Patent ID: 8279246
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G04C,G04G,G09G

Abstract:
1. A display control apparatus comprising: a display unit comprising a normal display section with at least one side and a normal non-display section provided outside the at least one side and along the at least one side of the normal display section, wherein a whole of the normal display and non-display sections of the display unit comprises a matrix of dot areas; a storage device which comprises a plurality of areas therein, each storing display data for a respective one of the dot areas of the matrix of the display unit; an inclination sensor that senses whether the display unit is inclined at a predetermined angle to a predetermined reference; and a display size control unit that displays character information in a normal size on the normal display section of the display unit when the inclination sensor fails to sense that the display unit is inclined at the predetermined angle to the predetermined reference, and displays the character information in an enlarged size on the whole of the normal display and non-display sections of the display unit when the inclination sensor senses that the display unit is inclined at the predetermined angle to the predetermined reference, wherein the display size control unit comprises a character information display control unit that: (i) when the character information is to be displayed in the normal size only on the normal display section, reads first display data from areas of the storage device corresponding to dot areas of the matrix of the normal display section of the display unit, and displays the read first display data as the character information in the normal size on the normal display section, and (ii) when the character information is to be displayed in the enlarged size on the whole of the normal display section and the normal non-display section provided outside the normal display section, copies second display data stored in areas of the storage device corresponding to dot areas of the matrix of the normal display section arranged along said at least one side into areas of the storage device corresponding to dot areas of the normal non-display section, reads the copied second display data, and displays the second display data as incremental display information on the normal non-display section, and wherein the second display data corresponds to only a part of the first display data arranged along said at least one side.