US 8,797,232 B2Granted

Information processing apparatus, display control method, and program

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

InventorKoji Hachiya

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Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus having an internal display and a connection module for an external display, includes a storage module configured to store items of virtual desktop information to be displayed on an actual display screen of one of the internal display and the external display and items of information of a display which displays the items of virtual desktop information in association with each other, and a control module configured to read out, from the storage module, an item of virtual desktop information in association with the external display and to supply the item of virtual desktop information in association with the external display to external display upon detecting that the external display is connected to the connection module when one of the items of virtual desktop information is displayed on the actual display screen of the internal display.

Claims4

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus comprising an internal display and a connector for an external display, comprising:

storage configured to store definition information representing which virtual desktops are to be displayed by the external display or the internal display;
an external display controller configured to read out first definition information representing that a first virtual desktop is to be displayed by the external display device from the storage, and to supply the first definition information to the external display when a connection of the external display to the connector is detected and a second virtual desktop is displayed on the internal display;
an internal display controller configured to read out second definition information representing that a third virtual desktop is to be displayed at the internal display device from the storage, and to supply the read second definition information to the internal display when a switching request is received and a fourth virtual desktop is displayed on the internal display;
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a writing module configured to update the definition information such that the definition information represents that a fifth desktop is to be displayed at the external display when a disconnection of the external display from the connector is detected and the external device displays the fifth desktop.

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Facts

Application: 13/900,911Filed 23 May 2013 · continuation
Priority: JP 2009-11904615 May 2009
Published: US 2013/0249922 A126 Sep 2013
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 3/1423
Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units: controlling a plurality of…
G06F 9/451
Arrangements for executing specific programs: execution arrangements for user interfaces
G06F 3/1438
Controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display: using more than one graphics controller
G06F 3/1454
Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units: involving copying of the…