Terminal apparatus and processing program thereof

• US 8,819,580 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2008
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Goto, Yoshihiro, Hamada, Mitsuru
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US12/012,895
• Publication Number:
  US 20080218533A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,393 Days
• Field of Search: 715/764, 715/765, 715/778, 715/783, 715/788, 715/792, 715/794
• US Class Current: 715/788
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

In the terminal apparatus, a CPU 100 reads out a simultaneous/switch display condition that is currently employed from display control table information stored in a simultaneous/switch display condition memory section 102c, and identifies whether a screen display instruction operation instructs a switch display or a simultaneous display in accordance with the simultaneous/switch display condition that has been read out and the circumstance when the screen display instruction operation is performed. When the screen display instruction operation is identified as instructing the simultaneous display, the CPU 100 reads out the display layout condition that is currently employed from display layout table information stored in a display layout condition memory section 102d, and controls a display layout for the simultaneous display in accordance with the display layout condition that has been read out and the circumstance when the screen display instruction operation is performed.

Claims

1. A portable terminal apparatus that displays on a display screen a plurality of screens simultaneously, comprising:

an instruction means for generating, in accordance with an operation for activating a first function, a display instruction of a first screen which is displayed via the first function, the first function including an address book function, an outgoing call history function, an incoming call history function, a digital television function, a digital radio function, an e-mail function, a movie replay function, and a music replay function;

a judgment means for judging, when the instruction means generates the display instruction while a second screen which has been displayed via a second function is displayed on the display screen, one of (i) an operation time required for the operation for activating the first function and (ii) a number of the operation required for the operation for activating the first function;

an identification means for identifying a layout pattern for a simultaneous display from a plurality of preset layout patterns for the simultaneous display based on one of the operation time and the number of the operation judged by the judgment means; and

a display control means for controlling so as to simultaneously display the first screen and the second screen in the layout pattern identified by the identification means.

3. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a simultaneous switch/display judgment means for judging, when the instruction means generates the display instruction while a second screen is displayed on the display screen, a simultaneous display or a switch display based on one of the operation time and the number of the operation judged by the judgment means;

wherein the display control means, when the simultaneous/switch display judgment means judges that the simultaneous display controls so as to simultaneously display the first screen and the second screen in the layout pattern identified by the identification means and, when the simultaneous/switch display judgment means judges the switch display, controls so as to switch to and display the first screen as a substitute for the second screen.

4. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means, based on the operation time of the operation judged by the simultaneous/switch display judgment means, controls so as to simultaneously display the first screen and the second screen in the layout pattern identified by the identification means or controls so as to switch to and display the first screen.

5. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means, based on the number of the operation judged by the judgment means, controls so as to simultaneously display the first screen and the second screen in the layout pattern identified by the identification means or controls so as to switch to and display the first screen.

2. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program of a portable terminal apparatus including display processing that simultaneously displays a plurality of screens stored thereon that is executable by a computer, comprising:

instruction processing for generating, in accordance with an operation for activating a first function, a display instruction of a first screen which is displayed via the first function, the first function including an address book function, an outgoing call history function, an incoming call history function, a digital television function, a digital radio function, an e-mail function, a movie replay function, and a music replay function;

judgment processing for judging, when the instruction processing generates the display instruction while a second screen which has been displayed via a second function is displayed on the display screen, one of (i) an operation time required for the operation for activating the first function and (ii) a number of the operation required for the operation for activating the first function;

identification processing for identifying a layout pattern for a simultaneous display from a plurality of preset layout patterns for the simultaneous display based on one of the operation time and the number of the operation judged by the judgment processing; and

display control processing for controlling so as to simultaneously display the first screen and the second screen in the layout pattern identified by the identification processing.