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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2003
Shigeo Harada, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuki Iwasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeo Harada, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuki Iwasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image display unit operational interface for easily selecting a lot of functions while checking the content of an underlying image is provided. In an image display control device () for displaying on a display unit () a large menu having a plurality of menu items, and an underlying image, to allow performing menu item selection and operation according to instructions by a user, a controller () for, according to the instructions, selecting and controlling one of either of the large menu and a small menu that has as menu items a lone portion of the menu items in the large menu, and a menu image compositor () for, according to control by the controller, simultaneously displaying on the display unit the small menu together with the underlying image are included.