DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140344714A1
• Filed: 11/28/2012
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Azuma, Akihiro, Kagawa, Hiroki, Sasaoka, Takayoshi, Toyoshima, Hiroki, Katayama, Michita
• Application Number:
  US14/363,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344714A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/752
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

An information terminal device (100) includes a message display section (304) which (i) displays a plurality of display regions on a display screen so that the plurality of display regions are arranged along a vertical direction of the display screen, the plurality of display regions each being for a time series, and (ii) displays, in each of the plurality of display regions, a posted message of a time series corresponding to the each of the plurality of display regions; and display change section (308) which, in a case where a horizontal moving operation is carried out with respect to a given one of the plurality of display regions, sequentially changes a posted message to be displayed in the given one of the plurality of display regions.

Claims

1. A display device capable of displaying, on a display screen, a posted message of each of a plurality of accounts respectively corresponding to a plurality of message-posting sites, comprising:

message display means which (i) displays a plurality of display regions on the display screen so that the plurality of display regions are arranged along a first direction of the display screen so as to be distinguishable from each other, the plurality of display regions each being for displaying a posted message of a corresponding one of the plurality of accounts, and (ii) displays, in each of the plurality of display regions, a posted message of a time series of an account corresponding to the each of the plurality of display regions; and

display change means which, in a case where a moving operation in a second direction, which is different from the first direction, is carried out with respect to a display region corresponding to a given one of the plurality of accounts among the plurality of display regions, sequentially changes a posted message of the given one of the plurality of accounts to be displayed in the display region.

2. The display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the message display means displays, one by one in each of the plurality of display regions, a posted message of a time series of an account corresponding to the each of the plurality of display regions; and

in a case where a moving operation in the second direction is carried out with respect to a display region corresponding to a given one of the plurality of accounts among the plurality of display regions, the display change means sequentially changes, one by one, a posted message of the given one of the plurality of accounts to be displayed in the display region.

3. The display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

in a case where a moving operation in the first direction is carried out with respect to the display screen when the plurality of display regions are being displayed on the display screen, the display change means moves display positions of the respective plurality of display regions in the first direction, thereby sequentially changing a display region to be displayed on the display screen.

4. A display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

in a case where a predetermined selecting operation is carried out with respect to a display region corresponding to a given one of the plurality of accounts among the plurality of display regions, the display change means displays, on the display screen, a plurality of posted messages of a time series of the given one of the plurality of accounts so that the plurality of posted messages are arranged along the first direction of the display screen.

5. The display device as set forth in claim 4, wherein:

in a case where a moving operation in the first direction is carried out with respect to the display screen when the plurality of posted messages of the time series of the given one of the plurality of accounts are being displayed on the display screen, the display change means moves display positions of the respective plurality of posted messages in the first direction, thereby sequentially changing a posted message to be displayed on the display screen.

6. An information terminal device comprising a display device recited in claim 1.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a program configured to cause a computer to function as each of the means of a display device recited in claim 1 is stored.

7. A display method for displaying, on a display screen, a posted message of each of a plurality of accounts respectively corresponding to a plurality of message-posting sites, comprising the steps of:

(i) displaying a plurality of display regions on the display screen so that the plurality of display regions are arranged along a first direction of the display screen so as to be distinguishable from each other, the plurality of display regions each being for displaying a posted message of a corresponding one of the plurality of accounts, and (ii) displaying, in each of the plurality of display regions, a posted message of a time series of an account corresponding to the each of the plurality of display regions; and

in a case where a moving operation in a second direction, which is different from the first direction, is carried out with respect to a display region corresponding to a given one of the plurality of accounts among the plurality of display regions, sequentially changing a posted message of the given one of the plurality of accounts to be displayed in the display region.

9. (canceled)