Image display processing apparatus, an image display processing method, and an information providing medium

• US 20050005247A1
• Filed: 07/21/2004
• Published: 01/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tatsushi Nashida, Teruhisa Kamachi
• Original Assignee: Tatsushi Nashida, Teruhisa Kamachi
• Inventors: Nashida, Tatsushi, Kamachi, Teruhisa
• Application Number:
  US10/896,550
• Publication Number:
  US 20050005247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/804
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• 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

To display a window for displaying auxiliary information near a window for displaying main information. When a drag operation is performed to move a multiuser window to a predetermined position and display there, if the distance of the multiuser window to the main window when the drag operation is cleared is within reference value L_R and the distance of the top side of the multiuser window to the top side of the main window is within reference value H_R, then the multiuser window is automatically moved such that the side of the multiuser window comes in contact with the side of the main window and the top end of the multiuser window comes in alignment with the top end of the main window on a horizontal line.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled).

13. An image display processing method for displaying in a single display window a main window for displaying main information and a sub window for displaying accompanying information associated with said main information, comprising the steps of:

moving said sub window from a first position, at which said sub window is initially displayed, to a user-specified position; and

automatically moving said sub window to a position adjacent to said main window without altering a height or a width of said sub window when said sub window is separated from said main window by a distance less than a preset predetermined value when in said user-specified position;

said main window and said sub-window each having a size that remains independent of the size of the other after said automatic movement.

14. An information providing medium for providing a computer program to be executed by an image display processing apparatus for displaying in a single display window a main window for displaying main information and a sub window for displaying accompanying information associated with said main information, said computer program comprising the steps of:

moving said sub window from a first position, at which said sub window is initially displayed, to a user-specified position; and

automatically moving said sub window to a position adjacent to said main window when said sub window is separated from said main window by a distance less than a preset predetermined value when in said user specified position;

said main window and said sub-window each having a size that remains independent of the size of the other after said automatic movement.