Display, electronic device, data transmitting method, information terminal, host apparatus, program, recording medium

• US 8,031,196 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2003
• Issued: 10/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Miyata, Kazuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Amini; Javid
• Application Number:
  US10/504,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20050162422A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,171 Days
• Field of Search: 345/467, 345/725, 345/205, 715/725, 382/165, 382/159, 382/170, 382/181, 348/14.03
• US Class Current: 345/467
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/22 characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/42 characterised by the display of patterns using a display memory without fixed position correspondence between the display memory contents and the display position on the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42227 the keys being reprogrammable, e.g. soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0046 : Software interface details, e.g. interaction of operating systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0075 : by a user operated remote control device, e.g. receiving instructions from a user via a computer terminal or mobile telephone handset
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0093 : Facsimile machine H04N2201/0094 takes precedence

Abstract

A display device comprises a display section, a pattern specifying code input section which receives a pattern specifying code externally, a pattern storage section which stores therein an image of a predetermined pattern, and a pattern display processing section which reads out the image of a pattern specified by the pattern specifying code from the pattern storage section and displays the image on the display section. With this arrangement, the load on a host to display an image can be reduced.

Claims

1. A display device including a display section, and obtaining, from a device as a host, a pattern specifying code that specifies an image of a pattern and a display position of the image, so as to cause the display section to display the image in accordance with the pattern specifying code, said display device comprising:

a pattern storage section which stores therein an image of a pattern with which a status of the device as the host is notified to a user, and an image of a pattern through which the user performs entry or operation;

a pattern specifying code input section which externally receives the pattern specifying code in a form of electrical signal from the device;

a pattern display processing section which retrieves the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code from the pattern storage section and then causes the display section to display the image thereon;

an automatic placement adjustment section which holds the display position specified by the pattern specifying code, and changes a display position of an image of a second pattern from the held display position in accordance with a movement of an image of a first pattern, so as to perform placement adjustment with respect to the image of the pattern; and

an emulation section configured to emulate a file system of the device as the host so as to deceive the device as the host into believing that a storage device is the device as the host'"'"'s storage device, the storage device storing therein a substitution code which is a program read out as a code of a subroutine called in a drawing program of the device as the host for drawing the image of the pattern and returns to the drawing program of the device as the host in a normal end state after execution of the subroutine.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the pattern storage section stores therein a character font.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein:

the pattern display processing section causes the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code to be displayed at a position specified by the pattern specifying code.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the pattern specifying code specifies not only the display position but also a display size of the image of the pattern; and

the automatic placement adjustment section which holds the display position and the display size that are specified by the pattern specifying code, and changes a display position and a display size of an image of a second pattern from the held display position and the held display size in accordance with a movement of an image of a first patter, so as to perform placement adjustment with respect to the image of the pattern.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

a target position to be displayed is set for an image of a pattern that is stored in the pattern storage section and is an object of automatic placement adjustment; and

the automatic placement adjustment section performs placement adjustment so that the image of the pattern that is the object of automatic placement adjustment is displayed at the target position, and performs placement adjustment so that an image that is not the object of automatic placement adjustment is displayed in a space where no image that is the object of automatic placement adjustment is placed.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein:

a physically displayable area in the display section is greater than a display area that the pattern specifying code is designed for, and

the automatic placement adjustment section adjusts a display position for the image of the pattern, which is an object of automatic adjustment, within a whole of the physically displayable area in the display section.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

a relationship of location is specified among a plurality of images; and

the automatic placement adjustment section performs placement adjustment so that the plurality of images between which the relationship of location is specified are displayed in the specified relationship of location.

8. The display device according to claim 1, comprising:

a video signal input section which externally receives a video signal,

wherein;

by independently driving the display section with the video signal received externally and an image signal of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code, an image displayed in accordance with the video signal received externally by the video signal input section and the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code are superimposed.

9. The display device according to claim 8, wherein:

the display area in the display section is divided into a plurality of sections, and of the plurality of divided sections, at least one section required to display the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code is driven, so as to perform the superimposition.

10. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

at least one of the pattern storage section, the pattern display processing section, and the automatic placement adjustment section may be provided on a conductor or semiconductor thin film which is a component of the display section.

11. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 10.

12. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 1.

13. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a video signal input section which externally receives a video signal,

wherein;

by independently driving the display section with the video signal received externally and an image signal of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code, an image displayed in accordance with the video signal received externally by the video signal input section and the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code are superimposed.

14. The display device according to claim 13, wherein:

the display area in the display section is divided into a plurality of sections, and of the plurality of divided sections, at least one section required to display the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code is driven, so as to perform the superimposition.

15. The display device according to claim 14, wherein:

at least one of the pattern storage section, the pattern display processing section, and the automatic placement adjustment section may be provided on a conductor or semiconductor thin film which is a component of the display section.

16. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 14.

17. The display device according to claim 13, wherein:

at least one of the pattern storage section, the pattern display processing section, and the automatic placement adjustment section may be provided on a conductor or semiconductor thin film which is a component of the display section.

18. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 17.

19. An electronic device including the display device according to claim 13.

20. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the pattern specifying code input section receives respective pattern specifying codes from a plurality of types of devices; and

the automatic placement adjustment section performs automatic placement adjustment with respect to images of an identical kind, regardless of the types of the devices so that the images are displayed in the display section at an identical position.

21. A data transmitting method comprising:

in an information terminal including a display section, and obtaining, from a host apparatus, a pattern specifying code that specifies an image of a pattern and a display position of the image, so as to cause the display section to display the image in accordance with the pattern specifying code,

the information terminal further including;

a pattern storage section which stores therein an image of a pattern with which a status of the host apparatus is notified to a user, and an image of a pattern through which the user performs entry or operation;

a pattern specifying code input section which externally receives the pattern specifying code in a form of electric signal from the host apparatus;

a pattern display processing section which retrieves the image of the pattern specified by the pattern specifying code from the pattern storage section and then causes the display section to display the image thereon;

pattern adjustment means which holds the display position specified by the pattern specifying code, and changes a display position of an image of a second pattern from the held display position in accordance with a movement of an image of a first pattern, so as to perform placement adjustment with respect to the image of the pattern; and

a storage device,

an emulation process of emulating a file system of a host apparatus so as to deceive the host apparatus into believing that the storage device is the host apparatus'"'"'s storage device, the storage device storing therein a substitution code which is a program read out as a code of a subroutine called in a drawing program of the host apparatus for drawing the image of the pattern and returns to the drawing program of the host apparatus in a normal end state after execution of the subroutine;

in the host apparatus,

a program execution process of executing the drawing program;

a substitution code acquisition process of, during execution of the drawing program, reading out a code of a subroutine from the storage device in a subroutine code read request process; and

in the information terminal,

a subroutine identification process of identifying a subroutine called by the drawing program of the host apparatus in accordance with a subroutine code read instruction from the host apparatus.

22. The data transmitting method according to claim 21, wherein:

the substitution code is a program for causing the host apparatus to execute a process of writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal,

the data transmitting method further comprising;

a data input process of, at the time of executing subroutine, the host apparatus writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal in accordance with the substitution code.

23. The data transmitting method according to claim 22, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

24. A computer-readable recording medium storing a data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 22,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

25. The data transmitting method according to claim 21, wherein:

the substitution code is a program for causing the host apparatus to execute a process of reading out data stored in the storage device of the information terminal,

the data transmitting method further comprising;

a data output process of, at the time of executing a subroutine, the host apparatus reading out data stored in the storage device of the information terminal in accordance with the substitution code.

26. The data transmitting method according to claim 25, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

27. A computer-readable recording medium storing a data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 25,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

28. The data transmitting method according to claim 21, further comprising:

a substitution code generation process of the information terminal generating a substitution code containing data stored in the storage device and the program for causing the host apparatus to read out the data; and

a second data output process of, at the time of executing a subroutine, the host apparatus reading out data contained in link data in accordance with the substitution code.

29. The data transmitting method according to claim 28, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

30. A computer-readable recording medium storing a data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 28,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

31. The data transmitting method according to claim 21, wherein:

the substitution code stored in the storage device is a shared code which is read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the drawing program of the host apparatus.

32. A computer-readable recording medium storing a data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 31,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

33. A computer-readable recording medium storing a data transmission program for executing the data transmitting method according to claim 21,

the data transmission program being a program for causing computers included in the information terminal and the host apparatus to execute the foregoing processes.

34. An information terminal comprising:

a storage device which stores therein a substitution code which is read out as a code of a subroutine called in a program that is executed by the host apparatus and returns to the program executed by the host apparatus in a normal end state after execution of the subroutine;

emulation means which emulates a file system of the host apparatus and deceives the host apparatus into believing that the storage device is the host apparatus'"'"'s storage device; and

subroutine identification means which identifies a subroutine called by the program of the host apparatus in accordance with a subroutine code read instruction from the host apparatus, wherein

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program presenting graphic user interface for use in transmitting a state of the host apparatus or in controlling the host apparatus and is a program providing an instruction for drawing of a component making up a screen by calling a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising

display means which presents graphic user interface;

pattern storage means which stores therein image data of components making up the graphic user interface;

pattern display processing means which extracts from the pattern storage means image data of a component corresponding to the subroutine identified by the subroutine identification means and generates a display signal for drawing in the display means; and

pattern adjustment means which holds the display position specified by the pattern specifying code, and changes a display position of an image of a second pattern from the held display position in accordance with a movement of an image of a first pattern, so as to perform placement adjustment with respect to the image of the pattern.

35. The information terminal according to claim 34, wherein:

the subroutine identification means performs the identification in accordance with location information specifying a location of the subroutine in the storage device or a character string specifying the subroutine, transmitted as the subroutine code read instruction from the host apparatus.

36. The information terminal according to claim 35, wherein:

the substitution code is a program causing the host apparatus to execute a process of writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal when the host apparatus executes a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

data input means which reads out data having been written by the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal, in accordance with the substitution code.

37. The information terminal according to claim 35, wherein:

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program presenting graphic user interface for use in transmitting a state of the host apparatus or in controlling the host apparatus and is a program providing an instruction for drawing of a component making up a screen by calling a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

display means which presents graphic user interface;

pattern storage means which stores therein image data of components making up the graphic user interface; and

pattern display processing means which extracts from the pattern storage means image data of a component corresponding to the subroutine identified by the subroutine identification means and generates a display signal for drawing in the display means.

38. The information terminal according to claim 34, wherein:

the substitution code is a program causing the host apparatus to execute a process of writing data of the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal when the host apparatus executes a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

data input means which reads out data having been written by the host apparatus into the storage device of the information terminal, in accordance with the substitution code.

39. The information terminal according to claim 38, wherein:

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program presenting graphic user interface for use in transmitting a state of the host apparatus or in controlling the host apparatus and is a program providing an instruction for drawing of a component making up a screen by calling a subroutine,

the information terminal further comprising;

display means which presents graphic user interface;

pattern storage means which stores therein image data of components making up the graphic user interface; and

pattern display processing means which extracts from the pattern storage means image data of a component corresponding to the subroutine identified by the subroutine identification means and generates a display signal for drawing in the display means.

40. The information terminal according to claim 34, further comprising:

position sensing means which senses a position where a user points in the graphic user interface; and

positional information recording means which writes positional information sensed by the position sensing means,

wherein;

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program providing an instruction for acquisition of the point where the user points by calling a subroutine, and

the substitution code is a program which causes the host apparatus to execute a process of, when the host apparatus executes a subroutine, reading out the positional information stored by the positional information recording means in the storage device of the information terminal.

41. The information terminal according to claim 34, further comprising:

position sensing means which senses a position where a user points in the graphic user interface; and

positional information recording means which writes positional information sensed by the position sensing means,

wherein;

the program executed by the host apparatus is a program providing an instruction for acquisition of the point where the user points by calling a subroutine, and the substitution code is a program which causes the host apparatus to execute a process of, when the host apparatus executes a subroutine, reading out the positional information stored by the positional information recording means in the storage device of the information terminal.

42. The information terminal according to claim 34, further comprising:

position sensing means which senses a position where a user points in the graphic user interface;

reverse converting means which performs a change that is a reverse of a change made by the pattern adjustment means, with respect to positional information sensed by the position sensing means; and

positional information recording means which writes the position information converted by the reverse converting means into the storage device,

wherein;

the program executed by the host apparatus provides an instruction for acquisition of the point where the user points by calling a subroutine, and

the substitution code is a program which causes the host apparatus to execute a process of, when the host apparatus executes a subroutine, reading out the positional information stored by the positional information recording means in the storage device of the information terminal.

43. The information terminal according to claim 34,

wherein:

the emulation means is provided so that processing can be changed depending on types of an operating system of the host apparatus and/or types of a standard of an interface connecting between the host apparatus and the information terminal.

44. The information terminal according to claim 34,

wherein:

the storage device stores therein the substitution code so as to be shared and read out as a code of some subroutines or all subroutines called in the program of the host apparatus.

45. A host apparatus which performs data transmission with the information terminal according to claim 34,

the host apparatus comprising:

program execution means which executes a program; and

substitution code acquisition means which, during execution of the program, reads out a code of a subroutine from the storage device of the information terminal in a subroutine code read request process.

46. The host apparatus according to claim 45, further comprising:

link setting means which sets a storage location for the code of the subroutine in the storage device of the information terminal.

47. The host apparatus according to claim 45, further comprising:

link setting means which sets the storage location for the code of the subroutine so as to be selectable between an internal file system of the host apparatus and an external file system.

48. The host apparatus according to claim 47, wherein:

the link setting means can select the storage location for the code of the subroutine between the internal file system of the host apparatus and the storage device of the information terminal.