Information processing device

• US 8,683,338 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2008
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Masashi, Ohara, Kiyotaka, Sato, Shougo, Kato, Ryota, Yoshida, Yukimasa, Hisada, Hidenori
• Primary Examiner(s): GOLDBERG, ANDREW C
• Application Number:
  US12/076,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244411A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,197 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205
• US Class Current: 715/730
• 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

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device, comprising: a display unit configured to display at least one of a plurality of data files; an information providing unit configured to transmit, to a host computer, first information enabling a client device accessing the host computer to display information contained in the first information; a display switch unit configured to switch onscreen representation on the display unit between images corresponding to the plurality of data files; and a data changing unit configured to transmit, to the host computer, second information concerning an image corresponding to one of the plurality of data files currently displayed on the display unit in response to a fact that the onscreen representation on the display unit is switched.

Claims

1. A presenter device, comprising:

a display unit on the presenter device configured to display at least one of a plurality of data files;

a first information providing unit on the presenter device configured to transmit to a host computer which is separate and distinct from the presenter device, a first information file coded in a markup language, the first information file including a command instructing a client device, separate and distinct from the presenter device, to access the host computer to reread the first information file after a preset time interval, and a predetermined filename coded within the first information file, the predetermined filename representing an image file to be displayed, the first information file configured to be read by the client device containing code causing the client device to download and display an image file having the predetermined filename;

a display switch unit on the presenter device configured to switch onscreen representation on the display unit between the plurality of data files;

a file generation unit on the presenter device configured to generate a display image file corresponding to one of the plurality of data files being currently displayed on the display unit when the onscreen representation on the display unit has been switched; and

a second information providing unit on the presenter device configured to transmit the display image file generated by the file generation unit to the host computer when the onscreen representation on the display unit has been switched;

wherein the second information providing unit transmits the display image file to the host computer as a newly displayed image file, and assigns the same predetermined filename to the newly displayed image file, replacing any previous file having the predetermined filename, the code in the first information file causing the client device to display the newly displayed image file having the same predetermined file name when the first information file is reread from the host computer after the preset time interval.

2. The presenter device according to claim 1, further comprising a data conversion unit on the presenter device configured to convert each of the plurality of data files into image data.

3. A method to be implemented on a presenter device, comprising the steps of:

controlling a display unit on the presenter device to display at least one of a plurality of data files;

transmitting by the presenter device, to a host computer which is separate and distinct from the presenter device, a first information file coded in a markup language, the first information file including a command instructing a client device, separate and distinct from the presenter device, to access the host computer to reread the first information file after a preset time interval and a predetermined filename coded within the first information file, the predetermined filename representing an image file to be displayed, the first information file configured to be read by the client device containing code causing the client device to download and display an image file having the predetermined filename;

switching by the presenter device onscreen representation on the display unit between the plurality of data files;

generating by the presenter device a display image file corresponding to one of the plurality of data files being currently displayed on the display unit when the onscreen representation on the display unit has been switched; and

transmitting by the presenter device the display image file to the host computer when the onscreen representation on the display unit has been switched;

wherein the display image file is transmitted to the host computer as a newly displayed image file having the predetermined filename assigned as the filename of the newly displayed image file, replacing any previous file having the predetermined filename, the code in the first information file causing the client device to display the newly displayed image file having the same predetermined file name when the first information file is reread from the host computer after the preset time interval.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein each of the first information file and the newly displayed data file is formed of a mark-up language.

5. A computer readable medium having computer readable instruction stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor of a presenter device, configures the processor to perform the steps of:

controlling a display unit on the presenter device to display at least one of a plurality of data files;

transmitting, to a host computer, which is separate and distinct from the presenter device, a first information file coded in a markup language, the first information file including a command instructing a client device, separate and distinct from the presenter device, to access the host computer to reread the first information file after a preset time interval and a predetermined filename coded within the first information file, the predetermined filename representing an image file to be displayed, the first information file configured to be read by the client device containing code causing the client device to download and display an image file having the predetermined filename;

switching onscreen representation on the display unit between the plurality of data files;

generating a display image file corresponding to one of the plurality of data files being currently displayed on the display unit when the onscreen representation on the display unit has been switched; and

transmitting the display image file to the host computer when the onscreen representation on the display unit has been switched;

wherein the display image file is transmitted to the host computer as a newly displayed image file having the predetermined filename assigned as the filename of the newly displayed image file, replacing any previous file having the predetermined filename, the code in the first information file causing the client device to display the newly displayed image file having the same predetermined file name when the first information file is reread from the host computer after the preset time interval.