Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Izua Kano

Kazuhiro Yamada

Keiichi Murakami

Dai Kamiya

Yasushi Onda

Eiju Yamada

Naoki Hashida

Yusuke Kushida

Takeshi Natsuno

An information processing device includes: execution means for executing an application program; determination means for determining a size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program; receiving means for receiving at least one data set from among a plurality of data sets; data selection means for selecting one data set from among the plurality of data sets, depending on the window size determined by the determination unit; execution control means for controlling the execution means to process the one data set selected by the data selection means from among the received at least one data set, in accordance with the application program; and display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the one data set to be processed by the execution means.

Information processing device and program

The window display application controls a display position of a window (an image). The Java Runtime Environment controls processing associated with the window (e.g., displaying of the window). Operation information on an operation of a display position of a window is supplied to the window display application. Operation information on an operation of processing details of an application corresponding to a window (a widget) is supplied to the Java Runtime Environment.

Information-processing device and program

An information-processing device, if an instruction to display a window group is received, displays the window group in a first size in a display area of display means, and then displays at least a part of the window group in a second size that is greater than the first size in the display area. If operation means receives an instruction to specify a window that is displayed in the display area, the information-processing device executes a process based on the specified window.

Information-processing device and program for displaying a window group including a plurality of windows

In a communication terminal device, in a case where the arrangement of the windows is changed in a list screen, an overhead screen is initially displayed, in which the list screen is overviewed, and the arrangement of the windows is subsequently changed in the overhead screen, and a magnified screen (original screen) of the overhead screen, in which the arrangement of the windows has been changed, is displayed last, as described in the foregoing. By displaying a magnified image, it is possible to make windows better visible in a small display area of a mobile phone. Also, in a case where a window exists that cannot be displayed in a magnified screen, by displaying an overhead screen, it becomes possible for a user to recognize a fact that a window that cannot be displayed exists in a magnified screen, and also recognize a position of the window.

Display device with scaling of selected object images

An information processing device stores a window of an application and designation information for designating an external device associated with the window. The information processing device detects an external device located near the information processing device, and when multiple windows are displayed having an overlapping portion the information processing device identifies an external device associated with the multiple windows. Next, the information processing device determines whether there is a window associated with the detected external device, and if the window(s) exists the information processing device displays the window or any one of the windows in the foremost position.

Information processing device and method for displaying a window based on a priority of the window

The environment around mobile phone handsetis judged according to the number of other mobile phone handsets present near mobile phone handsetand the registration status of the nearby telephones. Then, the display sequence of function names on a function selection screen is changed according to the environment. As a result, functions deemed likely to be selected by the user based on the environment surrounding mobile phone handsetmay be displayed at positions where they may be selected with fewer operations. In this way, the number of operations required of the user for selecting any of multiple functions may be reduced.

Mobile terminal and program

An information-processing device comprises: a display control that controls display positions of first and second information images in a display area of a display means for displaying an image, instructions are received for causing the first information image to move in a given direction. A display control executes a first process that, during a period in which the instruction is received, causes the first information image to move and a second process that, in a case where the first information image comes into contact with the second information image as a result of the movement caused by the first process and is further moved after the contact, causes the second information image to move in a direction different from the direction of movement of the first information image, such that the second information image does not overlap the first information image.

An information processing device displays in a display area a key image indicating an associated key to which a process is allocated as a soft key. In the information processing device, a key to which a process is allocated can be changed. The information processing device changes what is displayed based on the display mode. For example, if processes are allocated to a key, the information processing device displays an associated key image. If the user desires to change the orientation of the device, the key and associated key image and allocated process can be changed.

Dynamic soft key arrangement based on phone orientation and user preferences

An information processing device according to the present invention stores user attribute data and pieces of application attribute data. The information processing device retrieves the user attribute data (Sa), retrieves application attribute data of running application programs (Sa), and determine whether there is application attribute data matching the user attribute data (Sa). If the determination is affirmative, the information processing device identifies an application program corresponding to the application attribute data, and subsequently identifies a window (subject window) corresponding to the identified application program (Sa). The information processing device sets priority levels for the subject window and windows overlapping the subject window so that the priority level for the subject window is higher than those of the windows (Sa), and changes a display order of the subject window and the windows in accordance with the priority levels for the subject window and the windows (Sa).

Information processing device and computer readable medium

In an information providing system, a virtual three-dimensional space is established by an information management server. A user of a mobile communication terminal moves in the virtual space, and browses, posts, and searches message information items by manipulating an avatar. The information management server manages the message information items and responds to searches requested from mobile communication terminals. The information management server specifies an area where the number of message information items relevant to a search word specified by a user of a mobile communication terminal is equal to or greater than a predetermined number. The information management server outputs a guide information item for indicating a direction or route toward the specified area from the position of an avatar. Based on the guide information item, the mobile communication terminal displays an image of an arrow pointing a direction or route toward the specified area as a target area.

Method and system for providing information in virtual space

A mobile phone manages display areaas twelve partial areas obtained by dividing the display area into a matrix of four rows and three columns, which is identical to an arrangement of keys of a numeric keypad; if plural windows are displayed in a partial area arranged in the same position as a pressed key, assigns a key to each of the windows displayed in the partial area, the key being for selecting the window, and notifies the keys; and if one of the notified keys is pressed, selects a window to which the pressed key has been assigned.

An information-processing device comprises: a reception means for receiving an instruction to display an object image(s) on a display means for displaying an image, via an operation means for receiving an operation; a determination means for determining a number of the object image(s) when the object image(s) is displayed on the display means in response to the instruction; and a display control means for, in a case where the number determined by the determination means is equal to or larger than three and equal to or smaller than a threshold value, arranging and displaying the object images at positions such that, when points respectively determined in adjacent object images are connected by line segments, a figure formed by the line segments represents a polygon having a number of vertices corresponding to the determined number, and, in a case where the number determined by the determination means exceeds the threshold value, arranging and displaying the object images in rows extending in a predetermined direction in a display area of the display means.

An information-processing device according to the present invention displays plural windows in a certain arrangement. The information-processing device selects one of displayed windows as a selected window, and in response to an operation to specify a direction, sets a window located in the direction as a selected window. The information-processing device also, in a case where plural windows are displayed in a certain arrangement, changes the arrangement in accordance with a predetermined operation. The change may be made in a regular manner or according to a random pattern. For example, in a case where window Wshown in Fig. (a) is a selected window, a desired window (a window a user wishes to select) is window W, and arrangement is changed, the arrangement is changed to an arrangement shown in Fig. (b) or (c) so that a number of operations that is required for a user to select the desired window is reduced.

To control display or hiding of windows simultaneously available based on a configuration used by a user. An information-processing device according to the present invention identifies applications that the device is able to execute; and when an instruction to display a window (a subject window) is performed, the device obtains a relevance information list of applications to display the subject window (subject applications). In the relevance information list, information for determining an application relating to the subject application is described. The information-processing device determines whether an application described in the relevance information list is included in the executable applications, and if it is included in the executable applications, the device displays a window of the application (a simultaneous display window) together with the subject window. Also, when the information-processing device receives an instruction to hide the subject window, the device hides the subject window and the simultaneous display window.

Device and method for displaying information on a graphical user interface

The information-processing device according to the present invention, if a subject operation direction is 'rightward,' specifies in a coordinate axis across a rightward direction, a range that overlaps an area between coordinates (Yato Ya) of an area where selected window Wa is displayed, and each of areas between coordinates (Yto Yand Yto Y) of areas where non-selected windows Wband Wbare displayed, and determines a window that is selectable subsequently on the basis of the overlapping range. The information-processing device displays a guide image at a position between a window that is selectable subsequently and selected window Wa, and is also within a range that overlaps both an area where a window that is selectable subsequently is displayed, and an area where window Wa is displayed, to guide a subject operation direction.

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Izua Kano