Electronic device, display control method, and display control program

• US 9,778,758 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2015
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Sato, Takayuki, Nagaya, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kimbinh T
• Application Number:
  US14/730,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20150346846A1
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: 345419, 345427
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• 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 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/00 3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

A cellular telephone device with a control unit sets a display mode of a display unit to any one of a first display mode for performing two-dimensional display, and a second display mode for performing three-dimensional display; the cellular telephone device displays both of first information and second information, which is subordinate information to the first information, on the display unit, in a case of being set to the second display mode; and the cellular telephone device displays any one of the first information and the second information on the display unit, in a case of being set to the first display mode.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display unit;

an inclination detecting unit configured to detect an angle of inclination of the electronic device; and

a control unit configured to set any one of;

a first display mode for causing the display unit to display any one face of a first face for displaying first information, and a second face for displaying second information, which is subordinate information to the first information; and

a second display mode for causing the display unit to display both of the one face and an other face, in a state where the one face is partly overlapped with the other face, wherein in the second display mode, the control unit is configured to reduce overlapped areas of the one face and the other face, in accordance with the angle of the inclination detected by the inclination detecting unit,

the control unit is configured to switch between the first and second display modes according to a comparison between a predetermined angle and the detected angle of the inclination for a predetermined period of time; and

wherein the control unit is configured to

switch the first display mode to the second display mode when the detected angle of the inclination of the electronic device is not smaller than the predetermined angle for the predetermined period of time, and switch the second display mode to the first display mode when the detected angle of the inclination of the electronic device is smaller than the predetermined angle for the predetermined period of time.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to reduce the overlapped areas, in accordance with an angle relative to the angle of the inclination when both of the one face and the other face are displayed in the second display mode.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein, in the second display mode, the control unit is configured to reduce the overlapped areas, as the angle of the inclination is increased in relation to the angle of the inclination value of the inclination when both of the one face and the other face are displayed in the second display mode.

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

wherein, in the first display mode, the control unit is configured to not change a display aspect of the one face, in accordance with the angle of the inclination detected by the inclination detecting unit.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein in the second display mode, the control unit is configured to move at least one of the one face and the other face to reduce the overlapped areas of the one face and the other face, in accordance with the angle of the inclination of the electronic device detected by the inclination detecting unit.

6. An electronic device, comprising:

a display unit;

an inclination detecting unit configured to detect an angle of inclination of the electronic device; and

a control unit configured to set a display mode of the display unit to any one of;

a first display mode for displaying a face for displaying character information in a two-dimensional manner; and

a second display mode for displaying a plurality of faces for displaying character information in a three-dimensional manner, wherein in the first display mode, the control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display the face in a two-dimensional manner, in the second display mode, in a state where at least two faces of the plurality of faces are partly overlapped with each other, the control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display the two faces in an oblique perspective manner in a same orientation so as to be displayed in a three-dimensional manner; and

the control unit is configured to reduce overlapped areas of the two faces, in accordance with an inclination value of the inclination detected by the inclination detecting unit in the second display mode, and the control unit is configured to switch between the first and second display modes according to a comparison between a predetermined value and the detected angle of the inclination for a predetermined period of time; and

wherein the control unit is configured to

switch the first display mode to the second display mode when the detected angle of the inclination of the electronic device is not smaller than the predetermined angle for the predetermined period of time, and switch the second display mode to the first display mode when the detected angle of the inclination of the electronic device is smaller than the predetermined angle for the predetermined period of time.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the control unit is configured to reduce the overlapped areas of the two faces, as an angle of the inclination value of the inclination detected by the inclination detecting unit is increased.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein, in the first display mode, the control unit is configured to not change a display aspect of the faces, in accordance with the angle of the inclination detected by the inclination detecting unit.

9. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the control unit is configured to move at least one of the two faces to reduce the overlapped areas of the two faces, in accordance with an angle of the inclination value of the inclination of the electronic device detected by the inclination detecting unit in the second display mode.