DISPLAY TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20110074798A1
• Filed: 09/24/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: NAKAYAMA, Tomofumi
• Application Number:
  US12/890,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20110074798A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/522
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00161 Viewing or previewing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00167 Processing or editing H04N1/00196 - H04N1/00201 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00198 Creation of a soft photo presentation, e.g. digital slide-show

Abstract

A display terminal device is provided. The display terminal device includes a display unit, a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of image information by switching the image information; an image information acquiring unit configured to acquire image information and display information which is associated with the image information and to be displayed while being added to the image information, a display information reproducing unit configured to reproduce and display the display information associated with the image information while the image information is being displayed, and a display switching control unit configured to control a switching time, at which one of the image information is switched to another of the image information while controlling the display information reproducing unit to reproduce and display the associated display information, based on the display information acquired by the image information acquiring unit.

Claims

1. A display terminal device comprising:

a display unit including a display area for displaying image information;

a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of image information by switching the image information;

an image information acquiring unit configured to acquire image information and acquire display information which is associated with the image information and is to be displayed while being added to the image information;

a display information reproducing unit configured to reproduce and display the display information associated with the image information while the image information is being displayed on the display unit; and

a display switching control unit configured to control a switching time, at which one of the image information displayed on the display unit is switched to another of the image information while controlling the display information reproducing unit to reproduce and display the associated display information, based on the display information associated with the image information acquired by the image information acquiring unit.

2. The display terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the display information includes input information which is input by a user and time information indicating a time when the input information is input, while being associated with each other, and

wherein the display switching control unit is configured to set, as an input process time, a time interval from a time when input of the input information is started to a time when the input is completed, and is configured to set the input process time as the switching time.

3. The display terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a determining unit configured to determine whether the input process time is a predetermined time or more,

wherein the display switching control unit is configured to set the input process time as the switching time if the determining unit determines that the input process time is the predetermined time or more.

4. The display terminal device according to claim 3,

wherein the display switching control unit is configured to set a certain time as the switching time if the determining unit determines that the input process time is less than the predetermined time.

5. The display terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein the image information acquiring unit is configured to acquire the image information associated with information which is manually input by a user as the display information.

6. The display terminal device according to claim 5,

wherein the display information is manually input by using a touch panel.

7. The display terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein the display information reproducing unit is configured to reproduce and display the display information in order of the input of the display information, based on the time information when the display information is input.

8. A method for controlling a display terminal device including a display area for displaying image information and a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of image information by switching the image information, the method comprising:

acquiring image information and acquiring display information which is associated with the image information and is to be displayed while being added to the image information;

reproducing and displaying the display information associated with the image information while the image information is being displayed; and

based on the acquired display information associated with the image information, controlling a switching time, at which one of the image information displayed on the display unit is switched to another of the image information while reproducing and displaying the associated display information.

9. A storage medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer for a display terminal device including a display area for displaying image information and a display control unit to control the display unit to display a plurality of image information by switching the image information, the computer program, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to perform operations comprising:

acquiring image information and acquiring display information which is associated with the image information and is to be displayed while being added to the image information;

reproducing and displaying the display information associated with the image information while the image information is being displayed; and

based on the acquired display information associated with the image information, controlling a switching time, at which one of the image information displayed on the display unit is switched to another of the image information while reproducing and displaying the associated display information.