US 6,636,236 B1 · Information presentation method and information recording medium and presentation device for implementing the method

Abstract

A primary object of the present invention is to provide an information presentation device capable of presenting operation support information such as operation process and an input operation procedure to help a user in doing input operation with an electronic apparatus and simplifying the presentation according to a degree of the user's acquaintance with the operation of the apparatus, whereby enabling the user to more effectively use the apparatus with no unnecessary waiting time and with an increased efficiency of using the capacity of the memory device. A presentation control unit processes the presentation data for supporting the user's inputting operation. To simplify the presentation information that may become unnecessary for a user who becomes aquatinted with the operation with the apparatus, a CPU is provided with data collecting means for collecting data for estimating a degree of necessity of the operation support information and discriminating means for discriminating necessity of the presentation. The estimate data includes user's operation records such as the number of operation starts, the number of data presentations, an input-key operation speed and used capacity of a memory device. The discriminating means decides a degree of necessity of presenting the information and a degree of simplifying the presentation information according to the data obtained by the data collecting means. The presentation is simplified by thinning out the presentation images and/or shortening a presentation time.

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Dependent claims

In an electronic apparatus having an information presenting means, an information presenting method for presenting information by the information presentation means, the method comprising:

estimating a degree of necessity of presenting the information according to operation records and/or state information of the electronic apparatus;
based upon said estimating, determining whether to present the information in a detailed form or in a simplified form, wherein said determining is based at least in part upon a used capacity of memory of the apparatus;
and
simplifying presentation information when it is determined in said determining step to present the information in a simplified form.

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An information presentation device for presenting an operating process and/or an inputting procedure of an electronic apparatus provided with an inputting operation device and a presentation means, the device comprising:

data collecting means for collecting operation records of the electronic apparatus or working information including a current working state of the device;
discriminating means for determining the degree of necessity of presentation from the data collected by the data collecting means and deciding whether to change the presentation information according to a determined degree of necessity of the presentation;
and
means for simplifying the presentation according to a decision made by the discriminating means;
and
data erasing means for erasing data stored in a memory of the electronic apparatus and, when the discriminating means determines there is no need to present the information, causes the data erasing means to delete the unnecessary presentation data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Information presentation method and information recording medium and presentation device for implementing the method

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