Patent ID: 9041947
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A display apparatus comprising: a display section having a display area in which a selection image from which a user makes selection in use of a pointer is displayed; a display control section consecutively displaying, when the selection image is formed by a plurality of images hierarchically associated with one another, the images configuring the selection image in the display area in accordance with the hierarchical association; a distance detection section detecting a spatial distance between the pointer and the display area; and a coordinate detection section detecting coordinates in the display area which correspond to a position of the pointer, wherein the display control section executes a multiple hierarchical-levels display process of displaying, in the display area, together with a specified image displayed at a position corresponding to the coordinates detected by the coordinate detection section, related images at an immediately lower level in the hierarchy associated with the specified image, when the spatial distance detected by the distance detection section is shorter than a preset threshold distance, the display control section further executes a higher hierarchical-global hiding process for hiding non-specified images at the same hierarchical level as that to which the specified image belongs, the non-specified images being different from the specified images in multiple hierarchical-levels display process, the threshold distance is associated with each of the hierarchical levels of the images configuring the selection image so that the threshold distance becomes shorter as the hierarchical level is lowered, the display apparatus further comprising a selection acceptance section accepting an image at the lowest hierarchical level of the selection image displayed at the position corresponding to coordinates detected by the coordinate detection section when the spatial distance detected by the distance detection section is shorter than the threshold distance associated with the lowest hierarchical level in a case where the image at the lowest hierarchical level of the selection image is displayed by the display control section in the display area and at the position corresponding to the coordinates detected by the coordinate detection section, and when the spatial distance detected by the distance detection section is equal to or longer than the threshold distance associated with a hierarchical level immediately above the hierarchical level of the related images displayed as a result of execution of the multiple hierarchical-levels display process, the display control section hides the related images and displays, in the display area, all of images that are included in the images configuring the selection image and that are at the hierarchical level immediately above the hierarchical level of the related images.