METHOD OF ENLARGING CONTENT IN DIVIDED SCREEN, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20170256031A1
• Filed: 05/11/2015
• Published: 09/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: KAMEI, Akira
• Application Number:
  US15/511,001
• Publication Number:
  US 20170256031A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/37 Details of the operation on graphic patterns G09G5/38 takes precedence

Abstract

This invention provides an information processing apparatus for enlarging and displaying a content in a divided screen in a size easy to see without limitation to the divided screen. The information processing apparatus includes a divided display control unit that displays at least two divided screens, and an enlarged display control unit that displays, when enlarging a content in one of the at least two divided screens, the enlarged content with superimposing the enlarged content on a boundary between the at least two divided screens. The enlarged display control unit generates a display frame that is different from display frames of the at least two divided screens and includes the enlarged content, and displays the display frame with superimposing the display frame on the boundary between the at least two divided screens.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a divided display control unit that displays at least two divided screens; and

an enlarged display control unit that displays, when enlarging a content in one of the at least two divided screens, the enlarged content with superimposing the enlarged content on a boundary between the at least two divided screens.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said enlarged display control unit includes an enlargement operation determiner that determines an enlargement operation of the content in the at least two screens, and enlarges the content in accordance with the enlargement operation and displays the enlarged content with superimposing the enlarged content on the boundary between the at least two divided screens.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said enlarged display control unit generates a display frame that is different from display frames of the at least divided screens and includes the enlarged content, and displays the display frame with superimposing the display frame on the boundary between the at least two divided screens.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content is an image.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an enlarged display end unit that ends the display of the enlarged content by said enlarged display control unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said enlarged display end unit, when determining that one of the at least two divided screens has been touched, ends the display of the enlarged content.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said enlarged display end unit, determining that a display size of the enlarged content is not larger than a threshold, ends the display of the enlarged content.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said enlarged display end unit, when determining that no operation has been performed for the enlarged content for a predetermined elapsed time, ends the display of the enlarged content.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, while accepting the enlargement operation, said enlarged display control unit displays the enlarged content with superimposing the enlarged content on the boundary between the at least divided screens.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least two divided screens are windows respectively opened by activating different applications.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said enlarged display control unit generates a display frame that is different from display frames of the at least divided screens and includes the enlarged content, and displays the display frame with superimposing the display frame on the boundary between the at least two divided screens.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an enlarged display end unit that ends the display of the enlarged content by said enlarged display control unit.

11. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus, comprising:

displaying at least two divided screens; and

displaying, when enlarging a content in one of the at least two divided screens, the enlarged content with superimposing the enlarged content on a boundary between the at least two divided screens.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program of controlling an information processing apparatus for causing a computer to execute a method, comprising:

displaying at least two divided screens; and

displaying, when enlarging a content in one of the at least two divided screens, the enlarged content with superimposing the enlarged content on a boundary between the at least two divided screens.

13. A method of enlarging a content in at least two divided screens, comprising:

determining an enlargement operation of a content in the at least two divided screens; and

enlarging the content in accordance with the enlargement operation and displaying the enlarged content with superimposing the enlarged content on a boundary between the at least two divided screens.