DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20090189911A1
• Filed: 01/27/2009
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: ONO, Tomoyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/360,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20090189911A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/522
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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

The present invention provides a display device including an image content list holding section holding a list of a plurality of image contents, an image content obtaining section obtaining one or more image contents from the image content list held in the image content list holding section, a display screen creating section creating a display section including the one or more image contents obtained by the image content obtaining section, and a user selection request detecting section detecting a selection request from a user for an image content included in the display screen.

Claims

1. A display device displaying a display screen including one or more image contents, comprising:

an image content list holding section holding a list of a plurality of image contents;

an image content obtaining section obtaining the one or more image contents from the image content list held in the image content list holding section;

a display screen creating section creating the display section including the one or more image contents obtained by the image content obtaining section; and

a user selection request detecting section detecting a selection request from a user for an image content included in the display screen, wherein

the display screen creating section replaces, in response to the selection request from the user detected by the user selection request detecting section, the image content selected by the user with an image content different from the one or more image contents included in the display screen.

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

an image content number deciding section deciding the number of image contents to be included in the display screen.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the image content number deciding section decides the number of image contents in accordance with the display capability of the display device.

4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the image content obtaining section obtains an image content from the image content list in accordance with the number of image contents decided by the image content number deciding section.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the display screen creating section hides, in response to the selection request from the user detected by the user selection request detecting section, the image content selected by the user.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the display screen creating section decides the display position of an image content in accordance with the number of image contents to be included,

the display device comprising:

a display number assigning section assigning a display number to the image content included in the display screen created by the display screen creating section; and

a display screen management table storing, in association with each other, the display number assigned by the display number assigning section and position information of the display position of the image content decided by the display screen creating section.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the image content obtaining section decides a priority rank for an image content to be obtained in accordance with attribute information of the image content.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the display screen creating section creates a display screen including an image content and an image content folder holding the image content,

the display device comprising:

an image content moving section moving, in accordance with the selection request from the user detected by the user selection request detecting section, the image content selected by the user to the image content folder.

9. A display method to be executed by a display device displaying a display screen including one or more image contents, comprising the steps of:

obtaining the one or more image contents from an image content list holding section holding a list of the plurality of image contents;

creating the display screen including the one or more obtained image contents;

detecting a selection request from a user for an image content included in the display screen; and

replacing, in response to the selection request from the user, the image content selected by the user with an image content different from the one or more image contents included in the display screen.

10. A program making a computer function as a display device displaying a display screen including one or more image contents, wherein

the display device comprises:

an image content list holding section holding a list of a plurality of image contents;

an image content obtaining section obtaining the one or more image contents from the image content list held in the image content list holding section;

a display screen creating section creating the display section including the one or more image contents obtained by the image content obtaining section; and

a user selection request detecting section detecting a selection request from a user for an image content included in the display screen, wherein

the display screen creating section replaces, in response to the selection request from the user detected by the user selection request detecting section, the image content selected by the user with an image content different from the one or more image contents included in the display screen.