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Desktop information processing apparatus and display method for the same

  • US 9,836,194 B2
  • Filed: 03/19/2014
  • Issued: 12/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A desktop information processing apparatus allowed to be simultaneously used by a plurality of users, comprising:

  • a processor; and

    a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

    respectively detecting touch operations of a plurality of users from a plurality of operation display sections, which are allocated to each user of the plurality of users and include a display surface on a top plate of the desktop information processing apparatus;

    displaying same file data in a pre-defined first display area on all the operation display sections and displaying, when a user carries out a touching and moving operation on the file data on one of the plurality of operation display sections, a track of a movement on a touched operation display section but not on other operation display sections, displaying focus data corresponding to a current page of a document in the first display area, displaying other data corresponding to pages of the document in the first display area so as to be laminated and displaying a mark at a top page of the document in the displayed laminated other data, wherein the mark is displayed at the top page of the document in relationship to a page turning operation in which a position of the top page of the document in an order of the displayed laminated other data is changed;

    simultaneously displaying the first area, a second area, and a third area respectively in each display of the plurality of operation display sections, wherein a first document file associated with a first user is a currently presented document file that is displayed in the first area, a thumbnail corresponding to an own document file associated with a given user of each operation display section is displayed in the second area of each display of the plurality of operation display sections including a thumbnail of a second document file associated with a second user displayed in the second area on an operation display section corresponding to the second user, and a plurality of thumbnails corresponding to document files associated with each user of the plurality of users is displayed in the third area of each display of the plurality of operation display sections including a thumbnail of a third document file associated with a third user displayed in the third area on all the operation display sections, and wherein the third user is different from the second user;

    in response to the first user having a presentation right in the first area and further in response to the first user dragging the thumbnail of the third document file from the third area to the first area on an operation display section corresponding to the first user, moving the presentation right from the first user to the third user associated with the third document file and displaying the third document file associated with the third user in the first area on all the operation display sections; and

    in response to the first user having the presentation right in the first area and further in response to the second user dragging the thumbnail of the second document file from the second area to the first area on the operation display section corresponding to the second user, the second user acquiring the presentation right from the first user and displaying the second document file associated with the second user in the first area on all the operation display sections.

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