Arm-wearable terminal, network service system cooperating with the terminal, display method, and computer-readable storage medium

• US 9,520,100 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2013
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Houjou, Yoshiharu, Tsukamoto, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Gray, Ryan M
• Application Number:
  US13/950,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20140028688A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,237 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/00 Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/04 using radio waves radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0064 in which functions not related to time can be displayed digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04

Abstract

In a network service system, first data is uploaded from a terminal of a member to a server and second data and the first data are viewable by members. The terminal includes a display, a detector configured to detect a screen change operation in a first direction and a screen change operation in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a display controller configured to successively switch and display the first data on the display when the detector detects the screen change operation in the first direction, and successively switch and display the second data when the detector detects the screen change operation in the second direction.

Claims

1. A network service system in which first data of first type is uploaded from a terminal of a member to a server and second data related to the first data and of second type differing from the first type and the first data are viewable by members, wherein the terminal comprises:

a display with a screen;

a detector configured to detect a screen change operation in a first direction and a screen change operation in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and

a processor configured to, in a state where only a profile image of the member is displayed on the screen of the display with the profile image being an image of a first type, successively switch the profile image displayed on the screen of the display to a profile image of another member on the screen of the display so that only the profile image of the other member is displayed on the screen of the display when the detector detects the screen change operation in the first direction, and successively switch on the screen of the display the profile image to an image belonging to a member whose profile image is being displayed, as an image of the second type, so that the profile image is no longer displayed on the screen and only the image of the second type is displayed when the detector detects the screen change operation in the second direction, such that profile images of the first type and images belonging to a member whose profile is being displayed of the second type do not appear at the same time on the screen of the display.

2. The network service system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises:

a first terminal configured to be connected to the server through a network; and

a second terminal attachable to an arm, configured to be connected to the first terminal by communication and to be connected to the server through the first terminal.

4. The network service system according to claim 1, wherein the image belonging to a member is a work subjected to image editing by the member.

3. A terminal for a network service system in which first data of first type is uploaded from a terminal of a member to a server and second data related to the first data and of second type differing from the first type and the first data are viewable by members, the terminal comprising:

a display with a screen;

a detector configured to detect a screen change operation in a first direction and a screen change operation in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;

a display controller configured to successively switch and display the first data on the screen of the display when the detector detects the screen change operation in the first direction, and successively switch and display the second data on the screen of the display when the detector detects the screen change operation in the second direction; and

a processor configured to, in a state where only a profile image of the member is displayed on the screen of the display with the profile image being an image of the first type, successively switch the profile image displayed on the screen of the display to a profile image of another member on the display so that only the profile image of the other member is displayed on the screen of the display when the detector detects the screen change operation in the first direction, and successively switch on the screen of the display the profile image to an image belonging to a member whose profile image is being displayed, as an image of the second type, so that the profile image is no longer displayed on the screen and only the image of the second type is displayed when the detector detects the screen change operation in the second direction, such that profile images of the first type and images belonging to a member whose profile is being displayed of the second type do not appear at the same time on the screen of the display.

5. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the image belonging to a member is a work subjected to image editing by the member.

6. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein

the terminal is attachable to an arm,

the screen change operation comprises swinging the arm wearing the terminal, and

the detector is configured to detect a swing direction of the arm.

7. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein

the screen change operation comprises inclining the terminal, and

the detector is configured to detect an inclination of the terminal.

8. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein

the screen change operation comprises flicking a screen of the display by a finger, and

the detector is configured to detect a flick direction of the finger.

9. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein

at least one of the first direction and the second direction comprises at least one of a horizontal direction and a horizontal direction of a screen of the display.

10. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein

at least one of the first direction and the second direction comprises an oblique direction crossing at least one of a central vertical axis and a central horizontal axis of a screen of the display.

11. The terminal according to claim 3, comprising:

a first terminal configured to be connected to the server through a network; and

a second terminal attachable to an arm, configured to be connected to the first terminal by communication and to be connected to the server through the first terminal.

12. A display method for a network service system in which first data of first type is uploaded from a terminal of a member to a server and second data related to the first data and of second type differing from the first type and the first data are viewable by members, the terminal comprising a display with a screen, the method comprising:

detecting a screen change operation in a first direction and a screen change operation in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;

successively switching and displaying the first data on the screen of the display when the screen change operation in the first direction is detected, and successively switching and displaying the second data on the screen of the display when the screen change operation in the second direction is detected; and

in a state where only a profile image of the member is displayed on the screen of the display with the profile image being an image of a first type, successively switching the profile image displayed on the screen of the display to a profile image of another member on the screen of the display so that only the profile image of the other member is displayed on the screen of the display when the screen change operation in the first direction is detected, and successively switch on the screen of the display the profile image to an image belonging to a member whose profile image is being displayed, as an image of the second type, so that the profile image is no longer displayed on the screen and only the image of the second type is displayed when the screen change operation in the second direction is detected, such that profile images of the first type and images belonging to a member whose profile is being displayed of the second type do not appear at the same time on the screen of the display.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which is executable by a computer of a terminal for a network service system in which first data of first type is uploaded from a terminal of a member to a server and second data related to the first type and of second type differing from the first type and the first data are viewable by members, the terminal comprising a display with a screen, the computer program comprising instructions capable of causing the computer to execute functions of:

detecting a screen change operation in a first direction and a screen change operation in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;

in a state where only a profile image of the member is displayed on the screen of the display with the profile image being an image of a first type, successively switching the profile image displayed on the display to a profile image of another member on the screen of the display so that only the profile image of the other member is displayed on the screen of the display when the screen change operation in the first direction is detected, and successively switching on the screen of the display the profile image to an image belonging to a member whose profile image is being displayed, as an image of the second type, so that the profile image is no longer displayed on the screen and only the image of the second type is displayed when the screen change operation in the second direction is detected, such that profile images of the first type and images belonging to a member whose profile is being displayed of the second type do not appear at the same time on the screen of the display.