DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130263048A1
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Shimizu, Hiromi
• Application Number:
  US13/994,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20130263048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/363 Graphics controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics

Abstract

A display control apparatus includes an operation detector detecting an operation indicating a movement direction, an object analysis device specifying an object to which a focus is moved by a one-time operation among objects displayed on a screen and operated by a user, as an object of a first group, and a display properties setting device setting display properties of the object of the first group so that the user may distinguish the object of the first group from other objects.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

an operation detector configured to detect an operation which indicates a movement direction of a focus;

an object analysis device configured to specify an object to which the focus is moved by a one-time operation among objects displayed on a screen, as an object of a first group; and

a display properties setting device configured to set display properties of the object of the first group so that the object of the first group can be distinguished from other objects displayed on the screen.

2. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display properties comprise a depth of an object in three dimensional display, and the display properties setting device is configured to set value of a depth of the object of the first group to be different from a value of a depth of the other objects displayed on the screen.

3. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the object analysis device further configured to specify an object to which a focus is moved by two or more times of operations as an object of a second group, and the display properties setting device is further configured to sets display properties of the object of the second group to distinguish the object of the first group, the object of the second group, and the other objects displayed on the screen, from each other.

4. The display control apparatus of claim 1, wherein the object analysis device is further configured to specify a frequency of operations needed to move the focus from the object of the first group to at least one of the other objects displayed on the screen, and the display properties setting device sets a value of the display properties of the other objects displayed on the screen according to the frequency of operations.

5. The display control apparatus of claim 4, further comprising a setting change device configured to allow a user to select a number of candidates of the set display properties value.

6. The display control apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a setting change device configured to allow a user to select any one of predetermined two or more candidates of display properties as the display properties.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program for causing a computer to execute a process of indicating a movement direction of a focus and controlling a display apparatus, wherein the process comprising:

specifying an object to which the focus is moved by a one-time operation among objects displayed on a screen, as an object of a first group; and

setting display properties of the object of the first group so that the object of the first group can be distinguished from other objects displayed on the screen.

8. A display control method comprising:

specifying an object to which a focus is moved by a one-time operation among objects displayed on a screen as an object of a first group; and

setting display properties of the object of the first group so that the object of the first group can be distinguished from other objects displayed on the screen.

9. The display control method of claim 8, wherein, in the setting of the display properties, the display properties comprise a depth of an object in three dimensional display, and a value of a depth of the object of the first group is set to be different from a value of a depth of the other objects displayed on the screen.

10. The display control method of claim 8, wherein an object to which a focus is moved by two or more times of operations is further specified as an object of a second group, and display properties of the object of the second group are further set to distinguish the object of the first group, the object of the second group, and the other objects displayed on the screen.

11. The display control method of claim 8, further comprising:

further specifying a frequency of operations needed to move the focus from the object of the first group to at least one of the other objects displayed on the screen, and setting a value of the display properties of the other objects displayed on the screen according to the frequency of operations.

12. The display control method of claim 11, further comprising allowing a user to select a number of candidates of the set properties value.

13. The display control method of claim 8, further comprising allowing a user to select any one of predetermined two or more candidates of display properties as the display properties.

14. A display control method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of objects on a screen of the display apparatus;

specifying an object of the plurality of objects to which a focus is moved as an object of a first group;

setting a value of a depth of the specified object of the first group to be a first depth value;

setting a value of a depth of other objects in the first group to be a second depth value which is less than the first depth value, and

setting a depth of other objects displayed on the screen to be a third depth value which is less than the second depth value.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the depth values are set by a user of the display apparatus.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein each of the objects is three-dimensionally displayed based on the set depth values.