Display apparatus for accessing desired web site

• US 20040054667A1
• Filed: 10/21/2003
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fuji, Takahiro, Shimakawa, Keiso, Shimada, Muneki, Okada, Toyoshi, Kimoto, Yousuke, Hiramatsu, Shuji, Ohba, Akio, Suzuoki, Masakazu, Kake, Tomokazu, Enomoto, Shigeru, Kimura, Yuta, Onai, Hidehisa, Horie, Hiromasa
• Granted Patent: US 7,409,441 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

A control unit 9 examines the update status of each Web site 11 which are stored as bookmarks in a URL memory 6, the congestion status of a network 2, and the congestion status of a network server apparatus 13 of a user'"'"'s provider and the like. The control unit 9, based on this examination result, arranges an object corresponding to that Web site by changing the distance (depth) from the viewpoint in accordance with the response of the Web site 11, and displays by changing the height of the object according to the update status. Furthermore, the control unit 9 displays by changing the patterns of each object in accordance with the congestion status of the Web site which corresponds to that object, and displays by changing the weather of virtual space in accordance with the busy status of the network 2. This allows image display of the update status of the Web site to which a bookmark is attached, and the congestion status of the network and the like by using predetermined objects.

Claims

1. (After Amended) A display apparatus comprising:

communication line holding means for holding a communication line connected to a network;

information acquisition means for acquiring in real time at least information relating to a predetermined site on the network via the communication line being held by the communication line holding means; and

display control means for displaying in real time the information relating to each site acquired by the information acquisition means by associating the information with a symbol which corresponds to the site.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information acquisition means acquires at least one of or a plurality of pieces of information indicating congestion status, update status, response, type, popularity, cost, and links of each site, and congestion status of the network.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display control means forms a symbol indicating congestion status of the network to display the symbol overlapping to entire symbols of each site.

4. (After Amended) The display apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising:

operation means for operating an operator displayed along with the information or the symbol; and

control means for performing any one of or a plurality of controls, the controls including;

a control for changing force necessary for operating the operation means;

a control for driving a vibration means provided to the operation means; and

a control for producing a predetermined sound, when the operator approaches the predetermined information or the symbol.

5. (After Amended) A displaying method comprising:

a step of connecting a communication line to a network;

a step of holding the communication line connected;

a step of acquiring in real time at least information relating to a predetermined site on the network via the communication line being held connected; and

a step of displaying in real time the acquired information relating to each site by associating the information with a symbol which corresponds to the site.

6. (Deleted)