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Display control apparatus having a display of text data and image data and display control method for the same

US6067070A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 27, 1997
Grant dateMay 23, 2000
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Expiry dateJan 27, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2203/04803
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

When text data and image data are displayed in a scale-down display area in a one-sight display, the text data is scaled down with a first scale-down percentage according to which characters are recognizable, and the image data is scaled down with a second scale-down percentage according to which the image can be all accommodated horizontally and the configuration as a whole can be easily recognized. Moreover, when the text data is displayed in the scale-down display area, a character series included in the text data is adjusted into a character series layout in which a line end is set to correspond to a number of characters per line in the scale-down display area, so that no line in the scale-down display area has an undisplayed character that is not accommodated in that line. The character arrangement of the text data is set according to the character series layout. Consequently, a display control apparatus of excellent visual recognition and operability that allows content of both the text data and the image data to be easily confirmed in the one-sight display (mixed one-sight display) where the text data and the image data are displayed in the same screen at the same time.

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