Display control apparatus, system and recording medium having display control program

• US 9,477,384 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2014
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Mayumi, Hidehiko, Tanaka, Toshio, Kobayashi, Takeaki, Kawasaki, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Crawford, Jacinta M
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, PHUC N
• Application Number:
  US14/257,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20140340408A1
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/125 the stations being mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/07 providing for individual presentation of questions to a plurality of student stations

Abstract

A display control apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive designation of at least one data among a plurality of data when each of the plurality of data is disposed and displayed in each of a plurality of different first areas of a display area by a display apparatus; and a changing unit configured to change a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the designation received by the reception unit when the designation is received by the reception unit.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a memory;

one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to;

receive designation of at least one data among a plurality of data when each of the plurality of data is disposed and displayed in each of a plurality of different first areas of a display area by a display apparatus,

change a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the received designation,

change the degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area such that the degree of emphasis in each symbol included only partially within a second area, the second area being larger than the first area in which the data associated with the designation is displayed and including the first area in which the data associated with the designation is displayed, is made lower than the degree of emphasis in each symbol included entirely within the second area, and

change the degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area such that the degree of emphasis in each symbol in which at least one of the start point, the end point and progressed points which are points between the start point and the end point are not included within the second area is made lower than the degree of emphasis in each symbol in which all of the coordinate of the start point, the coordinate of the end point and the progressed points of the symbol are included within the second area.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a range of the second area is a range according to a position of the first area within the display area.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive designation of two or more data among the plurality of data, and

change the degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area such that the degree of emphasis in each symbol in which a portion of the symbol is not included within an area in which each of two or more second areas that are determined based on two or more first areas in which two or more data associated with the designation are displayed are integrated is made lower than the degree of emphasis in each symbol included in the area, in which each of two or more second areas are integrated in its entirety.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to change the degree of emphasis in each symbol such that a line of each symbol included in the second area in its entirety is displayed in a solid line and a line of each symbol in which at least a portion of the symbol is not included within the second area is displayed in a broken line.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to change the degree of emphasis of each symbol such that a thickness of each symbol in which at least a portion of the symbol is not included in the second area becomes narrower than a thickness of each symbol included within the second area in its entirety.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to change the degree of emphasis in each symbol such that a line density of each symbol in which at least a portion of the symbol is not included in the second area becomes thinner than a line density of each symbol included within the second area in its entirety.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the symbol is any one of a character, a sign and a figure.

8. A system comprising:

a display apparatus; and

a terminal,

wherein the display apparatus includes a display unit which performs displaying according to an instruction issued from the terminal,

the terminal includes;

a memory;

one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to;

receive designation of any data among a plurality of data when transmitting a first instruction to dispose and display each of the plurality of data in a each of a plurality of different first areas of a display area to the display apparatus and cause each of the plurality of data to be disposed and displayed in the plurality of different first areas of the display area; and

transmit a second instruction to change a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the received designation,

wherein the display apparatus changes the degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area such that the degree of emphasis in each symbol included only partially within a second area, the second area being larger than the first area in which the data associated with the designation is displayed and including the first area in which the data associated with the designation is displayed, is made lower than the degree of emphasis in each symbol included entirely within the second area, and

wherein the display apparatus changes the degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area such that the degree of emphasis in each symbol in which at least one of the start point, the end point and progressed points which are points between the start point and the end point are not included within the second area is made lower than the degree of emphasis in each symbol in which all of the coordinate of the start point, the coordinate of the end point and the progressed points of the symbol are included within the second area.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer executable display control program that, when executed, causes a computer, to perform a process comprising:

receiving designation of least one data among a plurality of data when each of a plurality of data is disposed and displayed in the plurality of different first areas of a display area by a display apparatus;

changing a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the designation when the designation is received;

changing the degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area such that the degree of emphasis in each symbol included only partially within a second area, the second area being larger than the first area in which the data associated with the designation is displayed and including the first area in which the data associated with the designation is displayed, is made lower than the degree of emphasis in each symbol included entirely within the second area; and

changing the degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area such that the degree of emphasis in each symbol in which at least one of the start point, the end point and progressed points which are points between the start point and the end point are not included within the second area is made lower than the degree of emphasis in each symbol in which all of the coordinate of the start point, the coordinate of the end point and the progressed points of the symbol are included within the second area.