Abstract:
There is provided a scroll controller which solves a problem that in scrolling an image at coordinates specified by a pen or the like to specific coordinates (e.g., the center), it is unable in a display such as a liquid crystal display having a slow display reaction speed to grasp the state of movement when a scroll quantity (scroll speed) per unit time is fast. The scroll controller calculates a difference between prefixed coordinates and the coordinate position specified by a position specifying device and on the basis of the calculation result, controls so that not only stepwise scroll quantities are obtained, but also scroll quantities in starting and ending of the scroll are different from that in the other time of the scroll.
Abstract:
An e-mail sending/receiving system is furnished with a host computer having a storage section for storing mails, a first control device for extracting the mails to be sent to a terminal in accordance with priorities assigned to the mails. Thus, the user can receive mails with higher priorities, such as urgent or important mails, in a secure manner without worrying about an available memory capacity of the terminal.
Abstract:
A data receiving apparatus in which mail from a sender for which a secret setting is made cannot be directly confirmed. In this data receiving apparatus, when a password is not inputted or when an incorrect password is inputted by a user when a display is in a state of password input screen, the display indicates only a received mail list for mails from persons who are identified by personal data sets stored in advance which do not have a secret flag. The display also indicates the number of all the mail data sets, including the mail data sets from persons for which the secret flag is set.
Abstract:
In an information processing device, in the case where a window is edited by a user referring to data of a window which is positioned behind all the other displayed windows, the window to be referred to is touched, a function key displayed on the left bottom corner of the display screen is pressed, and a portion of the window to be referred to is dragged by a pen so as to specify a region to be referred to. This allows the portion of the window specified by the pen to be displayed in front of the window to be edited. As a result, in the case where editing of data is carried out on an active window referring to a window which is not an active window, the window to be referred to and the window to be edited are both clearly recognized without carrying out a complicated operation.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus having a main body and a lid body is configured so that the lid body can be switched between a closed state, a stacked state, a double screen state and an inverted state. Each of the main body and the lid body has a display section for displaying information and an input section composed of a transparent tablet and provided on the display section. As a sensor or the like detects the lid body in one of the four states, a control section of the information processing apparatus controls the display section so that a screen on the display section is appropriate to the detected state of the lid body. The control section also controls the lighting section for lighting the display section appropriately to the detected state of the lid body. This realizes appropriate display in accordance with usages of the information processing apparatus and offers an easy-to-operate and easy-to-use information processing apparatus. Besides, the lighting section is turned on/off according to needs, and therefore it is possible to prevent heat generation and to restrain power consumption.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus has a CCD with a predetermined aspect ratio, and a converging lens for projecting incident light onto the CCD. In the imaging apparatus, there is provided a ratio changing mechanism between the converging lens and the CCD, and an aspect ratio which is optically determined through the converging lens is selectively varied by the ratio changing mechanism so as to substantially coincide with the aspect ratio of the CCD.
Abstract:
In a data processing device into which drawings can be inputted by, for example, touching a pen to the surface of a touch panel, in a draw mode, during inputting of a drawing, each line of the drawing is inputted and displayed in a different color. Then, in an erase mode, after designating the color of a line to be erased, the line to be erased is traced with the pen. By this means, even if a line to be erased is displayed so as to overlap with a line not to be erased, it is possible to erase only the line to be erased.
Abstract:
A paging device with a message display function enables a person who possesses the paging device to register plural calling numbers including an area code in a memory section by operating an attached input section. The paging device is arranged such that upon receiving a calling number, a calling number corresponding to the received calling number is searched in last-to-first sequential character order, from a calling number directory registered in the memory section, and the calling number including the area code is displayed on a display section. In this way, even when a calling person transmits the calling number without the area code, the calling number including the area code which is registered beforehand is displayed on the display section of the paging device.
Abstract:
In a graphic preparing device of the present invention, when a user wants to place an image of post office, which is not stored beforehand, on a road, the picture of the post office is taken by a CCD camera, and is displayed on an additional symbol display position of a symbol display section. When a confirmation key is pressed at a timing when a desirable symbol is displayed on a screen, the displayed image is stored as a symbol. Then, when inside of a frame of the additional symbol display position of the symbol display section is touched with an input pen, and is dragged to a predetermined position on the road, the image of post office as stored as a symbol is displayed on the road, and is stored as a symbol on a map. Namely, the symbol incorporated by the CCD camera is treated in the same way as a common symbol. Also, the frame of the symbol touched with the input pen is enhance-displayed.
Abstract:
A method for acquiring communication information in a communication system between a plurality of user communication terminals via a host computer on a network. The method includes registering, for each user communication terminal, beforehand in the host computer a user information including a communication confirmation schedule. The host computer transmits user information of a second user communication terminal to a first user communication terminal. This occurs when the host computer detects a communication connection from the first user communication terminal to the second user communication terminal.