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Granted Patent B2
US 8,384,816 · App. 12/696,721 · Granted Feb 26, 2013

Electronic apparatus, display control method, and program

Inventor: Takanori Minamino (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,384,816
App. No.
12/696,721
Granted
Feb 26, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes an operation receiving unit configured to receive a selection operation for selecting, in a case where index images for allowing selection of content to be reproduced are displayed in list form on a display unit, an index image from among the index images displayed in list form, an image processing unit configured to sequentially scale up an image related to content corresponding to the selected index image from a size of the selected index image to a certain size, and a control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the image that is being sequentially scaled up, with an arrangement position of the selected index image serving as a reference position, and cause the display unit to display the content corresponding to the selected index image when a size of the image that is being sequentially scaled up reaches the certain size.

Claims (23)

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an operation receiving unit configured to receive a switching operation for a display unit from a reproduction screen configured to display content to an index-image-list display screen configured to display in list form index images for allowing selection of the content;

an image processing unit configured to sequentially scale down, from a size of the content on the reproduction screen to a certain size, an image related to content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received; and

a control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the image that is being sequentially scaled down, with an arrangement position of an index image corresponding to the content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received serving as a reference position, and cause the display unit to display the index image at the arrangement position of the display unit when a size of the image that is being sequentially scaled down reaches the certain size, wherein

the content is moving-image content,

the index image is an image corresponding to a representative frame among individual frames constituting the moving-image content, and

the image processing unit sequentially scales down individual frames from the representative frame to a current frame that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received among individual frames constituting moving-image content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received from the current frame toward the representative frame.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image processing unit sequentially scales down the image related to the content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received while decreasing a scale-down rate per unit time of the image.

3. A display control method comprising:

receiving a switching operation for a display unit from a reproduction screen configured to display content to an index-image-list display screen configured to display in list form index images for allowing selection of the content;

sequentially scaling down, from a size of the content on the reproduction screen to a certain size, an image related to content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received; and

causing the display unit to display the image that is being sequentially scaled down, with an arrangement position of an index image corresponding to the content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received serving as a reference position, and causing the display unit to display the index image at the arrangement position of the display unit when a size of the image that is being sequentially scaled down reaches the certain size, wherein

the content is moving-image content,

the index image is an image corresponding to a representative frame among individual frames constituting the moving-image content, and

the sequentially scaling down includes sequentially scaling down individual frames from the representative frame to a current frame that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received among individual frames constituting moving-image content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received from the current frame toward the representative frame.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program that causes a computer to execute:

receiving a switching operation for a display unit from a reproduction screen configured to display content to an index-image-list display screen configured to display in list form index images for allowing selection of the content;

sequentially scaling down, from a size of the content on the reproduction screen to a certain size, an image related to content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received; and

causing the display unit to display the image that is being sequentially scaled down, with an arrangement position of an index image corresponding to the content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received serving as a reference position, and causing the display unit to display the index image at the arrangement position of the display unit when a size of the image that is being sequentially scaled down reaches the certain size, wherein

the content is moving-image content,

the index image is an image corresponding to a representative frame among individual frames constituting the moving-image content, and

the sequentially scaling down includes sequentially scaling down individual frames from the representative frame to a current frame that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received among individual frames constituting moving-image content that is displayed on the reproduction screen when the switching operation is received from the current frame toward the representative frame.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2010
From: MINAMINO, TAKANORI
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023879/0598 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-082274 · Mar 30, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20100245651A1 · Sep 30, 2010