Information processing apparatus, display processing method, program, and recording medium to display presence of off-screen objects using sub-window

摘要

Responsive to a user marking a region, identifying each object present in the region and storing an indication of the region and identified object(s), preserving a positional relationship in which the identified object(s) are displayed in the region; upon detecting that the identified each object is not displayed in the window, displaying the region as a sub-window located at the periphery, the displayed sub-window containing the identified each object in the preserved relationship; and upon detecting that the region subsequently shifts into the window, deleting the sub-window. Responsive to a user selecting a displayed object and marking a displayed region, storing an indication of the region and the object; while the object of the region is not displayed in the window, displaying a sub-window in a periphery of the window, the sub-window displaying the object in the region; and automatically closing the sub-window in response to the object being again displayed in the window.

主权项

1. An information processing apparatus having software running thereon, the software having a window as a user interface for displaying a plurality of objects, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a display apparatus for displaying the window, the window including a portion of the plurality of objects; means for receiving input from a user, the input including input operations; means for determining a display region shift of the window in response to a received user input operation, the display region shift of the window causing a change in the displayed portion of the plurality of objects; means for displaying a different portion of the plurality of objects as a sub-window in a periphery of the window; means for adjusting the displayed portion in a displayed sub-window in response to a determined display region shift; means for closing a displayed sub-window when a determined display region shift causes the display of the same portion of the plurality of objects in the window and the sub-window; means for determining one or more related-objects, a related-object comprising an object of the plurality of objects that is not displayed in the window and is related to an object that is displayed in the window; means for setting a marked region in response to selecting a desired region of the window, the setting including putting a mark on the desired region and on one or more objects which are present in the region; wherein:
when one or more marked objects are not displayed in the window, the one or more marked objects are displayed as a first sub-window;the one or more related-objects are displayed as a second sub-window; and the received user input operation comprises one or more of a scrolling operation, a selection of a marked object in the first sub-window, or a selection of a related-object in the second sub-window.