Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yoshiro Kihara

Isamu Haneda

Yasushi Murasaki

Masami Morioka

A display of an electric device displays data which are stored in a chart data part, in the form of a chart. When deleting of a column or row of the chart using a coordinates inputting device is instructed, the column or row is deleted, the remaining columns or rows are moved closer to each other, and the chart is accordingly edited and displayed. Simultaneously, at the position at which the column or row is deleted, an identifier is displayed. A user may also optionally select whether or not to display the identifier. In addition, when the coordinates inputting device on the identifier is touched, the deleted column is restored and displayed at the original position. In the case where there are a plurality of deleted columns, one column may be selectively designated from the plurality of columns so that only the designated one column is restored. Further, the identifier may be displayed in the form of a menu display, so that a user may designate a column to restore simply by touching the coordinates inputting device on the menu display corresponding to the designated column.

Data processing apparatus

The present invention is directed to setting the direction and the quantity of movement by a point and to execute scrolling. A reference point is set in the display screen of the display apparatus of the electric device, in advance. When a user selects a display mode of a data processing function and designates a point within the display screen through a coordinate inputting apparatus, the device calculates a positional deviation of a designate point from the reference point as a deviation of a coordinate value, switches a display image so that an image component which is displayed at a position corresponding to the designate position is located at a position corresponding to the reference position, and scrolls the image. Further, when a point is designated successively a plurality of times as a designation point, an image which is sequentially switched is scrolled the plurality of times at predetermined time intervals. Still further, when designating is successively executed for a plurality of times, the predetermined time is shortened in accordance with the number of designating. When a display image includes a character, an approximate value of a deviation which denotes a positional deviation is found among integer-multiples of the width of a rectangular region which includes the character.

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Hamburg, Germany

Yoshiro Kihara