Information processing apparatus capable of displaying scheduler

• US 7,725,823 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2004
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Wakai, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong; Stephen S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel; Manglesh M
• Application Number:
  US10/848,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20040268252A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,198 Days
• Field of Search: 715/864, 715/500, 715/526, 715/273, 715/200, 715/252, 715254-255, 715/800, 715/815, 715/808, 345/835
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

In an information processing apparatus, even when a large volume of data is displayed in a limited display area in which the number of data items that can be displayed at once is restricted, rough searching for data and specific identification of data are facilitated. In the information processing apparatus, the number of data items to be displayed is determined. When the number of data items to be displayed is less than or equal to a predetermined number of data items that can be displayed in a display area, the data items are displayed in a first mode. If the number of data items to be displayed is greater than the predetermined number, the data items are displayed in a second mode.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

determining means for determining whether the number of data items to be displayed in a same display position in a display area segmented for a respective time axis with a same width per unit time is less than or equal to the number of data items that can be displayed in the display position;

first displaying means for displaying the data items in the display area, in a first display mode such that all the determined data items can be recognized, when the determining means determines that the number of data items to be displayed in the display position is less than or equal to the number of data items that can be displayed;

second displaying means for displaying the determined data items that would otherwise be displayed in the first mode in a second mode, such that the determined data items are displayed in a reduced size or in an overlapped manner in the display area when the determining means determines that the number of data items to be displayed in the display position is greater than the number of data items that can be displayed;

specifying means for specifying a data item displayed in the first mode or the second mode; and

data-list displaying means for displaying a list of the data items in a pop-up window, such that all of the determined data items that are displayed in the second mode, which are specified by the specifying means, and which would otherwise be displayed in the first mode, can be simultaneously displayed so as to be individually recognizable in the pop-up window, at the same time that the determined data items are displayed in the display area segmented for a respective time axis by the first displaying means or the second displaying means, when the specifying means specifies the data item displayed by the second displaying means,

wherein the data-list displaying means displays a scrollbar in the pop-up window.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second display mode is an overlap display mode and the second displaying means displays the data items in the display area in an overlapped manner when the number of data items to be displayed is greater than the number of data items that can be displayed.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display-size determining means for determining the reduced display size for the data items.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display-order specifying means for specifying a display order of the data items displayed, wherein the data items are displayed by the first displaying means or the second displaying means in the display order specified by the display-order specifying means.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pop-up window includes a display-maintaining-instruction button for specifying whether to maintain displaying the pop-up window.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a data-list display specifying means for specifying the data items displayed by the data-list displaying means.

7. A data display method, comprising:

determining whether the number of data items to be displayed in a same display position in a display area segmented for a respective time axis with a same width per unit time is less than or equal to the number of data items that can be displayed in the display position;

displaying the data items in the display area, in a first display mode such that all the determined data items can be recognized, when the number of data items to be displayed in the display position is determined to be less than or equal to the number of data items that can be displayed;

displaying the determined data items that would otherwise be displayed in the first mode in a second mode, such that the determined data items are displayed in a reduced size or in an overlapped manner in the display area when the number of data items to be displayed in the display position is determined to be greater than the number of data items that can be displayed;

specifying a data item displayed in the first mode or the second mode; and

displaying a list of the data items in a pop-up window, such that all of the determined data items that are displayed in the second mode, which are specified, and which would otherwise be displayed in the first mode, can be simultaneously displayed so as to be individually recognizable in the pop-up window, at the same time that the determined data items are displayed in the display area segmented for a respective time axis in the first display mode or the second displaying mode, when the data item displayed in the second displaying mode is specified,

wherein the list of data items is displayed with a scrollbar in the pop-up window.

8. A computer readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for causing an information processing apparatus to perform a data display method, the computer readable storage medium comprising:

computer-executable instructions for determining whether the number of data items to be displayed in a same display position in a display area segmented for a respective time axis with a same width per unit time is less than or equal to the number of data items that can be displayed in the display position;

computer-executable instructions for displaying the data items in the display area, in a first display mode such that all the determined data items can be recognized, when the number of data items to be displayed in the display position is determined to be less than or equal to the number of data items that can be displayed;

computer-executable instructions for displaying the determined data items that would otherwise be displayed in the first mode in a second mode, such that the determined data items are displayed in a reduced size or in an overlapped manner in the display area when the number of data items to be displayed in the display position is determined to be greater than the number of data items that can be displayed;

computer-executable instructions for specifying a data item displayed in the first mode or the second mode; and

computer-executable instructions for displaying a list of the data items in a pop-up window, such that all of the determined data items that are displayed in the second mode, which are specified, and which would otherwise be displayed in the first mode, can be simultaneously displayed so as to be individually recognizable in the pop-up window, at the same time that the determined data items are displayed in the display area segmented for a respective time axis in the first display mode or the second displaying mode, when the data item displayed in the second displaying mode is specified, wherein the list of data items is displayed with a scrollbar in the pop-up window.