Information processing apparatus with display

• US 20050138575A1
• Filed: 10/07/2004
• Published: 06/23/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Kazunari, Kaneko, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/960,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20050138575A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/815
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

An information processing apparatus comprises a display which is capable of displaying a display area thereon, and the display area is associated with a running program and is either active or inactive. The information processing apparatus also comprises a first user interface to detect an event representing a request to adjust a sizing of content displayed within the display area, a second user interface to receive data indicating a position of a pointer when the first user interface detects the event, and a control unit configured to adjust the sizing of the content in response to detection of the event by the first user interface in the case that the pointer'"'"'s position that the second user interface receives is in the display area, regardless of whether the display area is active or inactive.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display adapted to display a display area thereon, the display area being associated with a running program and being either active or inactive;

a first user interface to detect an event representing a request to adjust a sizing of content displayed within the display area;

a second user interface to receive data indicating a position of a pointer when the first user interface detects the event; and

a control unit configured to adjust the sizing of the content in response to detection of the event by the first user interface in the case that the position of the pointer that the second user interface receives is in the display area, regardless of whether the display area is active or inactive.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display is able to display two or more display areas at the same time.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit comprises means for specifying one of display areas corresponding to the pointer'"'"'s position.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control unit comprises means for issuing an event for starting to adjust the sizing of the content in the display area specified by the specifying means.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises means for adjusting the size of the display area corresponding to the position of the pointer at a predetermined scaling factor.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined scaling factor is the same as applied to the content within the display area.

7. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for acquiring information indicating the position of the pointer and the position of the display area.

8. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising means for detecting that the position of the pointer is in the display area on the basis of the information indicating the position of the pointer and the position of the display area.

9. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the event comprises a first event for instructing magnification of the content, and a second event for instructing reduction of the content.

10. A method comprising:

displaying a display area on a display, the display area being associated with a running program and being either active or inactive;

detecting an event representing a request to adjust a sizing of content displayed within the display area;

receiving data indicating a position of a pointer when detecting the event; and

adjusting the sizing of the content in response to detecting the event in the case that the cursor position is in the display area, regardless of whether the display area is active or inactive.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein the display is adapted to display two or more display areas at the same time.

12. A method according to claim 11, further comprising specifying one of display areas corresponding to the position of the pointer.

13. A method according to claim 12, further comprising issuing an event for starting to adjust the sizing of the content in the display area specified.

14. A method according to claim 10, further comprising adjusting the size of the display area corresponding to the position of the pointer at a predetermined scaling factor.

15. A method according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined scaling factor is the same as applied to the content within the display area.

16. A method according to claim 10, further comprising acquiring information indicating the position of the pointer and the position of the display area.

17. A method according to claim 16, further comprising detecting that the position of the pointer is in the display area on the basis of the information indicating the position of the pointer and the position of the display area.

18. A computer readable recording medium that records a program, the program when executed by the computer causing the computer to execute the operations comprising:

detecting an event representing a request to adjust a sizing of content displayed within a display area which is associated with a running program and is either active and inactive;

receiving data indicating a position of a pointer when detecting the event; and

adjusting the sizing of the content in response to detecting the event in the case that the position of the pointer is in the display area, regardless of whether the display area is active or inactive.

19. A computer readable recording medium according to claim 18, further comprising specifying one of display areas corresponding to the position of the pointer, and issuing an event for starting to adjust the sizing of the content in the display area specified.

20. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

means for displaying a display area, the display area being associated with a running program and being either active or inactive;

means for detecting an event representing a request to adjust a sizing of content displayed within the display area;

means for receiving data indicating a position of a pointer when the means for detecting detects the event; and

means for adjusting the sizing of the content in response to detection of the event by the means for detecting in the case that the position of the pointer that the means for receiving receives is in the display area, regardless of whether the display area is active or inactive.