Apparatus and method for performing display processing, and computer program product

• US 20070028187A1
• Filed: 08/01/2006
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Katsuyama, Goro
• Application Number:
  US11/496,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20070028187A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5087 for receiving image data
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5091 for user-identification or authorisation
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00109 Remote control of apparatus, e.g. by a host
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A display processing apparatus includes a display processing unit that displays an input indicating area and an output indicating area. Input functions are displayed in the input indicating area and output functions are displayed in the output indicating area. The output indicating area can be displayed where the input indicating area has been displayed, or vice versa. When a user selects a function from those areas, that function is executed.

Claims

1. A display processing apparatus comprising:

a display processing unit that displays a function indicating area having shown therein a function executed when selection thereof is accepted from a user; and

a selection accepting unit that accepts selection of the function indicating area displayed.

2. The display processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display processing unit displays an input indicating area having an input function shown therein or an output indicating area having an output function shown therein as the function indicating area, and

the display processing apparatus further includes a switching unit that switches the input indicating area and the output indicating area displayed by the display processing unit.

3. The display processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a display unit that has a displayable coordinate input surface and accepts an indication of the user when the user touches the coordinate input surface, wherein

the display processing unit displays the input indicating area and the output indicating area on the display unit, and

the selection accepting unit accepts selection of the input indicating area and the output indicating area from the indication on the coordinate input surface of the display unit.

4. The display processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a display unit that has a display area of a predetermined size set for a purpose of urging the user to recognize an executable function, wherein

the display processing unit displays the input indicating area and the output indicating area on the display unit.

5. The display processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display processing unit displays a three-dimensional shape model having the input indicating area or the output indicating area shown on an outer surface thereof, and

the switching unit performs rotation control for the three-dimensional shape model to switch the input indicating area and the output indicating area displayed by the display processing unit.

6. The display processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display processing unit includes a stereoscopic-display processing unit that performs display for rotating a three-dimensional shape model having the function indicating area shown on an outer surface thereof around a predetermined rotation axis, and

the selection accepting unit accepts selection of the function indicating area shown on the outer surface of the three-dimensional shape model displayed by the stereoscopic-display processing unit.

7. The display processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a display unit that has a displayable coordinate input surface and accepts an indication of the user when the user touches the coordinate input surface, wherein

the stereoscopic-display processing unit displays the three-dimensional shape model on the display unit, and

the selection accepting unit accepts selection of the function indicating area displayed by the stereoscopic-display processing unit from the indication on the coordinate input surface of the display unit.

8. The display processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a display unit that has a display area of a predetermined size set for a purpose of urging the user to recognize an executable function, wherein

the stereoscopic-display processing unit displays the three-dimensional shape model on the display unit.

9. The display processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the stereoscopic display processing unit displays a plurality of three-dimensional shape models having the function indicating area shown on outer surfaces thereof.

10. The display processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the stereoscopic display processing unit displays, in the three-dimensional shape model having opposed two surfaces, an input indicating area that indicates a function indicating area for an input function and an output indicating area that indicates a function indicating area for an output function, which are in a predetermined relation, on the opposed two surfaces, respectively.

11. A display processing method comprising:

displaying a function indicating area having shown therein a function executed when selection from a user is accepted; and

accepting selection of the function indicating area displayed.

12. The display processing method according to claim 11, wherein

at the displaying, an input indicating area having an input function shown therein or an output indicating area having an output function shown therein is displayed as the function indicating area, and

the display processing method further includes switching the input indicating area and the output indicating area displayed at the displaying.

13. The display processing method according to claim 12, wherein

at the displaying, the input indicating area and the output indicating area are displayed on a display unit that has a displayable coordinate input surface and accepts an indication of the user when the user touches the coordinate input surface, and

at the accepting, selection of the input indicating area and the output indicating area is accepted according to the indication from the coordinate input surface of the display unit.

14. The display processing method according to claim 12, wherein, at the displaying, the input indicating area and the output indicating area are displayed on a display unit that has a display area of a predetermined size set for a purpose of urging the user to recognize an executable function.

15. The display processing method according to claim 12, wherein

the displaying includes displaying a three-dimensional shape model having the input indicating area or the output indicating area shown on an outer surface thereof, and

the switching includes rotating the three-dimensional shape model to switch the input indicating area and the output indicating area displayed at the displaying.

16. The display processing method according to claim 11, wherein

the displaying includes rotating a displayed three-dimensional shape model having shown thereon a function executed when selection from the user is accepted around a predetermined rotation axis, and

the accepting includes accepting selection of the function indicating area shown on an outer surface of the three-dimensional shape model at the rotating.

17. The display processing method according to claim 16, wherein

at the rotating, the three-dimensional shape model is displayed on a display unit that has a displayable coordinate input surface and accepts an indication of the user when the user touches the coordinate input surface, and

at the accepting, selection of the function indicating area displayed at the rotating is accepted from the indication on the coordinate input surface of the display unit.

18. The display processing method according to claim 16, wherein, at the rotating, the three-dimensional shape model is displayed on a display unit that has a display area of a predetermined size set for a purpose of urging the user to recognize an executable function.

19. The display processing method according to claim 16, wherein the rotating includes displaying a plurality of three-dimensional shape models having the function indicating area shown on outer surfaces thereof.

20. The display processing method according to claim 16,

wherein the rotating includes displaying, in the three-dimensional shape model having opposed two surfaces, an input indicating area that indicates a function indicating area for an input function and an output indicating area that indicates a function indicating area for an output function, which are in a predetermined relation, on the opposed two surfaces, respectively.

21. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program codes embodied in the medium that when executed causes a computer to execute:

displaying a function indicating area having shown therein a function executed when selection from a user is accepted; and

accepting selection of the function indicating area displayed.

22. The computer program product according to claim 21, wherein

at the displaying, an input indicating area having an input function shown therein or an output indicating area having an output function shown therein is displayed as the function indicating area, and

the computer program product further causing the computer to execute switching the input indicating area and the output indicating area displayed at the displaying.

23. The computer program product according to claim 21, wherein

at the displaying, the computer program product causes the computer to execute rotating a displayed three-dimensional shape model having shown thereon a function executed when selection from the user is accepted around a predetermined rotation axis, and

the accepting includes accepting selection of the function indicating area shown on an outer surface of the three-dimensional shape model at the rotating.