INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM

• US 20110154251A1
• Filed: 12/15/2008
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Onda, Yasushi, Kano, Izua, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Murakami, Keiichi, Kamiya, Dai
• Granted Patent: US 9,542,912 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/800
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/00 Image analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/02 Graphics controller able to handle multiple formats, e.g. input or output formats
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

An information processing device includes: execution means for executing an application program; determination means for determining a size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program; receiving means for receiving at least one data set from among a plurality of data sets; data selection means for selecting one data set from among the plurality of data sets, depending on the window size determined by the determination unit; execution control means for controlling the execution means to process the one data set selected by the data selection means from among the received at least one data set, in accordance with the application program; and display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the one data set to be processed by the execution means.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. An information processing device comprising:

execution means for executing an application program;

determination means for determining a size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program;

receiving means for receiving at least one data set from among a plurality of data sets;

data selection means for selecting one data set from among the plurality of data sets, depending on the window size determined by the determination unit;

execution control means for controlling the execution means to process the one data set selected by the data selection means from among the received at least one data set, in accordance with the application program; and

display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the one data set to be processed by the execution means.

15. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein

the receiving means is configured to receive the plurality of data sets, and

the data selection means is configured to select one data set from among the plurality of data sets received by the receiving means, depending on the window size determined by the determination means.

16. The information processing device according to claim 15, further comprising:

storage means for storing a plurality of attributes and a plurality of conditions, the plurality of attributes indicating data types, and the plurality of conditions respectively associated with window sizes for the plurality of attributes; and

extraction means for extracting, from among the plurality of attributes stored in the storage means, an attribute associated with a condition which the window size determined by the determination means satisfies, wherein

the plurality of data sets received by the receiving means respectively include attributes, and

the execution control means is configured to control the execution means to process the data set including the attribute extracted by the extraction means, from among the plurality of data sets received by the receiving means.

17. The information processing device according to claim 15, wherein

the plurality of data sets received by the receiving means include a plurality of attributes and a plurality of conditions, the plurality of attributes indicating data types, and the plurality of conditions being respectively for window sizes associated with the plurality of attributes,

the information processing device further comprises:

extraction means for extracting an attribute associated with a condition which the window size determined by the determination means satisfies, from among the plurality of attributes included in the plurality of data sets; and

selection means for selecting a data set including the attribute extracted by the extraction means, from among the plurality of data sets received by the receiving means, and

the execution control means is configured to control the execution means to process a data set including the attribute extracted by the execution means, from among the plurality of data sets received by the receiving means.

18. The information processing device according to claim 14, further comprising

transmission means for transmitting information that specifies the data set selected by the data selection means, wherein

the receiving means is configured to receive the data set transmitted in accordance with the information transmitted by the transmission means, and

the execution control means is configured to control the execution means to process the data set received by the receiving means.

19. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of data sets respectively have different information volumes.

20. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of data sets each are position data, and respectively have different positioning accuracies.

21. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein

the execution means is configured to execute a plurality of application programs,

the display control means is configured to control the display means to show a plurality of windows respectively depending on the plurality of application programs, and

the data selection means is configured to select a data set to be processed by one application program of the plurality of application programs, depending on a relative size of a window for the one application program, the relative size being relative to a size of a window of one other application program of the plurality of application programs.

22. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein the execution control means is configured to change a frequency at which data is processed by the execution means, depending on the window size.

23. An information processing device comprising:

execution means for executing an application program;

receiving means for receiving a data set to be processed by the application program executed by the application program;

determination means for determining a window size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program;

execution control means for controlling a frequency at which the receiving means receives the data set, depending on the window size determined by the determination means from a plurality of data sets received by the receiving means; and

display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the data set to be processed by the execution means.

24. The information processing device according to claim 23, wherein

the execution means is configured to execute a plurality of application programs,

the display control means is configured to control the display means to show a plurality of windows respectively depending on the plurality of application programs, and

the execution control means is configured to control the frequency at which the receiving means receives the data set, depending on a relative size of a window for one application program of the plurality of application programs, the relative size being relative to a size of a window for one other application program of the plurality of application programs.

25. A program causing a computer device to function as:

execution means for executing an application program;

determination means for determining a size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program;

receiving means for receiving at least one data set among a plurality of data sets;

data selection means for selecting one data set from among the plurality of data sets, depending on the window size determined by the determination unit;

execution control means for controlling the execution means to process the one data set selected by the data selection means from among the received at least one data set, in accordance with the application program; and

display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the one data set to be processed by the execution means.

26. A program causing a computer device to function as:

execution means for executing an application program;

receiving means for receiving a data set to be processed by the application program executed by the application program;

determination means for determining a window size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program;

execution control means for controlling a frequency at which the receiving means receives the data set, depending on a window size determined by the determination means from a plurality of data sets received by the receiving means; and

display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the data to be processed by the execution means.