# US 8,789,103 B2 · Display device and display method

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- Number: US 8,789,103 B2
- Document ID: US8789103B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 12/804,934
- Filed: 2010-08-02
- Published: 2011-02-24
- Granted: 2014-07-22
- Earliest claimed: 2009-08-18
- Assignees: Sony Corporation
- Applicants: Ken Onogi; Koichi Tashiro; Naoya Okamoto
- Inventors: Ken Onogi; Koichi Tashiro; Naoya Okamoto
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8789103B2

## CPC

- H04N 21/482: End-user interface for programme selection
- H04N 5/45: Picture in picture {, e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen}
- H04N 21/4312: {involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations}
- H04N 21/4316: {for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window}
- H04N 21/440263: {by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA}
- H04N 21/47: End-user applications
- H04N 21/4828: {for searching programme descriptors (retrieval of video data G06F16/739)}
- H04N 21/6543: for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording {(remote booting in general G06F9/4416)}
- H04N 21/84: Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73)}
- G06F 9/451: Execution arrangements for user interfaces
- G11B 27/34: Indicating arrangements {(indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D)}
- H04N 21/42222: {Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device}
- H04N 21/4532: {involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences (monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18)}
- H04N 21/4622: {Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet (web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859)}
- H04N 21/4668: {for recommending content, e.g. movies}
- H04N 21/47217: {for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks (specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312)}
- H04N 21/8153: {comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image}
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R)

## Abstract

Provided is a display device including a display mode controller for controlling a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a panel on which information related to the contents is displayed, and a panel shape determination section for determining a shape of the panel based on the contents to be displayed on the panel.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A display method comprising the steps of:
controlling, by a display mode controller, a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a panel on which information related to the contents is displayed;
determining, by a panel shape determination section, a shape of the panel based on the contents to be displayed on the panel;
displaying, on the screen, related information which relates to the contents to be displayed in the panel in the panel display mode; and
displaying the image on a part of the screen of the display section in the panel display mode,
wherein the panel information display section displays the related information on the screen based on a relationship between the contents to be displayed on the panel and the image to be displayed on the display section, such that only when there is no competitive relationship between the image and the contents to be displayed on the panel, the contents to be displayed on the panel and the related information are displayed at the same time as the image,
wherein a framing of the thumbnail images indicates the mode to which the display mode controller transitions when the at least one thumbnail is selected, the framing being selectable from a first framing indicating that the display mode controller transitions to the whole screen display mode when the at least one thumbnail is selected, a second framing indicating that the display mode controller transitions to the multiple content display mode when the at least one thumbnail is selected, and a third framing indicating that the display mode controller transitions to the panel display mode when the at least one thumbnail is selected.