Television – Basic receiver with additional function – For display of additional information
Reexamination Certificate
1998-08-28
2001-06-12
Chauhan, Ulka J. (Department: 2671)
Television
Basic receiver with additional function
For display of additional information
C345S215000, C348S563000, C348S901000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06246442
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an information display apparatus in which pieces of information respectively arranged in a cell are selected at a desired detail degree and are displayed at a desired arrangement for a user to compare the pieces of information with each other at a look.
2. Description of the Related Art
2.1. Previously Proposed Art
An information display apparatus disclosed in the Published Unexamined Japanese Patent Application No. H8-212038 (1996) is known. As shown in
FIG. 1
, this information display apparatus
300
is composed of a processing apparatus
301
, a display apparatus
302
, an input unit having a mouse
303
and a keyboard
304
and a file
305
. The processing apparatus
301
is composed of a window control unit
306
, an application processing unit
307
, a list display processing unit
308
, a variable storage and reproduction processing unit
309
and a memory
310
. The memory
310
is composed of an all data region
310
a
, a display region
310
b
, a list name region
310
c
and a variable list tables region
310
d
. The display apparatus
302
is composed of a setting image display plane
302
a
and a list data display plane
302
b.
In this information display apparatus, pieces of list data often displayed as list information on the list data display plane
302
b are recorded by using the all data region
310
a
, the display region
310
b
, the list name region
310
c
and the variable list table region
310
d
of the memory
310
and the variable storage and reproduction processing unit
309
, and the pieces of recorded list data are used in each display operation to be displayed on the list data display plane
302
b.
2.2. Problems to be Solved by the Invention
However, in cases where a user desires to change a detail degree of the list information displayed on the list data display plane
302
b
while maintaining a list-ability of the list information, the user desires to compare the pieces of list information with each other at a user's desired information volume on any of conditions as many as possible or the user desires to display a volume of list information arranged in a range observable at a look as large as possible while considering a good observation condition, there is a problem that the above conventional information display apparatus cannot satisfy the above user's request. Also, there is another problem that any information prepared based on a user's instruction according to read-out information cannot be displayed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide, with due consideration to the drawbacks of such a conventional information display apparatus, an information display apparatus in which pieces of information are compared with each other at a user's desired volume level on condition that the pieces of information are arranged as many as possible.
The object is achieved by the provision of an information display apparatus for displaying information arranged in each of a plurality of cells which are set along each display axis, comprising:
information element storing means for storing a plurality of information elements of a piece of information for each piece of information, each information element of the information indicating an attribute of the information;
detail correspondence table holding means for holding a detail correspondence table in which the correspondence of a group of information elements to a detail degree is listed for each of detail degrees, an information volume of one group of information elements corresponding to one detail degree being increased as the detail degree is heightened;
cell layout storing means for storing a group of cells fitting for a cell layout in an image display area for each cell layout, a size of the cell for one cell layout differing from that for another cell layout;
information arrangement storing means for storing a particular information arrangement indicating a particular attribute of each display axis to arrange pieces of information along each display axis on the basis of the particular attribute;
layout correspondence table holding means for holding a layout correspondence table in which the correspondence of one cell layout to one combination of one detail degree and one information arrangement stored in the information arrangement storing means is listed for each combination;
receiving means for receiving a particular detail degree indicating a detail degree of each piece of information to be displayed in each cell;
information element selecting means for specifying a group of particular information elements corresponding to the particular detail degree received by the receiving means by referring the detail correspondence table held in the detail correspondence table holding means and selecting one group of particular information elements of one piece of information from the information elements of the piece of information stored in the information element storing means for each piece of information;
display information table producing means for receiving the particular information arrangement from the information arrangement storing means, specifying a particular cell layout corresponding to a particular combination of the particular detail degree received by the receiving means and the particular information arrangement by referring the layout correspondence table held in the layout correspondence table holding means, detecting a group of particular cells fitting for the particular cell layout from the cell layout storing means, setting the group of particular cells in the image display area at the particular cell layout, and arranging one group of particular information elements of one piece of information selected by the information element selecting means in one particular cell for each piece of information to produce a display information table; and
information displaying means for displaying an image of the display information table produced by the display information table producing means, in which one group of particular information elements of one piece of information is arranged in each particular cell.
In the above configuration, when a user intends to display information in each of cells which are set in an image display area and are partitioned by a plurality of partition lines parallel to each display axis, a user inputs a particular detail degree to the receiving means. The particular detail degree corresponds to a user's desired volume of information arranged in each cell.
In the information element selecting means, the detail correspondence table is referred, and a group of particular information elements corresponding to the particular detail degree is specified. Because an information volume of one group of information elements corresponding to one detail degree is increased as the detail degree is heightened, the user can adjust an information volume of one group of information elements. Thereafter, one group of particular information elements of one piece of information is selected from the information elements of the piece of information stored in the information element storing means for each piece of information.
In the display information table producing means, a particular information arrangement indicating a particular attribute of each display axis is received from the information arrangement storing means, and a particular cell layout corresponding to a particular combination of the particular detail degree and the particular information arrangement is specified by referring the layout correspondence table. Thereafter, a group of particular cells fitting for the particular cell layout are detected from the cell layout storing means, and the group of particular cells is set in the image display area at the particular cell layout. Thereafter, one group of particular information elements of one piece of information is arranged in one particular cell for each piece of information, so that a display information table is produ
Harada Kazumi
Kato Fumiyuki
Tomioka Yutaka
Chauhan Ulka J.
Lowe Hauptman & Gilman & Berner LLP
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
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