DISPLAYING DEVICE WITH USER-DEFINED DISPLAY REGIONS AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090064016A1
• Filed: 09/01/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: HSIEH, KUAN-HONG, WANG, HAN-CHE, CHENG, HUA-DONG, LI, XIAO-GUANG, WANG, LI, CHUNG, SHIN-HONG
• Granted Patent: US 8,065,622 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0221 with use of split matrices G09G3/3644 and G09G3/3666 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

A displaying device includes an input unit, a region defining unit, a content allocating unit, an obtaining unit, a display controlling unit and a display unit. The region defining unit defines regions by incorporating one or more unit regions in each of the regions according to users'"'"' selections and generates region defining information. The content allocating unit allocates contents for the regions according to the users'"'"' selections and generates content allocating information. The obtaining unit obtains the region defining information, the content allocating information, and contents according to the content allocating information, and then transmits the information and contents to the display controlling unit. The display controlling unit splits a display area of the display unit into the regions defined by the region defining unit and displays the contents in the regions correspondingly according to the content allocating information. Related methods are also provided.

Claims

1. A displaying device with user-defined regions, comprising:

an input unit

a display unit comprising a display area constituted by a plurality of unit regions arranged along one or two dimensions of the display area; and

a central controller, comprising;

a region defining unit configured for defining regions on the display area by incorporating one or more unit regions in each of the regions in accordance with confirm signals from the input unit, and for generating region defining information;

a content allocating unit configured for allocating contents for the defined regions in accordance with the confirm signals from the input unit, and for generating content allocating information;

an obtaining unit configured for obtaining the region defining information and the content allocating information, parsing the region defining information and the content allocating information, and obtaining contents according to the parsed content allocating information; and

a display controlling unit configured for receiving the parsed region defining information, the parsed content allocating information, and the contents from the obtaining unit, splitting the display area into the regions according to the parsed region defining information and displaying the contents in the regions correspondingly according to the parsed content allocating information.

2. The displaying device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contents comprises images defined by image files stored in a storage.

3. The displaying device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the contents further comprises additional information.

4. The displaying device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the additional information comprises textual memos of the images, the textual memo being recorded in additional information files stored in the storage.

5. The displaying device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the additional information comprises real calendar/time information provided by a calendar/timer.

6. A method for defining regions on a display area of a display unit, based on confirm signals from an input unit, for displaying contents, comprising the steps of:

displaying unit regions constituting the display area;

receiving confirm signals from the input unit;

defining two or more regions by incorporating one or more of the unit regions in each of the regions according to the confirm signals; and

allocating contents for the regions according to confirm signals from the input.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the contents comprise images defined by image files stored in the storage.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the contents further comprise additional information.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the additional information comprises textual memos of the images, the textual memos being recorded in additional information files stored in the storage.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the additional information comprises real calendar/time information provided by a calendar/timer.

11. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising the step of generating region defining information and storing the region defining information in a storage.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising the step of generating content allocating information and storing the content allocating information in the storage.

13. A method for displaying contents based on user defined information, comprising the steps of:

obtaining region defining information and content allocating information from a storage, wherein the region defining information defines regions by incorporating one or more unit regions in each of the regions based on confirm signals from users, and the content allocating information records a relationship between each region and content allocating for the region based on confirm signals from the users;

parsing the region defining information and the content allocating information;

splitting a display area of a display unit into the regions defined by the region defining information; and

obtaining contents and displaying the contents in the regions of the display area correspondingly according to the content allocating information.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the contents comprise images defined by image files stored in the storage.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the contents further comprise additional information.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the additional information comprises textual memo of the images, the textual memo being recorded in additional information files stored in the storage.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the additional information comprises real calendar/time information provided by a calendar/timer.