Window switching apparatus

• US 20040085328A1
• Filed: 08/06/2003
• Published: 05/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Saito, Hiromi, Hayashi, Junji, Maruyama, Akira, Shizuka, Etsuyuki, Yagi, Tutomu, Imaizumi, Minoru
• Application Number:
  US10/634,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20040085328A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• 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

Abstract

A window switching apparatus comprises a title list display processing unit displaying titles of application programs run at present as a list on a screen of a display unit, and an activation processing unit making a window of an application program corresponding to a desired title active when the title is designated through an input unit. The title list display processing unit comprises a select-and-display processing unit selecting a predetermined number of titles and displaying them in respective title display columns of a predetermined size constituting the title list when the number of application programs run at present is larger than a predetermined number, and a change-and-display processing unit changing titles displayed as the title list and displaying them when a title display change command is inputted through the input unit. The user can find out a desired window and make it active, easily and quickly.

Claims

1. A window switching apparatus comprising:

an input unit;

a display unit;

a title list display processing unit for displaying titles of application programs run at present as a title list on said display unit;

an activation processing unit for making a window of an application program corresponding to a title emphatically displayed among said titles included in said title list active;

said title list display processing unit comprising;

a select-and-display processing unit for selecting titles of a predetermined number of application programs and displaying said titles in title display columns of a predetermined size constituting said title list when the number of application programs run at present is larger than a predetermined number; and

a change-and-display processing unit for changing titles displayed as said title list and displaying said titles when a title display change command is inputted through said input unit.

2. The window switching apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said change-and-display processing unit scrolls titles displayed as said title list and changes said titles.

3. The window switching apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said activation processing unit makes a window of an application program corresponding to a title emphatically displayed among titles included in said title list active after a predetermined time has elapsed.

4. The window switching apparatus according claim 1, wherein said input unit comprises a mouse;

and

said title list display processing unit displays said title list in the neighborhood of a mouse cursor moving in association with movement of said mouse.

5. The window switching apparatus according claim 2, wherein said input unit comprises a mouse;

and

said title list display processing unit displays said title list in the neighborhood of a mouse cursor moving in association with movement of said mouse.

6. The window switching apparatus according claim 3, wherein said input unit comprises a mouse;

and

said title list display processing unit displays said title list in the neighborhood of a mouse cursor moving in association with movement of said mouse.

7. The window switching apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said title list display processing unit displays a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on said display unit.

8. The window switching apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said title list display processing unit displays a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on said display unit.

9. The window switching apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said title list display processing unit displays a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on said display unit.

10. The window switching apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said title list display processing unit displays a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on said display unit.

11. A computer readable record medium containing a window switching program for making a computer execute a process comprising a title list displaying process of displaying titles of application programs run at present as a title list on a display unit, and an activating process of making a window of an application program corresponding to a title emphatically displayed among titles included in said title list active;

said title list displaying process comprising;

a selecting-and-displaying process step of selecting titles of a predetermined number of application programs and displaying said titles in title display columns of a predetermined size constituting said title list when the number of application programs run at present is larger than a predetermined number; and

a changing-and-displaying process step of changing titles displayed as said title list and displaying said titles when a title display change command is inputted through an input unit.

12. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 11, wherein, at said changing-and-displaying process step, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of scrolling titles displayed as said title list and changing said titles.

13. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 12, wherein, in said activating process, said window switching program makes said computer execute an activating process of making a window of an application program corresponding to a title emphatically displayed among titles included in said title list active after a predetermined time has elapsed.

14. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 11, wherein said input unit comprises a mouse;

and

in said title list displaying process, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of displaying said title list in the neighborhood of a mouse cursor moving in association with movement of said mouse.

15. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 12, wherein said input unit comprises a mouse;

and

in said title list displaying process, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of displaying said title list in the neighborhood of a mouse cursor moving in association with movement of said mouse.

16. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 13, wherein said input unit comprises a mouse;

and

in said title list displaying process, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of displaying said title list in the neighborhood of a mouse cursor moving in association with movement of said mouse.

17. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 11, wherein, in said title list displaying process, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of displaying a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on a display unit.

18. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 12, wherein, in said title list displaying process, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of displaying a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on a display unit.

19. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claims 13, wherein, in said title list displaying process, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of displaying a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on a display unit.

20. The computer readable record medium containing a window switching program according to claim 14, wherein, in said title list displaying process, said window switching program makes said computer execute a process of displaying a drum-like title list having a size according to the number of application programs run at present as said title list on a display unit.