Display control apparatus and method for controlling the same

摘要

A display control apparatus includes a first display unit in an eyepiece viewfinder, a second display unit configured to be visible without the user's eye being in contact therewith, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display a soft keyboard on the second display unit without displaying the soft keyboard on the first display unit in response to an operation for displaying the soft keyboard during display on the first display unit.

主权项

1. A display control apparatus comprising:
a first display unit configured to display a GUI including a plurality of selection items in an eyepiece viewfinder; a second display unit configured to display, in a similar format, the same GUI including the same plurality of selection items that are displayable in the first display unit, while being visible without a user's eye being in contact therewith; a display control unit configured to perform control to display a soft keyboard on the second display unit without displaying the soft keyboard on the first display unit in response to an operation for displaying the soft keyboard during display via the first display unit; an operation control unit configured to detect a touch operation performed on the second display unit and to input characters in response to a touch operation performed on the soft keyboard displayed on the second display unit; and a direction operation member, separate from the first display unit and second display unit, configured to instruct a direction, wherein the operation control unit performs control to select any of a plurality of items displayed on the first display unit in response to an operation performed on the direction operation member, and to disable an operation performed on the direction operation member in response to the operation for displaying the soft keyboard during display on the first display unit, wherein the plurality of selection items displayable on both the first and second display units includes at least one selection item including indicia representing a soft keyboard associated with the at least one selection item, so as to connote to an operator of the display control apparatus that selection of the at least one selection item having the indicia representative of the soft keyboard associated therewith, will result in display of the soft keyboard.