DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS

• US 20130283198A1
• Filed: 04/17/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Kemmochi, Eiji, Tsukuda, Tomoyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/864,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20130283198A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04807 Pen manipulated menu
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A display controlling apparatus includes: a state information initializing section to initialize state information of an application to be displayed for a user; a state information registering section to receive an operation event triggered by an operation of the user for registering a record of the state information into a database to be displayed corresponding to the received operation event; a state information display controlling section to monitor the record of the state information registered in the database for determining the record of the state information to be displayed; and a state information displaying section to display the determined record of the state information on a display screen. The display controlling apparatus has at least one record of the state information to be displayed on the display screen at a predetermined timing.

Claims

1. A display controlling apparatus comprising:

a state information initializing section to initialize state information of an application to be displayed for a user;

a state information registering section to receive an operation event triggered by an operation of the user for registering a record of the state information into a database to be displayed corresponding to the received operation event;

a state information display controlling section to monitor the record of the state information registered in the database for determining the record of the state information to be displayed; and

a state information displaying section to display the determined record of the state information on a display screen,

wherein at least one record of the state information is displayed on the display screen at a predetermined timing.

2. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the record of the state information includes information to be exclusively displayed from other records of the state information, the other records of the state information being hidden when the record of the information to be exclusively displayed is being displayed.

3. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the record of the state information includes information indicating whether the record of the state information is to be displayed periodically,

wherein if the record of the state information includes the information indicating that the record of the state information is to be displayed periodically, the state information display controlling section determines that the record of the state information is displayed when a current time reaches a time for periodic display.

4. The display controlling apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the record of the state information includes either of first mode information corresponding to a write mode of an electronic information board, or second mode information corresponding to a PC operation mode of the electronic information board.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program stored therein for causing a computer to execute a method of display controlling, the program including:

a state information initializing step to initialize state information of an application to be displayed for a user;

a state information registering step to receive an operation event triggered by an operation of the user for registering a record of the state information into a database to be displayed corresponding to the received operation event;

a state information display controlling step to monitor the record of the state information registered in the database for determining the record of the state information to be displayed; and

a state information displaying step to display the determined record of the state information on a display screen,

wherein at least one record of the state information is displayed on the display screen at a predetermined timing.

6. A display system comprising:

a display device to display an image; and

a display controlling apparatus,

wherein the display controlling apparatus including

a state information initializing section to initialize state information of an application to be displayed for a user;

a state information registering section to receive an operation event triggered by an operation of the user for registering a record of the state information into a database to be displayed corresponding to the received operation event;

a state information display controlling section to monitor the record of the state information registered in the database for determining the record of the state information to be displayed; and

a state information displaying section to display the determined record of the state information on a display screen,

wherein at least one record of the state information is displayed on the display screen at a predetermined timing.