Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-29
2004-05-25
Luu, Matthew (Department: 2672)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
C345S640000, C345S215000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06741266
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to GUI (Graphic User Interface) displays, and more particularly to a GUI display capable of providing convenient operations of browsing pictures displayed on a large screen by zooming them in or out at will.
Also, the present invention relates to a recording medium including a computerized method stored therein for operating such a GUI display.
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent years, various kinds of CPU-carried electronic equipment, particularly, personal computers such as desktops, notebooks that can access Internet services have been increasingly become popular. Each of such personal computers typically employs a graphical user interface (hereinafter referred to as GUI) to make it easy to operate. The GUI may include a plurality of graphical elements such as icons, buttons, labels, windows, and the like, which are displayed on a screen and operated by a pointing device, e.g., a mouse. These graphical elements are hereinafter referred to as GUI components.
The graphical components displayed on the screen may be superimposed upon a picture to be browsed or placed on a side of the picture, and may be dragged to another place or switched between display and non-display according to user's indication.
At present, the personal computer equipped with a plasma display having a large screen (approximately 50 inches in diagonal line) has been developed for home use.
FIGS. 1A through 1C
are diagrams illustrating a conventional GUI display having GUI components
14
and
16
displayed on a large picture
10
of the screen (not shown). Herein, the GUI component
14
and
16
are tool bars each including a plurality of marks corresponding to respective functions of, e.g., enlarging, reducing, moving the picture
10
on the screen.
Specifically, the large picture
10
of
FIG. 1A
is in a state of no GUI component but information
11
to be browsed, e.g., an online map or newspaper being displayed as picture data. Upon a user inputs indication of, e.g., displaying the GUI component
14
or
16
, the state of
FIG. 1A
may be changed into a state of
FIG. 1B
or
1
C. In
FIG. 1B
, the GUI component
14
is displayed on the right side of the picture
10
. In
FIG. 1C
, the GUI component
16
is displayed such that it is superimposed upon the picture
10
(the picture data
11
). In addition, on the picture
10
, reference numeral
12
denotes a pointer used for indicating a position of a pointing device such as the mouse or the like.
If the picture data
11
is, e.g.,man electrical document made up of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and disclosed in a Japanese Laid-open Patent Application No. 10-273822, then the picture data
11
can be displayed in three-dimension while being zoomed in/out, and information
11
-
1
or
11
-
2
linked therein can be opened one on top of the other as shown in
FIGS. 1A through 1C
.
However, the conventional GUI display suffers from the following disadvantages.
In the case of using the GUI component
14
to operate the large picture
10
, if the GUI component
14
is displayed on the side of the picture
10
, the pointer
12
for operating the GUI component
14
needs to be moved thereto as shown in FIG.
1
B. Since the GUI component
14
is relatively far from the information
11
-
1
to be operated on the picture
10
, the user has to repeatedly move both of his/her eyes and the pointer
12
therebetween. Further, since the GUI component
14
occupies part of the picture
10
, there brings about a problem that an operation region of the picture
10
is reduced as a whole.
On the other hand, in the case of using the GUI component
16
to operate the picture
10
, as shown in
FIG. 1C
, since the GUI component
16
is superimposed on the picture
10
, part of the picture
10
is covered by the GUI component
16
. As a result, the user cannot see the part covered by the GUI component
16
, but the part can be seen only when the GUI component
14
is moved to another place or non-displayed. Also, it can be considered that the GUI component
16
may disappear immediately after operation thereof is completed. However, the GUI component
16
needs to be displayed whenever it is to be used. As a result, it is inconvenient for the user to continually operate the GUI component
16
.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is a general object of the present invention to provide a graphic user interface display and a recording medium including a. computerized method recorded therein for operating the graphic user interface display, in which the above disadvantages can be eliminated.
Another and a more specific object of the present invention is to provide a graphic user interface display with good operation and without interfering with other pictures displayed on one screen.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a recording medium including a computerized method recorded therein for operating such a graphic user interface display.
The above objects and other objects of the present invention are achieved by a graphic user interface display capable of displaying a graphic user interface on a picture. The graphic user interface display comprises a display-indication determining unit determining whether display indication is inputted, a transparency table including preset transparencies of the graphic user interface displayed according to the display indication, and a processing unit adjusting the graphic user interface according to the transparency table so as to display the graphic user interface.
The above objects and other objects of the present invention are achieved by a graphic user interface display capable of displaying a graphic user interface, corresponding to a process of a computer, on a picture of the computer. The graphic user interface display comprises a display-indication determining unit determining whether display indication is inputted, a position detecting unit detecting a position of a pointer on the picture, and a processing unit adjusting a transparency of the graphic user interface based on the position detected by the position detecting unit so as to display the graphic user interface.
The above objects and other objects of the present invention are achieved by a graphic user interface display capable of displaying a graphic user interface, corresponding to a process of a computer, on a picture of the computer. The graphic user interface display comprises a position varying unit varying a position where the graphic user interface is displayed on the picture according to a position of a pointer on the picture, when the position of the pointer is varied due to the process of the computer.
The above objects and other objects of the present invention are achieved by a recording medium including a computerized method recorded therein for realizing a graphic user interface display:capable of displaying a graphic user interface on a picture of a computer, the computerized method comprising the steps of determining whether indication of displaying the graphic user interface is inputted, providing a transparency table including predetermined transparencies of the graphic user interface to be displayed according to the indication and reading the transparencies out of the transparency table, and adjusting and displaying the graphic user interface according to the predetermined transparencies.
The above objects and other objects of the present invention are achieved by a recording medium having a computerized method recorded therein for realizing a graphic user interface display capable of displaying a graphic user interface on a picture of a computer, the computerized method comprising the steps of determining whether indication of displaying the graphic user interface is inputted, detecting a position of a pointer on the picture, and adjusting a transparency of the graphic user interface based on the position detected at the detecting step and displaying the graphic user interface.
The above objects and other objects of the present in
Fujita Takushi
Kamiwada Toru
Fujitsu Limited
Luu Matthew
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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