Display system, display method, and display program

• US 8,154,472 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2007
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Hiroshi, Yoda, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): HARRIS, DOROTHY H
• Application Number:
  US11/802,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20070273609A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 345 11- 13
• US Class Current: 345/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/02 Details of power systems and of start or stop of display operation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light

Abstract

Enlarged display of part of display data on display by a first display section is performed to a second display section, based on a relative position of the second display section with respect to the first display section. A display system has a first display section that displays display data; a second display section that performs enlarged display of part of the display data on display by the first display section; a display partial area storage section that stores an area of the partial data to be displayed to the second display section that is part of the display data on display by the first display section; a relative position determination section that determines a relative positional relation between the first display section and the second display section; and a display control section that performs enlarged display of at least part of the partial data of the area stored in the display partial area storage section in association with the positional relation information indicating the relative positional relation determined by the relative position determination section, to the second display section.

Claims

1. A display system comprising:

a first display section that displays display data;

a second display section that displays partial data of the display data or adjacent document data adjacent to the display data;

a position determination section that determines a positional relation between the first display section and the second display section; and

a display control section that causes the partial data and the adjacent document data to be selectively displayed to the second display section, according to the positional relation determined by the position determination section, and wherein

when the positional relation determined by the position determination section is an overlapping relation which indicates that the second display section is overlapped to the first display section, the display control section performs enlarged display of the partial data to the second display section, and

when the first display section is in a positional relation with respect to the second display section, and the first display section is overlapped to the second display section again, the display control section performs enlarged display of a partial data of the enlarged partial data to the first display section.

2. The display system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the partial data of which enlarged display is performed to the second display section is part of the display data that is displayed in an area of the first display section to which the second display section is overlapped.

3. The display system as set forth in claim 2, wherein

when the second display section is moved by being overlapped to the first display section from a position corresponding to an upper edge of the display data to a position corresponding to a lower edge of the display data, the display control section causes the display data to be displayed to the second display section by sequentially enlarging the display data from the upper edge to the lower edge.

4. The display system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of signal transmission sections that respectively transmit an identification signal that identifies from which position of which display section a signal comes from, by being placed in one or both of the first display section and the second display section; and

a plurality of signal reception sections that receive each identification signal transmitted from the plurality of signal transmission sections, by being placed in the other or both of the first display section and the second display section, wherein

the position determination section specifies positions of the signal transmission sections that have transmitted the identification signals, from positions of the plurality of signal reception sections in the first display section or the second display section and from strengths of the identification signals received by the signal reception sections in the positions of the plurality of signal reception sections, and using, as a reference, the other or both of the first display section and the second display section in which the plurality of signal reception sections are displayed, and

determines a positional relation between the first display section and the second display section, from the specified positions of the signal transmission sections and the positions of the signal transmission sections in the first display section or the second display section.

5. The display system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of light detection sections placed either in the first display section or the second display section, wherein

the position determination section determines the positional relation between the first display section and the second display section from positions of the plurality of light detection sections in the first display section or the second display section, and intensities of light detected by each of the plurality of light detection sections.

6. The display system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a position identifying section that identifies positions of the first display section and the second display section, wherein

the position determination section determines the positional relation between the first display section and the second display section, from the positions of the first display section and the second display section identified by the position identifying section.