Data processing apparatus for image and related data display

• US 5,909,216 A
• Filed: 05/30/1995
• Issued: 06/01/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsubayashi, Kazuhiro, Arai, Tsunekazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Mark K.
• Application Number:
  US08/452,864
• Time in Patent Office: 1,463 Days
• Field of Search: 395/155-161, 395/347, 364/444, 364/449, 340/990, 340/995, 345/347, 345/146, 345/352
• US Class Current: 715/808
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0076 in which the time in another time-zone or in another city can be displayed at will
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

A data processing apparatus includes a memory for storing image data and data corresponding to a display area of the image data, a display for displaying the image data stored in the memory, an input device for designating a position of the image data displayed by the display, a discriminator for discriminating a display area to which the position designated by the input device belongs, and a controller for reading out data corresponding to the display area discriminated by the discriminator and displaying the readout data on the display.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus comprising:

memory means for storing a map image and information relating to a plurality of positions on the map image;

management means for managing for the plurality of positions, a current time and a city name in correspondence with each position;

display means for displaying the map image stored in said memory means;

designation means for designating a desired position on the map image displayed by said display means; and

control means, responsive to a designation by said designation means, for controlling said display means to display, in a movable window formed on the displayed map image, the current time and the city name managed by said management means for the designated position, to replace a current time and a city name previously displayed in the window for a different position responsive to a previous designation, and to display the map image, wherein the window serves as a key operable to instruct said display means to display a list of city names for the designated position.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said designation means comprises transparent coordinate input means arranged immediately on said display means.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control means comprises means for enabling said display means to display the time data of the discriminated area on a predetermined area of said display means in a window.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the current time for a designated position is derived through a difference in time between the designated position and a reference position.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display means has a partial area for a window for displaying the current time for a designated position.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said management means further manages detailed character data corresponding to each of the plurality of positions, and said control means further controls said display means to display the character data instead of the current time.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said memory means stores information corresponding to names of the plurality of positions on the map image.

8. A data processing method comprising the steps of:

storing a map image and information relating to a plurality of positions on the map image in a memory;

managing for the plurality of positions, a current time and a city name in correspondence with each position;

displaying the map image stored in said memory on a display;

designating a desired position on the map image displayed by said display;

controlling, responsive to the designation in the designating step, the display to display the current time and the city name for the designated position, to replace a current time previously displayed in a window for a different position responsive to a previous designation, and to display the map image;

displaying a list of city names for the designated position when an input operable through the window is provided.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein said designating step comprises designating on transparent coordinated input means arranged immediately on said display.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein said time data displaying step comprises displaying the time data of the discriminated area on a predetermined area of said display in a window.

11. A data processing method according to claim 8, wherein the current time for a designated position is derived through a difference in time between the designated position and a reference position.

12. A data processing method according to claim 8, wherein said display has a partial area for a window for displaying the current time for a designated position.

13. A method according to claim 8, wherein said managing step further includes managing detailed character data corresponding to each of the plurality of positions, and said controlling step further controls the display to display the character data instead of the current time.

14. A method according to claim 8, wherein the storing step further includes storing information corresponding to names of the plurality of positions on the map image.

15. A computer usable medium having stored computer readable instruction codes for a data processing apparatus comprising:

a first set of computer readable instruction codes for storing a map image and information relating to a plurality of positions on the map image in a memory;

a second set of computer readable instruction codes for managing for the plurality of positions, a current time and a city name in correspondence with each position;

a third set of computer readable instruction codes for displaying the map image stored in said memory on a display;

a fourth set of computer readable instruction codes for designating a desired position on the map image displayed by said display;

a fifth set of computer readable instruction codes responsive to the designation for controlling the display to display the current time and the city name for the designated position, to replace a current time and a city name previously displayed in a window for a different position responsive to a previous designation, and to display the map image; and

a sixth set of computer readable instruction codes for instructing the display to display a list of city names for the designated position, wherein the window serves as a key operable to instruct the display to display the list of city names.

16. A computer usuable medium having stored computer readable instruction codes according to claim 15, wherein said second set of computer readable instruction codes for managing for the plurality of positions a current time in correspondence with each position further includes a set of computer readable instruction codes for managing detailed character data corresponding to each of the plurality of positions, and

said fifth set of computer readable instruction codes includes a set of computer readable instruction codes for controlling the display to display the character data instead of the current time.

17. A computer usablemedium having stored computer readable instruction codes according to claim 15, wherein the first set of computer readable instruction codes for storing a map image and information relating to the plurality of positions on the map image in the memory includes a set of computer readable instruction codes storing information corresponding to names of the plurality of positions on the map image.