Display control apparatus and method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHideto Sasaki, Yoko Kondo
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Abstract
A display control apparatus of this invention includes a touch panel for inputting a predetermined input, a liquid crystal monitor for displaying and switching a plurality of operation screen to display a desired operation screen in accordance with the predetermined input inputted by the touch panel, and a control unit for, when the operation screen to be displayed on the liquid crystal monitor in accordance with the predetermined input inputted by the touch panel corresponds to a password input screen for receiving input of a password, controlling the field angle of the liquid crystal monitor to a predetermined field angle.
Claims15
A display control apparatus comprising:
- liquid crystal display means for selecting one of a plurality of operation screens and displaying the selected operation screen in accordance with a predetermined input;
- input means, associated with said display means, for inputting a predetermined input;
- first control means for, when the operation screen to be displayed on said liquid crystal display means in accordance with the predetermined input does not correspond to a particular operation screen, controlling the field angle of said liquid crystal display means to be a first field angle;
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- second control means for, when the operation screen to be displayed on said liquid crystal display means in accordance with the predetermined input corresponds to the particular operation screen, controlling the field angle of said liquid crystal display means to be a second field angle smaller than the first field angle.
A method for controlling a liquid crystal display capable of displaying a plurality of operation screens comprising:
- receiving a user input;
- selecting one of the plurality of operation screens for display in accordance with the user input;
- displaying the selected operation screen;
- controlling a field angle of said liquid crystal display to be a first field angle when the operation screen to be displayed on said liquid crystal display in accordance with the user input does not correspond to a particular operation screen;
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- controlling the field angle of said liquid crystal display to be a second field angle smaller than the first field angle when the operation screen to be displayed on said liquid crystal display in accordance with the user input corresponds to the particular operation screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.