Portable terminal device, luminance control method, and luminance control program

• US 9,696,895 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2015
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Harada, Masaaki, Hoshino, Masashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Frank
• Application Number:
  US14/733,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20150268810A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/10 Intensity circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/34 for rolling or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/346 for systems having a bit-mapped display memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0267 by controlling user interface components
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A portable terminal apparatus receives an operation instructing that an image displayed on a screen be scrolled, and moves the image in the instructed direction. The apparatus comprising: one or more memories, and circuitry. The circuitry which, in operation, judges whether or not a display image at an end of scrolling is included in a region of the screen during scrolling and determines, to be a control target region, a region judged not to include the display image at the end of the scrolling of the region of the screen; and performs control of lowering brightness of the control target region on the display image during scrolling.

Claims

1. A portable terminal apparatus that receives an operation to instruct scrolling of an image displayed on a screen, that moves the image toward an instructed direction and that displays the image, the apparatus comprising:

one or more memories; and

circuitry which, in operation;

detects a speed of the operation;

calculates a total distance by which a display image at an end of scrolling moves from start to end of the scrolling and a moving distance by which the display image at the end of the scrolling moves during scrolling based on the operation speed;

judges whether or not the display image at the end of scrolling is included in a region of the screen during scrolling based on a difference between the total distance and the moving distance during scrolling and determines, to be a control target region, a region judged not to include the display image at the end of the scrolling of the region of the screen; and

performs control of lowering brightness of the control target region on the display image during scrolling, and for a region of the screen that part of the display image at the end of the scrolling enters, performs control of changing brightness of the region to brightness higher than that of the control target region.

2. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when a subsequent operation instructing new scrolling is received during scrolling by the previously received operation, the circuitry further:

detects a speed of the subsequent operation; and

calculates the total distance and the moving distance during the scrolling based on the speed of the subsequent operation.

3. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the total distance is smaller than a threshold, the circuitry determines not to perform control of lowering the brightness.

4. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

when the total distance is smaller than a threshold, the circuitry determines an amount of lowering the brightness to be a value smaller than that in a case where the total distance is equal to or greater than the threshold, and

the circuitry performs control of lowering the brightness based on the determined value.

5. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

when the total distance is equal to or greater than the threshold, the circuitry determines an amount of lowering the brightness of the control target region to be a greater value as the total distance increases, and

the circuitry performs control of lowering the brightness based on the determined value.

6. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry determines not to perform control of lowering the brightness for a period of time until the moving distance during the scrolling reaches a second threshold from 0 and for a period of time from a third threshold which is greater than the second threshold to the total distance.

7. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry determines an amount of lowering the brightness to be a greater value as the distance increases, for a period of time until the moving distance during the scrolling reaches a second threshold from 0,

the circuitry determines the amount of lowering the brightness to be a smaller value as the distance increases, for a period of time until the moving distance during the scrolling reaches the total distance from a third threshold which is greater than the second threshold, and

the circuitry determines to perform control of lowering the brightness based on the determined value.

8. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a plurality of screens, wherein

the circuitry performs, when one image is divided to be displayed on the plurality of screens, control of lowering the brightness on the one image, and

the circuitry performs, when independent images are displayed on the plurality of screens, respectively, control of lowering the brightness on the independent images.

9. A brightness control method performed by an apparatus that receives an operation to instruct scrolling of an image displayed on a screen, that moves the image toward an instructed direction and that displays the image, the method comprising:

detecting a speed of the operation;

calculating a total distance by which a display image at an end of scrolling moves from start to end of the scrolling and a moving distance by which the display image at the end of the scrolling moves during scrolling based on the operation speed;

judging whether or not the display image at the end of scrolling is included in a region of the screen during scrolling based on a difference between the total distance and the moving distance during scrolling and determining, to be a control target region, a region judged not to include the display image at the end of the scrolling of the region of the screen; and

performing control of lowering brightness of the control target region on the display image during scrolling, and for a region of the screen that part of the display image at the end of the scrolling enters, performing control of changing brightness of the region to brightness higher than that of the control target region.

10. A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer program to be executed by a computer of an apparatus, the apparatus being an apparatus that receives an operation to instruct scrolling of an image displayed on a screen, that moves the image toward an instructed direction and that displays the image, the computer program causing the computer of the apparatus to:

detect a speed of the operation;

calculate a total distance by which a display image at an end of scrolling moves from start to end of the scrolling and a moving distance by which the display image at the end of the scrolling moves during scrolling based on the operation speed;

judge whether or not the display image at the end of scrolling is included in a region of the screen during scrolling based on a difference between the total distance and the moving distance during scrolling and determine, to be a control target region, a region judged not to include the display image at the end of the scrolling of the region of the screen; and

perform control of lowering brightness of the control target region on the display image during scrolling, and for a region of the screen that part of the display image at the end of the scrolling enters, perform control of changing brightness of the region to brightness higher than that of the control target region.