System and method for displaying scale-down picture

• US 7,032,172 B1
• Filed: 07/21/1999
• Issued: 04/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Ki Young, Lee, Hwa Kyung, Lee, Sang Youl, Choo, Hee Jeong, Cho, Shi Hyong, Wee, Sun Hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Sanjiv
• Application Number:
  US09/357,985
• Time in Patent Office: 2,463 Days
• Field of Search: 707/526, 707/527, 707/513, 345/127, 345/763, 715/526, 715/527, 715/513, 715/501.1, 715/763, 715/517
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A web document display system and method wherein the web document display system includes a web document retriever for retrieving a web document via a network, a main display for displaying the retrieved web document thereon, a scale-down picture generator for generating a scale-down picture obtained by scaling down the web document not more than a predetermined size, and a sub-display for displaying the scale-down picture. Accordingly, the entire configuration of the web document can be seen on a screen.

Claims

1. A web document display system, comprising:

a web document retriever for retrieving a web document via a network;

a main display for displaying the retrieved web document thereon;

a scale-down picture generator for generating a scale-down picture obtained by scaling down the web document not more than a predetermined size;

a sub-display for displaying the scale-down picture at the same time the retrieved document is displayed on the main display; and

a frame structure determiner for grasping the frame structure of the retrieved web document, said frame structure including all frames present in the retrieved web document,

wherein the frame structure of the web document is indicated on the scale-down picture.

2. The web document display system of claim 1, wherein said sub-display comprises a scale-down picture window which is formed on a portion of the main display.

3. The web document display system of claim 2, further comprising a scale-down picture selector for selecting a display or a non-display of the scale-down picture window.

4. The web document display system of claim 1, wherein said sub-display is operative in a non-display mode if a predetermined time elapses after the scale-down picture window is displayed.

5. The web document display system of claim 1, further comprising:

a main device including the web document retriever and the main display attached thereto, and the frame structure determiner for grasping the frame structure of the retrieved web document;

a sub-device including the scale-down picture generator and the sub-display attached thereto, and a user inputter; and

a communicator for allowing the main device and the sub-device to communicate with each other, thereby providing information about the frame structure grasped by the frame structure determiner to the sub-device and transferring the frame select information inputted through the user inputter to the main device,

wherein said sub-display displays the frame structure as provided, to thereby allow the user to select at least one of the frames through the user inputter, and said main display displays the selected at least one frame according to the frame select information.

6. The web document display system of claim 5, wherein said communicator is one of a wire or wireless communicator.

7. The web document display system of claim 5, wherein said sub-display is controlled so as to emphasize and display the frame currently selected by the user inputter.

8. The web document display system of claim 5, wherein when a plurality of frames are selected via the user inputter, the main display sequentially displays the selected frames at a predetermined interval of time.

9. The web document display system of claim 8, wherein an order in which the selected plurality of frames are sequentially displayed corresponds to an order in which a plurality of frame tags corresponding to the selected frames appears in the retrieved web document.

10. The web document display system of claim 5 wherein said communicator comprises a home appliance having a display function.

11. The web document display system of claim 5 wherein said communicator comprises a portable equipment selected from the group comprising a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a mobile phone, a web video phone and PDAs/PCAs (Personal Digital/Communication Assistants).

12. The web document display system of claim 1, wherein said sub-display displays the frame structure, to thereby allow the user to select the frame through a user inputter, and said main display displays the selected frame according to the frame select information.

13. The web document display system of claim 1, wherein the frame determiner grasps the frame structure of the retrieved web document by evaluating a plurality of HTML tags present in the retrieved web document.

14. The web document display system of claim 1, wherein the frame determiner grasps the frame structure of the retrieved web document by determining whether at least one of a <

FRAMESET>

tag and a <

FRAME>

tag is present in the retrieved web document.

15. A web document display method, comprising the steps of:

displaying a web document retrieved via a network;

generating a scale-down picture obtained by scaling down the web document not more than a predetermined size; and

displaying the scale-down picture at the same time the retrieved web document is displayed;

wherein the scale-down picture generating step comprises the steps of storing the web document;

grasping the frame structure of the web document, said frame structure including all frames present in the retrieved web document; and

generating the frame structure into the scale-down picture, in which the retrieved web document is displayed on a predetermined main display.

16. The web document display method of claim 15, wherein the scale-down picture is indicated as a window which occupies a part of the screen on which the web document is displayed.

17. The web document display method of claim 16, further comprising the step of selecting a display or a non-display of the scale-down picture window.

18. The web document display method of claim 16, further comprising the step of performing a non-display of the scale-down picture if a predetermined time elapses after the scale-down picture window is displayed.

19. The web document display method of claim 15, wherein the retrieved web document is displayed on a predetermined main display, and the scale-down picture displaying step comprises the steps of transferring the scale-down picture to a remotely located sub-display;

and displaying the scale-down picture on the sub-display.

20. The web document display method of claim 19, further comprising the steps of selecting at least one frame from the scale-down picture, and displaying the selected frame on the main display.

21. The web document display method of claim 15, wherein the scale-down picture displaying step comprises displaying the frame structure of the scale-down picture on a predetermined sub-display;

selecting at least one frame from the scale picture; and

displaying the selected frame on the main display.