SCREEN DISPLAY PROGRAM, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH SCREEN DISPLAY PROGRAM, SCREEN DISPLAY APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20060277472A1
• Filed: 04/28/2006
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yodo, Fumitake, Okumura, Yasushi, Yamanaka, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/380,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20060277472A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

The present invention provides screen displaying technology allowing improvement in operability and convenience for the user. A screen display apparatus receives a content, displays a plurality of tabs in a display screen, corresponds content information to any one of the plurality of tabs, and displays the content information corresponding to a displaying tab. In the case of corresponding content information to a non-displaying tab other than the displaying tab, it is determined whether or not a there is a non-corresponded, non-displaying tab to which other content information is not corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist, the non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition and the content information are corresponded. Furthermore, the screen display apparatus calculates a progress status of at least one or more of receiving a content, generating a content image by drawing the content, and storing the content image in an image storage means, and then outputs the calculated progress status associated it with a tab corresponded to the content.

Claims

1. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a screen display program to be executed on a computer, said screen display program comprising:

a receiving step to receive content information;

a tab display control step to display a plurality of tabs in a display screen;

a correspondence setting step to correspond the content information received in the receiving step to one of the plurality of tabs; and

a content display control step to display content information corresponding to a displaying tab selected from the plurality of tabs in another area than display areas for the plurality of tabs;

wherein in the correspondence setting step, when corresponding the content information to a non-displaying tab other than the displaying tab from among the plurality of tabs, it is determined whether or not there is a non-corresponded, non-displaying tab to which other content information is not corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does exist, the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab and the content information are corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist, a non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition and the content information are corresponded.

2. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein in the correspondence setting step, a non-displaying tab to which encrypted content information is not corresponded is selected and is corresponded to the content information when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist.

3. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein in the correspondence setting step, a non-displaying tab to which the content information already displayed in the content display control step is corresponded is selected and is then corresponded to the content information when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist.

4. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein in the correspondence setting step, a non-displaying tab pre-approved by a user as selectable is selected and is corresponded to the content information when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist.

5. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the selection condition for the non-displaying tab is set by a user.

6. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein

in the correspondence setting step, a mode from a plurality of preset modes is set;

the plurality of modes includes a first mode and a second mode;

in a correspondence setting step where the first mode is set, a non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition is corresponded to the content information when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist; and

in a correspondence setting step where the second mode is set, a non-displaying tab specified by the user is corresponded to the content information when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist.

7. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 6, wherein

the plurality of modes include a third mode;

and

in a correspondence setting step where the third mode is set, a non-displaying tab specified by the user is corresponded to the content information when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist and a selectable, non-displaying tab also does not exist.

8. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein in the correspondence setting step, the selected non-displaying tab and the content information are corresponded and then the non-displaying tab is changed to a displaying tab.

9. A computer for executing a screen display program, said screen display program comprising:

a receiving step to receive content information;

a tab display control step to display a plurality of tabs in a display screen;

a correspondence setting step to correspond the content information received in the receiving step to one of the plurality of tabs; and

a content display control step to display content information corresponding to a displaying tab selected from the plurality of tabs in another area than display areas for the plurality of tabs;

wherein in the correspondence setting step, when corresponding the content information to a non-displaying tab other than the displaying tab from among the plurality of tabs, it is determined whether or not there is a non-corresponded, non-displaying tab to which other content information is not corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does exist, the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab and the content information are corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist, a non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition and the content information are corresponded.

10. A screen display apparatus comprising:

receiving means for receiving content information;

tab display control means for displaying a plurality of tabs in a display screen;

correspondence setting means for corresponding the content received by the receiving means to any one of the plurality of tabs; and

content image display control means for displaying content information corresponding to a displaying tab selected from the plurality of tabs, in an area of the display screen other than display areas for the plurality of tabs;

wherein when corresponding the content information to a non-displaying tab other than the displaying tab from among the plurality of tabs, the correspondence setting means determines whether or not there is a non-corresponded, non-displaying tab to which the content information is not corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does exist, the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab and the content information are corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist, a non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition and the content information are corresponded.

11. A screen display method comprising:

receiving content information;

displaying a plurality of tabs in a display screen;

corresponding the received content information to any one of the plurality of tabs; and

displaying content information corresponding to a displaying tab selected from the plurality of tabs, in an area of the display screen other than display areas for the plurality of tabs;

wherein when corresponding the content information to a non-displaying tab other than the displaying tab from among the plurality of tabs, it is determined whether or not there is a non-corresponded, non-displaying tab to which the content information is not corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does exist, the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab and the content information are corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist, a non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition and the content information are corresponded.