Display control apparatus and display control method

• US 9,105,222 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Okamura, Shuichi, Yano, Yukari
• Primary Examiner(s): SALOMON, PHENUEL S
• Application Number:
  US12/475,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20090300538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,265 Days
• Field of Search: 715/759, 715/777, 715/779, 345/3.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0414 Vertical resolution change
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0421 Horizontal resolution change
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/02 Graphics controller able to handle multiple formats, e.g. input or output formats
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

A display control apparatus determines if an application manager has attribute information compatible with attribute information of a selected application program, and controls the application manager which is determined to have the attribute information compatible with the attribute information of the application program to execute display processing of the application program.

Claims

1. An application management apparatus for managing an application, comprising:

a CPU and memory, functioning as;

a plurality of application managers, which includes a first and a second application manager, said second application manager having second attribute information indicating an application display configuration which said second application manager manages, wherein the application display configuration is different from a first application display configuration which said first application manager manages;

a selection unit, which selects said second application manager from among said plurality of application managers, if the second attribute information matches attribute information indicating an application display configuration of a specified application program being managed by said first application manager; and

a transfer unit, which transfers management of the application display configuration of said specified application program from said first application manager to said second application manager, if said second application manager is selected by said selection unit,

wherein said selection unit executes a compatibility determination between the attribute information of the specified application program and attribute information of one of said plurality of application managers by determining if at least one attribute set in the attribute information of the specified application program is equal to an attribute set in the attribute information of said one of said plurality of application managers.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said second application manager executes display processing of the specified application program so as to display a screen of the specified application program at the attribute of a display resolution according to said second application manager.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said selection unit executes the compatibility determination of the attributes respectively set in the attribute information of the specified application program and the attribute information of said one of said plurality of application managers in turn from attributes with higher priorities based on priority information of the attributes set in the attribute information.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the attribute information of the specified application program and the second attribute information includes at least one of an attribute of a display resolution, an attribute of a version, an attribute of a UI component to be used, an attribute of a number of colors, an attribute of programming language, and an attribute of transparent processing.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the attribute of a UI component includes UI component information which indicates the design type of the UI component.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first application manager specifies the application program, from a plurality of application programs, which is to undergo display processing.

7. An application management method for managing an application, comprising steps of:

selecting, from among a plurality of application managers which includes a first and a second application manager, the second application manager, where the second application manager has second attribute information indicating an application display configuration which the second application manager manages, wherein the application display configuration is different from a first application display configuration which said first application manager manages, if the second attribute information matches attribute information indicating an application display configuration of a specified application program being managed by said first application manager;

transferring management of the application display configuration of the specified application program from the first application manager to the second application manager, if the second application manager is selected in the selecting step; and

executing a compatibility determination between the attribute information of the specified application program and attribute information of one of said plurality of application managers by determining if at least one attribute set in the attribute information of the specified application program is equal to an attribute set in the attribute information of said one of said plurality of application managers.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising a step of executing, by the second application manager, display processing of the specified application program so as to display a screen of the specified application program at the attribute of a display resolution according to the second application manager.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the selecting step is executed by the first application manager so as to determine if the second application manager has compatible attribute information, and the transferring step is executed by the first application manager so as to control the second application manager to execute display processing of the specified application.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that when executed causes a computer to perform a method of managing an application, the method comprising steps of:

selecting, from among a plurality of application managers which includes a first and a second application manager, the second application manager, where the second application manager has second attribute information indicating an application display configuration which the second application manager manages, wherein the application display configuration is different from a first application display configuration which said first application manager manages, if the second attribute information matches attribute information indicating an application display configuration of a specified application program being managed by said first application manager;

transferring management of the application display configuration of the specified application program from the first application manager to the second application manager, if the second application manager is selected in the selecting step; and

executing a compatibility determination between the attribute information of the specified application program and attribute information of one of said plurality of application managers by determining if at least one attribute set in the attribute information of the specified application program is equal to an attribute set in the attribute information of said one of said plurality of application managers.

11. The medium according to claim 10, wherein the method further comprises a step of executing, by the second application manager, display processing of the specified application program so as to display a screen of the specified application program at the attribute of a display resolution according to the second application manager.

12. The medium according to claim 10, wherein the selecting step is executed by the first application manager so as to determine if the second application manager has compatible attribute information, and the transferring step is executed by the first application manager so as to control the second application manager to execute display processing of the specified application.