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US 7,249,323 B2Granted
Information processing apparatus, control apparatus and recording medium
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsMasato Ageta, Kazuhiro Takeda, Yoshiko Motoyama, Takashi Suda
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Abstract
An apparatus has a main display screen and an auxiliary display screen being smaller in size than the main display screen, and a received mail is displayed on a scroll basis on the auxiliary display screen and is outputted in form of a voice reading aloud the received mail in synchronism with the display.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus for displaying information on a display screen comprising:
- an audio output section for generating and outputting a voice based on character information;
- an information notification section for displaying pieces of character information of interest in a predetermined unit on said display screen and for causing said audio output section to generate and output the voice involved in reading aloud of the character information in synchronism with a display of the character information;
- an electronic mail receiving section, wherein said information notification section displays character information of interest onto said, display screen and causes the audio output section to generate and output audio as the character information of interest is displayed on the screen,
- wherein an electronic mail received by said electronic mail receiving section is provided as the character information of interest,
- wherein, after a display and audio output of From/Subject information of an obtained electronic mail is performed, a display and audio output of text information of said obtained electronic mail is automatically performed if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is not performed, and if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed, a display and audio output of From/Subject information with respect to said predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed;
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- wherein said information notification section displays the text information by scrolling the text information across the display screen and displays the From/Subject information on a batch basis without scrolling the From/Subject information.
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A control apparatus for controlling display of information onto a display screen in an information processing apparatus, said control apparatus comprising:
- an information notification section for displaying pieces of character information of interest in a predetermined unit on said display screen and for causing an audio output section to generate and output a voice involved in reading aloud of the character information as the character information of interest is displayed;
- an electronic mail receiving section,
- wherein said information notification section displays character information of interest onto said display screen and causes the audio output section to generate and output audio as the character information of interest is displayed on the screen,
- wherein an electronic mail received by said electronic mail receiving section is provided as the character information of interest,
- wherein, after a display and audio output of From/Subject information of an obtained electronic mail is performed, a display and audio output of text information of said obtained electronic mail is automatically performed if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is not performed, and if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed, a display and audio output of From/Subject information with respect to said predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed;
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- wherein said information notification section displays the text information by scrolling the text information across the display screen and displays the From/Subject information on a batch basis without scrolling the From/Subject information.
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A recording medium capable of being read by a computer displaying information on a display screen, the recording medium storing a program causing the computer to perform:
- generating and outputting a voice involved in reading aloud of character information of interest;
- displaying pieces of character information of interest on said display screen, the voice being synchronized with the character information displayed such that the character information displayed is read aloud as it is displayed;
- when an electronic mail is received by the computer is provided as the character information of interest, displaying and outputting audio of From/Subject information of the obtained electronic mail, and automatically displaying and outputting audio output of text information of said obtained electronic mail if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is not performed, and if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed, a display and audio output of From/Subject information with respect to said predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed;
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- wherein the text information is displayed by scrolling the text information across the display screen and the From/Subject information is displayed on a batch basis without scrolling the From/Subject information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.