicated by the reference display frame after movement in accordance with the operation to move the reference display frame on the first display device as the predetermined range.

3. The linked display system according to claim 1,

wherein the first display apparatus requests the second display apparatus to activate an application or start to use a service capable of displaying the reference display information, and

the second display apparatus activates the application or starts to use the service capable of displaying the reference display information in response to the request of activation.

4. The linked display system according to claim 1, in which the range setting device sets the predetermined range as a rectangle with the specified position as a center thereof and lengths of the rectangle are set based on predetermined lengths and the specified position.

5. The linked display system according to claim 1, in which the range setting device sets the predetermined range as a rectangle with the specified position as a vertex thereof and lengths of the rectangle are set based on predetermined lengths and the specified position.

6. The linked display system according to claim 1, in which the range setting device sets the predetermined range as a circle with the specified position as a center thereof and with a predetermined radius.

7. A linked display method, comprising:

specifying a position by a user from any position on operation display information displayed on a first display device of a first display apparatus;

setting a predetermined range containing the specified position by use of a control device in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user, in which a size of the predetermined range is set in accordance with an amount of information currently being displayed on the first display device in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user;

transmitting the predetermined range to a second display apparatus by the first display apparatus;

selecting reference display information capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information by the second display apparatus;

displaying the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity by the second display apparatus;

receiving at the first display apparatus a display range of the reference display information displayed in the second display apparatus from the second display apparatus; and

displaying on the first display apparatus a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information,

in which a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than the size of the set predetermined range and the size of the predetermined range is less than a size of a range of the displayed operation display information.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program causing a computer to execute a linked display method, the method comprising:

enabling a user to specify any position on operation display information displayed on a first display device of a first display apparatus;

setting a predetermined range containing the specified position by use of a control device in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user, in which a size of the predetermined range is set in accordance with an amount of information currently being displayed on the first display device in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user;

transmitting the predetermined range to a second display apparatus by the first display apparatus selecting reference display information capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information by the second display apparatus;

displaying the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity by the second display apparatus;

receiving at the first display apparatus a display range of the reference display information displayed in the second display apparatus from the second display apparatus; and

displaying on the first display apparatus a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information,

in which a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than the size of the set predetermined range and the size of the predetermined range is less than a size of a range of the displayed operation display information.