INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20160018987A1
• Filed: 07/15/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: KOBAYASHI, Daisuke, SUZUKI, Tatsuaki, TAKADA, Kensuke
• Granted Patent: US 9,984,390 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk

Abstract

According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displays second content in another region. The information display device includes a detection unit configured to detect an inclination of the information display device. The information display device includes a change unit configured to change the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result of the detection unit.

Claims

1. An information display device comprising:

a display unit configured to display first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displays second content in another region;

a detection unit configured to detect an inclination of the information display device; and

a change unit configured to change the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result of the detection unit.

2. The information display device according to claim 1,

wherein the change unit changes the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed, depending on an inclination angle of the information display device.

3. The information display device according to claim 1,

wherein, when an inclination angle of the information display device exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the change unit changes the proportion of each region to the display region until the entire second content is displayed.

4. The information display device according to claim 1,

wherein, when an inclination angle of the information display device exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the change unit changes the proportion of each region to the display region until the second content is displayed in the entire display region.

5. The information display device according to claim 1,

wherein, when an inclination angle of the information display device exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the change unit fixes the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed to the display region and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed to the display region.

6. The information display device according to claim 5,

wherein, the display unit displays the second content which can change to predetermined content when the proportion of each region in the display region is fixed and the second content is selected.

7. The information display device according to claim 5,

wherein the display unit displays the second content which can change to content corresponding to the content of an operation which is performed when the proportion of each region to the display region is fixed.

8. The information display device according to claim 1,

wherein the change unit moves a position of the region in which the first content is displayed and a position of the region in which the second content is displayed to change the proportion of each region to the display region.

9. The information display device according to claim 8,

wherein the change unit moves the position of the region in which the first content is displayed and the position of the region in which the second content is displayed by a distance corresponding to the inclination angle of the information display device.

10. The information display device according to claim 1,

wherein the change unit changes a position of the region in which the first content is displayed and a position of the region in which the second content is displayed, depending on an inclination direction of the information display device.

11. The information display device according to claim 10,

wherein, when the information display device is inclined in a predetermined direction, the change unit changes the position of the region in which the first content is displayed and the position of the region in which the second content is displayed.

12. The information display device according to claim 1,

wherein the change unit uses the entire display region as the region in which the first content is displayed when the inclination of the information display device is not detected or when the information display device receives the first content.

13. A distribution device comprising:

a distribution unit configured to distributes control information for controlling a display mode of first content and second content to an information display device,

wherein the control information causes the information display device to perform a display process of displaying the first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displaying the second content in another region, a detection process of detecting an inclination of the information display device, and a change process of changing the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result obtained by the detection process.

14. An information display method that is performed by an information display device, comprising:

a display step of displaying first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displaying second content in another region;

a detection step of detecting an inclination of the information display device; and

a change step of changing the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result obtained by the detection step.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein an information display program that causes a computer to perform:

a display process of displaying first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displaying second content in another region;

a detection process of detecting an inclination of an information display device; and

a change process of changing the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result obtained by the detection process.