DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20110164060A1
• Filed: 12/29/2010
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MIYAZAWA, Yusuke, HOMMA, Fuminori
• Granted Patent: US 9,983,782 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A display control apparatus includes: a display section; a detecting section which detects an indication manipulation for a manipulation surface; and a control section which detects, if the indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected by the detecting section, an area in the manipulation surface indicated through the indication manipulation, and enlarges an image on the basis of the detected area to be displayed on the display section.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a display section;

a detecting section which detects an indication manipulation for a manipulation surface; and

a control section which detects, if the indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected by the detecting section, an area in the manipulation surface indicated through the indication manipulation, and enlarges an image on the basis of the detected area to be displayed on the display section.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control section detects, if the indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected by the detecting section, an enlargement target of the image on the basis of the indication manipulation, and enlarges part of the image which is the detected enlargement target on the basis of the area to be displayed on the display section.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the control section detects, if a continuous indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected by the detecting section, change in the enlargement target on the basis of the continuous indication manipulation, and enlarges the part of the image which is the changed and detected enlargement target on the basis of the area to be displayed on the display section.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the display section includes:

an original image display section which displays the image; and

an enlarged image display section which displays an enlarged image obtained by enlarging the part of the image.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the detecting section is integrally installed in the original image display section.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the control section regularly detects, if the continuous indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected by the detecting section, the area in the manipulation surface indicated through the indication manipulation on the basis of the continuous indication manipulation, and enlarges the part of the image which is the enlargement target on the basis of the regularly detected area to be displayed on the display section.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the control section enlarges the part of the image which is the enlargement target at an enlargement ratio according to the regularly detected area to be displayed on the display section.

8. A display control method comprising the steps of:

detecting an indication manipulation for a manipulation surface; and

detecting, if the indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected, an area in the manipulation surface indicated through the indication manipulation, and enlarging an image on the basis of the detected area to be displayed on a display section.

9. A display control program which causes a procedure to be executed in a computer, the procedure comprising the steps of:

detecting an indication manipulation for a manipulation surface; and

detecting, if the indication manipulation for the manipulation surface is detected, an area in the manipulation surface indicated through the indication manipulation, and enlarging an image on the basis of the detected area to be displayed on a display section.