Display processing terminal device, photosensor-equipped unit, and photometric system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9965872-B2
Application number	US-201314389342-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2013
Priority date	Mar 27, 2012
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

In a photometric system, a photosensor-equipped unit includes a transmission information holding portion that holds transmission information relating to a screen display direction of a display portion with a content suitable for a photosensor. When the photosensor-equipped unit is connected to a display processing terminal device, the photosensor-equipped unit can transmit the transmission information to the display processing terminal device. The display processing terminal device includes a screen display control portion that executes a display direction setting process during connection for setting a screen display direction of the display portion based upon the transmission information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display processing terminal device connectable to and detachable from one of many types of a photosensor-equipped unit that includes a photosensor receiving light and acquiring predetermined photometric data relating to the received light, the display processing terminal device comprising:
a display portion that performs a display process with any one of plural display directions being specified as a screen display direction and displays data received by the display portion and sent from the connected photosensor-equipped unit, a side of the display portion being configured for removable attachment of the photosensor-equipped unit;
an interface portion configured to communicate with said photosensor-equipped unit when the display processing terminal device is connected to said photosensor-equipped unit; and
a screen display control portion that executes a display direction setting process when the display processing terminal device is connected to the photosensor-equipped unit, the display direction setting process setting said screen display direction of said display portion based upon transmission information relating to said screen display direction acquired from said connected photosensor-equipped unit, the transmission information identifying an optimal display direction for viewing of the display portion by a user, the transmission information identifying the type of the photosensor-equipped unit that has been connected to the display processing terminal device, the optimal display direction being selected without action by a user and based upon the type of the photosensor-equipped unit connected to the display processing terminal device,
wherein the screen display control portion sets the display portion by default so that the side where said photosensor-equipped unit has been connected becomes an upper direction or a lower direction when the display processing terminal is connected to said photosensor-equipped unit, and
wherein in accordance with the type of said photosensor-equipped unit to which the display processing terminal device has been connected, the screen display control portion sets by default whether a side of connecting said photosensor-equipped unit becomes an upper side or a lower side in said screen display direction.

2. The display processing terminal device according to claim 1 , further comprising a direction determination information holding portion that holds display direction determination information for determining a screen display direction of said display portion when the display processing terminal device is connected to said photosensor-equipped unit,
wherein said transmission information includes photosensor identification information identifying a type of said photosensor, and
wherein said screen display control portion determines an instruction content of said display direction determination information based upon said photosensor identification information, and executes said display direction setting process during connection.

3. The display processing terminal device according to claim 1 , further comprising a display direction changing portion configured to change said screen display direction, after said display direction setting process, to another display direction, when the display processing terminal device is connected to said photosensor-equipped unit.

4. A photosensor-equipped unit that includes a photosensor that receives light and acquires predetermined photometric data relating to the received light, the photosensor-equipped unit being connectable to and detachable from a side of a display processing terminal device, the display processing terminal device including a display portion that performs a display process with any one of plural display directions being specified as a screen display direction and displays a result of data received by the display portion and sent from the photosensor-equipped unit, and a screen display control portion that executes a display direction setting process when the display processing terminal device is connected to the photosensor-equipped unit, the display direction setting process setting said screen display direction of said display portion, the photosensor-equipped unit comprising a transmission information holding portion that holds transmission information relating to said screen display direction of said display portion with a content suitable for said photosensor,
wherein the transmission information holding portion is configured to transmit said transmission information to said display processing terminal device when the photosensor-equipped unit is connected to said display processing terminal device, and said screen display control portion in said display processing terminal device executes said display direction setting process during connection based upon said transmission information from said transmission information holding portion of said photosensor-equipped unit, the transmission information identifying an optimal display direction for viewing of the display portion by a user, the transmission information identifying a type of the photosensor-equipped unit that has been connected to the display processing terminal device, the optimal display direction being selected without action by the user based upon the type of the photosensor-equipped unit connected to the display processing terminal device, and
wherein in said transmission information, a display screen is set by default so that the side where the photosensor-equipped unit has been connected becomes an upper direction or a lower direction when the photosensor-equipped unit is connected to said display processing terminal device.

5. The photosensor-equipped unit according to claim 4 ,
wherein said photosensor is an illumination photometry sensor, and
wherein said transmission information includes display direction direct instruction information instructing that the side where said photosensor-equipped unit is mounted becomes an upper direction of a display screen of said display portion.

6. The photosensor-equipped unit according to claim 4 ,
wherein said photosensor is a color measuring sensor, and
wherein said transmission information includes display direction direct instruction information instructing that the side where said photosensor-equipped unit is mounted becomes a lower direction of a display screen of said display portion.

7. A photometric system comprising:
one of a plurality of types of a photosensor-equipped unit, each including a photosensor that receives light and acquires predetermined photometric data relating to the received light; and
a display processing terminal device that includes a display portion performing a display process with any one of plural display directions being specified as a screen display direction and displays a result of data received by the display processing terminal device and sent from the photosensor-equipped unit, and an interface portion configured to communicate with said photosensor-equipped unit when the display processing terminal device is connected to said photosensor-equipped unit, the photosensor-equipped unit being connectable to and detachable from a side of the display processing terminal device;
wherein the photosensor-equipped unit further includes a transmission information holding portion that holds transmission information relating to said screen display direction of said display portion with a content suitable for said photosensor,
wherein the transmission information holding portion is configured to transmit said transmission information to said display processing terminal device when said photosensor-equipped unit is connected to said display processing terminal device, the transmission information identifying the typ

Assignees

• Konica Minolta Inc

Inventors

• Yashiro Takehiro
• Yamanoi Yuta
• Ishida Kouichi
• Ochi Keizou
• Matsubara Noriaki
• Yokota Satoshi

Classifications

• G06T11/10 Primary

  Texturing; Colouring; Generation of textures or colours (retouching, inpainting or scratch removal G06T5/77) · CPC title

• G09G2370/22

  Detection of presence or absence of input display information or of connection or disconnection of a corresponding information source · CPC title

• G09G3/16

  by control of light from an independent source · CPC title

• G09G2380/14

  Electronic books and readers · CPC title

• G09G5/36

  characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory · CPC title