INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, POSTING SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150234787A1
• Filed: 09/26/2013
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Itamoto, Shinichi
• Application Number:
  US14/429,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20150234787A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

An information processing device includes: a display unit that includes a content display region and a posting information display region provided on the same screen, the display unit displaying content on the content display region and displaying posting information posted on a network on the posting information display region; and a control unit that execute at least one of first display control and second display control, the first display control controlling a display form of the posting information according to the content displayed on the display unit, the second display control controlling a display form of the content according to the posting information displayed on the display unit.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a display unit that includes a content display region and a posting information display region provided on the same screen, the display unit displaying content on the content display region and displaying posting information posted on a network on the posting information display region; and

a control unit that execute at least one of first display control and second display control, the first display control controlling a display form of the posting information according to the content displayed on the display unit, the second display control controlling a display form of the content according to the posting information displayed on the display unit.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, as the first display control, at least one of luminance and a color tone of the posting information according to at least one of luminance and a color tone of the content.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, as the first display control, at least one of a character size of the posting information, a character font of the posting information, a scroll speed within the posting information display region, a scroll amount within the posting information display region, an update frequency of the posting information, a display size of the posting information display region, and a display position of the posting information display region within the screen of the display unit according to at least one of a class of a viewer of the content, a type of the content, a screen aspect ratio of the content, and a display size of the content display region.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, as the first display control, at least one of a character size and a character font of the posting information according to at least one of a character size and a character font displayed in the content.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit enlarges, as the first display control, a display size of the posting information display region in response to a commercial message being displayed on the content display region.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit displays, as the first display control, a communication icon on the posting information display region according to a display size of the content display region, the communication icon representing a communication state of receiving the posting information.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls, as the second display control, a display form of the content display region according to a posting status of the posting information displayed on the posting information display region.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit limits, as the second display control, a display of content on the content display region according to a class of a poster of the posting information displayed on the posting information display region.

9. A posting system comprising:

the information processing device according to claim 1; and

a posting information management server that associates posting time information with the posting information and manages the posting time information and the posting information, the posting time information representing a time at which the posting information was posted from the information processing device.

10. A method for controlling a display of a display unit, the display unit including a content display region and a posting information display region provided on the same screen, the method comprising:

displaying content on the content display region;

displaying posting information posted on a network on the posting information display region; and

executing at least one of first display control and a second display control, the first display control controlling a display form of the posting information according to the content displayed on the display unit, the second display control controlling a display form of the content according to the posting information displayed on the display unit.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as:

a display unit that includes a content display region and a posting information display region provided on the same screen, the display unit displaying content on the content display region and displaying posting information posted on a network on the posting information display region; and

a control unit that execute at least one of first display control and second display control, the first display control controlling a display form of the posting information according to the content displayed on the display unit, the second display control controlling a display form of the content according to the posting information displayed on the display unit.