Electronic program guide display control apparatus, electronic program guide display control method, and electronic program guide display control program

• US 20040088727A1
• Filed: 10/23/2003
• Published: 05/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Kamiya, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,886,322 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/52
• 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: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time

Abstract

When a user touches any desired position on a display screen, a position detection section detects a specification position on the display screen and a data processing control section controls to scroll a display area based on a positional relationship between the specification position detected by the position detection section and a predetermined position on the display screen, namely, the direction, the distance, and the like.

Claims

1. An electronic program guide display control apparatus for displaying a part of an electronic program guide on a display screen and scrolling the display of a display area in response to specification operation on the display screen, the electronic program guide display control apparatus comprising:

a specification position detection unit for detecting a specification position on the display screen; and

a scroll control unit for scrolling the display of the display area based on a positional relation between the specification position detected by the specification position detection unit and a predetermined position on the display screen.

2. The electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specification position detection unit detects a position on the display screen pressed by a user with the user'"'"'s finger as the specification position.

3. The electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the scroll control unit scrolls the display of the display area based on the positional relationship between the specification position detected by the specification position detection unit and a center position of the display screen.

4. The electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the scroll control unit scrolls the display of the display area based on of a direction from the center position to the specification position and at least one of a distance from the center position to the specification position and specification pressure at the specification position.

5. The electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein if the specification position detected by the specification position detection unit is an end portion of the display screen, the scroll control unit displays content of an end portion of the electronic program guide positioned in a direction from the center position to the specification position on the display screen.

6. The electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a program-unit regulation unit for regulating a move distance of the scrolling by the scroll control unit in program units.

7. The electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a time-unit regulation unit for regulating a move distance of the scrolling by the scroll control unit in predetermined time units.

8. The electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a broadcast-service-unit regulation unit for regulating a move distance of the scrolling by the scroll control unit in broadcast service units.

9. An electronic program guide display control method comprising:

displaying a part of an electronic program guide on a display screen;

detecting a specification position on the display screen; and

scrolling a display area of the electronic program guide based on a positional relationship between the specification position detected and a predetermined position on the display screen.

10. An electronic program guide display control program for causing a computer to perform a process comprising:

displaying a part of an electronic program guide on a display screen;

detecting a specification position on the display screen; and

scrolling a display area of the electronic program guide based on a positional relationship between the specification position detected and a predetermined position on the display screen.