Electronic apparatus

• US 20050267876A1
• Filed: 05/27/2005
• Published: 12/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hiroyuki, Taki, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US11/138,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20050267876A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

An electronic apparatus of this invention is capable of performing wireless communication complying with, for example, Bluetooth(R), searches for wireless devices existing nearby, and displays a screen for selecting members to be summoned to a conference from the devices searched for. Then, objects representing the members selected on the screen and an object representing the present apparatus are arranged at equal intervals on a circle to cause these objects to be regarded as attendees sitting at a round table in the conference room. According to an operation performed on a displayed object (for example, the icon of a file to be transferred is dragged and dropped on the object of a destination member), data transmission and reception to and from each member is performed.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

means for searching other electronic apparatuses to be communicated;

a memory configured to store data;

a display controller configured to display first objects representing the other electronic apparatuses searched by the searching means, a second object representing the present apparatus, a third object representing a common area for the present apparatus to share the data with the other electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, and a fourth object representing the data; and

a controller configured to share the data represented by the fourth object with the other electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, when a specific operation for relating the fourth object to the third object is conducted.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific operation is an operation of superimposing the fourth object on the third object.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller transmits the data represented by the fourth object to the other electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, when a specific operation for relating the fourth object to the first objects is conducted.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controller displays the first objects and the second object in such a manner that they surround the third object.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display controller arranges the first objects and the second object on a concentric circle at equal intervals, with the third object at the center of the concentric circle.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller manages information for registering a group composed of the electronic apparatuses searched by the searching means.

7. An electronic apparatus comprising:

means for searching other electronic apparatuses to be communicated;

a memory configured to store data;

a display controller configured to display first objects representing the other electronic apparatuses searched by the searching means, a second object representing the present apparatus, a third object representing a transmission area for transmitting the data to the other electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, and a fourth object representing the specific data; and

a controller configured to transmit the data represented by the fourth object to the other electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, when a specific operation for relating the fourth object to the third object is conducted.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the specific operation is an operation of superimposing the fourth object on the third object.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the controller transmits the data represented by the fourth object to the other electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, when a specific operation for relating the fourth object to the first objects is conducted.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display controller displays the first objects and the second object in such a manner that they surround the third object.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display controller arranges the first objects and the second object on a concentric circle at equal intervals, with the third object at the center of the concentric circle.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the controller manages information for registering a group composed of the electronic apparatuses searched by the searching means.

13. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a display controller configured to display first objects representing electronic apparatuses already participating in a conference, a second object representing the present apparatus, a third object representing a common area for the present apparatus to share data with the electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, and a fourth object representing the data, when being required by another electronic apparatus to participate in the conference;

a memory configured to store data; and

a controller configured to acquire data represented by the forth object and to store the acquired data in the memory, when the operation of moving the fourth object outside the display area of the third object is conducted.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controller transmits the data represented by the fourth object as common data to the other electronic apparatuses, when a specific operation for relating the fourth object to the third objects is conducted.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controller transmits the data represented by the fourth object to the other electronic apparatuses represented by the first objects, when a specific operation for relating the fourth object to the first objects is conducted.

16. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the display controller displays the first objects and the second object in such a manner that they surround the third object.

17. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the display controller arranges the first objects and the second object on a concentric circle at equal intervals, with the third object at the center of the concentric circle.