Display, electronic device, data transmitting method, information terminal, host apparatus, program, recording medium

• US 20050162422A1
• Filed: 01/28/2003
• Published: 07/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Miyata, Kazuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 8,031,196 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/22 characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/42 characterised by the display of patterns using a display memory without fixed position correspondence between the display memory contents and the display position on the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42227 the keys being reprogrammable, e.g. soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0046 : Software interface details, e.g. interaction of operating systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0075 : by a user operated remote control device, e.g. receiving instructions from a user via a computer terminal or mobile telephone handset
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0093 : Facsimile machine H04N2201/0094 takes precedence

Abstract

A display device comprises a display section, a pattern specifying code input section which receives a pattern specifying code externally, a pattern storage section which stores therein an image of a predetermined pattern, and a pattern display processing section which reads out the image of a pattern specified by the pattern specifying code from the pattern storage section and displays the image on the display section. With this arrangement, the load on a host to display an image can be reduced.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display section;

a pattern storage section which stores therein images of predetermined patterns;

a pattern specifying code input section which externally receives a pattern specifying code; and

a pattern display processing section which retrieves the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code from the pattern storage section and then causes the display section to display the image thereon,

the pattern storage section storing therein a pattern with which a status of a device as a host is notified to a user, and a pattern through which the user performs entry or operation.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the pattern storage section stores therein a character font.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the pattern display processing section causes the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code to be displayed at a position specified by the pattern specifying code.

5. The display device according to claim 4, further comprising:

an automatic placement adjustment section which, in displaying an image of a pattern which is an object of automatic placement adjustment of the patterns stored in the pattern storage section, adjusts a display position of the image in accordance with a predetermined rule.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein:

a target position is set for each pattern that is the object of automatic placement adjustment, and

the automatic placement adjustment section performs placement adjustment so that the image of the pattern, which is the object of automatic placement adjustment, is displayed at the target position.

7. The display device according to claim 5, wherein:

a physically displayable area in the display section is greater than a display area that the pattern specifying code is designed for, and

the automatic placement adjustment section adjusts a display position for the image of the pattern, which is an object of automatic adjustment, within a whole of the physically displayable area in the display section.

8. The display device according to claim 1, comprising:

a video signal input section which externally receives a video signal,

wherein;

by independently driving the display section with the video signal received externally and an image signal of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code, an image displayed in accordance with the video signal received externally by the video signal input section and the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code are superimposed.

9. The display device according to claim 8, wherein:

the display area in the display section is divided into a plurality of sections, and of the plurality of divided sections, at least one section required to display the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code is driven, so as to perform the superimposition.

10. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

at least one of the pattern storage section, the pattern display processing section, and the automatic placement adjustment section may be provided on a conductor or semiconductor thin film which is a component of the display section.

11. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 1.

39. The display device according to claim 2, wherein:

the pattern display processing section causes the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code to be displayed at a position specified by the pattern specifying code.

40. The display device according to claim 6, wherein:

a physically displayable area in the display section is greater than a display area that the pattern specifying code is designed for, and

the automatic placement adjustment section adjusts a display position for the image of the pattern, which is an object of automatic adjustment, within a whole of the physically displayable area in the display section.

41. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 10.

3. (canceled)

12. A data transmitting method comprising:

in an information terminal including a storage device,

an emulation process of causing a host apparatus to recognize the storage device as an external file system, the storage device storing therein a substitution code which is a program read out as a code of a subroutine called in a program of the host apparatus and returns to the program of the host apparatus in a normal end state after execution of the subroutine;

in the host apparatus,

a program execution process of executing a program;

a substitution code acquisition process of, during execution of the program, reading out a code of a subroutine from the storage device in a subroutine code read request process; and

in the information terminal,

a subroutine identification process of identifying a subroutine called by the program of the host apparatus in accordance with a subroutine code read instruction from the host apparatus.

13. The data transmitting method according to claim 12, wherein:

the substitution code is a program for causing the host apparatus to execute a process of writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal,

the data transmitting method further comprising;

a data input process of, at the time of executing subroutine, the host apparatus writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal in accordance with the substitution code.

14. The data transmitting method according to claim 12, wherein:

the substitution code is a program for causing the host apparatus to execute a process of reading out data stored in the storage device of the information terminal,

the data transmitting method further comprising;

a data output process of, at the time of executing a subroutine, the host apparatus reading out data stored in the storage device of the information terminal in accordance with the substitution code.

15. The data transmitting method according to claim 12, further comprising:

a substitution code generation process of the information terminal generating a substitution code containing data stored in the storage device and the program for causing the host apparatus to read out the data; and

a second data output process of, at the time of executing a subroutine, the host apparatus reading out data contained in link data in accordance with the substitution code.

16. The data transmitting method according to claim 12, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

17. A data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 12,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

18. A computer-readable recording medium containing the data transmission program according to claim 17.

42. The data transmitting method according to claim 13, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

43. The data transmitting method according to claim 14, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

44. The data transmitting method according to claim 15, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

45. A data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 13,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

46. A data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 14,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

47. A data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 15,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

48. A data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 16,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

49. A computer-readable recording medium containing the data transmission program according to claim 45.

50. A computer-readable recording medium containing the data transmission program according to claim 46.

51. A computer-readable recording medium containing the data transmission program according to claim 47.

52. A computer-readable recording medium containing the data transmission program according to claim 48.

19. An information terminal comprising:

a storage device which stores therein a substitution code which is read out as a code of a subroutine called in a program that is executed by the host apparatus and returns to the program executed by the host apparatus in a normal end state after execution of the subroutine;

emulation means which emulates a file system of the host apparatus; and

subroutine identification means which identifies a subroutine called by the program of the host apparatus in accordance with a subroutine code read instruction from the host apparatus.

20. The information terminal according to claim 19, wherein:

the subroutine identification means performs the identification in accordance with location information specifying a location of the subroutine in the storage device or a character string specifying the subroutine, transmitted as the subroutine code read instruction from the host apparatus.

21. The information terminal according to claim 19, wherein:

the substitution code is a program causing the host apparatus to execute a process of writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal when the host apparatus executes a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

data input means which reads out data having been written by the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal, in accordance with the substitution code.

22. The information terminal according to claim 19, wherein:

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program presenting graphic user interface for use in transmitting a state of the host apparatus or in controlling the host apparatus and is a program providing an instruction for drawing of a component making up a screen by calling a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

display means which presents graphic user interface;

pattern storage means which stores therein image data of components making up the graphic user interface; and

pattern display processing means which extracts from the pattern storage means image data of a component corresponding to the subroutine identified by the subroutine identification means and generates a display signal for drawing in the display means.

23. The information terminal according to claim 22, further comprising:

pattern adjustment means which adjusts a shape and location of the component of the graphic user interface in accordance with a predetermined rule.

24. The information terminal according to claim 22, further comprising:

position sensing means which senses a position where a user points in the graphic user interface; and

positional information recording means which writes positional information sensed by the position sensing means,

wherein;

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program providing an instruction for acquisition of the point where the user points by calling a subroutine, and

the substitution code is a program which causes the host apparatus to execute a process of, when the host apparatus executes a subroutine, reading out the positional information stored by the positional information recording means in the storage device of the information terminal.

25. The information terminal according to claim 23, further comprising:

position sensing means which senses a position where a user points in the graphic user interface;

reverse converting means which performs a change that is a reverse of a change made by the pattern adjustment means, with respect to positional information sensed by the position sensing means; and

positional information recording means which writes the position information converted by the reverse converting means into the storage device,

wherein;

the program executed by the host apparatus provides an instruction for acquisition of the point where the user points by calling a subroutine, and

the substitution code is a program which causes the host apparatus to execute a process of, when the host apparatus executes a subroutine, reading out the positional information stored by the positional information recording means in the storage device of the information terminal.

26. The information terminal according to claim 19,

wherein:

the emulation means is provided so that processing can be changed depending on types of an operating system of the host apparatus and/or types of a standard of an interface connecting between the host apparatus and the information terminal.

27. The information terminal according to claim 19,

wherein:

the storage device stores therein the substitution code so as to be shared and read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

28. A host apparatus which performs data transmission with the information terminal according to claim 19,

the host apparatus comprising:

program execution means which executes a program; and

substitution code acquisition means which, during execution of the program, reads out a code of a subroutine from the storage device of the information terminal in a subroutine code read request process.

29. The host apparatus according to claim 28, further comprising:

link setting means which sets a storage location for the code of the subroutine in the storage device of the information terminal.

30. The host apparatus according to claim 28, further comprising:

link setting means which sets the storage location for the code of the subroutine so as to be selectable between an internal file system of the host apparatus and an external file system.

31. The host apparatus according to claim 30, wherein:

the link setting means can select the storage location for the code of the subroutine between the internal file system of the host apparatus and the storage device of the information terminal.

53. The information terminal according to claim 20, wherein:

the substitution code is a program causing the host apparatus to execute a process of writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal when the host apparatus executes a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

data input means which reads out data having been written by the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal, in accordance with the substitution code.

54. The information terminal according to claim 20, wherein:

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program presenting graphic user interface for use in transmitting a state of the host apparatus or in controlling the host apparatus and is a program providing an instruction for drawing of a component making up a screen by calling a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

display means which presents graphic user interface;

pattern storage means which stores therein image data of components making up the graphic user interface; and

pattern display processing means which extracts from the pattern storage means image data of a component corresponding to the subroutine identified by the subroutine identification means and generates a display signal for drawing in the display means.

55. The information terminal according to claim 21, wherein:

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program presenting graphic user interface for use in transmitting a state of the host apparatus or in controlling the host apparatus and is a program providing an instruction for drawing of a component making up a screen by calling a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

display means which presents graphic user interface;

pattern storage means which stores therein image data of components making up the graphic user interface; and

pattern display processing means which extracts from the pattern storage means image data of a component corresponding to the subroutine identified by the subroutine identification means and generates a display signal for drawing in the display means.

56. The information terminal according to claim 23, further comprising:

position sensing means which senses a position where a user points in the graphic user interface; and

positional information recording means which writes positional information sensed by the position sensing means,

wherein;

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program providing an instruction for acquisition of the point where the user points by calling a subroutine, and

the substitution code is a program which causes the host apparatus to execute a process of, when the host apparatus executes a subroutine, reading out the positional information stored by the positional information recording means in the storage device of the information terminal.

32. A display device comprising:

a display section;

a pattern storage section which stores therein images of predetermined patterns;

a pattern specifying code input section which externally receives a pattern specifying code;

a pattern display processing section which retrieves the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code from the pattern storage section and then causes the display section to display the image thereon; and

a video signal input section which externally receives a video signal,

wherein;

by independently driving the display section with the video signal received externally and an image signal of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code, an image displayed in accordance with the video signal received externally by the video signal input section and the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code are superimposed.

33. The display device according to claim 32, wherein:

the display area in the display section is divided into a plurality of sections, and of the plurality of divided sections, at least one section required to display the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code is driven, so as to perform the superimposition.

34. The display device according to claim 32, wherein:

at least one of the pattern storage section, the pattern display processing section, and the automatic placement adjustment section may be provided on a conductor or semiconductor thin film which is a component of the display section.

35. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 32.

36. The display device according to claim 33, wherein:

at least one of the pattern storage section, the pattern display processing section, and the automatic placement adjustment section may be provided on a conductor or semiconductor thin film which is a component of the display section.

37. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 33.

38. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 34.