Display control apparatus, information display apparatus, display system, display control program and display control method

• US 20050278643A1
• Filed: 06/10/2005
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ishii, Masato, Nagano, Hirofumi, Morita, Toshiyuki, Ukai, Hiromi
• Application Number:
  US11/149,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20050278643A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

A display control apparatus which displays information items from outside on a screen of a display apparatus, comprises a receiver for receiving the information from outside, and a controller which allocates in the screen multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses that are different from one another, and displays said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items being sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus for displaying information items from outside on a screen of a display apparatus, comprising,

a receiver which receives said information items from the outside, and

a controller which allocates in said screen multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses that are different from one another, and displays said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items being sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

each of said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas is determined by a type of said information item, and said controller changes a display mode of said display area in accordance with the type of said information item.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein,

said communication address in accordance with the type of said information item which is required to specify a sender of said information item is different from said communication address in accordance with the type of said information item which is not required to specify said sender.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein,

said communication address in accordance with the type of said information item which is to be announced to all persons likely to exist at a position where said display apparatus is installed, is different from said communication address in accordance with the type of said information item which is to be announced to a part of the persons likely to exist at the position where said display apparatus is installed.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

said controller displays said information items from multiple senders in at least one of said multiple display areas.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein,

said controller displays the latest information item from each of said multiple senders, in said display area to display said information items from said multiple senders.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

said controller displays said information items arranged in a predetermined direction in a number being equal to or less than a predetermined number, within at least one of said multiple display areas, and

said controller scrolls said screen along the predetermined direction, whereby said information items in a number more than the predetermined number are displayed cyclically.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

said controller displays said multiple information items within at least one of said multiple display areas, in order of receiving by said receiver.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

said controller displays in at least one of said multiple display areas, a predetermined number of information items out of said multiple information items received by said receiver, within a given period.

10. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

said controller displays a character and an image in at least one of said multiple display areas.

11. A display control apparatus for displaying information items from outside on a screen of a display apparatus, comprising,

a receiver which receives said information items from the outside, and

a controller which displays on said screen said information items arranged in a predetermined direction in a number being equal to or less than a predetermined number, wherein

said controller scrolls said screen along the predetermined direction, whereby said information items in a number more than the predetermined number are displayed cyclically.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 11, wherein,

the controller allocates in said screen multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses that are different from one another, and displays said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items being sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas, and

said controller displays in at least one of said multiple display areas, multiple information items cyclically.

13. The display control apparatus according to claim 11, wherein,

said receiver makes a request to said controller to display said information items, when said receiver receives said information items from the outside, and

said controller displays said information items on said screen, when said controller receives said request from said receiver to display said information items.

14. The display control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein,

said receiver holds said multiple communication addresses.

15. An information display apparatus for displaying information items from outside, comprising,

a display device which displays said information items,

a receiver which receives said information items from the outside, and

a controller which allocates in a screen of said display device, multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses that are different from one another, and displays said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items being sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas.

16. An information display apparatus for displaying information items from outside, comprising,

a display device which displays said information items,

a receiver which receives said information items from the outside, and

a controller which displays on a screen of said display device, said information items arranged in a predetermined direction in a number being equal to or less than a predetermined number, wherein

said controller scrolls said screen along the predetermined direction, whereby said information items in a number more than the predetermined number are displayed cyclically.

17. A display system comprising,

an information display apparatus which displays information items from outside, and

a management apparatus which delivers to said information display apparatus multiple information items from the outside via a network, wherein,

said information display apparatus comprises,

a display device which displays said information items,

a receiver which receives said information items from the outside, and

a controller which allocates in a screen of said display device, multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses that are different from one another, and displays said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items being sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas, and

said management apparatus comprises,

a storage device which stores a table to hold an association between an identifier given to said information display apparatus and each of said multiple communication addresses, and

a management controller which refers to said table and transmits said information items destined to the communication address, to said information display apparatus that is given the identifier associated with the communication address.

18. A management apparatus which receives information items from outside and delivers said information items to an information display apparatus via a network, comprising,

a receiver which receives said information items sent from outside to multiple communication addresses,

a storage device which stores a table holding said multiple communication addresses, a type of each of said information items respectively associated with said communication addresses, and an identifier of said information display apparatus associated with each of said communication addresses, and

a managing device which refers to said table, so as to find out the identifier of said information display apparatus to which said information item is to be sent, said information item having been sent to any one of said multiple communication addresses, and to find out the type of said information item, and transmits said information item and the type of said information item to said information display apparatus having said identifier.

19. The management apparatus according to claim 18, wherein,

said managing device receives from said information display apparatus, a request for any one of the types of said information items, and creates said table based on said request from said information display apparatus.

20. A display system comprising,

an information display apparatus which displays information items from outside, and

a management apparatus which delivers to said information display apparatus multiple information items from the outside via a network, wherein,

said information display apparatus comprises,

a display device which displays said information items,

a receiver which receives said information items from the outside, and

a controller which allocates in a screen of said display device, multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses that are different from one another, and displays said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items being sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas, wherein,

said management apparatus comprises,

a receiver which receives said information items sent from outside to multiple communication addresses,

a storage device which stores a table holding said multiple communication addresses, a type of each of said information items respectively associated with said communication addresses, and an identifier of said information display apparatus associated with each of said communication addresses, and

a managing device which refers to said table, so as to find out the identifier of said information display apparatus to which said information item is to be sent, said information item having been sent to any one of said multiple communication addresses, and to find out the type of said information item, and transmits said information item and the type of said information item to said information display apparatus having said identifier.

21. A program to be executed on a computer, which allows said computer to display information items from outside on a screen of a display apparatus, comprising,

an allocating step of allocating in said screen, multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses different from one another, and

a displaying step of displaying said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items having been sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas.

22. The program according to claim 21, wherein,

each of said communication addresses being set with respect to each of said display areas is determined by a type of said information item, and in said displaying step, a display mode of each of said display areas is changed in accordance with the type of said information item.

23. The program according to claim 21, wherein,

when a receiver of said computer on which said program operates receives said information items from outside and issues a request for displaying said information items, in said displaying step, said request is received and said information items is displayed in said display areas respectively associated with said information items.

24. A program to be executed on a computer, which allows said computer to receive information items from outside and to deliver said information items to an information display apparatus via a network, comprising,

a receiving step of receiving said information items sent from the outside to multiple communication addresses, and

a transmitting step of referring to a table holding said multiple communication addresses, a type of each of said information items respectively associated with said communication addresses, and an identifier of said information display apparatus associated with each of said communication addresses, so as to find out the identifier of said information display apparatus to which said information item is to be sent, said information item having been sent to any one of said multiple communication addresses, and to find out the type of said information item, and transmitting said information item and the type of said information item to said information display apparatus having said identifier.

25. The program according to claim 24, wherein,

in said transmitting step, a request for any type of said information items is received from said information display apparatus, and said table is created based on said request from said information display apparatus.

26. A display control method of displaying information items from outside on a screen of a display apparatus, comprising,

an allocating step of allocating in said screen, multiple display areas respectively associated with multiple communication addresses different from one another, and

a displaying step of displaying said information items in said display areas respectively, said information items being sent to said communication addresses respectively associated with said display areas.

27. The display control method according to claim 26, wherein,

each of said communication addresses being set with respect to each of said display areas is determined in accordance with a type of said information item, and in said displaying step, a display mode in each of said display areas is changed in accordance with the type of said information item.

28. A display system comprising a display terminal, and a management apparatus being connected to said display terminal via a network, wherein,

a screen of said display terminal includes multiple display areas,

said display areas respectively display mail addresses being associated with said display areas respectively,

said management apparatus comprises,

a first storage device which stores a first management information item defining a type of message associated with each of said mail addresses, and

a first controller which extracts a mail address from a mail that is sent from a user terminal, refers to said first management information to determine the type of said message associated with said mail address thus extracted, attaches said type of said message thus determined to said message, and transmits to said display terminal said message with the type of message attached thereto, and,

said display terminal comprises,

a second storage device which stores a second management information item defining a type of message associated with each of said display areas, and

a second controller which refers to said second management information item to determine a display area associated with said type of message, attached to said message received from said management apparatus, and displays said message in said display area thus determined.