Display device and display method

• US 8,635,547 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2010
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Otsuka, Noritaka, Ichioka, Hidetoshi, Sasamoto, Kazuhide, Ikeda, Takuo, Sawai, Kunihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Theriault, Steven B
• Application Number:
  US12/655,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20100180222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: 715/768, 715/769, 715/770, 715/784, 715/786
• US Class Current: 715/768
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

A display device of present invention includes an operation input portion from which operation information is input by a user, a selection portion that selects a predetermined region on a display screen based on the operation information, and a scroll portion that scrolls the display screen in a state where a position of the selected predetermined region is held at a predetermined position.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

an operation input portion from which operation information is received;

a selection portion that selects content at a particular location of a region configured for display on a display screen in response to the operation information, the region configured for display on the display screen includes a display region and a non-display region, the display region being currently displayed on the display screen and the non-display region not being currently displayed on the display screen, the particular location is in the display region when the content is selected, in which selected content is displayed on the display screen in a floating state with respect to non-selected content; and

a scroll portion that scrolls the region configured for display on the display screen except the selected content such that only the non-selected content of the display region and the content of the non-display region move as the region is scrolled and the selected content in the floating state does not move as the region is scrolled.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the region comprises a plurality of contents obtained from broadcast signals, and

the selection portion selects at least one of the plurality of contents.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the region configured for display on the display screen is a browser screen of a communication network, and

the particular location of the selected content is on the browser screen.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the selected content is moved from the particular location of the region to a location of the display region, and at least a part of the selected content is superimposed on a non-selected portion of the display region when displayed in the floating state.

5. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transparency processing portion that applies transparency processing to the selected content after a predetermined time period has elapsed.

6. The display device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an enlargement portion that enlarges the selected content,

wherein

when a plurality of contents is selected, the enlargement portion enlarges the plurality of the selected contents to have the same size.

7. The display device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an enlargement portion that enlarges the selected content; and

a weighting processing portion that performs weighting processing of the selected content based on one of meta-information associated with the content and user preference information,

wherein

when a plurality of contents is selected, the enlargement portion enlarges the selected contents in accordance with a result of the weighting processing.

8. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a weighting processing portion that performs weighting processing of the selected content based on one of meta-information associated with the content and user preference information,

wherein

the selected content is moved from the particular location of the region to a location of the display region in accordance with a result of the weighting processing.

9. A display method, comprising the steps of:

receiving as input operation information;

selecting content at a particular location of a region configured for display on a display screen in response to the operation information, the region configured for display on the display screen includes a display region and a non-display region, the display region being currently displayed on the display screen and the non-display region not being currently displayed on the display screen, the particular location is in the display region when the content is selected, in which selected content is displayed on the display screen in a floating state with respect to non-selected content; and

scrolling the region configured for display on the display screen except the selected content such that only the non-selected content of the display region and the content of the non-display region move as the region is scrolled and the selected content in the floating state does not move as the region is scrolled.

10. The display method according to claim 9, wherein

the region comprises a plurality of contents obtained from broadcast signals, and

at least one of the plurality of contents is selected in the selecting step.

11. The display method according to claim 9, wherein

the region configured for display on the display screen is a browser screen of a communication network, and

the particular location of the selected content is selected on the browser screen in the selecting step.