Information display device, distribution device, information display method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

• US 9,990,657 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2015
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Daisuke, Suzuki, Tatsuaki, Takada, Kensuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Luis A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Andrei, Radu
• Application Number:
  US14/800,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20160019604A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,056 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content and second content in a display region so as to overlap each other. The information display device includes a change unit configured to change the second content to third content, depending on a position where a predetermined region included in the first content is displayed.

Claims

1. An information display device, which is a smart device, the information display device comprising:

a network interface to acquire a first content corresponding to a web content, and to acquire a second content, third content, and forth content corresponding to an advertisement content;

a touch panel display configured to detect an input from a user of the information display device; and

a processor operatively coupled with a memory and the touch panel display, the processor being programmed to;

display in a display region of the touch panel display;

(i) the first content including a predetermined region, (ii) the second content overlapping the first content, the second content being on top of the first content in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the touch panel display at a fixed position in the display region, and (iii) the third content on top of the second content in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the touch panel display so as to overlap the predetermined region;

determine an input operation by the user corresponding to a scroll operation;

in response to determining the scroll operation from the user detected by the touch panel display of the information display device, scroll the first content and move the third content in the display region in accordance with the scroll operation while the second content remains at the fixed position in the display region;

in response to the second content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content to a predetermined direction, change the second content to a fourth content while the second content is entirely covered by the third content;

display the fourth content responsive to scrolling the first content and moving the third content in the predetermined direction without moving the fourth content responsive to the scroll operation;

in response to the fourth content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content, change the fourth content to the second content while the fourth content is entirely covered by the third content; and

display the second content responsive to scrolling the first content and moving the third content in an opposite direction as the predetermined direction without moving the second content responsive to the scroll operation.

2. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to change the second content to the third content when the predetermined region included in the first content is moved in a predetermined direction from a predetermined position included in the display region by moving the first content.

3. The information display device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is programmed to change the third content to the second content when the predetermined region included in the first content is moved in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction from the predetermined position by moving the first content.

4. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to display the second content or the third content at a fixed position included in the display region.

5. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to display the fourth content including content related to an advertisement.

6. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to change the second content to the third content, the third content having a same shape as the second content and a different color from the second content.

7. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to change the second content to the third content, the third content having a different shape from the second content.

8. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to:

arrange the second content in the predetermined region included in the first content;

arrange a fifth content having a plurality of regions behind the first content and the second content; and

change the third content to the second content based on a region of the fifth content that overlaps a rear surface of the predetermined region.

9. A distribution device comprising:

a processor programmed to distribute control information for controlling a display aspect of a second content that is displayed together with a first content to an information display device, the information display device, which is a smart device, the information display device including a network interface to acquire the first content corresponding to a web content, and to acquire the second content, a third content, and a forth content corresponding to an advertisement content, and a touch panel display configured to detect an input from a user of the information display device, the control information causing the information display device to perform a process comprising;

displaying in a display region of the touch panel display;

(i) the first content including a predetermined region, (ii) the second content overlapping the first content, the second content being on top of the first content in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the touch panel display at a fixed position in the display region, and (iii) the third content on top of the second content in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the touch panel display so as to overlap the predetermined region;

determining an input operation by the user corresponding to a scroll operation;

in response to determining the scroll operation from the user detected by the touch panel display of the information display device, scrolling the first content and moving the third content in the display region in accordance with the scroll operation while the second content remains at the fixed position in the display region;

in response to the second content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content to a predetermined direction, changing the second content to a fourth content while the second content is entirely covered by the third content;

displaying the fourth content responsive to scrolling the first content and the third content in the predetermined direction without moving the fourth content responsive to the scroll operation;

in response to the fourth content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content, changing the fourth content to the second content while the fourth content is entirely covered by the third content; and

displaying the second content responsive to scrolling the first content and moving the third content in an opposite direction as the predetermined direction without moving the second content responsive to the scroll operation.

10. An information display method that is performed by an information display device, the information display device, which is a smart device, including a network interface to acquire a first content corresponding to a web content, and to acquire a second content, third content, and forth content corresponding to an advertisement content, and a touch panel display configured to detect an input from a user of the information display device, the information display method comprising:

displaying in a display region of the touch panel display;

(i) the first content including a predetermined region, (ii) the second content overlapping the first content, the second content being on top of the first content in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the touch panel display at a fixed position in the display region, and (iii) the third content on top of the second content in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the touch panel display so as to overlap the predetermined region;

determining an input operation by the user corresponding to a scroll operation;

in response to determining the scroll operation from the user detected by the touch panel display of the information display device, scrolling the first content and moving the third content in the display region in accordance with the scroll operation while the second content remains at the fixed position in the display region;

in response to the second content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content to a predetermined direction, changing the second content to a fourth content while the second content is entirely covered by the third content;

displaying the fourth content responsive to scrolling the first content and moving the third content in the predetermined direction without moving the fourth content responsive to the scroll operation;

in response to the fourth content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content, changing the fourth content to the second content while the fourth content is entirely covered by the third content; and

displaying the second content responsive to scrolling the first content and moving the third content in an opposite direction as the predetermined direction without moving the second content responsive to the scroll operation.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein an information display program causing a computer to perform:

displaying in a display region of a touch panel display;

(i) a first content including a predetermined region, (ii) a second content overlapping the first content, the second content being on top of the first content in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the touch panel display at a fixed position in the display region, and (iii) a third content on top of the second content in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the touch panel display so as to overlap the predetermined region;

determining an input operation by the user corresponding to a scroll operation;

in response to determining the scroll operation from the user detected by the touch panel display, scrolling the first content and moving the third content in the display region in accordance with the scroll operation while the second content remains at the fixed position in the display region;

in response to the second content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content to a predetermined direction, changing the second content to a fourth content while the second content is entirely covered by the third content;

displaying the fourth content responsive to scrolling the first content and moving the third content in the predetermined direction without moving the fourth content responsive to the scroll operation;

in response to the fourth content at the fixed position being entirely covered by the third content based on the scrolling of the first content and moving the third content, changing the fourth content to the second content while the fourth content is entirely covered by the third content; and

displaying the second content responsive to scrolling the first content and moving the third content in an opposite direction as the predetermined direction without moving the second content responsive to the scroll operation.