INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20090077484A1
• Filed: 09/17/2008
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ohmori, Seiji
• Granted Patent: US 8,191,006 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19693 using multiple video sources viewed on a single or compound screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

An information processing apparatus that receives data from a plurality of external devices connected via a network and displays an operation window based on a content of the data includes a reception unit that receives a plurality of pieces of data transmitted from the plurality of external devices, an analysis unit that analyzes the received data and identifies a first constituent portion common to the respective data and a second constituent portion not included in the first constituent portion, and a display unit that displays information included in the first constituent portion in a common display area of an operation window, and displays information included in the second constituent portion in an individual display area of the operation window.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus that receives data from a plurality of external devices connected via a network, and displays an operation window based on a content of the data, comprising:

a reception unit adapted to receive a plurality of pieces of data transmitted from the plurality of external devices;

an analysis unit adapted to analyze the respective data received by the reception unit, and identify a first constituent portion common to the respective data and a second constituent portion not included in the first constituent portion; and

a display unit adapted to display information included in the first constituent portion in a common display area of an operation window, and display information included in the second constituent portion in an individual display area of the operation window.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the analysis unit identifies, out of the data received from the plurality of external devices, a constituent portion that has predetermined identification information as the first constituent portion, and a constituent portion that does not have the identification information as the second constituent portion.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a selection unit adapted to select one of the plurality of external devices,

wherein in a case where, according to the analysis by the analysis unit, information that differs depending on the external device is included in the first constituent portion, the display unit displays information included in the first constituent portion of the external device selected by the selection unit in the common display area of the operation window.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data is XML data, and the identification information is information describing an attribute of the XML data.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in the data received by the reception unit, information related to an operation button for remotely operating the external devices using the operation window is included.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a transmission unit adapted to transmit, to at least one of the plurality of external devices, information input via the operation button of the operation window.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the individual display area of the operation window has a display area for displaying an image transmitted from each of the plurality of external devices.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a display area selection unit adapted to select any one of a plurality of display areas displayed in the individual display area.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the transmission unit transmits information input via the operation button to the external device corresponding to the display area selected by the display area selection unit.

10. A control method of an information processing apparatus that receives data from a plurality of external devices connected via a network, and displays an operation window based on a content of the data, said method comprising:

a reception step of receiving a plurality of pieces of data transmitted from the plurality of external devices;

an analysis step of analyzing the respective data received in the reception step, and identify a first constituent portion common to the respective data and a second constituent portion not included in the first constituent portion; and

a display step of displaying information included in the first constituent portion in a common display area of an operation window, and display information included in the second constituent portion in an individual display area of the operation window.

11. The control method according to claim 10, wherein in the analysis step, out of the data received from the plurality of external devices, a constituent portion that has predetermined identification information is identified as the first constituent portion, and a constituent portion that does not have the identification information is identified as the second constituent portion.

12. The control method according to claim 10, further comprising a selection step of selecting one of the plurality of external devices,

wherein in a case where, according to the analysis in the analysis step, information that differs depending on the external device is included in the first constituent portion, in the display step, information included in the first constituent portion of the external device selected in the selection step is displayed in the common display area of the operation window.

13. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the data is XML data, and the identification information is information describing an attribute of the XML data.

14. The control method according to claim 10, wherein in the data received in the reception step, information related to an operation button for remotely operating the external devices using the operation window is included.

15. The control method according to claim 14, further comprising a transmission step of transmitting, to at least one of the plurality of external devices, information input via the operation button of the operation window.

16. The control method according to claim 15, wherein the individual display area of the operation window has a display area for displaying an image transmitted from each of the plurality of external devices.

17. The control method according to claim 16, further comprising a display area selection step of selecting any one of a plurality of display areas displayed in the individual display area.

18. The control method according to claim 17, wherein in the transmission step, information input via the operation button is transmitted to the external device corresponding to the display area selected in the display area selection step.

19. A computer program, stored in a computer-readable storage medium, for causing a computer to execute a control method of an information processing apparatus defined in claim 10.

20. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program defined in claim 19.