GUI display processor
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorMao Kishimoto
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Abstract
A screen determination unit acquires screen characteristic data corresponding to a characteristic and an operation mode of a screen display device, and on the basis of the screen characteristic data, specifies screen description data corresponding to a state of the screen display device in a screen description table stored in a screen description table storage unit. A screen display data setting unit sets screen display data on the basis of the specified screen description data. Therefore, GUIs (graphical user interfaces) can be displayed in a user friendly manner in accordance with the characteristic and the operation mode of equipment like a TV screen.
Claims8
A display processor comprising:
- a screen display device for displaying graphics of GUIs;
- a screen description table storage unit for storing a screen description table describing a displayable state corresponding to a characteristic and an operation mode of the screen display device;
- a screen determination unit for acquiring screen characteristic data corresponding to the characteristic and the operation mode of the screen display device from the screen display device and, on the basis of the screen characteristic data, specifying, in the screen description table stored in the screen description table storage unit, screen description data corresponding to a state of the screen display device;
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- a screen display data setting unit for setting, on the basis of the screen description data specified by the screen determination unit, screen display data to be displayed in the screen display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.