Information processing apparatus and display control method

• US 20060277491A1
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaneko, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/442,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20060277491A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/788
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus capable of displaying a window on a display screen, includes: an input device which inputs an event for instructing a scale-up or a scale-down of an image displayed inside a window; a detection unit which detects the window set so as to perform zoom processing of the image displayed inside the window according to the event; and a zoom unit which performs zoom processing of the image displayed inside the detected window.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of displaying a window on a display screen, comprising:

an input device which inputs an event for instructing a scale-up or a scale-down of an image displayed inside a window;

a detection unit which detects the window set so as to perform zoom processing of the image displayed inside the window according to the event; and

a zoom unit which performs zoom processing of the image displayed inside the detected window.

2. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detection unit comprises a detecting section which detects a window of a running application program according to the event.

3. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the zoom unit comprises an identifying section which identifies an application program corresponding to the detected window, and an issuing section which issues an event for activating a zoom function of scaling up or down the image displayed inside the window corresponding to the application program to the identified application program, the identified application program having the zoom function.

4. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a changing section which changes a size of the detected window so as to scale up the size of the detected window according to a scale-up factor of the image when the image displayed inside the detected window is scaled up by the zoom processing.

5. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a changing section which changes a size of the detected window so as to scale down the size of the detected window according to a scale-down factor of the image when the image displayed inside the detected window is scaled down by the zoom processing.

6. A display control method for controlling an image displayed inside a window arranged on a display screen of an information processing apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:

inputting an event for instructing a scale-up or a scale-down of the image displayed inside the window;

detecting the window set so as to perform zoom processing of the image displayed inside the window according to the inputted event; and

performing zoom processing of the image displayed inside the detected window.

7. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the detection step includes detecting a window of a running application program according to the event.

8. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the performing step includes a step of identifying an application program corresponding to the detected window, and a step of issuing an event for activating a zoom function of scaling up or down the image displayed inside the window corresponding to the application program to the identified application program, the identified application program having the zoom function.

9. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a step of changing a size of the detected window so as to scale up the size of the detected window according to a scale-up factor of the image when the image displayed inside the detected window is scaled up by the zoom processing.

10. The display control method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a step of changing a size of the detected window so as to scale down the size of the detected window according to a scale-down factor of the image when the image displayed inside the detected window is scaled down by the zoom processing step.