INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SCREEN CONTROL PROGRAM AND SCREEN CONTROL METHOD

• US 20140189596A1
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Taniuchi, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US14/013,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20140189596A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes first and second display controllers. The first display controller outputs a first screen including an icon to be selected based on whether a program corresponding to the icon is updated, and outputs the first screen when the apparatus is reactivated from a standby mode, the first screen including first and second icons which correspond to first and second programs. The second display controller outputs a second screen including the first icon and changeable from the first screen and outputs a third screen including the second icon and changeable from the second screen.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus configured to output a screen on a display, the apparatus comprising:

a first display controller configured to output a first screen comprising an icon to be selected based on whether a program corresponding to the icon is updated, the first display controller being configured to output the first screen when the information processing apparatus is reactivated from a standby mode, the first screen comprising first and second icons which correspond to first and second programs and comprise images related to the update; and

a second display controller configured to output a second screen comprising the first icon and changeable from the first screen and to output a third screen comprising the second icon and changeable from the second screen, and

the first icon in the first screen and the first icon in the second screen indicative of an identical update, and the second icon in the first screen and the second icon in the third screen indicative of an identical update.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first program is configured to generate the image in the first icon, and the second program is configured to generate the image in the second icon.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a third program configured to acquire update information of the update of the first and second programs from the first and second programs and to arrange the first and second icons on the first screen based on the update information.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first icon in the first screen and the first icon in the second screen comprise an identical image, and the second icon in the first screen and the second icon in the third screen comprise an identical image.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, further comprising a selector configured to select an icon displayed in the first screen in response to an operation input to the first screen, wherein

if the first icon is not selected by the selector, the first icon in the first screen and the first icon in the second screen comprise an identical image, and if the first icon is selected by the selector, the first icon in the first screen before the selection and the first icon in the second screen comprise different images.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a selector configured to select an icon displayed in the first screen in response to an operation input to the first screen;

an operation input module configured to receive an input of transition operation to instruct a transition from an optional screen to a predetermined screen; and

a third display controller configured to, when the transition operation is input, change to either the first screen or the second screen based on whether the first and second icons have been selected by the selector.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a screen control program which is executable by a computer, the screen control program comprising instructions capable of causing the computer to execute functions of:

outputting a first screen when the computer is reactivated from a standby mode, the first screen comprising an icon to be selected based on whether a program corresponding to the icon is updated;

outputting the first screen comprising first and second icons which correspond to first and second programs and comprise images related to the update at the output of the first screen;

outputting a second screen comprising the first icon and changeable from the first screen; and

outputting a third screen comprising the second icon and changeable from the second screen, and

the first icon in the first screen and the first icon in the second screen indicative of an identical update, and the second icon in the first screen and the second icon in the third screen indicative of an identical update.

8. A screen control method in the information processing apparatus configured to output a screen in a display, the method comprising:

outputting a first screen when the information processing apparatus is reactivated from a standby mode, the first screen comprising an icon to be selected based on whether a program corresponding to the icon is updated;

outputting the first screen comprising first and second icons which correspond to first and second programs and comprise images related to the update at the output of the first screen;

outputting a second screen comprising the first icon and changeable from the first screen; and

outputting a third screen comprising the second icon and changeable from the second screen, and

the first icon in the first screen and the first icon in the second screen indicative of an identical update, and the second icon in the first screen and the second icon in the third screen indicative of an identical update.