INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20100053189A1
• Filed: 08/04/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KUROSAKI, Daisuke, Koizumi, Naoshi, Tsuzuki, Akiko, Kitagawa, Tomoyuki, Tsuyuhara, Tomohiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,878,868 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/581
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0613 The adjustment depending on the type of the information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0666 for control of colour parameters, e.g. colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having: a display controlling unit for starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen; a determining unit for determining the application program started by the display controlling unit; and a changing unit for changing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen in accordance with the application program determined by the determining unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display controlling unit for starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen;

a determining unit for determining the application program started by the display controlling unit; and

a changing unit for changing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen in accordance with the application program determined by the determining unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storing unit for storing identification information of the application program as associated with the image quality parameters,

wherein the determining unit determines the identification information of the application program started by the display controlling unit, and

the changing unit changes the image quality parameters for setting the image quality of the display screen to the image quality parameters in associated with identification information of the application program determined by the determining unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the application programs are programs for displaying static image contents or moving image contents on the display screen.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determining unit determines a LCD panel and/or a graphics model used, and

the changing unit changes the image quality parameters in accordance with the LCD panel and/or the graphics model determined by the determining unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image quality parameters include parameters for correcting image quality of static image contents or moving image contents.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein of image quality parameters include parameters for correcting panel color temperature.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the changing unit invalidate change of the image quality parameters when the display screen is mounted on a display device external to the information processing apparatus.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the storing unit stores the image quality parameters associated with a plurality of image quality modes set for respective display purposes,

the information processing apparatus further comprises a selecting unit for selecting any of the image quality modes in accordance with the application program determined by the determining unit, and

the changing unit changes the image quality parameters for setting the image quality of the display screen to the image quality parameters associated with the image quality mode selected by the selecting unit.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the storing unit stores the predetermined number of image quality modes as associated with identification information of the application programs.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the selecting unit selects the image quality mode in accordance with user operation.

11. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen;

determining the application program started; and

changing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen in accordance with the application program determined.

12. A program for making a computer function as an information processing apparatus comprising:

a display controlling unit for starting any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen;

a determining unit for determining the application program started by the display controlling unit; and

a changing unit for changing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen in accordance with the application program determined by the determining unit.