Information processing apparatus

• US 20030223183A1
• Filed: 05/09/2003
• Published: 12/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Numano, Fujihito
• Application Number:
  US10/435,407
• Publication Number:
  US 20030223183A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

Information displayed on a main display is selected, and the selected information is displayed on a sub-display. A GUI corresponding to the type of selected information is displayed on the sub-display. The information displayed on the sub-display is edited, and the edited information is displayed at the original position on the main display.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first means for displaying information;

a second means for displaying information, the second means being separate from the first means;

a selection means for selecting information displayed on the first means such that the selected information is displayed on the second means; and

an edit means for editing the information displayed on the second means.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the second means is edited such that the edited information is displayed on the first means.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein displaying the edited information on the first means comprises replacing the selected information displayed on the first means with the edited information.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second means includes a touch interface means adapted for inputting instructions, the touch interface means being integral with the second means.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising determination means for determining a type of the selected information;

wherein the second means displays a GUI (Graphical User Interface) corresponding to the type of the selected information determined by the determination means.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus further comprises an input means for inputting information, wherein the edit means edits the information displayed on the second means based on an instruction received from the input means.

7. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the edit means edits the information displayed on the second means based on an instruction received from the touch interface means.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the edit means edits the information displayed on the second means using the GUI (Graphical User Interface).

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the second means comprises at least one of image information and text information,

wherein the apparatus further comprises a first management means which manages the image information, a second management means which manages the text information, and a third management means which manages the image information and text information, and

wherein the edited information displayed on the first means is managed by at least one of the first management means, the second management means and the third management means.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising storage means for storing the edited information.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising storage means for storing the selected information.

12. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a main display;

a tablet device having a sub-display separate from the main display;

a selection device for selecting an information item displayed on the main display such that the selected information item is displayed on the sub-display; and

a processor programmed for managing a number of selected information items selected by the selection device.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the number of selected information items are managed in the form of a list.

14. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the sub-display is integral with the tablet device.

15. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further programmed for editing the selected information item displayed on the sub-display.

16. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further programmed for inhibiting editing of the selected information item displayed on the sub-display.

17. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further programmed for:

determining a type for the selected information item; and

for displaying a GUI (Graphical User Interface) on the sub-display corresponding to the type of the selected information item.

18. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processor is further programmed for at least one of adding an information item to the list and deleting an information item from the list.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein adding an information item to the list comprises inserting the information item into a desired position in the list.

20. The apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising a storage device for storing the number of selected information items selected by the selection device.

21. The apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the storage device is a hard drive.

22. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the apparatus is a notebook type personal computer.

23. In an information processing apparatus comprising a main display and a tablet device having a sub-display, an information editing method comprising:

selecting information displayed on the main display such that the selected information is displayed on the sub-display; and

editing the information displayed on the sub-display.

24. The method according to claim 23, further comprising displaying the edited information on the main display.

25. The method according to claim 24, wherein displaying the edited information on the main display comprises replacing the selected information on the main display with the edited information.

26. The method according to claim 23, wherein displaying the selected information on the sub-display comprises:

determining a type of the selected information; and

displaying on the sub-display a GUI (Graphical User Interface) corresponding to the determined type of the selected information.

27. In an information processing apparatus comprising a main display and a tablet device having a sub-display, an information editing method comprising:

selecting ones of a plurality of information items displayed on the main display;

managing a number of the selected ones of the information items;

selecting one of the number of the selected information items; and

displaying on the sub-display the selected one of the number of the selected information items.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein the number of the selected ones of the information items are managed in the form of a list and wherein the one of the number of the selected information items is selected from the list.

29. The method according to claim 27, further comprising editing the displayed selected one of the number of the selected information items.