Non-volatile recording medium, information processing method, and electronic apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11061560-B2
Application number	US-201816119540-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2018
Priority date	Sep 19, 2017
Publication date	Jul 13, 2021
Grant date	Jul 13, 2021

Abstract

A non-volatile recording medium has recorded thereon a program for causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to, when displaying a virtual electronic apparatus on a first display, display a first display area and a second display area on the first display, the first display area and the second display area each respectively capable of displaying at least part of contents stored as a display target in a virtual memory of the virtual electronic apparatus, the first display area being displayed on the first display as a virtual display of the virtual electronic apparatus, and the second display area being capable of displaying, within one screen in the second display area, more contents than a maximum amount displayable within one screen in the first display area from among the stored contents of the display target.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-volatile recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to:
when displaying a virtual electronic apparatus on a first display, display a first display area and a second display area on the first display, each of the first display area and the second display area being capable of displaying at least a part of contents stored in a virtual memory of the virtual electronic apparatus as a display target of information to be displayed, the first display area being displayed on the first display as a virtual display of the virtual electronic apparatus, and the second display area being capable of simultaneously displaying, within one screen in the second display area, more contents than a maximum amount of contents simultaneously displayable within one screen in the first display area, from among the contents stored as the display target,
wherein the second display area displays content that is also being displayed in the first display area, from among the contents stored as the display target, in a same way that the content is also being displayed in the first display area.

2. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
when displaying the virtual electronic apparatus on the first display, in the second display area of the first display, display simultaneously within one screen in the second display area more contents than the maximum amount of contents simultaneously displayable within one screen in the first display area while displaying at least the same contents as contents displayed on a second display included in an actual machine corresponding to the virtual electronic apparatus.

3. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
when displaying the virtual electronic apparatus on the first display, display the first display area, which is capable of simultaneously displaying contents corresponding to a maximum of n rows from among the contents stored as the display target, and the second display area, which is capable of simultaneously displaying contents corresponding to more rows than the n rows from among the stored contents stored as the display target, on the first display.

4. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to, when displaying first contents that are at least a part of the contents stored as the display target in the first display area:
in a case where the second display area is displayed on the first display, display second contents in the second display area, the second contents being at least a part of the contents stored as the display target and including at least the first contents; and
in a case where the second display area is not displayed on the first display, not display the second contents on the first display, and, in response to receiving an instruction to display the second display area on the first display, display the second display area on the first display and display the second contents in the second display area.

5. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
in a case where the second display area is not displayed on the first display, in response to receiving an instruction to display the second display area on the first display, display the second display area on the first display and display second contents in the second display area, the second contents being at least a part of the contents stored as the display target and including at least first contents that are at least part of the contents stored as the display target.

6. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
execute a program according to contents stored in the virtual memory of the virtual electronic apparatus; and
in a case where an error associated with the execution of the program occurs, display information notifying of occurrence of the error in the first display area and display program code of the program in the second display area so that a part at which the error occurs in the program code is visually distinguishable from other parts of the program code, on the first display.

7. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
when displaying the contents stored as the display target in the second display area of the first display, make contents displayed in both the first display area and the second display area visually distinguishable from contents not displayed in the first display area but displayed in the second display area.

8. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
in response to receiving a scroll operation on one of the first display area and the second display area, scroll display contents of the one of the first display area and the second display area and scroll display contents of the other of the first display area and the second display area.

9. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to, when an actual machine corresponding to the virtual electronic apparatus is connected to the information processing apparatus:
receive an operation on the first display area or the second display area; and
in response to the operation on the first display area or the second display area, change a display of a second display of the actual machine connected to the information processing apparatus, to contents corresponding to the operation.

10. The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
set an operation state of the virtual electronic apparatus, based on an operation on the virtual electronic apparatus displayed on the first display;
receive first operation state information indicating an operation state of an actual machine corresponding to the virtual electronic apparatus and connected to the information processing apparatus, from the actual machine; and
after receiving the first operation state information, transmit second operation state information indicating the set operation state, to the connected actual machine.

11. The recording medium according to claim 10 , wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
after transmitting the second operation state information, transmit, to the actual machine, the first operation state information received from the actual machine, in response to a request from the actual machine that has received the second operation state information.

12. The recording medium according to claim 11 , wherein the information processing apparatus is connectable with one or more actual machines each corresponding to the virtual electronic apparatus,
wherein the one or more actual machines each have unique ID information recorded therein, and
wherein the program further causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to:
when receiving the first operation state information from each actual machine, receive ID information unique to the actual machine transmitting the first operation state information;
store the first operation state information and the ID informati

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ono Manato

Classifications

• G06Q50/00

  Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism (healthcare informatics G16H) · CPC title

• G06F15/025

  adapted to a specific application · CPC title

• G06F3/1454 Primary

  involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay · CPC title

• G06F3/0679

  Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP] · CPC title

• G06F3/04886 Primary

  by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus · CPC title