Method and apparatus of displaying a calendar

• US 6,323,883 B1
• Filed: 08/28/1996
• Issued: 11/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Tachibana, Toru, Minoura, Tadaaki, Miyashita, Shichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Ba
• Application Number:
  US08/704,186
• Time in Patent Office: 1,917 Days
• Field of Search: 345/340, 345/341, 345/342, 345/348, 345/349, 345/777, 345/784, 345/802, 345/829, 345/830, 702/178, 705/9, 707/525, 708/112
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

The present invention provides a scheduler that is able to display two weeks of a last or a next month with the current month with legible fonts. When a zoom key is input by an operator, a monthly calendar is displayed with another week. If a particular date of the month is an early date of the month, one week of the last month is additionally displayed. If a particular date of the month is a late date of the month, one week of the next month is additionally displayed. When a centering key is input by an operator, five weeks are displayed so that a week with a particular date is displayed in the middle of the five weeks.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a calendar including daily data on a display screen, comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying a calendar for a specific month by arranging days of a week of said specific month in a row on said display screen;

(b) detecting an operation for said specific month; and

(c) displaying, in addition to said specific month, at least one additional week with one of said at least one additional week closer to a predetermined day of said specific month on said display screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of displaying at least one additional week comprises:

displaying a total of five weeks with a specific week containing a predetermined day being in a middle position with two weeks prior and two weeks subsequent.

3. An apparatus, having an LCD device, an input device, a memory and a CPU in a portable housing case, for displaying a calendar including daily data on a display screen of said LCD device, comprising:

(a) means for displaying a calendar for a specific month by arranging days of a week of said specific month in a row on said display screen;

(b) means for detecting an operation for said specific month; and

(c) means for displaying, in addition to said specific month, at least one additional week with one of said at least one additional week closer to a predetermined day of said specific month on said display screen.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein said means for displaying at least one additional week comprises:

means for displaying a total of five weeks with a specific week containing a predetermined day being in a middle position with two weeks prior and two weeks subsequent.

5. A method for displaying a daily calendar on a display screen, comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying a calendar for at least four weeks of a specific month by arranging the days of a week of said specific month in a row on said display screen; and

(b) displaying, in response to an operation for display alteration, at least one more week continued to said at least four weeks on said display screen.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

detecting an operation for releasing an altered display; and

when said operation for releasing an altered display is detected, returning to display a calendar that exits before said operation for display alteration is entered.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein a calendar display area on said screen at said step (a) and a calendar display area at said step (b) are the same size, and wherein the same size display area can be allocated to weeks of a calendar displayed at said step (b).

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein a display area for each daily data on a calendar at said step (b) is changed in consonance with a font size of data that are to be displayed for each day in a calendar displayed at said step (a).

9. The method according to claim 5, wherein a font size for displayed daily data on a calendar at said step (b) is changed in consonance with a display area for each day on a displayed calendar at said step (b).

10. The method according to claim 5, wherein a procedure at said step (b) is repeatedly performed a predetermined number of times.