Linked display system, linked display method and program

• US 9,965,239 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2015
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohashi, Yoshinori, Yamada, Eiju, Kinoshita, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Tryder, Gregory J
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLS, DIANE M
• Application Number:
  US14/941,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20160070524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3688 Systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices (not client-server), e.g. detachable faceplates, key fobs or multiple output screens
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1462 with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the remote displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/003 Maps
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

Provided is a linked display system capable of improving availability of information having different scales and amounts of information, a linked display method, and a program. A mobile terminal 100 includes a display unit 101 that displays operation display information I1, a range setting unit 105 that sets a predetermined range A containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position P over operation display information and a communication unit 109 that transmits the predetermined range to a TV set 200. The TV set includes a communication unit 209 that receives the predetermined range from the mobile terminal, a display information selection unit 205 that selects reference display information I2 capable of displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of the reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity of a local apparatus and having a different scale and amount of information from those of the operation display information, and a display unit 201 that displays information corresponding to the predetermined range of the selected reference display information.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display that displays operation display information; and

a processing device configured to control;

enabling input by a user to specify a position on the operation display information displayed on the display;

setting a predetermined range containing the specified position in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user;

transmitting the predetermined range to a second display apparatus; and

receiving a display range of reference display information displayed at a second display of the second display apparatus from the second display apparatus,

wherein the reference display information is for displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range, is selected at the second display apparatus from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity of the second display, and has a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information,

wherein the display is arranged to display thereon a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information,

wherein the processing device is configured to control setting a size of the predetermined range in accordance with an amount of information currently being displayed on the display in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user, and

wherein a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than the size of the predetermined range and the size of the predetermined range is less than a size of a range of the displayed operation display information.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing device is configured to control setting a range indicated by the reference display frame after movement in accordance with an operation to move the reference display frame on the display as the predetermined range.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing device is configured to control transmitting a request to the second display apparatus to activate an application or start to use a service capable of displaying the reference display information, and

wherein the second display apparatus activates the application or starts to use the service capable of displaying the reference display information in response to the request of activation.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing device is configured to control setting the predetermined range as a rectangle with the specified position as a center thereof and lengths of the rectangle are set based on predetermined lengths and the specified position.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing device is configured to control setting the predetermined range as a rectangle with the specified position as a vertex thereof and lengths of the rectangle are set based on predetermined lengths and the specified position.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing device is configured to control setting the predetermined range as a circle with the specified position as a center thereof and with a predetermined radius.

7. A display method comprising:

setting a predetermined range containing a position specified by a user at an input device of a first display apparatus on operation display information displayed on a first display device of the first display apparatus, in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user, in which a size of the predetermined range is set in accordance with an amount of information currently being displayed on the first display device in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user;

transmitting the predetermined range to a second display apparatus by the first display apparatus;

receiving a display range of reference display information displayed at a second display device of the second display apparatus from the second display apparatus,

in which the reference display information is for displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range, is selected at the second display device from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity of the second display device, and has a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information; and

displaying on the first display device a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information,

in which a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than the size of the predetermined range set by the range setting device and the size of the predetermined range is less than a size of a range of the displayed operation display information.

8. The display method according to claim 7, further comprising:

setting a range indicated by the reference display frame after movement in accordance with an operation to move the reference display frame on the first display device as the predetermined range.

9. The display method according to claim 7, further comprising:

transmitting a request to the second display apparatus to activate an application or start to use a service capable of displaying the reference display information, and

wherein the second display apparatus activates the application or starts to use the service capable of displaying the reference display information in response to the request of activation.

10. The display method according to claim 7, further comprising:

setting the predetermined range as a rectangle are set with the specified position as a center thereof and lengths of the rectangle are set based on predetermined lengths and the specified position.

11. The display method according to claim 7, further comprising:

setting the predetermined range as a rectangle with the specified position as a vertex thereof and lengths of the rectangle are set based on predetermined lengths and the specified position.

12. The display method according to claim 7, further comprising:

setting the predetermined range as a circle with the specified position as a center thereof and with a predetermined radius.

13. A display apparatus comprising:

a processing device configured to control;

receiving a predetermined range from a second display apparatus, in which the predetermined range contains a position specified by a user on operation display information displayed at the second display apparatus and is set in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user;

selecting reference display information for displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity of a display and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information; and

the display that displays the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity,

wherein the processing device configured to control transmitting to the second display apparatus a display range of the reference display information displayed in the display,

wherein a second display of the second display apparatus is arranged to display thereon a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information,

wherein a size of the predetermined range is set at the second display apparatus in accordance with an amount of information currently being displayed on the second display in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user, and

wherein a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than the size of the predetermined range and the size of the predetermined range is less than a size of a range of the displayed operation display information.

14. A display method comprising:

receiving, at a first display apparatus, a predetermined range from a second display apparatus, in which the predetermined range contains a position specified by a user on operation display information displayed at the second display apparatus and is set in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user;

selecting, at the first display apparatus, reference display information for displaying information corresponding to the predetermined range from at least one piece of reference display information corresponding to the operation display information in accordance with display capacity of the first display apparatus and having a different scale and amount of information from the scale and amount of information of the operation display information;

displaying, at the first display apparatus, the information different from the predetermined range of the selected reference display information in accordance with display capacity; and

transmitting to the second display apparatus a display range of the reference display information displayed in a display device of the first display apparatus,

wherein a second display device of the second display apparatus is arranged to display thereon a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information,

wherein a size of the predetermined range is set at the second display apparatus in accordance with an amount of information currently being displayed on the second display device in response to the user specifying the specified position without further input from the user, and

wherein a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than the size of the predetermined range and the size of the predetermined range is less than a size of a range of the displayed operation display information.

15. A display apparatus comprising:

a display; and

a processing device configured to control;

receiving a range from another display apparatus that includes another display;

selecting or receiving reference display information from information about at least one piece of a display information, wherein the reference display information has a different scale and amount of information than an operation display information of the another display apparatus and is determined according to the range and a display capacity of the display apparatus; and

displaying, on the display, the reference display information having a display range,

in which a size of the display range of the reference display information is larger than a size of the range and the size of the range is less than a size of a range of the operation display information displayed on the another display.

16. The display apparatus of claim 15, wherein the display apparatus is further configured to transmit to the another display apparatus the display range of the reference display information displayed on the display.

17. The display apparatus of claim 16,

wherein the display apparatus is part of a linked display system in which the another display apparatus that comprises the another display is configured to display a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information.

18. The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein the display apparatus is part of a linked display system in which the another display apparatus that comprises the another display is configured to display a reference display frame indicating the display range of the reference display information by superimposing the reference display frame on the operation display information, wherein the another display displays the operation display information.

19. The display apparatus of claim 18, wherein the another display apparatus further comprises a second processing device configured to control:

detecting a position on the operation display information specified by a user operation input;

setting, upon detection of the user operation input, the range containing the specified position; and

transmitting the range to the display apparatus.

20. The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein the display apparatus is adapted such that the reference display information is received from a service server.