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

• US 10,025,757 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Takada, Kensuke, Tatsumi, Soichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Velez-Lopez, Mario M
• Application Number:
  US14/842,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085728A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,050 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content and second content which are individual pieces of content side by side. The information display device includes a change unit configured to changes a display range of the first content and changes the second content to third content according to a change operation of changing a display range serving as a range in which the first content is displayed on a screen.

Claims

1. An information display device comprising:

a processor programmed to;

display a part of a first content on a first display region and a second content on a second display region, the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side in a display;

according to a change operation of changing the part of the first content displayed on the first display region, move the first content displayed on the first display region; and

simultaneously with the moving of the first content displayed on the first display region, transition the second content to a third content displayed on the second display region by reducing a ratio of a region in which the second content is displayed in the second display region and increasing a ratio of a region in which the third content is displayed in the second display region according to the change operation without moving the second content.

2. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to change the display of the first part of the first content and change the second content to the third content according to the change operation occurring in a region of the display in which the first part of the first content is displayed.

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

display the second content in a predetermined display region.

4. The information display device according to claim 3, wherein the processor is programmed to move the third content arranged in front of the second content from an outside of the predetermined display region to an inside of the predetermined display region according to the change operation, without moving the second content.

5. The information display device according to claim 3, wherein the processor is programmed to:

arrange the third content on a layer of the display that is behind a layer of the display on which the second content is arranged; and

reduce a width of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display and increase a width of the region in which the third content is displayed in the display according to the change operation.

6. The information display device according to claim 3, wherein the processor is programmed to move the display of the first content according to the change operation, and move a boundary between the region in which the second content is displayed in the display and the region in which the third content is displayed in the display with movement of the display.

7. The information display device according to claim 6, wherein the processor is programmed to:

display the first content including a predetermined frame border; and

move the boundary between the region in which the second content is displayed in the display and the region in which the third content is displayed in the display with movement of the frame border included in the first content.

8. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein when the change operation is performed while a terminal of the first content is being displayed, the processor is programmed to display a fourth content on a region in which the first content is displayed and a region in which the second content is displayed, according to the change operation.

9. The information display device according to claim 8, wherein the processor is programmed to reduce a width of the region in which the first content is displayed and a width of the region in which the second content is displayed, and increase a width of a region in which the fourth content is displayed, according to the change operation.

10. The information display device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is programmed to move the fourth content arranged in front of the first content and the second content from an outside of a region including the region in which the first content is displayed and the region in which the second content is displayed to an inside of the region according to the change operation, without moving the second content.

11. The information display device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is programmed to:

arrange the fourth content on a layer of the display that is behind a layer of the display including the region in which the first content is displayed and the region in which the second content is displayed; and

reduce a width of the region including the region in which the first content is displayed and the region in which the second content is displayed and increase a width of the region in which the fourth content is displayed, according to the change operation.

12. The information display device according to claim 11, wherein when the first content is displayed in the region in which the first content is displayed, the processor is programmed to display the fourth content at a same position as the region in which the second content is displayed.

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

display the second content or the third content including a moving image; and

control reproduction of the moving image included in the second content or the moving image included in the third content, according to the change operation.

14. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to arrange a fifth content in front of the first content or the third content, and display the fifth content at a position according to the change operation.

15. The information display device according to claim 14, wherein the processor is programmed to display the fifth content including a moving image, and control reproduction of the moving image included in the fifth content according to the change operation.

16. A delivery device comprising:

a processor programmed to deliver second content and third content displayed with first content to a terminal device together with control information, the control information causing the terminal device to execute;

a display process of displaying a part of the first content on a first display region and the second content on a second display region, the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side in a display; and

a change process of according to a change operation of changing the part of the first content displayed on the first display region, moving the first content displayed on the first display region, and simultaneously with the moving of the first content displayed on the first display region, transitioning the second content to the third content displayed on the second display region by reducing a ratio of a region in which the second content is displayed in the second display region and increasing a ratio of a region in which the third content is displayed in the second display region according to the change operation without moving the second content.

17. An information display method executed by an information display device, the information display method comprising:

a display step of displaying a part of a first content on a first display region and a second content on a second display region, the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side in a display; and

a change step of according to a change operation of changing the part of the first content displayed on the first display region, moving the first content displayed on the first display region, and simultaneously with the moving of the first content displayed on the first display region, transitioning the second content to a third content displayed on the second display region by reducing a ratio of a region in which the second content is displayed in the second display region and increasing a ratio of a region in which the third content is displayed in the second display region according to the change operation without moving the second content.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein an information display program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

a display process of displaying a part of a first content on a first display region and a second content on a second display region, the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side in a display; and

a change process of according to a change operation of changing the part of the first content displayed on the first display region, moving the first content displayed on the first display region, and simultaneously with the moving of the first content displayed on the first display region, transitioning the second content to a third content displayed on the second display region by reducing a ratio of a region in which the second content is displayed in the second display region and increasing a ratio of a region in which the third content is displayed in the second display region according to the change operation without moving the second content.