JP2017223766A - Display controller and control method for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display controller capable of easily changing a size when a user selects a size of a setting item from among predetermined setting items with a device whose setting items the user can customize.SOLUTION: In an arrangement area where a plurality of icons corresponding to each item are arranged, a display controller includes: selection means for selecting any of the plurality of icons; change means for changing a size of the icon in the arrangement area; and display control means for performing control to change the size of the icon selected in response to changing of the size of the selected icon by the change means and change an amount of information shown by the selected icon to display it.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

Description

  The present invention relates to a display device that allows a user to customize setting items.

  A method for creating a setting screen of a user's preference by enabling a user to customize setting items is disclosed. Patent Document 1 discloses that operation buttons can be arranged on a touch panel and the size can be freely changed.

JP-A-2005-204720

  In the prior art described in Patent Document 1, when setting items are arranged on a screen to be customized, the size of the setting items can be changed.

  However, when the content to be displayed differs depending on the size of the setting item, the conventional invention cannot change the size of the setting item.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to easily change the size of a setting item in a display device that allows customization of screen items and displays different contents depending on the size of the setting item.

In order to achieve the above object, a display control device according to the present invention includes:
In an arrangement area where a plurality of icons corresponding to each item are arranged, a selection means for selecting one of the plurality of icons, a change means for changing the size of the icon in the arrangement area, and the selected Display control means for controlling to change the size of the selected icon according to the change of the size of the icon by the changing means and to change and display the amount of information indicated by the selected icon It is characterized by having.

  According to the display control device of the present invention, the screen items can be customized, and the size of the setting item can be easily changed in a display device that displays different contents depending on the size of the setting item.

The block diagram of the display apparatus of embodiment in this invention Screen transition example when changing the size of the setting item on the customization screen in the embodiment The figure showing the size of the setting item in the embodiment and the relationship between the display contents according to the size Screen transition example when changing the size of the setting item on the customization screen in the embodiment Example of screen when there is only one type of setting item on the customization screen in the embodiment Flowchart for changing the size of setting items in the embodiment

  Hereinafter, an embodiment when the present invention is applied to a camera will be described.

  FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a display device.

  In FIG. 1, a CPU 101, a memory 102, a nonvolatile memory 103, a display 104, and an operation unit 105 are connected to an internal bus 150. Each unit connected to the internal bus 150 can exchange data with each other via the internal bus 150.

  The memory 102 is composed of, for example, a RAM (a volatile memory using a semiconductor element).

  The CPU 101 controls each unit of the display control apparatus using the memory 102 as a work memory, for example, according to a program stored in the nonvolatile memory 103. The nonvolatile memory 103 stores image data, audio data, other data, various programs for operating the CPU 101, and the like. The nonvolatile memory 103 is composed of, for example, a hard disk (HD) or ROM.

  The display 104 displays an image, a GUI screen configuring a GUI (Graphical User Interface), and the like based on the control of the CPU 101.

  The CPU 101 generates a display control signal according to a program, and controls each unit of the display control device so as to generate a video signal to be displayed on the display 104 and output it to the display 104. The display 104 displays a video based on the output video signal.

  The operation unit 105 is an input device for accepting user operations including buttons, dials, joysticks, touch sensors, touch pads, and the like. Note that the touch panel is an input device that is configured in a planar manner so as to overlap the display 104, and that outputs coordinate information corresponding to the touched position.

  Next, the setting item size changing process of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  A screen 201 represents a screen displayed on the display 104 by the CPU 101. The setting area 202 is arranged in a 6 × 4 grid on the screen 201 by the CPU 101. A focus 203 is arranged on the setting area 202 by the CPU 101 and represents a position to be set. Icons 204, 205, and 206 are arranged on the screen 201 by the CPU 101 and represent icons for camera time setting, picture style setting, and sensor cleaning execution, respectively.

  In FIG. 2A, the CPU 101 moves the focus 203 to the position of the icon 204 when the user uses the operation unit 105 to detect an operation for moving the focus 203 upward, for example. The icon 207 in FIG. 7B represents a state where the focus 203 is focused on the icon 204.

  In FIG. 2B, when the CPU 101 detects that the user uses the operation unit 105 and the icon 207 is selected, the CPU 101 changes the icon 207 to an edit state. An icon 208 in FIG. 2C indicates that the time setting icon is in an editing state.

  In FIG. 2C, the CPU 101 changes the size of the icon 208 when the user detects that the enlargement operation is performed on the icon 208 using the operation unit 105, and displays information corresponding to the size at that time. Do.

  In FIG. 2D, an icon 209 represents a state after the enlargement operation of the icon 208. In this embodiment, it is determined whether an enlargement operation has been performed by detecting an operation of a specific button. Depending on the operation method of the operation member, it may be determined that not only the enlargement operation but also the reduction operation has been performed. For example, when the dial is rotated in a predetermined direction, it is determined that it is an enlargement operation, and when it is rotated in the opposite direction to the predetermined direction, it is determined as a reduction operation. When it is detected, it may be determined as a reduction operation.

  Here, a method for acquiring information to be displayed next when the CPU 101 detects an enlargement operation will be described with reference to FIG.

  The non-volatile memory 103 stores information to be displayed on the icons for each size as shown in FIG. Information 301 represents that only the time is displayed when the icon for setting the time of the camera is a size of 1 × 1. Similarly, in the case of the information 302, when the icon has a size of 1 × 2, the date and time are displayed, and 2 × 3 indicates that the date, time, and time difference are displayed. It should be noted that a hatched portion indicates that there is no display information corresponding to the size. That is, there are three types of display patterns for time settings, two types for picture style settings, and one type for sensor cleaning. The CPU 101 can acquire information to be displayed on the icon corresponding to the size by referring to the information as shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 2D, the CPU 101 detects that the user has performed an enlargement operation on the icon 209 using the operation unit 105. The CPU 101 refers to the information of FIG. 3 and acquires information 303 to be displayed next. The CPU 101 performs enlarged display of the icon 209 according to the acquired information. FIG. 2E shows an icon 210 after the icon 209 is enlarged.

  FIG. 4 shows a screen for changing the size of the picture style setting icon. In FIG. 4A, when the CPU detects an operation for changing the size using the operation unit 105, the CPU 101 The information 305 to be displayed next is acquired with reference to the information in FIG. The CPU 101 changes the size of the icon 401 to 1 × 3 based on the information 305 and draws information to be displayed on the screen 201. FIG. 4B shows an icon 402 after the icon 401 has been enlarged.

  FIG. 5 shows a screen for changing the size of the sensor cleaning execution icon. When the CPU 101 detects an operation for changing the size using the operation unit 105, the CPU 101 refers to the information in FIG. It turns out that there is no information that can be changed. In this case, the CPU 101 does not change the appearance of the icon 501 even if the user performs an operation for changing the size using the operation unit 105.

  Next, the item size change control process by the CPU 101 will be described with reference to FIG. At this time, it is assumed that the screen of FIG. 2A is displayed on the display 104, and the information of the icons 204, 205, and 206 and the focus 203 is recorded in the memory 102. Further, it is assumed that display information corresponding to the size of the icon as shown in FIG. 3 is recorded in the nonvolatile memory 103.

  The program for performing the processing of FIG. 6 is stored in the nonvolatile memory 103, and the CPU 101 reads and executes it as appropriate. The memory 102 is used as a work memory when executing a program.

  In step 601, the CPU 101 receives a user operation on the operation unit 105, detects which position on the screen has been selected, and sets the selected position in an editing state. At this time, the item in the edit state may be distinguished from other items by changing the color of the item different from the other items or blinking the item.

  In step 602, the CPU 101 acquires information on the item arranged at the position selected in step 601 from the memory 102. At this time, in the state of the icon 208 in FIG. 2C, the arranged icon is a time setting icon, and it can be acquired from the memory 102 that the size is 1 × 1.

  In step 603, the CPU 101 records the information acquired in step 602 in the memory 102 as icon information before change.

  In step 604, the CPU 101 refers to the information in FIG. 3 recorded in the non-volatile memory 103, determines whether it can be enlarged, and records the result in the memory 102. Processing for determining whether enlargement is possible will now be described. The CPU 101 determines whether there are a plurality of sizes that can be changed from the information in FIG. 3 recorded in the nonvolatile memory 103. For example, when the icon is a time setting icon, there are a plurality of changeable sizes, and thus the CPU 101 determines that the icon can be enlarged. When the icon is sensor cleaning, the changeable size is only 1 × 1, and there is no other changeable size. Therefore, the CPU 101 determines that enlargement is not possible. If it is determined that enlargement is impossible, the user may be notified that the icon cannot be enlarged by changing the color of the icon or displaying guidance.

  In step 605, the CPU 101 receives a user operation on the operation unit 105.

  In step 606, the CPU 101 determines whether or not the user operation on the operation unit 105 received in step 605 is an enlargement operation. If the operation is an enlargement operation, the process proceeds to step 608; otherwise, the process proceeds to step 607.

  In step 607, the CPU 101 determines whether the user operation on the operation unit 105 received in step 605 is a cancel operation. If it is a cancel operation, the item size setting process is terminated. If it is not a cancel operation, the process proceeds to step 605.

  In step 608, the CPU 101 acquires information about whether or not the icon that can be enlarged is recorded in the memory 102 in step 604, and determines whether or not enlargement is possible. If enlargement is possible, the process proceeds to step 609. If enlargement is not possible, the process proceeds to step 605.

  In step 609, the CPU 101 determines the size after the enlargement operation from the current icon size acquired in step 602 and the information of FIG. 3 recorded in the nonvolatile memory 103. Here, as a method for determining the size, a search is performed in the right direction from the corresponding state in FIG. 3, and the next corresponding size is adapted as the size of the next icon. That is, when the current icon is a time setting icon and the size is 1 × 1, the next size is 1 × 2, and when the enlargement operation is further performed, the size is 2 × 3. If the next icon is not found in the right direction in FIG. 3, the size at the left end is adapted. That is, if the enlargement operation is performed when the size is 2 × 3 in the time setting, 1 × 1 is obtained when the enlargement operation is performed when the setting icon of the picture style is 1 × 3. It can be acquired as the next size. Further, when the reduction operation is performed using the dial or touch operation described above, it can be realized by performing a search in the opposite direction to the enlargement operation. This is merely an example in the present embodiment, and the next size may be determined by a different method.

  In step 610, the CPU 101 acquires information for displaying on the icon whose size has been changed from the next size acquired in step 609 and the information of FIG. 3 recorded in the nonvolatile memory 103. For example, when the next size is 1 × 2 in the time setting icon, it can be seen from FIG. 3 that the date and time are necessary, so the CPU 101 acquires the date and time information set in the camera. .

In step 611, the CPU 101 changes the icon to the size acquired in step 609.
In step 612, the CPU 101 draws the information acquired in step 610 on the icon.

  In step 613, the CPU 101 receives a user operation on the operation unit 105.

  In step 614, the CPU 101 determines whether the operation accepted in step 613 is a decision operation. If it is a determination operation, the item size setting process is terminated. If it is not a determination operation, the process proceeds to step 615.

  In step 615, the CPU 101 determines whether or not the operation accepted in step 613 is a cancel operation. If it is a cancel operation, the process proceeds to step 616, and if it is not a cancel operation, the process proceeds to step 617.

  In step 616, the CPU 101 acquires the pre-change icon information recorded in the memory 102 in step 603, returns the display to the state of the icon before the item size setting process is performed, and ends the item size setting process.

  In step 617, the CPU 101 determines whether the operation received in step 613 is an enlargement operation. If it is an enlargement operation, the process proceeds to step 609. If it is not an enlargement operation, the process proceeds to step 613.

  As described above, according to the embodiment, the screen items can be customized, and the size of the items can be easily changed in the display control device in which the contents to be displayed differ depending on the size of the setting item.

  Note that the various controls described as being performed by the CPU 101 may be performed by a single piece of hardware, or the entire apparatus may be controlled by a plurality of pieces of hardware sharing the processing.

  Although the present invention has been described in detail based on the preferred embodiments thereof, the present invention is not limited to these specific embodiments, and various forms without departing from the gist of the present invention are also included in the present invention. included. Furthermore, each embodiment mentioned above shows only one embodiment of this invention, and it is also possible to combine each embodiment suitably.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to the display control apparatus has been described as an example. However, this is not limited to this example, and the size of the icon can be changed together with the change of the display information. Such a display control device can be applied. That is, the present invention can be applied to a mobile phone terminal, a portable image viewer, a printer device including a viewfinder, a digital photo frame, a music player, a game machine, an electronic book reader, and the like.

(Other embodiments)
The present invention is also realized by executing the following processing. That is, software (program) that realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus via a network or various recording media, and a computer (or CPU, MPU, or the like) of the system or apparatus reads the program code. It is a process to be executed. In this case, the program and the recording medium storing the program constitute the present invention.

101 CPU, 102 memory, 103 nonvolatile memory, 104 display,
105 Operation unit

Claims (6)

A setting item placement area for placing objects corresponding to a plurality of setting items;
An object selection means for selecting an object from the objects arranged in the setting item arrangement area;
One size information is selected from one or more size information that can be set for one object, display information related to each object and size information, and one or more size information about the object selected by the object selection means. Size selection means for selecting;
A size changing means for making the size selected by the size selecting means for the object selected by the object selecting means;
Object display means for displaying, on the setting item arrangement area, display information corresponding to the size of the object selected by the object selection means with the size changed by the size changing means. A display control device. 2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when there is only one size information among the one or more settable size information, the size of the object selected by the size changing unit is not changed. In an arrangement area where a plurality of icons corresponding to each item are arranged, selection means for selecting one of the plurality of icons,
Changing means for changing the size of the icon in the arrangement area;
The size of the selected icon is changed in accordance with the change of the size of the selected icon by the changing means, and the control is performed so that the information amount indicated by the selected icon is changed and displayed. And a display control means. A selection step of selecting any of the plurality of icons in an arrangement area where a plurality of icons corresponding to the respective items are arranged;
A change step of changing the size of the icon in the arrangement area;
The size of the selected icon is changed in accordance with the change of the size of the selected icon by the changing means, and the control is performed so that the information amount indicated by the selected icon is changed and displayed. And a display control step. The program for functioning a computer as each means of the display control apparatus as described in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the display control device according to any one of claims 1 to 3.