DISPLAY CONTROLLER, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20080256446A1
• Filed: 04/09/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: YAMAMOTO, Etsuji
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,578 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/700
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

A display controller includes display control means by which a partial display of a Web page is performed when the Web page is displayed on display means, display range detecting means for detecting a display range of the Web page displayed on the display means by the display control means, a key input pattern database in which information indicating an operation intended by a user is stored per key input pattern of the operating means, a home position database per URL for registering a home position used as the first display range when a Web page is displayed, together with URL information of each Web page, key input pattern detecting means for detecting a key input pattern of the operating means when the Web page is displayed by the display control means and home position registering means for registering a display range of the Web page detected by the display range detecting means as a home position corresponding to the Web page, together with URL information of the Web page, in the home position database per URL.

Claims

1. A display controller comprising:

display control means by which a partial display of a Web (World Wide Web) page is performed when the Web page is displayed on display means, while a range of the Web page corresponding to a screen size of the display means is a display range, and the Web page is displayed on display means by changing the display range of the Web page, in response to an operation of operating means;

display range detecting means for detecting a display range of the Web page displayed on the display means by the display control means;

a key input pattern database in which information indicating an operation intended by a user is stored per key input pattern of the operating means;

a home position database per URL for registering a home position used as the first display range when a Web page is displayed, together with URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information of each Web page;

key input pattern detecting means for detecting a key input pattern of the operating means when the Web page is displayed by the display control means; and

home position registering means for registering a display range of the Web page detected by the display range detecting means as a home position corresponding to the Web page, together with URL information of the Web page, in the home position database per URL, when the key input pattern detected by the key input pattern detecting means is a key input pattern indicating a home position on the Web page, by referring to information being stored in the key input pattern database and indicating an operation content intended by the user, based on the key input pattern of the operating means detected by the key input pattern detecting means;

wherein, when the Web page is displayed on the display means, the display control means detects a home position corresponding to URL information of the Web page to be displayed, by referring to the home position database per URL based on the URL information of the Web page to be displayed, and displays first a display range of the home position on the display means.

2. The display controller according to claim 1, wherein;

if it is found that a home position corresponding to a Web page of identical URL is already registered at time of registering a home position in the home position database per URL, the home position registering means updates and registers the display range on the Web page detected by the display range detecting means in the home position database per URL as a new home position corresponding to the Web page.

3. The display controller according to claim 1, wherein;

whenever a key input pattern indicating a home position on the Web page is detected, the home position registering means registers a display range on the Web page detected by the display range detecting means in the home position database per URL, as a home position candidate corresponding to the Web page, and increments a count value indicating the number of repetitive detections of the home position candidate whenever the display range same with that of a home position candidate already registered in the home position database per URL is detected by the display range detecting means, and

when a Web page is displayed on the display means, the display control means detects the count value of each home position candidate corresponding to the URL information of the Web page from the home position database per URL, and displays first on the display means a display range of a home position candidate having the maximum count value from among home position candidates having a count value of equal to or larger than a predetermined value.

4. A display control method comprising:

a display step in which a display control mean performs a partial display of a Web (World Wide Web) page, when the Web page is displayed on display means, by using as a display range a range of the Web page corresponding to a screen size of the display means, and changes and displays the display range of the Web page to be displayed on the display means, in response to an operation of operating means;

a display range detecting step in which a display range detecting mean detects a display range of the Web page displayed on the display means in the step;

a key input pattern detecting step in which a key input pattern detecting mean detects a key input pattern of the operating means when the Web page is displayed in the display step; and

a home position registering step in which home position registering means registers a display range on the Web page detected at the display range detecting step as a home position that becomes the first display range at the time of displaying the Web page, together with URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information of the Web page, in an home position database per URL, when the key input pattern detected in the key input pattern detecting step is a key input pattern indicating a home position on the Web page, by referring to a key input pattern database storing information indicating an operation intended by a user, per each key input pattern of the operating means, based on the key input pattern of the operating means detected in the key input pattern detecting step,

wherein, in the display step, the display control means detects a home position corresponding to URL information of a Web page to be displayed, by referring to the home position database per URL based on the URL information of the Web page to be displayed, and displays first a display range of the home position on the display means.

5. A display control program intended for:

causing a computer to function as display control means for performing a partial display of a Web (World Wide Web) page, when the Web page is displayed on display means, by using as a display range a range of the Web page corresponding to a screen size of the display means, and changing and displaying the display range of the Web page to be displayed on the display means, in response to an operation of operating means;

causing the computer to function as display range detecting means for detecting a display range of the Web page displayed on the display means by causing the computer to function as the display control means;

causing the computer to function as key input pattern detecting means for detecting a key input pattern of the operating means during the time the Web page is displayed on the display means by causing the computer to function as the display control means;

causing the computer to function as home position registering means for registering a display range on the Web page detected by causing the computer to function as the display range detecting means, as a home position that becomes the first display range when displaying a Web page, together with URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information of the Web page, in a home position database per URL, when the key input pattern of the operation mean detected by causing the computer to function as the key input pattern detecting means is a key input pattern indicating a home position on the Web page, by referring to a key input pattern database storing information indicating an operation intended by a user, per each key input pattern of the operating means, based on the key input pattern of the operating means detected by causing the computer to function as the key input pattern detecting means; and

causing the computer to function as the display control means for detecting a home position corresponding to URL information of a Web page to be displayed, by referring to the home position database based on the URL information of the Web page to be displayed, and for displaying first a display range of the home position on the display means.

6. A portable terminal device comprising:

display control means for performing a partial display of a Web (World Wide Web) page when the Web page is displayed on display means, by using as a display range a range of the Web page corresponding to a screen size of the display means, and for changing and displaying the display range of the Web page to be displayed on the display means, in response to an operation of operating means;

display range detecting means for detecting a display range of the Web page displayed on the display means by the display control means;

a key input pattern database in which information indicating an operation intended by a user is stored per key input pattern of the operating means;

a home position database per URL for registering a home position used as the first display range when a Web page is displayed, together with URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information of the Web page;

key input pattern detecting means for detecting a key input pattern of the operating means when the Web page is displayed by the display control means; and

home position registering means for registering a display range on the Web page detected by the display range detecting means as a home position corresponding to the Web page, together with URL information of the Web page, in the home position database per URL, when the key input pattern detected by the key input pattern detecting means is a key input pattern indicating a home position on the Web page, by referring to information which is stored in the key input pattern database and indicative of an operation content intended by the user, based on the key input pattern of the operating means detected by the key input pattern detecting means;

wherein, when a Web page is displayed on the display means, the display control means detects a home position corresponding to URL information of the Web page to be displayed, by referring to the home position database per URL based on the URL information of the Web page to be displayed, and displays first a display range of the home position on the display means.