Display control method, display apparatus, and electronic apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYusuke YAMADA
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Abstract
A display control method includes generating thumbnail images to be displayed on a display unit; displaying the thumbnail images generated in the generating on the display unit; removing a residual image present on the display unit before removing the thumbnail images displayed on the display unit or reducing a display region of the thumbnail images.
Claims5
A display control method for displaying an image on a display unit which includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels formed corresponding to the intersections between the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines, and which displays an image using a plurality of particles of a first color and a plurality of particles of a second color included in the pixels, comprising:
- generating thumbnail images to be displayed on the display unit;
- displaying the thumbnail images generated in the generating on the display unit;
- and
- removing a residual image present on the display unit by moving the particles of the first color and the particles of the second color before removing the thumbnail images displayed on the display unit or reducing a display region of the thumbnail images.
A display apparatus comprising:
- a display unit which includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels formed corresponding to the intersections between the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines, and which displays an image using a plurality of particles of a first color and a plurality of particles of a second color included in the pixels;
- a display image generation unit that generates thumbnail images to be displayed on the display unit;
- a controller that causes the thumbnail images generated by the display image generation unit to be displayed on the display unit;
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- a residual image removal unit that removes a residual image present on the display unit by moving the particles of the first color and the particles of the second color before removing the thumbnail images displayed on the display unit or reducing a display region of the thumbnail images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.