IP Library Granted Patent US 11,132,823
Granted Patent B2
US 11,132,823 · App. 16/469,290 · Granted Sep 28, 2021

Information-processing device and information-processing method

Inventor: Takurou Itou (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
G06T11/60G06F3/04842G06F3/04845G06F3/04886
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Patent No.
US 11,132,823
App. No.
16/469,290
Granted
Sep 28, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Object display control unit causes an object to be displayed on display surface. Scroll instruction detecting unit detects an instruction to scroll the object displayed on touch-screen as a movement instruction. Gradation level setting unit sets a gradation level of the image displayed on display surface. Gradation level setting unit, when notified by scroll instruction detecting unit that a scroll instruction has been detected, reduces the gradation level of the image, for example, from a 256-gradation level to a 2-gradation level. Object display control unit converts the object represented by object data into an object expressed in the reduced gradation level, and causes the resultant object to be displayed.

Claims (45)

1. An information-processing device comprising:

a processor configured to:

detect an instruction to move at least part of an image displayed on a display surface, the at least part of the image having an original graduation level;

identify a moving speed of the at least part of the image;

identify a reduced graduation level from a table based on the moving speed of the at least part of the image;

change the at least part of the image by reducing the original gradiation level of the at least part of the image to the reduced graduation level;

cause the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level to be displayed on the display surface in accordance with the instruction detected;

detect that the instruction to move the at least part of the image displayed on a display surface has ceased; and

change the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level to the original graduation level when detecting the instruction to move the at least part of the image has ceased.

2. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein processor is further configured to:

change the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level by keeping pixels having a minimum value unchanged and changing values of other pixels to a maximum value, or by keeping pixels having a maximum value unchanged and changing values of other pixels to a minimum value.

3. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

change the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level by reducing the gradation level of the at least part of the image to a gradation level according to a ratio of a text area included in the at least part of the image.

4. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

change the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level by reducing the gradation level of the at least part of the image to a gradation level according to a type of an application that causes the at least part of the image to be displayed.

5. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein processor is further configured to:

change the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level by binarizing the image based on comparison between values of pixels and a threshold value, the threshold value being a pixel value that has a larger difference from a pixel value of a background image displayed in the background of the at least part of the image from an average, median, or mode pixel value of the at least part of the image, the background image being expressed by only pixels having an identical value.

6. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

change the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level that shows a figure of an area in which the at least part of the image is displayed.

7. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

change the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level that shows a type of the at least part of the image, and to cause the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level to be displayed in an area in which the at least part of the image is displayed.

8. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the moving speed of the at least part of the image is equivalent to the same moving speed of movement of touch positions of the instruction on the display screen.

9. The information-processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the instruction to move at least part of the image displayed on the display surface includes at least one of scrolling, enlarging, and reducing the at least part of the image.

10. An information-processing method comprising:

detecting an instruction to move at least part of an image displayed on a display surface, the at least part of the image having an original graduation level;

identifying a moving speed of the at least part of the image;

identifying a reduced graduation level from a table based on the moving speed of the at least part of the image;

changing the at least part of the image by reducing the original gradation level of the at least part of the image to the reduced graduation level;

causing the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level to be displayed on the display surface in accordance with the instruction detected;

detecting that the instruction to move the at least part of the image displayed on a display surface has ceased; and

changing the at least part of the image having the reduced graduation level to the original graduation level when detecting the instruction to move the at least part of the image has ceased.

11. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

changing the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced gradation level by keeping pixels having a minimum value unchanged and changing values of other pixels to a maximum value, or by keeping pixels having a maximum value unchanged and changing values of other pixels to a minimum value.

12. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

changing the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced gradation by reducing the gradation level of the at least part of the image to a gradation level according to a ratio of a text area included in the at least part of the image.

13. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

changing the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced gradation level by reducing the gradation level of the at least part of the image to a gradation level according to a type of an application that causes the at least part of the image to be displayed.

14. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

changing the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced gradation level by binarizing the image based on comparison between values of pixels and a threshold value, the threshold value being a pixel value that has a larger difference from a pixel value of a background image displayed in the background of the at least part of the image from an average, median, or mode pixel value of the at least part of the image, the background image being expressed by only pixels having an identical value.

15. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

changing the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced gradation level that shows a figure of an area in which the at least part of the image is displayed.

16. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

changing the at least part of the image to the at least part of the image having the reduced gradation level that shows a type of the at least part of the image, and to cause the at least part of the image having the reduced gradation level reduced at the first change step to be displayed in an area in which the at least part of the image is displayed.

17. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , wherein the moving speed of the at least part of the image is equivalent to the moving speed of movement of touch positions of the instruction on the display screen.

18. The information-processing method according to claim 10 , wherein the instruction to move at least part of the image displayed on the display surface includes at least one of scrolling, enlarging, and reducing the at least part of the image.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 23, 2019
From: ITOU, TAKUROU
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 050158/0360 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-222036 · Nov 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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