Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080254828 | Control device, mobile communication system, and communication terminal - A control device includes a display control unit that causes one of first and second communication terminals, to display one of a camera image and a substitute image substitutable for the camera image. The camera image or the substitute image being transmitted from the other communication terminals. A transmission unit is provided and transmits a requirement for switching the camera image or the substitute image which is presently displayed on to the other of the camera image and the substitute image. A reception unit receives a response to the requirement transmitted by the transmission unit, and a switching unit determines whether content of the response transmitted by the transmission unit to the requirement satisfies the requirement and causes the display control unit to switch the displayed images if necessary. | 10-16-2008 |
20080301577 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device according to the present invention stores user attribute data and pieces of application attribute data. The information processing device retrieves the user attribute data (Sa | 12-04-2008 |
20090029694 | CONTROL DEVICE, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A control device comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store captured image data and alternative image data. The processor is configured to: measure time that has elapsed since establishment of a communication connection between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, or since a predetermined point subsequent to the establishment of the communication connection; and select image data to be sent to the first communication terminal from among captured image data or alternative image data, on the basis of the measured elapsed time, to allow the first communication terminal to display an image on the basis of the selected image data. | 01-29-2009 |
20090031243 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF WINDOWS - In a mobile phone | 01-29-2009 |
20090031248 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction input by a user; a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a plurality of windows in a display area of the display unit; and a window control unit configured to control a size or position of a window displayed on the display unit in response to the instruction received, the window control unit being configured to control, if the receiving unit receives an instruction to expand a first window and the expanded first window overlaps a second window, a size or position of the second window in response to a positional relationship between the first window and the second window. | 01-29-2009 |
20090125839 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF WINDOWS | 05-14-2009 |
20100115461 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - [Problem] To make it possible to switch display of plural windows depending on a situation such as a time and a place. | 05-06-2010 |
20100149102 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information-processing device includes: multiple keys; a memory that stores key arrangement data indicating an arrangement of said multiple keys; an identification part that identifies each display position of multiple windows displayed on a screen; an allocation part that compares an arrangement of the windows obtained by comparing the display position of each window identified by said identification part with the arrangement of keys displayed by said key arrangement data, and uniquely allocates to said each window a key for selecting the relevant window from among said multiple keys so that the arrangement of said windows and the arrangement of said keys are identical or similar; a notifying part that notifies of the keys allocated by said allocation part; and a selection part that selects the window to which an operated key is allocated when any of the keys notified by said notifying part is operated. | 06-17-2010 |
20100182244 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A mobile phone manages display area | 07-22-2010 |
20100211861 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - To provide a mechanism for supporting prevention of unintentional access to contents provided by malicious content providers. A gateway server device | 08-19-2010 |
20100240394 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - [Problem] To improve convenience of a function of rearranging and conveying information registered in an address book. | 09-23-2010 |
20100275157 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - To enable a user to distinguish readily a correspondence between an operation key and a window to which the operation is assigned. An information-processing device according to the present invention, on obtaining an operation signal of a particular operation key (specifying key) (S | 10-28-2010 |
20100281422 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND PROGRAM - A communication terminal stores charge information representing the charge schemes (usage-based billing, flat-rate billing, etc.) of the terminal. In addition, for each charge information item, the communication terminal stores priority information representing the display priority of the windows. The communication terminal identifies the charge schemes by reading the charge information (Sa | 11-04-2010 |
20100281423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information processing device stores a window of an application and designation information for designating an external device associated with the window. The information processing device detects an external device located near the information processing device in S | 11-04-2010 |
20100281431 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information processing device displays in a display area a key image indicating a key to which a process is allocated as a soft key. In the information processing device, a key to which a process is allocated can be changed. The information processing device changes display mode based on the display mode. For example, if processes are allocated to keys K | 11-04-2010 |
20100285786 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND PROGRAM - The environment around mobile phone handset | 11-11-2010 |
20100287495 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information-processing device stores information as assignment information to assign associated hardware or software to each window that displays processing details of an application. An association between a window and hardware or software is different for each application (in other words, for each window). If plural overlapping windows are displayed, the information-processing device determines a window to be displayed in the foreground, on a basis of the association. For example, in a case where window w1 of a game and window w2 of another game overlap each other, if the information-processing device has hardware or software associated with game A, window w1 is displayed at the front; and meanwhile if the device has hardware or software associated with game B, window w2 is displayed at the front. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287497 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information-processing device includes: execution means for executing an application program; changing means for determining a size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program; receiving means for receiving at least one data set from among a plurality of data sets; data selection means for selecting one data set from among the plurality of data sets, depending on the window size determined by the determination unit; execution control means for controlling the execution means to process the one data set selected by the data selection means from among the received at least one data set, in accordance with the application program; and display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the one data set to be processed by the execution means. | 11-11-2010 |
20100329183 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A communication terminal providing optimal communication services between content providers comprising a property management table with an appraised value registered for each of a predetermined set of communication media properties for various types of communication media, a first user specified priority ranking list and a second priority ranking list specified by an application program provider with rankings for the set of communication media properties, whereby the desired communication medium is selected by adding weightings for priority from the first and second priority ranking lists and adding the appraised value for each item from the property management table and using the highest total to specify the optimum communication medium for use when commencement of communication is specified by a predetermined application program, and establishing communication connections between opposing devices using the selected optimum communication medium. Also disclosed are a communication system, control device and program including the communication terminal's elements. | 12-30-2010 |
20110004555 | CONTENT TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SERVER DEVICE, CONTENT-PROVIDING SERVER DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A content transaction management server device includes: a memory storing decryption keys used in decryption of encrypted content data; a communication unit for information; a payment-request reception unit receiving, through the communication unit, a first storage address indicating a storage area where the decryption keys of encrypted content data in the memory are stored and user identifiers identifying users who are purchasers of the encrypted content data; a payment-procedure processing unit implementing payment-procedure processes related to purchase transactions of encrypted content data by a user identified by user identifiers in the payment request; and a decryption-key transmission unit that, after payment-procedure processing based on the payment-procedure processing unit is completed, reads out, from the memory, decryption keys stored in the storage area indicated by the first storage address included in the payment request and transmits, through the communication unit, the decryption keys to the transmission source of the payment request. | 01-06-2011 |
20110004843 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - To simplify an operation for displaying or hiding windows, depending on a user or usage by the user. An information-processing device, according to the present invention, stores for each window, a time during which the window has been displayed together with another window (simultaneous display time), as a relevance table. The information-processing device, when receiving an instruction to display a window (subject window), refers to a relevance table for the subject window to identify a window whose simultaneous display time is the longest (simultaneous display window), and displays the subject window and the simultaneous display window. Also, the information-processing device, when receiving an instruction to hide a subject window, hides the subject window and a simultaneous display window. | 01-06-2011 |
20110004844 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - To control display or hiding of windows simultaneously available based on a configuration used by a user. An information-processing device according to the present invention identifies applications that the device is able to execute; and when an instruction to display a window (a subject window) is performed, the device obtains a relevance information list of applications to display the subject window (subject applications). In the relevance information list, information for determining an application relating to the subject application is described. The information-processing device determines whether an application described in the relevance information list is included in the executable applications, and if it is included in the executable applications, the device displays a window of the application (a simultaneous display window) together with the subject window. Also, when the information-processing device receives an instruction to hide the subject window, the device hides the subject window and the simultaneous display window. | 01-06-2011 |
20110106912 | VIRTUAL SPACE-PROVIDING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND VIRTUAL SPACE-PROVIDING SYSTEM - Provided is a setup that allows a user to view, after the fact, the circumstances of communication within a virtual space with other users who were previously present at the same place as the user. When a user designates a previous day and time, the circumstances in the virtual space for said designated day and time are reproduced. When the avatar of the user appears and is caused to speak in the reproduced virtual space, the history content is changed as though the speech actually occurred in the virtual space on that day and time. In this way, the user can read, alter the fact, the circumstances of communication within a virtual space with other users who were previously present at the same place as the user. | 05-05-2011 |
20110148933 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - In a communication terminal device, in a case where the arrangement of the windows is changed in a list screen, an overhead screen is initially displayed, in which the list screen is overviewed, and the arrangement of the windows is subsequently changed in the overhead screen, and a magnified screen (original screen) of the overhead screen, in which the arrangement of the windows has been changed, is displayed last, as described in the foregoing. By displaying a magnified image, it is possible to make windows better visible in a small display area of a mobile phone. Also, in a case where a window exists that cannot be displayed in a magnified screen, by displaying an overhead screen, it becomes possible for a user to recognize a fact that a window that cannot be displayed exists in a magnified screen, and also recognize a position of the window. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154251 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: execution means for executing an application program; determination means for determining a size of a window to be displayed depending on the application program; receiving means for receiving at least one data set from among a plurality of data sets; data selection means for selecting one data set from among the plurality of data sets, depending on the window size determined by the determination unit; execution control means for controlling the execution means to process the one data set selected by the data selection means from among the received at least one data set, in accordance with the application program; and display control means for controlling the display means to show a screen based on the one data set to be processed by the execution means. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161873 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information-processing device, if an instruction to display a window group is received, displays the window group in a first size in a display area of display means, and then displays at least a part of the window group in a second size that is greater than the first size in the display area. If operation means receives an instruction to specify a window that is displayed in the display area, the information-processing device executes a process based on the specified window. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164048 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information-processing device comprises: a reception means for receiving an instruction to display an object image(s) on a display means for displaying an image, via an operation means for receiving an operation; a determination means for determining a number of the object image(s) when the object image(s) is displayed on the display means in response to the instruction; and a display control means for, in a case where the number determined by the determination means is equal to or larger than three and equal to or smaller than a threshold value, arranging and displaying the object images at positions such that, when points respectively determined in adjacent object images are connected by line segments, a figure formed by the line segments represents a polygon having a number of vertices corresponding to the determined number, and, in a case where the number determined by the determination means exceeds the threshold value, arranging and displaying the object images in rows extending in a predetermined direction in a display area of the display means. | 07-07-2011 |
20110164054 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information-processing device comprises: a display control that controls display positions of first and second information images in a display area of a display means for displaying an image, instructions are received for causing the first information image to move in a given direction. A display control executes a first process that, during a period in which the instruction is received, causes the first information image to move and a second process that, in a case where the first information image comes into contact with the second information image as a result of the movement caused by the first process and is further moved after the contact, causes the second information image to move in a direction different from the direction of movement of the first information image, such that the second information image does not overlap the first information image. | 07-07-2011 |
20110167368 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information-processing device according to the present invention displays plural windows in a certain arrangement. The information-processing device selects one of displayed windows as a selected window, and in response to an operation to specify a direction, sets a window located in the direction as a selected window. The information-processing device also, in a case where plural windows are displayed in a certain arrangement, changes the arrangement in accordance with a predetermined operation. The change may be made in a regular manner or according to a random pattern. For example, in a case where window W | 07-07-2011 |
20110167389 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - The information-processing device according to the present invention, if a subject operation direction is “rightward,” specifies in a coordinate axis across a rightward direction, a range that overlaps an area between coordinates (Ya | 07-07-2011 |
20110173627 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - When executing plural application programs in parallel, a control unit assigns a small storage area to each application program so that a part of a function implemented by execution of each application program is provided. When providing a service of high value to a user, a control unit assigns a large storage area to any one of the application programs so that a full function that is implemented by execution of the application program is provided. | 07-14-2011 |
20110209161 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A terminal device in which basic information and detailed information of each a plurality of application programs are stored in a different storage area for each application program, and that prohibits access to each storage area by other application programs, is caused to execute the processes of displaying a window that includes the basic information of each application program, and, if a cursor is moved to the display position of one of the pieces of basic information, reading out, from the appropriate storage areas, the detailed information of a first application program corresponding to the basic information where the cursor is positioned and the detailed information of a second application program whose basic information is displayed adjacent to the basic information of the first application program, and displaying the detailed information of the first application program. | 08-25-2011 |
20110246917 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - The window display application controls a display position of a window (an image). The Java Runtime Environment controls processing associated with the window (e.g., displaying of the window). Operation information on an operation of a display position of a window is supplied to the window display application. Operation information on an operation of processing details of an application corresponding to a window (a widget) is supplied to the Java Runtime Environment. | 10-06-2011 |
20110258642 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A terminal device in which basic information and detailed information of each a plurality of application programs are stored in a different storage area for each application program, and that prohibits access to each storage area by other application programs, is caused to execute the processes of displaying a window that includes the basic information of each application program, and, if a cursor is moved to the display position of one of the pieces of basic information, launching, in an information providing mode, a first application program where the cursor is positioned and a second application program whose basic information is displayed adjacent to the first application program to acquire the detailed information of the application programs, and displaying the detailed information of the first application program. | 10-20-2011 |
20130304652 | CONTENT TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SERVER DEVICE, CONTENT-PROVIDING SERVER DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A content transaction management server device includes: a memory storing decryption keys used in decryption of encrypted content data; a communication unit for information; a payment-request reception unit receiving, through the communication unit, a first storage address indicating a storage area where the decryption keys of encrypted content data in the memory are stored and user identifiers identifying users who are purchasers of the encrypted content data; a payment-procedure processing unit implementing payment-procedure processes related to purchase transactions of encrypted content data by a user identified by user identifiers in the payment request; and a decryption-key transmission unit that, after payment-procedure processing based on the payment-procedure processing unit is completed, reads out, from the memory, decryption keys stored in the storage area indicated by the first storage address included in the payment request and transmits, through the communication unit, the decryption keys to the transmission source of the payment request. | 11-14-2013 |
20140018100 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - To improve convenience of a function of rearranging and conveying information registered in an address book. A mobile phone, if any one of users registered in an address book is selected, obtains location information of a mobile phone owned by the selected user from a location search server. The mobile phone, by comparing location information of a home or an office of the selected user registered in the address book and the location information of the mobile phone obtained from the location search server, decides an indication sequence of plural communication addresses registered in the address book for the selected user. | 01-16-2014 |