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Display device with scaling of selected object images

  • US 9,154,578 B2
  • Filed: 09/07/2009
  • Issued: 10/06/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information-processing device comprising:

  • a computer processor for causing a display unit to display in a display area at least a part of an object image group including plural object images in a size corresponding to a first scale, wherein;

    at least one of the plural object images overlaps at least another of the plural object images displayed in the display area;

    each of the plural object images is a window assigned to a widget,a first operation mode is carried out when the window assigned to the widget is selected, and a second operation mode is carried out when the window assigned to the widget is not selected; and

    the computer processor;

    (a) carries out a first processing for causing the display unit to display in the display area a first arrangement of the object image group in which relative positional relation in a planar direction of the plural object images in relation to a first selected window has not been changed, in a size corresponding to a second scale that is smaller than the first scale, a size of all of the plural object images in the object image group being reduced when displayed in the second scale size within the display area;

    (b) thereafter carries out a second processing for causing the display unit to display in the display area, in the second scale size, a second arrangement of the object image group in which the relative positional relation in the planar direction of the plural object images in relation to the first selected window has been changed; and

    (c) thereafter carries out a third processing for causing the display unit to randomly display in the display area a third arrangement, in the first scale size, of a portion of the object image group of the second arrangement; and

    the computer processor, in response to a single selection of a key by a user received by the information-processing device, carries out the first processing, the second processing, and the third processing; and

    the computer processor, in response to an operation instruction by a user received by the information-processing device to select a second selected window of an object image included in the third arrangement of the portion of the object image group in the display area in the first scale size, executes a processing corresponding to the second selected window.

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