Image display apparatus and image display method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTomotaka Ogura, Tetsuo Morimoto, Shunichi Kasahara
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Abstract
An image display apparatus includes: a storage section for storing a plurality of content items sorted using categories of a higher level; a display section for displaying either of the content items or the categories; an operating section generating a first operation signal according to a first operation performed with a weak pressing force and a second operation signal according to a second operation performed with a pressing force stronger than that of the first operation; and a control section receiving the input of the first operation signal and the second operation signal and controlling a display image displayed on the display section.
Claims7
An image display apparatus comprising:
- a storage section for storing a plurality of content items sorted using categories of a higher level;
- a display section for displaying either of the content items or the categories;
- an operating section generating a first operation signal according to a first operation performed with a weak pressing force and a second operation signal according to a second operation performed with a pressing force stronger than that of the first operation;
- and
- a control section receiving the input of the first operation signal and the second operation signal and controlling a display image displayed on the display section, wherein the control section controls the storage section and the display section such that
- the contents displayed on a contents display screen displayed at the display section are sequentially switched when the first operation is performed;
- desired categories on a list of the categories displayed on a category display screen displayed at the display section are sequentially switched when the second operation is performed;
- a transition from the contents display screen to the category display screen takes place when the second operation is performed while the contents display screen is displayed;
- and
- a transition from the category display screen to the contents display screen takes place when the first operation is performed while the category display screen is displayed.
An image display method comprising the steps of:
- sorting a storing a plurality of content items using categories of a higher level;
- displaying either of the content items or the categories on a display section;
- generating a first operation signal according to a first operation performed with a weak pressing force and a second operation signal according to a second operation performed with a pressing force stronger than that of the first operation;
- and
- inputting the first operation signal and the second operation signal to a control section controlling a display image displayed on the display section, the control section exercising control such that
- the contents displayed on a contents display screen displayed at the display section are sequentially switched when the first operation is performed;
- desired categories on a list of the categories displayed on a category display screen displayed at the display section are sequentially switched when the second operation is performed;
- a transition from the contents display screen to the category display screen takes place when the second operation is performed while the contents display screen is displayed;
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- a transition from the category display screen to the contents display screen takes place when the first operation is performed while the category display screen is displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.