INFORMATION TERMINAL AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD

• US 20130278625A1
• Filed: 04/22/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: OBATA, Takanori
• Granted Patent: US 9,317,936 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation

Abstract

A mobile phone is capable of displaying data of a website stored in a server through a browsing function. The mobile phone is also capable of detecting a line-of-sight of a user with utilizing an infrared light. In a case where the user is reading a website, a keyword is acquired from a content of the website based on the line-of-sight of the user. Thereafter, if a search result screen on a search site is displayed, a plurality of index information are listed such that the index information of the website related to an acquired keyword becomes a higher rank.

Claims

1. An information terminal having a display portion displaying a text, and capable of reading any data from a database, comprising:

a line-of-sight detecting module operable to detect a line-of-sight with respect to the display portion;

an acquiring module operable to acquire a keyword from the text being displayed on the display portion based on a line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detecting module; and

a displaying processing module operable to cause the display portion to display a plurality of data in a listing order set based on the keyword when the plurality of data are read from the database.

2. An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring module acquires a plurality of keywords, further comprising:

a calculating module operable to calculate respective weighing values of the plurality of keywords based on the line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detecting module, wherein

the displaying processing module causes the display portion to display the plurality of data in a listing order set based on the respective weighing values of the plurality of keywords.

3. An information terminal according to claim 2, wherein the calculating module further includes a gaze times evaluating module operable to evaluate, based on the line-of-sight detected, the number of times that the keyword is gazed, and

the calculating module calculates each weighing value of each of the plurality of keywords based on the number of times evaluated by the gaze times evaluating module.

4. An information terminal according to claim 2, wherein the calculating module further includes a gaze time period evaluating module operable to evaluate, based on the line-of-sight detected, a time that the keyword is gazed, and

the calculating module calculates each weighing value of each of the plurality of keywords based on the time evaluated by the gaze time period evaluating module.

5. An information terminal according to claim 2, further comprising:

a re-calculating module operable to calculate again the respective weighing value such that the respective weighing values of the plurality of keywords are decreased; and

a deleting module operable to delete a keyword when the weighing value corresponding to the keyword, which is re-calculated by the re-calculating module, is equal to or less than a threshold value.

6. An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the display portion further displays an image, and

the acquiring module includes a fixed phrase acquiring module operable to acquire a fixed phrase as a keyword when the line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detecting module is included within a displaying range of the image, and

the displaying processing module causes the display portion to display a plurality of data in a listing order set such that the data including an image becomes a higher rank out of the plurality of data read.

7. An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of data read from the database include a plurality of index information read based on a search word, and

the displaying processing module causes the displaying portion to display the plurality of index information in a listing order set based on the keyword when the plurality of index information are read.

8. An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of data read from a database include a plurality of predicted search words, and the displaying processing module causes the displaying portion to display the plurality of predicted search words in a listing order set based on the keyword when the plurality of predicted search words are read.

9. An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of data read from the database include a plurality of conversion candidates corresponding to an input character, and

the displaying processing module causes the displaying portion to display the plurality of conversion candidates in a listing order set based on the keyword when the plurality of conversion candidates are read.

10. An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the database is stored in a server.

11. A display controlling method in an information terminal having a display portion displaying a text and a line-of-sight detecting module operable to detect a line-of-sight with respect to the display portion, wherein the information terminal is capable of reading any data from a database, comprising steps of:

acquiring a keyword from the text being displayed on the display portion based on a line-of-sight detected by the line-of-sight detecting module; and

displaying on the display portion a plurality of data in a listing order set based on the keyword when the plurality of data are read from the database.