Display device, and method of controlling display device

• US 9,645,678 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2013
• Issued: 05/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Ichieda, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAH, PRIYANK J
• Application Number:
  US14/105,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20140168168A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• 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

Abstract

A display device includes a projection unit adapted to display an image on a screen, a position detection unit adapted to detect a pointed position of a pointing body in the screen, and a control section adapted to perform a function related to an operation corresponding to an operation area in a case in which the operation area is disposed outside a display area of the image in the screen, and the pointed position detected by the position detection section is located within the operation area.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a projection unit having a light source and a light modulator, the projection unit being configured to project an image in a display area on a display surface, the image including a first display area and a second display area;

a detector configured to detect an operation position movement in at least one of a plurality of operation areas located in the display surface outside of the display area of the image, the plurality of operation areas including a first operation area located adjacent the first display area and a second operation area located adjacent the second display area; and

a controller configured to;

perform a function in the first display area and not in the second display area when the operation position movement detected by the detector is located within the first operation area, and

perform the function in the second display area and not in the first display area when the operation position movement detected by the detector is located within the second operation area,

wherein the detector;

obtains periodic images of an imaging area that includes the display area and an area outside the display area including the plurality of operation areas,

distinguishes, based on the periodic images of the imaging area, between movements within the display area and movements outside the display area, and

determines that a movement outside the display area is the operation position movement, and

wherein the controller performs the function in both the first display area and the second display area when the operation position movement detected by the detector straddles the first operation area and the second operation area.

2. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display controller configured to display image data supplied from a plurality of image supply sections including an external device respectively in a plurality of display areas disposed in the display surface using the projection unit,

wherein the plurality of the operation areas is set so as to correspond to each of the first display area and the second display area.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

in a case in which the plurality of the operation areas is set, and the detector detects an operation straddling the first operation area and the second operation area, the function corresponding to the operation straddling the two or more of the plurality of operation areas is performed in both the first display area and the second display area.

4. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an imaging device configured to shoot a range including the first display area and the second display area,

wherein the detector detects the operation position movement based on a shot image of the imaging device, and

the first operation area and the second operation area are set within a shootable area of the imaging device.

5. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a recognition device configured to recognize a pattern displayed in at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area; and

a setting device configured to make function information, which corresponds to the pattern recognized by the recognition device, correspond to the at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area,

wherein the controller performs a function based on the function information corresponding to the at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area in a case in which the operation position movement is located within the at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the recognition device includes

a pattern detector configured to detect the pattern displayed in the at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area,

a function storage configured to store the function information corresponding to the pattern, and

a function acquisition device configured to obtain the function information, which corresponds to the pattern detected by the pattern detector, from the function storage.

7. The display device according to claim 6, wherein

in a case in which the operation position movement is located within at least one of the plurality of operation areas where the pattern fails to be detected by the pattern detector, the controller avoids performing any function.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

in a case in which the operation position movement in the at least one of the plurality of operation areas is detected by the detector, the controller performs at least either one of

a switching function configured to switch an image displayed in the display area to another image,

a freeze function configured to stop an image displayed,

a mute function configured to stop displaying an image,

a zoom function configured to magnify or contract an image displayed,

a function configured to change a display position of an image displayed in the display area, and

a function configured to switch between a mode of processing information representing the operation position movement detected by the detector inside the display device and a mode of outputting the information to an outside.

9. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the detector detecting operation position movement comprises the detector detecting movement in a direction parallel to the display surface.

10. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the position movement detected by the detector within at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area is movement that is in a direction parallel to the display surface.

11. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the position movement detected by the detector within the first operation area is movement that is substantially parallel to an edge of the first display area that is adjacent to the first operation area.

12. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

operation areas included in the plurality of operation areas included in the area outside the display area substantially surround, but do not overlap, the display area.

13. A method of controlling a display device including a projection unit having a light source and a light modulator, the method comprising:

causing the projection unit to project an image in a display area on a display surface, the image including a first display area and a second display area;

detecting an operation position movement in at least one of a plurality of operation areas located in the display surface outside of the display area of the image, the plurality of operation areas including a first operation area located adjacent the first display area and a second operation area located adjacent the second display area;

performing a function in the first display area and not in the second display area when the operation position movement detected by the detector is located within the first operation area, and

performing the function in the second display area and not in the first display area when the operation position movement detected by the detector is located within the second operation area,

wherein the detecting of the operation position movement includes;

obtaining periodic images of an imaging area that includes the display area and an area outside the display area including the plurality of operation areas,

distinguishing, based on the periodic images of the imaging area, between movements within the display area and movements outside the display area, and

determining that a movement outside the display area is the operation position movement, and

wherein the performing of the function includes performing the function in both the first display area and the second display area when the detected operation position movement straddles the first operation area and the second operation area.

14. The method of controlling a display device according to claim 13, further comprising:

recognizing a pattern displayed in at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area; and

making function information, which corresponds to the pattern recognized in the recognizing of the pattern, correspond to the at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area,

wherein in the performing the function, a function based on the function information corresponding to the at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area is performed in a case in which the operation position movement is located within the at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area.