Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Reexamination Certificate
1997-12-30
2001-04-24
Bayerl, Raymond J. (Department: 2173)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
C345S215000, C707S793000, C709S203000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06222534
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an article posting apparatus such as a personal computer (hereinafter to be referred to as PC) for referring to articles posted, for example, on a network like a Internet and for posting an article therein. The invention relates to an apparatus for managing information indicating the relationship between the posted articles, an article posting system comprising a plurality of article posting apparatuses for referring to the posted articles and for posting articles and an apparatus for managing information indicating the relationship between the posted articles, and a recording medium which is readable by the article posting apparatus.
There has been commonly used a communication system to exchange opinions with many people by referring to or posting articles through PCs connected to networks such as the Internet, PC communication, etc. In such a communication system, when the number of the participants increases so that the number of articles increases, the relationship between the articles become ambiguous such that to which article the opinion of the posted article is directed. Accordingly, it is inconvenient in that the user is required to read the contents by decompressing the article when referring to articles.
In order to relieve such inconveniences, in the conventional communication system by PC communication there is provided a service to show the relationship of the posted articles such that the posted article is the opinion to which article, in a hierarchical tree structure according to the posting order.
However, according to the service as above provided by the system side, though the relationship between the articles is clarified, the intention of the posting user is not expressed as to whether the posting user intends to take a leading part in discussion by expressing the opinion positively to some other user's article, or the user just desires to give opinion as an observer with a slight distance from the center of discussion, or the user states the opinion related with the topics though not directed to the specific article. Accordingly, in order to know the posting user's intention, it is necessary to decompress the article once and read the contents thereof.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been made with a view to solve the above points. An object of the invention is to provide an article posting apparatus such as a PC which enables a user to grasp the invention of a posting user intuitively according to the position where article identification information is disposed on a display screen, an apparatus for managing information which indicates the relationship between posted articles, an article posting system constituted by the article posting apparatus and the apparatus for managing the information indicating the relationship between posted articles, and a recording medium which is readable by the above-mentioned article posting apparatus, by providing an expedient to the posting user for enabling to dispose the article identification information such as icon or a miniature image of the image attached to the article on the position of the display screen which suits the intention of the posting user, and displaying the article identification information of the articles posted from plural article posting apparatus on the screens of the plural article posting apparatuses corresponding to the positions where the posting user pasted the information based on the coordinate data of the article identification information.
In the present invention, there is provided an method for allowing the user to dispose the identification information of the article such as the icon or the miniature image of the image attached to the article, etc. Further, the article identification information is displayed on the position, corresponding to the coordinate data, of the display screen of the article posting apparatus such as a PC of the user who has had access to the network to refer to or post the article, so that, without necessitating to decompress the article, the relationship between the posted articles, especially the relationship concerned with the user s posting intention can be intuitively grasped.
Also, in the present invention, in addition to the coordinate data of the article identification information, the information showing the posting order of articles such as the posted date, posted time, etc. is stored, so that even when other article identification information is disposed to overlap the identification information of the already posted article, the overlapping condition can be reproduced.
Furthermore, in the present invention, the position relationship between the article identification information of the already posted article and of the newly posted article is analyzed from the coordinate data, and the display condition is changed in such a way that, for example, in case of the information of the two articles being disposed in extremely close positions, they are to be displayed in the same color, thereby making it easier to grasp the relationship between the articles.
The above and further objects and features of the invention will more fully be apparent from the following detailed description with accompanying drawings.
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Iwayama Naomi
Kii Takahiro
Ohishi Kazuhiro
Okuyama Kyoko
Bayerl Raymond J.
Fujitsu Limited
Joseph Thomas J
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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