DISPLAY DEVICE, USER INTERFACE METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140298263A1
• Filed: 12/06/2012
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Maeda, Kenichi, Tsuihiji, Daisuke, Uehara, Tetsuro, Satou, Michihiro
• Application Number:
  US14/130,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20140298263A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/828
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

To provide a user interface with high operability and high browsability. In a screen showing an overview of plural contents provided by applications, and receiving a selection by a user, an image of a bladed wheel is displayed. On each face of plural blades of the bladed wheel, a content image is assigned. If a swipe operation is performed on the bladed wheel image, the bladed wheel is caused to rotate around its rotary shaft so that content images displayed on the screen are switched.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A display device, comprising:

a display unit including a display surface that displays an image;

an input operation unit including an input operation surface that receives an input operation by an operator through contact via an indicator; and

a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a bladed wheel image showing a bladed wheel having plural blades, and that when a predetermined input operation is received by the input operation unit, causes the display unit to display an image showing the bladed wheel in a state of rotation, wherein;

the display control unit causes the display unit to display the bladed wheel image so that a rotary shaft of the bladed wheel is parallel to the display surface; and

the bladed wheel has a content description area in which a content is described, on a face of at least one of the plural blades.

11. The display device according to claim 10, wherein a side each of the plural blades of the bladed wheel is fixed to the rotary shaft parallel to the rotary shaft

12. The display device according to claim 10, wherein the bladed wheel has, on a face of the rotary shaft, a content-related information description area in which information related to the content described in the content description area is described.

13. The display device according to claim 12, wherein the bladed wheel has a content description area in which a content is described, on both faces of at least one of the plural blades.

14. The display device according to claim 13, wherein when the display control unit causes the display unit to display an image showing the bladed wheel in a state of rotation, the display control unit increases a speed of the rotation as a number of content description areas in which a content is described increases.

15. The display device according to claim 14, wherein:

the content description area has a scroll bar;

when the input operation received by the input operation unit is a swipe operation, which is an operation of moving the indicator on the input operation surface, and a trajectory of a contact point between the indicator used for the swipe operation and the input operation surface crosses the rotary shaft of the bladed wheel, the display control unit causes the display unit to display an image showing the bladed wheel in a state of rotation; and

when the trajectory does not cross the rotary shaft of the bladed wheel, the display control unit causes the display unit to display an image of scrolling a content described in the content description area.

16. The display device according to claim 15, further comprising a tilt angle detecting unit that detects a tilt angle of the display device, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display an image of the bladed wheel rotating in accordance with the tilt angle detected by the tilt angle detecting unit.

17. A user interface method implemented in a display device having a display unit including a display surface that displays an image, and an input operation unit including an input operation surface that receives an input operation by an operator via contact with an indicator, the user interface method comprising:

causing the display unit to display a bladed wheel image showing a bladed wheel having plural blades; and

when a predetermined input operation is received by the input operation unit, causing the display unit to display an image showing the bladed wheel in a state of rotation, wherein;

the bladed wheel image is displayed so that a rotary shaft of the bladed wheel is parallel to the display surface; and

the bladed wheel has a content description area in which a content is described, on a face of at least one of the plural blades.

18. A program executed in a computer of a display device having:

a display unit including a display surface that displays an image; and

an input operation unit including an input operation surface that receives an input operation by an operator through a contact with an indicator, the program;

causing the display unit to display a bladed wheel image showing a bladed wheel having plural blades; and

when a predetermined input operation is received by the input operation unit, causing the display unit to display an image showing the bladed wheel in a state of rotation, wherein;

the bladed wheel image is displayed so that a rotary shaft of the bladed wheel is parallel to the display surface; and

the bladed wheel has a content description area in which a content is described, on a face of at least one of the plural blades.