DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20100325233A1
• Filed: 02/13/2009
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SANYO Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: SANYO Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Yoshihiro, Watanabe, Kazuhiro, Kawaguchi, Mitsuhisa, Kishimoto, Yoshinori, Kinoshita, Masahiko, Matsudaira, Naohiko, Matsushima, Atsuto, Ueyama, Tomoki
• Application Number:
  US12/918,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20100325233A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/16 Digital picture frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails

Abstract

A display device includes a condition judgment unit which judges whether a received email satisfies a predetermined condition. Moreover, the display device includes a data deletion unit which deletes attached data in an email from a recording unit if the condition judgment unit detects that the email does not satisfy the predetermined condition. Moreover, the display device includes a condition registration unit which receives a condition for storing attached data. The condition registration unit receives a transmission source email address of an email which a user desires to store. When an email is received by the email reception unit, the condition judgment unit judges whether the transmission source email address coincides with a part or whole of the reception-enabled address. If yes, the attached data is stored. Otherwise, the data is deleted.

Claims

1. A display device having:

a display portion that displays an image;

a recording portion that records data;

a communication portion that connects with a communication network to perform communication; and

a mail reception portion that uses the communication portion to receive an electronic mail from the communication network and record the electronic mail into the recording portion;

the display device comprising;

a condition determination portion that determines whether or not an electronic mail received by the mail reception portion meets a predetermined condition; and

a data deletion portion that deletes attached data contained in an electronic mail which the condition determination portion determines does not meet the condition.

2. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a condition registration portion that accepts a sender mail address of the electronic mail and records the accepted sender mail address into the recording portion as a reception permission address;

wherein the condition determination portion determines whether or not the sender mail address of the electronic mail received by the mail reception portion matches part or all of the reception permission address recoded in the recording portion; and

considers that the electronic mail meets the condition in a case where both addresses match each other.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the condition determination portion determines whether or not the electronic mail received by the mail reception portion is an electronic mail from a predetermined person;

and

in a case where the condition determination portion determines that the received electronic mail is not an electronic mail from the predetermined person, the data deletion portion deletes the attached data attached to the received electronic mail from the recording portion.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the condition determination portion determines whether or not the electronic mail received by the mail reception portion is an electronic mail from a predetermined person;

and

in a case where the condition determination portion determines that the received electronic mail is an electronic mail from the predetermined person, the data deletion portion deletes the attached data attached to the received electronic mail from the recording portion.

5. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a reproduction determination portion that determines whether or not the attached data contained in the electronic mail received by the mail reception portion is reproducible;

wherein the data deletion portion deletes the attached data, which the reproduction determination portion determines is not reproducible, from the recording portion.

6. A display device having:

a display portion that displays an image;

a communication portion that connects with a communication network to perform communication;

a sending and reception portion that uses the communication portion to send and receive an electronic mail;

the display device comprising;

a mail analysis portion that analyzes an electronic mail received by the sending and reception portion and determines whether or not image data that has a predetermined form or a size within a predetermined range is added to the electronic mail;

and an image process portion that in a case where it is determined by the mail analysis portion that the image data is added to the electronic mail, controls the display portion to display the image data.

7. The display device according to claim 6, further comprising a resending request portion that in a case where it is determined by the mail analysis portion that the image data is added to the electronic mail received by the sending and reception portion and the image data is not image data that has the predetermined form or a size within the predetermined range, controls the sending and reception portion to send a notification mail, which indicates a display impossibility of the image data or indicates a resending request for the image data, to a sender of the electronic mail.

8. The display device according to claim 6, further comprising a recording portion that records image data;

wherein in a case where image data which has the predetermined form or a size within the predetermined range is added to the electronic mail received by the sending and reception portion, the mail analysis portion records the image data as a temporary record image into the recording portion, gives an instruction for displaying the temporary record image to the image process portion;

in a case where the temporary record image is successfully displayed, the mail analysis portion deletes a temporary record image whose record date is older than the temporary record image from the recording portion.

9. The display device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a connection portion that connects with an electronic device to perform an input of image data; and

an image analysis portion that in a case where the connection portion detects an input of image data from the electronic device, analyzes the input image data;

determines whether or not the image data has the predetermined form or a size within the predetermined range; and

, in a case where the determination is true, controls the display portion to display the image data.

10. A display device comprising:

a display portion that is capable of displaying a person'"'"'s image;

a detection portion that detects whether or not an object touches the display portion; and

a control portion that controls the display portion to display information regarding a person displayed at a position where the detection portion detects a touch.

11. The display device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a communication portion; and

a control portion that controls the communication portion to make a phone call for the person displayed at the position where the detection portion detects the touch.

12. The display device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a communication portion; and

a control portion that controls the communication portion to send an electronic mail to the person displayed at the position where the detection portion detects the touch.

13. The display device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a communication portion; and

a control portion that controls the communication portion to display a preparation screen of an electronic mail sent to the person displayed at the position where the detection portion detects the touch.