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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1996
Yutaka Tomioka, Yokohama, JP;
Fumiyuki Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Kazumi Harada, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Araki, Kawasaki, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
When various pieces of information relating to a particular page are received, pieces of link information (or items) respectively indicating a link relationship between the particular page and a reference page are extracted from the pieces of information, a positional relationship among the items is managed in a link managing unit, and a two-dimensional map indicating a relative positional relationship between each pair of items is prepared according to the positional relationship among the items in a two-dimensional map preparing unit. Also, an image of the pieces of information is prepared in an image preparing unit, and the image in which the items are included is displayed on an image displaying unit. Thereafter, when a user input an instruction indicating a change of a remarked item, a particular item placed on an upper, lower, right or left side of the remarked item is automatically specified according to the two-dimensional map and is selected. Therefore, a desired item can be easily selected without strictly specifying a position of the desired item.