Reproducing device, setting changing method, and setting changing device

• US 9,542,727 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2015
• Issued: 01/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• 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:
  US14/731,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20150269710A1
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/158, 345/649, 715/864
• 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 method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for display control. The display control apparatus comprises a circuitry configured to determine whether a hold condition is satisfied, determine an attitude of the display control apparatus, change a display state from a first state displaying a first screen to a second state in response to the display control apparatus not being operated in a predetermined period, and responsive to an operation, return the display state to the first state-displaying the first screen in an orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus in response to the hold condition not being satisfied. The non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises instructions to configure the apparatus to perform the display control method.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a circuitry configured to;

determine whether a hold condition is satisfied,

determine an attitude of the display control apparatus,

change a display state from a first state displaying a first screen to a second state in response to the display control apparatus not being operated in a predetermined period, and

responsive to an operation, return the display state to the first state displaying the first screen in an orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus in response to the hold condition not being satisfied.

2. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first screen includes a menu.

3. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to return the display state to the first state from the second state.

4. The display control apparatus of claim 3, wherein the second state displays a screen-saver screen.

5. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

receive an indication that is indicative of the hold condition from an interface, and

responsive to receiving the indication, determine whether the hold condition is satisfied.

6. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the determination of the attitude of the display control apparatus is in response to a change in the determination of whether the hold condition is satisfied.

7. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein, to return to the first state displaying the first screen in the orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus in response to the hold condition not being satisfied, the circuitry is further configured to select the orientation of the first screen from a set of orientations that includes a first predetermined orientation and a second predetermined orientation.

8. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the determination of the attitude of the display control apparatus is in response to the operation.

9. The display control apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an accelerometer configured to detect the attitude of the display control apparatus.

10. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to change a setting of an operating interface.

11. The display control apparatus of claim 10, wherein the setting of the operating interface includes an interpretation of an operation detected at the operating interface, and wherein the interpretation is based on the attitude of the display control apparatus.

12. A method for display control, the method comprising:

determining, with a circuitry of a display control apparatus, whether a hold condition is satisfied;

determining, with the circuitry, an attitude of the display control apparatus;

changing, with the circuitry, a display state from a first state displaying a first screen to a second state in response to the display control apparatus not being operated in a predetermined period; and

returning, with the circuitry, the display state to the first state

displaying the first screen in an orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus in response to an operation and in response to the hold condition not being satisfied.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first screen includes a menu.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein returning the display state to the first state displaying the first screen in the orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus further includes returning the display state to the first state displaying the first screen from the second state.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the second state displays a screen-saver screen.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving an indication that is indicative of the hold condition from an interface; and

determining whether the hold condition is satisfied in response to receiving the indication.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein determining the attitude of the display control apparatus is in response to a change in the determination of whether the hold condition is satisfied.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein returning the display state to the first state displaying the first screen in the orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus further includes selecting the orientation of the first screen from a set of orientations that includes a first predetermined orientation and a second predetermined orientation.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein determining the attitude of the display control apparatus is in response to the operation.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein determining the attitude of display control apparatus further includes detecting, with an acceleration sensor, the attitude of the display control apparatus.

21. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

changing a setting of an operating interface based on the attitude of the display control apparatus.

22. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a display control apparatus, cause the display control apparatus to:

determine whether a hold condition is satisfied,

determine an attitude of the display control apparatus,

change a display state from a first state displaying a first screen to a second state in response to the display control apparatus not being operated in a predetermined period, and

responsive to an operation, return the display state to the first state displaying the first screen in an orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus in response to the hold condition not being satisfied.

23. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the first screen includes a menu.

24. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein, the instructions that cause the display control apparatus to return the display state to the first state displaying the first screen, the instructions further cause the display control apparatus to return the display state to the first state displaying the first screen from the second state.

25. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 24, wherein the second state displays a screen-saver screen.

26. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the instructions further cause the display control apparatus to:

receive an indication that is indicative of the hold condition from an interface; and

responsive to receiving the indication, determine whether the hold condition is satisfied.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the determination of the attitude of the display control apparatus is in response to a change in the determination of whether the hold condition is satisfied.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein, the instructions that cause the display control apparatus to return the display state display in the first screen in the orientation based on the attitude of the display control apparatus, the instructions further cause the display control apparatus to select the orientation of the first screen from a set of orientations that includes a first predetermined orientation and a second predetermined orientation.

29. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the determination of the attitude of the display control apparatus is in response to the operation.

30. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein, the instructions that cause the display control apparatus to determine the attitude of the display control apparatus, the instructions further cause the display control apparatus to control an acceleration sensor to detect the attitude of the display control apparatus.

31. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 30, wherein the instructions further cause the display control apparatus to change a setting of an operating interface based on the attitude of the display control apparatus.