Display control system, and display control method for visual presentation data

• US 10,055,863 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2015
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nishimura, Takehiko, Takahashi, Kazuki, Sakaguchi, Ryota
• Primary Examiner(s): Pringle-Parker, Jason
• Application Number:
  US14/977,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20160210765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/36 Level of detail
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/62 Semi-transparency

Abstract

A display control system includes: at least a display control device including a transparency control unit that, when displaying a first display component and a second display component such that at least parts of the first display component and the second display component overlap each other, increases a transparency of at least one of the first display component and the second display component in an overlapping portion according to one of a density of display contents contained in the first display component and a density of display contents contained in the second display component in the overlapping portion.

Claims

1. A display control system comprising:

at least a display control device including

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory to;

display a first display component and a second display component; and

increase, when displaying the first display component and the second display component such that at least parts of the first display component and the second display component overlap each other, a transparency of at least one of the first display component and the second display component in an overlapping portion, where the first display component and the second display component overlap with each other, according to one of a density of display contents contained in the first display component and a density of display contents contained in the second display component in the overlapping portion, wherein

the transparency of the second display component is set according to a ratio of a width of a heat map to one of a width of an entire display area and a width of a single divided area among divided areas that are obtained by dividing the display area into a plurality of areas.

2. The display control system according to claim 1, wherein the processor increases the transparency in the overlapping portion according to types of the first display component and the second display component.

3. The display control system according to claim 1, wherein each of the first display component and the second display component is any of a trace graph, an event graph, and a heat map.

4. The display control system according to claim 1, wherein when data corresponding to the first display component is traceability data and data corresponding to the second display component is quantitative data, the second display component is determined as a heat map.

5. The display control system according to claim 1, wherein when data corresponding to the first display component is traceability data and data corresponding to the second display component is event data, the second display component is determined as an event graph.

6. The display control system according to claim 5, wherein the transparency of the second display component is set according to a size of a point in the event graph.

7. The display control system according to claim 1, wherein the density of the display contents contained in the first display component or the density of the display contents contained in the second display component is calculated for each of divided areas that are obtained by dividing a display area into a plurality of areas.

8. A display control system comprising:

at least a display control device including

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory to;

display a first display component and a second display component; and

increase, when an arrangement position of one of the first display component and the second display component is changed at a position at which at least parts of the first display component and the second display component overlap each other, control a transparency of one of the first display component and the second display component according to a density of contents contained in the first display component and a density of contents contained in the second display component in an overlapping portion, where the first display component and the second display component overlap with each other, wherein

the transparency of the second display component is set according to a ratio of a width of a heat map to one of a width of an entire display area and a width of a single divided area among divided areas that are obtained by dividing the display area into a plurality of areas.

9. The display control system according to claim 8, wherein the arrangement position is changed based on a change in a time axis of a display area in which the first display component and the second display component are displayed.