Display apparatus, method, and program

• US 20070050729A1
• Filed: 08/30/2006
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawamura, Takuya, Kawazoe, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US11/512,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20070050729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

There is provided with a display apparatus including: a display apparatus which displays a first window and a second window, comprising: a receiver configured to receive a composite object obtained by composing a first object and a second object, from a server; a display unit configured to display the composite object in the first window; a window overlap detector configured to detect an overlap between the second window and the composite object in the first window, and to obtain a position of the overlap in the first window; a layout determiner configured to determine layouts of the objects in the composite object according to the position of the overlap so as not to place the first object and the second object on the position of the overlap; and a transmitter configured to transmit information of the layouts of the objects determined by the layout determiner, to the server.

Claims

1. A display apparatus which displays a first window and a second window, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a composite object obtained by composing a first object and a second object, from a server;

a display unit configured to display the composite object in the first window;

a window overlap detector configured to detect an overlap between the second window and the composite object in the first window, and to obtain a position of the overlap in the first window;

a layout determiner configured to determine layouts of the objects in the composite object according to the position of the overlap so as not to place the first object and the second object on the position of the overlap; and

a transmitter configured to transmit information of the layouts of the objects determined by the layout determiner, to the server.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a storage configured to store layout information including identifiers identifying the objects in the composite object and positions of the objects in the first window, wherein

the layout determiner discriminates each object in the composite object according to the layout information, and updates the storage by using the determined layouts of the objects.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the layout determiner selects a size for each of the objects from among a plurality of predetermined sizes.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a first user layout storage configured to store one or more first user layouts each of which represents layouts specified by a user beforehand for the objects,

wherein

the layout determiner selects the first user layout from the first user layout storage, and

the layout transmitter transmits information of the selected first user layout to the server.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

further comprising a second user layout storage configured to store a second user layout which represents layouts specified by a user beforehand for the objects,

wherein

when the overlap is disappeared, the transmitter transmits information of the second user layout to the server.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a storage configured to store a threshold, wherein

the window overlap detector determines that the overlap exists when an area size of the overlap exceeds the threshold.

7. A display apparatus which displays a first window and a second window, comprising:

an object receiver configured to receive a first object and a second object;

a layout storage configured to store layouts of the first object and the second object;

a composite object generator configured to compose the first and second objects according to the layouts of the first and second objects to generate a composite object;

a display unit configured to display the composite object in the first window;

a window overlap detector configured to detect overlap between the second window and the composite object in the first window, and to obtain a position of the overlap in the first window;

a layout determiner configured to determine layouts of the first and second objects according to the position of the overlap so as not to place the first object and the second object on the position of the overlap; and

a layout updater configured to update the layouts of the first and second objects in the layout storage by using the determined layouts of the first and second objects.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the layout determiner selects a size of each of the objects from among a plurality of predetermined sizes.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the composite object generator downscales or upscales the object to the selected size.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein if the composite object generator is not adaptable to the downscaling to the selected size, the composite object generator extracts a part of the object.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein if the composite object generator is not adaptable to the downscaling or upscaling to the selected size, the composite object generator downscales or upscales the object to a adaptable size, and complements surrounding of the downscaled or upscaled object up to the selected size.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising

a first user layout storage configured to store one or more first user layouts each of which represents layouts specified by a user beforehand for the objects,

wherein

the layout determiner selects the first user layout from the first user layout storage, and

the layout updater updates the layouts of the objects in the layout storage according to the selected first user layout.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising

a second user layout storage configured to store a second user layout which represents layouts specified by a user beforehand for the objects,

wherein

when the overlap is disappeared, the layout updater updates the layouts of the objects in the layout storage according to the second user layout.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising

a storage configured to store a threshold, wherein

the window overlap detector determines that the overlap exists when a size of the overlap exceeds the threshold.

15. A program which is executed by a computer, comprising instructions for:

receiving a composite object obtained by composing a first object and a second object, from a server;

displaying the composite object in a first window;

detecting overlap between a second window and the composite object in the first window;

obtaining a position of the overlap in the first window;

determining layouts of the objects in the composite object according to the position of the overlap so as not to place the first object and the second object on the position of the overlap; and

transmitting information of the determined layouts to the server.

16. A program which is executed by computer, comprising instructions for:

receiving a first object and a second object;

composing the first and second objects according to layouts of the first and second objects to generate a composite object;

displaying the composite object in a first window;

detecting overlap between a second window and the composite object in the first window;

obtaining a position of the overlap in the first window;

determining layouts of the objects on the basis of the detected position so as not to place the first object and the second object on the position of the overlap; and

updating the layouts of the first and second objects by using the determined layouts of the first and second objects.