Display apparatus for accessing desired web site

• US 7,409,441 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2002
• Issued: 08/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shimakawa, Keiso, Shimada, Muneki, Okada, Toyoshi, Fujii, Takahiro, Kimoto, Yousuke, Komaki, Kenjiro, Hiramatsu, Shuji, Ohba, Akio, Suzuoki, Masakazu, Kake, Tomokazu, Enomoto, Shigeru, Horie, Hiromasa, Kimura, Yuta, Onai, Hidehisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng; David Y
• Application Number:
  US10/398,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20040054667A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,272 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/217
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

A display apparatus including a communication line connected to a network, an information acquisition device for acquiring in real time at least information relating to a predetermined site on the network via the communication line, the communication line being held by a communication line holding device. The display apparatus includes a display control device for displaying in real time information relating to a plurality of sites acquired by the information acquisition device, and forming symbols corresponding to the plurality of sites, displaying the symbols three-dimensionally in a contrastable state from each other. The information acquired by the information acquisition device is displayed will a symbol, which corresponds to the site, and the information acquisition device acquires at least one of or a plurality of pieces of information indicating congestion status, update status, response, type, popularity, cost, and links of each site, and congestion status of the network.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a communication line connected to a network;

an information acquisition arrangement for acquiring in real time at least information relating to a predetermined site on the network via the communication line, said communication line being held by a communication line holding arrangement;

a display control arrangement for displaying in real time information relating to a plurality of sites acquired by the information acquisition arrangement, forming symbols corresponding to the plurality of sites, displaying the symbols three-dimensionally in a contrastable state from each other and displaying the information acquired by the information acquisition arrangement with a symbol which corresponds to the site;

an operation arrangement in communication with the display control arrangement and for directing an operator by a user, the operator being displayed along with the information or the symbol by the display control arrangement, and

a control arrangement for performing any one of or a plurality of controls, the controls including;

a control for changing force necessary for operating the operation arrangement;

a control for driving a vibration arrangement provided to the operation arrangement; and

a control for producing a predetermined sound, when the operator approaches the predetermined information or the symbol, wherein

the information acquisition arrangement acquires at least one of or a plurality of pieces of information indicating update status, response, type, popularity, cost, and links of each site.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information acquisition arrangement further acquires at least one of information indicating congestion status of each site and information indicating congestion status of the network.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display control arrangement forms a symbol indicating congestion status of the network and displays the congestion status symbol in an overlapping fashion with the symbols of the plurality of sites.

4. A displaying method comprising:

a step of connecting a communication line to a network;

a step of holding the communication line connected;

a step of acquiring in real time at least information relating to a predetermined site on the network via the communication line being held connected;

a step of displaying in real time the acquired information relating to each site by associating the information with a symbol which corresponds to the site,

a step of communicating with a display control arrangement by an operation arrangement;

a step of directing an operator by a user, the operator being displayed along with the information or the symbol by the display control arrangement, and

a step for performing any one of a plurality of controls, the controls including;

a control for changing force necessary for operating the operation arrangement;

a control for driving a vibration arrangement provided to the operation arrangement; and

a control for producing a predetermined sound, when the operator approaches the predetermined information or the symbol, wherein

the information relating to the predetermined site on the network includes at least one of or a plurality of pieces of information indicating update status, response, type, popularity, cost, and links of each site.

5. The displaying method according to claim 4, wherein the information relating to the predetermined site on the network includes at least one of information indicating congestion status of each site and information indicating congestion status of the network.