Display apparatus

• US 8,302,016 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2006
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Goto, Ryo
• Primary Examiner(s): PHANTANA ANGKOOL, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US11/342,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20070300162A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,468 Days
• Field of Search: 715/748, 715/742
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A portable terminal includes a page storage section, in which a Web page is temporarily stored while the Web page is being browsed. Thus, when the same Web page is browsed the next time, a control section compares the Web page with the previously stored page contents and moves the display range of the page, so that the updated portion is displayed at a predetermined position on a display section.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

an acquisition section which acquires Web page information including a plurality of elements;

a memory which stores at least a part of the Web page information acquired by the acquisition section;

a display which displays the Web page information, wherein the Web page information is displayed on the display by scrolling a screen;

a control section which compares new Web page information acquired by the acquisition section with previous Web page information stored in the memory,

wherein the control section controls to display an updated element in the new Web page information,

wherein the control section controls to display the updated element without a user scroll operation even if it is necessary to scroll,

wherein the control section controls to display the updated element in the display at an initial display, even if the updated element would not have been displayed in the display at the initial display, and

wherein the control section controls to display the updated element at the predetermined position, in accordance with priorities designated based on a type of change.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when there is a plurality of the updated elements, the control section treats the plurality of the updated elements as a single change of element.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section treats a change of numbers as no change.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the number of the updated elements is greater than a predetermined count, the control section controls not to display the updated elements at predetermined position.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a designation section which designates a position for displaying the updated element.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section calculates a scroll distance to display the updated element at the predetermined position, and controls to display the updated element at a position separated from an initial position by the calculated scroll distance.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when predetermined Web page information is acquired, the control section compares the predetermined Web page information with Web page information previously acquired from an address identical with that of the predetermined Web page information and stored in the memory.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a switching section which switches a display of predetermined Web page information to display an element of the highest priority and an element of a low priority at the predetermined position.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section controls to preferentially display an element in predetermined Web page information that is determined to be changed first at a predetermined position.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section does not treat a changed element as to be detected when a link to another Web page is set in the updated element in a displayed Web page.

11. A display apparatus, comprising:

an acquisition section which acquires Web page information including a plurality of elements; and

a display which displays the Web page information acquired by the acquisition section, wherein the Web page information is displayed on the display by scrolling a screen,

wherein the display displays a high priority element of Web page information,

wherein the display displays the high priority element without a user scroll operation even if it is necessary to scroll,

wherein the display displays the high priority element at an initial display, even if the high priority element would not have been displayed in the display at the initial display and

wherein when a browser is started, the display displays an element of the highest priority at the predetermined position.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a calculation section which calculates a scroll distance to display the searched element at a predetermined position,

wherein the display displays the searched element at a position separated from an initial position by the calculated scroll distance.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a switching section which switches a display of predetermined Web page information to display an element of the highest priority and an element of a low priority at the predetermined position.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the display preferentially displays an element in predetermined Web page information that is determined to be changed first as an element of the highest priority.

15. A display apparatus, comprising:

an acquisition section which acquires Web page information including a plurality of elements;

a memory which stores priority information including a plurality of pairs of address designation information for designating address information and designation information for designating one element correlated with the address designation information;

an extraction section which extracts, from the priority information, designation information correlated with address designation information designating address information of the Web page information acquired by the acquisition section;

a search section which searches through the Web page information acquired by the acquisition section to find an element designated by the designation information extracted by the extraction section; and

a display which displays the element searched by the searching section,

wherein the Web page information is displayed on the display by scrolling a screen,

wherein the display displays the searched element without a user scroll operation even if it is necessary to scroll,

wherein the display displays the searched element at an initial display, even if the searched element would not have been displayed in the display at the initial display, and

wherein when a browser is started, the display displays an element of the highest priority at the predetermined position.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

the priority information includes priority level information indicating a display priority correlated with the address designation information and/or the designation information,

the extraction section extracts, from the priority information, a plurality of designation information correlated with the address designation information for designating address information of the Web page information acquired by the acquisition section,

the search section searches through the Web page information acquired by the acquisition section to find a plurality of elements correlated with each of the plurality of the designation information extracted by extraction section, and

the display displays an element of the highest priority among the elements searched by the search section at the predetermined position.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

the priority information includes position information indicating a predetermined position that corresponds to the address designation information and/or the designation information, and

the display displays the element extracted by the extraction section at a predetermined position represented by the position information.

18. The display apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising:

a section which sets the priority information.

19. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

the address designation information includes a predetermined character string,

when a character string constituting address information for the acquired Web page information includes a character string preparing address designation information in the priority information, the extraction section extracts designation information correlated with the address designation information in the priority information,

the searching section searches the acquired Web page information to find an element designated by the extracted designation information, and

the display displays the searched element at a predetermined position.

20. The display apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising:

a calculation section which calculates a scroll distance to display the searched element at a predetermined position,

wherein the display displays the searched element at a position separated from an initial position by the calculated scroll distance.

21. The display apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising:

a switching section which switches a display of predetermined Web page information to display an element of the highest priority and an element of a low priority at the predetermined position.

22. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the display preferentially displays an element in predetermined Web page information that is determined to be changed first as an element of the highest priority.