DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120169773A1
• Filed: 12/02/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Satoshi, TOBINAGA, Shinichirou
• Granted Patent: US 9,601,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

An information processing apparatus that includes a processor that controls a display to display a plurality of images in a stacked configuration, each of the plurality of images corresponding to one of a plurality of groups. The processor assigns movement corresponding to each of the plurality of images based on the respective location of each of the plurality of images in the stacked configuration.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processor that controls a display to display a plurality of images in a stacked configuration, wherein the processor assigns movement corresponding to each of the plurality of images based on the respective location of each of the plurality of images in the stacked configuration.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the images are thumbnail images.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a memory that stores a plurality of groups and content corresponding to each of the plurality of groups, wherein the processor generates the thumbnail images based on the stored content corresponding to each of the plurality of groups.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the stacked configuration includes a foreground and a background, and images in the foreground are displayed to at least partially overlap images displayed in the background.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processor controls the display to display images in the foreground at a first size and images in the background at a second size, which is different from the first size.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first size is greater than the second size.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the second size is greater than the first size.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processor assigns a first amount of movement to images displayed in the foreground and a second amount of movement to images displayed in the background, the second amount of movement different from the first amount of movement.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the second amount of movement is greater than the first amount of movement.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processor assigns a first delay for movement of images displayed in the foreground and a second delay for movement of images displayed in the background, the second delay for movement being different from the first delay for movement.

11. The information processing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the second delay for movement is greater than the first delay for movement.

12. The information processing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first delay for movement is greater than the second delay for movement.

13. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processor assigns a first path of movement for images displayed in the foreground and a second path of movement of images displayed in the background, the second path of movement being different from the first path of movement.

14. The information processing apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first path of movement is a straight line.

15. The information processing apparatus of claim 13, wherein the second path of movement is curved.

16. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor controls the display to display each of plurality of images corresponding to each of a plurality of groups in a list configuration.

17. The information processing apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor scrolls a plurality of images corresponding to each of the plurality of groups in the list.

18. The information processing apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

an interface that receives an instruction to scroll the plurality of images corresponding to each of the plurality of groups in the list.

19. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processor controls the display to move the plurality of images in a first direction and delay movement of images displayed closer to a direction of the first direction by a first amount of time and controls the display to delay movement of images displayed closer to a direction opposite the first direction by a second amount of time which is different from the first amount of time.

20. A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

controlling, by a processor of the information processing apparatus, a display to display a plurality of images in a stacked configuration; and

assigning, by the processor, movement corresponding to each of the plurality of images based on the respective location of each of the plurality of images in the stacked configuration.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

controlling a display to display a plurality of images in a stacked configuration; and

assigning movement corresponding to each of the plurality of images based on the respective location of each of the plurality of images in the stacked configuration.