1. A display method, comprising:
capturing an image in front of an image display surface of a display apparatus that displays the image and detecting presence of a moving body positioned in front of the image display surface;
deciding a power saving amount of the display apparatus including the power saving amount of the image display surface by using an analysis result of the presence or absence of a human face and a detection result of the moving body in the captured image; and
deriving the actual power saving amount when no display is made on the image display surface and displaying the actual power saving amount as the power saving amount on the image display surface when information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface.
2. The display method according to claim 1,
wherein when the information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface, power consumption associated with a display thereof is taken into account before the display.
3. The display method according to claim 1,
wherein when the information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface, the captured image is also displayed together.
4. The display method according to claim 3,
wherein when the captured image is displayed on the image display surface as the information about the power saving amount, the image is displayed after a predetermined time passes after the image being captured.
5. The display method according to claim 1,
wherein when the information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface, the information about the power saving amount is displayed in a partial region of the image display surface.
6. The display method according to claim 5,
wherein when the information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface, a light source used for an image display of the image display surface is turned off in other regions than the partial region.
7. The display method according to claim I,
wherein the information about the power saving amount is displayed as a graph chronologically representing a power consumption ratio together with a numeric value.
8. The display method according to claim 1,
wherein when the information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface, the power saving amount is decided by limiting, among the faces contained in the captured image, to a specific face.
9. The display method according to claim 8,
wherein the specific face is a face appearing in front of others.
10. The display method according to claim 8,
wherein the specific face is a face of a person specified in advance.
11. The display method according to claim 8,
wherein if a face considered to be positioned away by a predetermined distance or more is judged to be present based on the analysis result of the presence or absence of the human face and the detection result of the moving body in the captured image, the face is excluded from a decision target of the power saving amount.
12. A display apparatus, comprising:
an imaging unit that captures an image in front of an image display surface of a display apparatus that displays the image;
a moving body detection unit that detects presence of a moving body positioned in front of the image display surface;
a power saving amount decision unit that decides a power saving amount of the whole apparatus including the power saving amount of the image display surface by using the captured image of the imaging unit and a detection result of the moving body of the moving body detection unit; and
a power saving amount display unit that derives the actual power saving amount when no display is made and displays the actual power saving amount as the power saving amount when information about the power saving amount and the captured image is displayed on the image display surface.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for managing a list comprising at least one item, the method comprising:
displaying each of the items in the list;
displaying adjacent to each item in the list a user interface control for flagging the adjacent item, the user interface control comprising a visual display for indicating to a user at least one of a plurality of predetermined and different flags associated with the item, wherein the visual display for indicating to a user at least one of a plurality of predetermined and different flags associated with the item comprises items not flagged, items flagged by the user, and items flagged by another user, wherein the visual display indicating items flagged by the user and items flagged by another user appearing different to the user;
receiving a first selection of the user interface control corresponding to an item in the list;
in response to the first selection, modifying the visual display to indicate that the item associated with the selected user interface control has been flagged with one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags and setting a property of the item associated with the selected user interface control to a flagged state indicating one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a second selection of the user interface control corresponding to an item in the list and, in response to the selection, setting the property of the item associated with the selected user interface control to a completed state.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising modifying a visual appearance of the user interface control in response to the second selection.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user interface control for each item comprises a color property and wherein modifying the visual display comprises displaying at least a portion of the user interface control in a color determined by the value of the color property.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
receiving a request to sort the items in the list based on the value of the color property associated with each user interface control displayed adjacent to items in the list;
in response to the request, sorting the list based on the value of the color property associated with each user interface control displayed adjacent to items in the list; and
displaying the sorted list.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
receiving a request to search for items in the list having a specified value of the color property associated with the corresponding user interface control;
in response to the request, searching the list for items having a corresponding user interface control with a color property value equivalent to the specified value; and
displaying the located items.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein items in the list may be sorted into a plurality of folders and wherein the method further comprises:
receiving a request to display items located in any of the plurality of folders having a specified value of the color property associated with the corresponding user interface control;
in response to the request, searching the plurality of folders for items having a corresponding user interface control with a color property value equivalent to the specified value; and
displaying the located items.
8. A physical computer storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of claim 1.
9. A computer-controlled apparatus capable of performing the method of claim 1.
10. The method of claim 1, where in response to the first selection, displaying an indication of each of the plurality of predetermined different flags proximate the user interface control and further comprising receiving a second selection of the one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags.
11. The method of claim 1, where the one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags is a default flag of the plurality of predetermined and different flags.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface control displayed adjacent to each item in the list comprises a shape.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:
receiving a request to select items in the list based on the flagged state of the item associated with the selected user interface control;
in response to the request, selecting items in the list based on the flagged state of the item associated with the selected user interface control; and
displaying a list of the selected items.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the shape of the user interface control displayed adjacent to each item in the list is selected from the list comprising one of the following: a star, a flag, a push-pin, a geometric shape, and a checkmark.
15. A method for managing a list comprising at least one item, the method comprising:
displaying the list of items;
displaying adjacent to each item in the list a user interface control associated with each item, the user interface control a visual display for indicating to a user at least one of a plurality of predetermined and different flags associated with the item, wherein the visual display for indicating to a user at least one of a plurality of predetermined and different flags associated with the item comprises items not flagged, items flagged by the user, and items flagged by another user, wherein the visual display indicating items flagged by the user and items flagged by another user appearing different to the user;
receiving a first selection of the user interface control associated with an item in the list;
in response to receiving the first selection, modifying the visual display to indicate that the item associated with the selected user interface control has been flagged with one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags, and setting a property of the item associated with the selected user interface control to a flagged state indicating one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags.
16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:
receiving a second selection of the user interface control associated with the item in the list; and
in response to receiving the selection, modifying the visual display provided by the user interface control to indicate that the item associated with the selected user interface control is completed.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the user interface control is further operative to receive a request to change a color of the visual display, to display at least one selectable color in response to the request, to receive the selection of a one of the at least one color, and to modify the visual display based on the selected color.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein the user interface control is further operative to receive a request to associate a reminder with the item associated with the selected user interface control and, in response to the request, to associate the reminder with the item associated with the selected user interface control.
19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:
receiving a request to sort the items in the list based on color of the display provided by the user interface control,
in response to the request, sorting the list based on the color of the display provided by each user interface control associated with an item in the list; and
displaying the sorted list.
20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:
receiving a request to search for items in the list having a specified color of the display provided by the corresponding user interface control;
in response to the request, searching the list for items having a corresponding user interface control providing a display with a color equivalent to the specified color; and
displaying the located items.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein items in the list may be sorted into a plurality of folders and wherein the method further comprises:
receiving a request to display items located in any of the plurality of folders having a display provided by the user interface control with a specified color;
in response to the request, searching the plurality of folders for items having a display provided by the corresponding user interface control with a color equivalent to the specified color; and
displaying the located items.
22. A physical computer storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of claim 15.
23. A computer-controlled apparatus capable of performing the method of claim 15.