JP2003323384A - Online user expressing device and online user navigation device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the operating states of online users to each other easy to understand when displaying thumbnail information of the online users by network communication, in a device for displaying multimedia contents such as video, still images and music as thumbnails, identify an individual online partner when a plurality of online users are present, and navigate a cursor of an online user to an arbitrary position. <P>SOLUTION: A control part 102 of a terminal 1 executes control of displaying cursor information about a terminal 2 varied to make a communication partner identifiable. Control is also made to move the partner's cursor according to a movement of a cursor on the control side dragging the partner's variably displayed cursor, and to transmit the cursor information to the partner. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to a thumbnail display device for displaying a list of multimedia contents,
The present invention relates to a connected user clarification device that clearly indicates a partner connected to a network, a connected user clarification method, and a connected user navigation device and a connected user navigation method that navigate the cursor of a partner connected to the network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a device such as a personal computer for displaying a list of contents of multimedia contents such as moving images, still images, music, etc. as thumbnails (thumbnail: thumbnail images), thumbnails of users connected by network communication Information can be displayed and the multimedia content pointed by the cursor can be transmitted to the other party. However, such multimedia contents are assumed to be copyrighted by the user or owner of the terminal, or so-called copyright-free contents in which the copyright holder does not request a copyright fee for distribution.

[0003]

However, in such a case, it is difficult for the users connected through the network to understand each other's operation states. Further, when there are a plurality of connected users, it is difficult for the user to specify each connection partner. In addition, it is difficult to guide the connected user's cursor to an arbitrary position during network communication.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems of the conventional one, and an object thereof is to obtain a connected user specifying device and a connected user specifying method that make it easy to understand the connection state of each other during network communication. .

It is another object of the present invention to provide a connected user specifying device and a connected user specifying method which can easily distinguish a plurality of connected users. Another object of the present invention is to provide a connected user navigating apparatus and a connected user navigating method capable of navigating the communication partner by moving the cursor of the communication partner in accordance with the operation of the cursor of the user. .

[0006]

In order to achieve this object, a connected user explicit device according to claim 1 of the present invention comprises:
In a thumbnail display device which is connected to a general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted via the general-purpose network, a cursor on the screen of another thumbnail display device connected to the general-purpose network is moved to the own device. It is characterized in that a control means is provided at a corresponding position on the screen so as to change the shape of the cursor of the self-device so as to be different from the shape of the cursor and to perform display.

Further, the connected user specifying device according to claim 2 of the present invention is a thumbnail display device which is connected to a general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted through the general-purpose network. Cursor information receiving means for receiving cursor information, which is information regarding the cursor of another thumbnail display device, via the network, and information for identifying the other thumbnail display device with respect to the cursor information received by the cursor information receiving means. Identification information adding means for adding
Display control is performed so that the cursor information to which information for identifying another thumbnail display device is added by the identification information adding means is displayed at a position on the screen of the own device corresponding to the cursor position of the other thumbnail display device. And a cursor display control means for performing.

The connected user specifying device according to claim 3 of the present invention is a thumbnail display device which is connected to a general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted via the general-purpose network. When mutually displaying thumbnail information of other thumbnail display devices via a network, user information transmitting means for transmitting cursor information to another thumbnail display device during network communication, and receiving cursor information from the other thumbnail display device User information receiving means and connected user display means for displaying the cursor position acquired by the user information receiving means, and clearly indicates a connected user who is a user of another thumbnail display device connected to the general-purpose network. , Is characterized.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the connected user clarification apparatus according to the third aspect, wherein the user information transmitting means transmits information representing a connected user, and the user information. The receiving unit receives the information expressing the connected users, and the connected user display unit displays the information individually expressing the connected users, so that each user can be discriminated when there are a plurality of connected users. It is characterized by that.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a thumbnail display device for displaying a list of multimedia contents which are respectively connected to a general-purpose network and transmitted via the general-purpose network. A method of clearly indicating a user connected to a network, the cursor information receiving step of receiving cursor information, which is information regarding a cursor of another thumbnail display device, via the general-purpose network, and the cursor information receiving step. The identification information adding step of adding information capable of identifying the other thumbnail display device to the cursor information, and the cursor information added with the information capable of identifying the other thumbnail display device by the identification information adding step, Screen of own device corresponding to cursor position of other thumbnail display device And a cursor display control step for controlling the display so as to display the position, and characterized in that.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a connected user navigating apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the control means is one of the thumbnail display devices connected to the general-purpose network. The cursor on the screen is displayed at a corresponding position on the screen of the own device so that the shape of the cursor is changed so as to be different from the shape of the cursor of the own device. The cursor is controlled so that the cursor of the other thumbnail display device is moved on the screen of the own device according to the movement of the cursor of the own device dragged on the cursor, and the cursor information of the cursor is displayed. It is characterized in that control is performed so as to transmit to the other thumbnail display device.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a connected user navigating apparatus according to the second aspect, in which the cursor of the own device is another thumbnail displayed on the screen of the own device. Drag detection means for detecting that the cursor of the display device has been dragged, and cursor information for transmitting, to another thumbnail display device, cursor information regarding the cursor of another thumbnail display device that is moved and displayed as the cursor of the device itself moves. The cursor display control means, as the display control, moves the cursor of the other thumbnail display device while dragging the cursor of the other thumbnail display device, and the cursor of the other thumbnail display device is also displayed. Also control to move,
It is characterized by that.

In the connected user navigating apparatus according to claim 8 of the present invention, in the connected user specifying apparatus according to claim 3, the cursor position of the connected user displayed by the connected user display means is dragged. By the cursor navigation means for arbitrarily moving the display position, the cursor navigation information transmitting means for transmitting the position moved by the cursor navigation means to another thumbnail display device, and the cursor navigation means for transmitting And a cursor moving means for moving the cursor based on the information received by the cursor navigation information receiving means, and arbitrarily moving the cursor position of the connected user. , Is characterized.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a connected user navigating method according to the fifth aspect, wherein the cursor of the own device is another thumbnail displayed on the screen of the own device. A drag detection step of detecting that the cursor of the display device has been dragged, and cursor information for transmitting to another thumbnail display device cursor information regarding the cursor of another thumbnail display device that is moved and displayed as the cursor of the device itself moves. And a step of transmitting the cursor, wherein the cursor display control step, as the display control, moves the cursor of the other thumbnail display device while dragging the cursor of the other thumbnail display device, Also control to move,
It is characterized by that.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment,
By transmitting the cursor information of the connected user to the other party at the time of network communication, the cursor position of the connected user is displayed so that the mutual connection state can be easily understood.

Further, in this embodiment, by transmitting and receiving, for example, color information, shape information, and icon information as information for displaying the cursor position of the connected user, the connected user displayed on the same terminal can be easily identified. It was made possible.

Further, in this embodiment, by dragging the cursor position of another connected user with our cursor, the navigation information moved by dragging is transmitted and received, so that the cursor position of the other party is controlled. The cursor can be navigated by moving the cursor directly.

FIG. 1 shows the configurations of a connected user specifying device and a connected user navigating device according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 1, a terminal 1 includes a network interface unit (user information transmitting unit, user information receiving unit, cursor navigation information transmitting unit, cursor navigation information receiving unit) 101, a control unit (control unit, cursor navigation unit, cursor). A moving means, an identification information adding means, a cursor display control means) 102, a storage section 103, an input / output interface section 104, an input section 105, and an output section (connected user display means) 106.
It is connected to the network 1000.

Like the terminal 1, the terminal 2 has a network interface section (user information transmitting means, user information receiving means, cursor navigation information transmitting means, cursor navigation information receiving means) 201, control section (control means, cursor navigation). Means, cursor moving means, identification information adding means, cursor display control means) 202, storage section 203,
It is composed of an input / output interface unit 204, an input unit 205, and an output unit (connected user display means) 206, and is connected to the network 1000 like the terminal 1.

In the first embodiment, the case where one terminal 2 is connected to the terminal 1 has been described as an example, but any number of terminals may be connected. The network interface unit 101 mutually exchanges signals on the network 1000 and signals from the control unit 102.
Information is exchanged between the network 1000 and the control unit 102.

This network interface section 10
Reference numeral 1 denotes cursor information receiving means for receiving cursor information, which is information relating to a cursor of a communication partner via the network 1000, and thumbnail information of the communication partner to be mutually displayed via the network 1000. User information transmitting means for sending cursor information, user information receiving means for receiving cursor information from a communication partner, cursor navigation for arbitrarily moving the display position by dragging the cursor position of the connected user displayed on our screen It includes the functions of cursor navigation information transmitting means for transmitting the position moved by the gate means to the communication partner, and cursor navigation information receiving means for receiving the cursor position transmitted by the cursor navigation means.

The control unit (control means) 102 is a CPU 10
2a and ROM 102b, and CPU 1
02a executes various programs and controls each part of the apparatus. The ROM 102b stores a program executed by the CPU 102a, data necessary for processing, and the like.

The control unit 102 displays the cursor of the communication partner connected to the network 1000 on the corresponding user's screen on the connected user clarification device by changing the cursor so that the communication partner can be identified. Control to do. Further, in the connected user navigating apparatus, in addition to this, the cursor of the communication partner is moved on the screen of the communication partner in accordance with the movement of the cursor of the communication partner that is changed and displayed on the cursor of the communication partner. At the same time, control is performed so that the cursor information is transmitted to the communication partner.

The storage unit 103 is a storage device such as a hard disk or a semiconductor memory, and stores internal information of the information device and information of other information devices obtained via the network interface 101. The input / output interface unit 104 includes a terminal 1, an input unit 105, and an output unit 1.
Information is exchanged with 06. The input unit 105 includes, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone,
Necessary information such as cursor operation, character input, and voice input is input to the terminal 1.

The output unit 106 is composed of, for example, a display, a liquid crystal panel, a speaker, etc.
Output necessary information such as voice output. This output unit 106
Serves as a connected user display means for displaying the cursor position of the communication partner acquired by the user information receiving means.

FIG. 8 shows an example of the internal configuration of the control unit 102 shown in FIG. In FIG. 8, the own terminal cursor state monitoring means 1021 monitors the state of its own cursor. The own terminal cursor state detecting means 1022 detects the state of the own cursor being monitored. The cursor information transmitting means (cursor information transmitting step) 1023 controls to transmit the cursor information via the network.

Own terminal cursor drag information monitoring means 10
24 monitors whether or not its cursor is in a dragged state. The drag target determination means 1025 determines whether or not the target dragged by its own cursor is the cursor of the other party.

Other terminal cursor information reception monitoring means 1026
Monitors the state of the cursor on the terminal of the communication partner. Other terminal cursor information reception detecting means (cursor information receiving step)
1027 detects the state of the cursor of the communication partner. The identification information adding means (identification information adding step) 1028 adds information to the cursor of the communication partner so that the communication partner can be easily identified. The cursor display control means (cursor display control step) 1029 controls so as to display the self cursor and the cursor of the communication partner on the same screen.

Then, the self-terminal cursor drag information monitoring means 1024, the drag object judging means 1025, and the drag detecting means (drag detecting step) indicating that this cursor has dragged the cursor of the communication partner displayed on our screen. Is configured. Further, the drag detection means and the cursor display control means 1029 constitute a cursor navigation means for arbitrarily moving the connected user's cursor position displayed by the connected user display means by dragging the displayed position. . Furthermore, the drag detection means and the cursor information transmission means 102
3 constitutes a cursor moving means for moving the cursor based on the information received by the cursor navigation information receiving means.

The monitor means 1030 controls the above means 1021 to 1029. The monitor means 1030 corresponds to the OS running on the CPU 102a, and the means 1021 to 1029 described above.
Corresponds to the application program of the OS.

FIG. 9 shows the configuration of the monitor means 1030 in more detail. The execution order of the program execution means 1030a is controlled by the task scheduling means 1030b, and the execution order of the program execution means 1030a is controlled by the API execution means 1030d.
Use some of the functions of S. Program memory 1030
c corresponds to the storage unit 103.

API (Application Programming I
is a program interface opened to the application by the OS, and the application basically performs all processing via this API. The API of a general OS at present is in the form of a function, and an application calls an API function by designating appropriate parameters (arguments).

FIG. 10 shows how the execution state of the program transits by the task scheduling means 1030b shown in FIG. In FIG. 10, a is a program execution state, b is an executable state, c is a waiting state, d is a dormant state,
e is an unregistered state, and the conditions for transitioning between these states include task preemption (interruption), dispatch (allocation), wait, wait release, activation, forced termination, termination, generation, deletion, termination. There is a deletion.

Next, the operation of the embodiment configured as described above will be described. First, the connected user specifying device will be described. Now, when the terminal 1 and the terminal 2 are connected to the network 1000 and the cursor of the terminal 1 is operated by operating the input unit 105 of the terminal 1, the position of the cursor of the terminal 1 on the terminal 2 side and Consider the case of displaying information that represents a connected user. In such a situation, as shown in FIG. 2, the operation when the cursor c1 position information of the user of the terminal 1 whose thumbnails tn1 to tn12 are displayed on the screen is also displayed on the terminal 2 will be described with reference to FIGS.
The flow will be described. These two flows are shown in FIG.
The task scheduling means 1030b of (1) and (2) apparently operate simultaneously. Here, the user of the terminal 1 is
The user of the terminal 2 is (B).

First, when the terminal 1 is activated or when the user activates the program of the connected user specifying device,
The operation starts from step S301. Step S
In 301, the input / output interface unit 1 is controlled by the own terminal cursor state monitoring means 1021 of the control unit 102 of the terminal 1.
04 or the program of the control unit 102 to obtain information to monitor the state of the cursor c1 of the user (step A) of the terminal 1. This is, for example, to receive a message from a program that controls the cursor position of the control unit 102, or as a standard OS in many models as a personal computer OS.
Its API in the ows® operating system
It can be easily realized by using GetCursorPos which is one of the above.

In step S302, the own terminal cursor state detecting means 1022 detects a change in the state of the cursor from the monitoring information in step S301. The change in the state of the cursor may be, for example, a change in the position of the cursor, a moving direction, or a moving distance. When a change in the cursor state of the user (step A) is detected, the operation proceeds to step S303 as an operation for notifying the terminal 2 of the change. When no change is detected, the operation is shifted to step S301 and continuously monitored.

In step S303, step S302
The cursor information transmission control means 1023 in the control unit 102 controls the network interface unit 101 based on the information and the user information obtained in step 1
000 to the terminal 2. For example, the user information is a name, a shape, a color, a picture, and sound information that can be used to identify the user.

On the other hand, when the terminal 2 is activated, or when the user activates the program of the connected user specifying device, or when the connected user specifying device of the terminal 1 is activated, the operation starts from step S401.

In step S401, the control unit 2 of the terminal 2
02 other terminal cursor information reception monitoring means 1026
With this, information is obtained from the program of the network interface unit 201 or the control unit 202, and reception of the cursor c1 information of the user (A) sent from the terminal 1 via the network 1000 is monitored. this is,
For example, it can be realized by receiving a message from the network monitoring program of the control unit 202.

In step S402, step S401
Other terminal cursor information reception detection means 10 from the monitoring information of
27 detects the reception of cursor information. When the reception is detected, the process proceeds to step S403 as an operation for displaying the cursor of the user (step A) on the terminal 2. When the reception of the cursor information is not detected, step S40
The operation is shifted to 1 and monitoring is continued.

In step S403, step S402
Based on the cursor information obtained in step 2, the control unit 202 determines that the output unit 2
The control of 06 is performed, and the terminal 2 performs display using the user information received at the same cursor position as the terminal 1.
For example, in the example of FIG. 2, the terminal 1 transmits a user name of (A) as the user information, and the terminal 2 adds the identification information to the cursor information of the terminal 1 by the identification information adding unit 1028. It is assumed that an ordinary arrow-shaped cursor can be transformed into a cursor having a circular shape and user information (step A) displayed therein, and the cursor display control means 1
With 029, the modified cursor c11 can be displayed at the same cursor position as the cursor position on the cursor terminal 1, and the cursor position of the user (step A) of the terminal 1 can be specified. This can be realized, for example, by using SetCursorPos of Windows (registered trademark) API.

Further, by performing the same operations as those described above by reversing the roles of the terminals 1 and 2, that is, by the terminal 2 transmitting the user name (B) as the user information, the terminal 1 becomes the terminal. It is possible to display the cursor c21 of (Otsu) at the same cursor position as the position of the cursor c2 of No. 2 and to clearly indicate the cursor position of the user (Otsu) of the terminal 2 on the terminal 1.

Even when there are a plurality of partners connected to the network, by performing these operations with respect to the cursor information from each terminal, it is possible to easily determine which partner is connected on the own terminal. Can be determined.

Next, the connected user navigation device will be described. Terminal 1 and terminal 2 are network 1000
Is connected to, and by the above-mentioned connection user explicit device,
When the cursor position of the connected user (B) of the terminal 2 is displayed on the terminal 1, as shown in FIG.
By operating the input unit 105 of the terminal 1, the cursor of the terminal 1 is operated, and the display position of the cursor of the connected user (B) of the terminal 2 on the terminal 1 is moved by dragging the cursor on the terminal 2 side. The operation of moving the cursor position of the user (B) with the cursor operation of the terminal 1 and navigating the cursor to the target thumbnail will be described with reference to the flows of FIGS. 6 and 7. In addition, in addition to these two flows, the flows of FIGS. 3 and 4 are actually operating, and these four flows are apparently operated simultaneously by the task scheduling means 1030b of FIG.

First, when the terminal 1 is activated or the user activates the program of the connected user navigation device, the operation starts from step S601. In step S601, the control unit 102 of the terminal 1 obtains information from the program of the input / output interface unit 104 or the control unit 102, and monitors the drag information of the cursor (c1) of the user (step A) of the terminal 1 itself. For example, the own terminal cursor drag information monitoring unit 1024 controls the control unit 102.
You can monitor the drag information by receiving a message from the program that controls the dragging of the cursor. Here, the drag information includes drag start, drag end, movement information while dragging, and the like. In step S602, the drag information of the cursor (c21) of the user (B) of the terminal 2 is detected from the monitoring information of step S601. Drag target determination means 1025
When the object dragged by the cursor c1 of the terminal 1 is the cursor c21 of the terminal 2, that is, when the drag information at the position of the cursor c21 of the terminal 2 displayed on the connected user explicit device is detected, As an operation for notifying the terminal 2 of the change, the process proceeds to step S603. If no change is detected, the operation moves to step S601 to continue monitoring. In step S603, the drag information obtained in step S602 is set to the control unit 102.
Controls the network interface unit 101 to transmit to the terminal 2 via the network 1000.

On the other hand, when the terminal 2 is activated, the user activates the program of the connected user navigating apparatus, or the connected user navigating apparatus of the terminal 1 is activated, the operation starts from step S701.
In step S701, the control unit 202 obtains information from the program of the network interface unit 201 or the control unit 202, and monitors the reception of the drag information sent from the terminal 1 via the network 1000. This can be realized, for example, by receiving a message from the network monitoring program of the control unit 202. In step S702, step S70
The reception of the drag information is detected from the monitoring information of 1. When this is detected, the process proceeds to step S703 as an operation for navigating the cursor c2 of the terminal 2. On the other hand, when not detected, the operation is shifted to step S701 and continuously monitored. In step S703, the control unit 202 controls the output unit 206 based on the drag information obtained in step S702, and the cursor c2 position of the terminal 2 is moved along with the movement of the cursor c1 of the terminal 1. To navigate. For example, in FIG. 5, the cursor c1 of the user (step A) of the terminal 1 is the terminal 1
Cursor c21 of the user (B) of terminal 2 displayed above
By moving the position while dragging the position,
On the terminal 2 side, the cursor c2 position of the user (B) can be navigated to any position. Further, in this case, on the terminal 2 side, the cursor c1 of the user (step A) of the terminal 1
1 also moves with the operation of the cursor (c1) of the user (step A) on the terminal 1 side.

The terminal targeted by the present invention may be other than a personal computer, and is, for example, any information device such as an information terminal device, a set top box, a mobile phone, a game device, and an electronic notebook. In addition, the target network is not only the Internet but also personal computer communication. Any network such as leased line connection, wired communication, wireless communication, infrared communication, etc.

The storage unit, which is a recording medium, may be a hard disk, semiconductor memory, optical disk, flexible disk, magnetic tape, or the like. The network interface may be a LAN card, ISDN terminal, USB, IEEE1394, or the like. Further, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment.

As described above, according to the first embodiment, in a thumbnail display device for displaying a list of multimedia contents, when mutually displaying thumbnail information of communication partners through a network, mutual cursor information is used during network communication. Since the received cursor position is displayed by transmitting and receiving, it becomes possible to clearly indicate the connected user.

Further, by transmitting / receiving the information expressing the connected users and displaying the information expressing the connected users, it becomes possible to easily distinguish each user when there are a plurality of connected users.

Further, the display position is arbitrarily moved by dragging the cursor position of the connected user, and the cursor position of the connected user is moved to an arbitrary position accordingly, so that the cursor of the partner is navigated. You can For example, if another connected user
If you cannot find the multimedia content you want to select immediately, you can drag the cursor of the other party to move the cursor to the multimedia content you want to select, and the target multimedia content is the other party's cursor. It is possible to quickly move to the other, it is possible to easily navigate the other party connected to the network.

[0052]

As described above, according to the connected user specifying device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the multimedia contents which are respectively connected to the general-purpose network and are transmitted through the general-purpose network are displayed in a list. In the thumbnail display device, the cursor on the screen of another thumbnail display device connected to the general-purpose network is changed to a corresponding position on the screen of the own device so that the shape of the cursor is different from the shape of the cursor of the own device. Since the control means for performing the control to perform the display is provided, there is an effect that a plurality of connected users connected to the thumbnail display device can be easily distinguished.

According to the connected user clarification device of claim 2 of the present invention, in the thumbnail display device which is connected to the general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted through the general-purpose network, Cursor information receiving means for receiving cursor information, which is information regarding a cursor of another thumbnail display device, via the general-purpose network, and the other thumbnail display device can be identified with respect to the cursor information received by the cursor information receiving means. Identification information adding means for adding different information, and cursor information to which information capable of identifying another thumbnail display device by the identification information adding means is added to the own device corresponding to the cursor position of the other thumbnail display device. Cursor display control means for controlling display so that it is displayed at a position on the screen Since such comprises, an effect which can distinguish a plurality of connection users connected to the thumbnail display easily.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the thumbnail display device connected to a general-purpose network and displaying a list of multimedia contents transmitted via the general-purpose network includes: When mutually displaying thumbnail information of other thumbnail display devices via the general-purpose network, user information transmitting means for transmitting cursor information to the other thumbnail display devices during network communication, and cursor information from the other thumbnail display devices. And a connected user display unit for displaying the cursor position acquired by the user information receiving unit, and displays a connected user who is a user of another thumbnail display device connected to the general-purpose network. Since it was made explicit, it will be connected to the thumbnail display device. There is an effect that it is possible to distinguish easily plurality of connected users you are.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the connected user specifying device according to the third aspect is characterized in that the user information transmitting means transmits information representing a connected user, and The user information receiving means receives the information expressing the connected users, and the connected user display means displays the information individually expressing the connected users, so that each user can be discriminated when there are a plurality of connected users. Therefore, there is an effect that it is possible to easily distinguish a plurality of connected users who are connected to the thumbnail display device.

According to the connected user clarification method of claim 5 of the present invention, in a thumbnail display device which is connected to a general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted through the general-purpose network, A method of clearly indicating a user connected to the network, the cursor information receiving step of receiving cursor information, which is information about a cursor of another thumbnail display device, via the general-purpose network, and the cursor information receiving step. The identification information adding step of adding information capable of identifying the other thumbnail display device to the cursor information, and the cursor information having the information capable of identifying the other thumbnail display device added by the identification information adding step, The screen of the own device corresponding to the cursor position of the other thumbnail display device Since a cursor display control step for performing display control so as to display at the position of is included, it is possible to easily distinguish a plurality of connected users who are connected to the connected user specifying device using the Internet for interconnection. There is an effect that a connection user explicit method that can be obtained is obtained.

Further, according to the connected user navigating apparatus of the sixth aspect of the present invention, in the connected user specifying apparatus of the first aspect, the control means displays other thumbnails connected to the general-purpose network. Displaying the cursor on the screen of the device at a corresponding position on the screen of the device itself so as to change its shape so as to be different from the shape of the cursor of the device itself, and displaying another thumbnail by changing the shape. The cursor is controlled so that the cursor of the other thumbnail display device is moved on the screen of the own device in accordance with the movement of the cursor of the own device dragged on the cursor of the device, and the cursor of the cursor is also displayed. Since the control is performed so that the information is transmitted to the other thumbnail display device, the cursor position of the connection partner is directly targeted. There is a navigate can effect the position.

Further, according to the connected user navigating apparatus of the seventh aspect of the present invention, in the connected user specifying apparatus of the second aspect, the cursor of the own apparatus is displayed on the screen of the own apparatus. Of drag detection means for detecting that the cursor of the thumbnail display device has been dragged, and cursor information regarding the cursor of another thumbnail display device to be moved and displayed along with the movement of the cursor of the own device is transmitted to the other thumbnail display device. Cursor information transmission means, and the cursor display control means, as the display control, moves the cursor of the other thumbnail display device while dragging the cursor of the other thumbnail display device, Since the control to move the cursor is also performed, drag the cursor position of the connection partner to connect. And in, there is navigated be effective in a position to direct object the cursor position of the other party.

Further, according to the connected user navigating apparatus of the eighth aspect of the present invention, in the connected user specifying apparatus of the third aspect, the cursor position of the connected user displayed by the connected user display means is set. Cursor navigation means for arbitrarily moving the display position by dragging, cursor navigation information transmitting means for transmitting the position moved by the cursor navigation means to another thumbnail display device, and the cursor navigation means The cursor navigation information receiving means for receiving the cursor position transmitted by the cursor navigation means and the cursor moving means for moving the cursor based on the information received by the cursor navigation information receiving means. Since I tried to gate, the cursor position of the connection partner Be to connect by dragging, there is an effect that can be navigated in a position to direct object the cursor position of the other party.

According to the connected user navigating method according to claim 9 of the present invention, in addition to the fact that the cursor of the own device is displayed on the screen of the own device in the connected user clarification method according to claim 5, A drag detection step of detecting that the cursor of the thumbnail display device has been dragged, and the cursor information regarding the cursor of another thumbnail display device to be moved and displayed along with the movement of the cursor of the self device is transmitted to the other thumbnail display device. And a cursor information transmitting step, wherein the cursor display control step includes, as the display control, moving the cursor of the other thumbnail display device while dragging the cursor of the other thumbnail display device, Since the control to move the cursor is also performed, the cursor position of the connection partner is directly set to the target position. There is an effect that the gate can connect the user navigating is obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a connected user specifying device and a connected user navigating device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overview diagram showing an example of a connected user specifying device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the connected user specifying device in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the connected user specifying device in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing an example of a connected user navigation device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the connected user navigation device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the connected user navigation device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a control unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of monitor means of the control unit in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a state transition diagram showing the state transition of the monitor means in the embodiment of the present invention.

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101, 201 Network interface unit (user information transmitting unit, user information receiving unit, cursor navigation information transmitting unit, cursor navigation information receiving unit) 102, 202 Control unit (control unit, cursor navigating unit, cursor moving unit, identification Information addition means, cursor display control means) 103,203 Storage section 104,204 Input / output interface section 105,205 Input section 106,206 Output section (connected user display section) 1000 Network 1021 Own terminal cursor status monitoring means 1022 Own terminal cursor State detection means 1023 Cursor information transmission means (cursor information transmission step) 1024 Own terminal cursor drag information monitoring means (drag detection step) 1025 Drag target determination means (drag detection step) 1026 Other terminal curso Information reception monitoring means 1027 Other terminal cursor information reception detection means (cursor information reception step) 1028 identification information addition means (identification information addition step) 1029 cursor display control means 1030 monitor means

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A thumbnail display device, which is connected to a general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted via the general-purpose network, wherein a cursor on a screen of another thumbnail display device connected to the general-purpose network. A connected user characterized by including a control means for performing a display at a corresponding position on the screen of the own device by changing its shape so as to be different from the shape of the cursor of the own device. Explicit device. 2. A thumbnail display device, which is connected to a general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted via the general-purpose network, is information about a cursor of another thumbnail display device via the general-purpose network. Cursor information receiving means for receiving the cursor information; identification information adding means for adding information capable of identifying the other thumbnail display device to the cursor information received by the cursor information receiving means; and the identification information adding means. Cursor display control means for performing display control so as to display the cursor information to which information for identifying another thumbnail display device is added at a position on the screen of the own device corresponding to the cursor position of the other thumbnail display device. And a connected user explicit device comprising: 3. A thumbnail display device, which is connected to a general-purpose network and displays a list of multimedia contents transmitted via the general-purpose network, wherein thumbnail information of other thumbnail display devices are mutually exchanged via the general-purpose network. When displaying, user information transmitting means for transmitting cursor information to another thumbnail display device during network communication, user information receiving means for receiving cursor information from another thumbnail display device, and user information receiving means A connected user display device that displays a cursor position, and specifies a connected user who is a user of another thumbnail display device connected to the general-purpose network. 4. The connected user specifying device according to claim 3, wherein the user information transmitting unit transmits information representing a connected user, the user information receiving unit receives information representing a connected user, and the connection The user display means is capable of discriminating each user when there are a plurality of connected users by displaying the information individually expressing the connected users. 5. A method for clearly indicating a user connected to a general-purpose network, in a thumbnail display device for displaying a list of multimedia contents transmitted via the general-purpose network, the method comprising: Cursor information receiving step of receiving cursor information, which is information relating to a cursor of another thumbnail display device via a network, and information for identifying the other thumbnail display device with respect to the cursor information received by the cursor information receiving step On the screen of the own device corresponding to the cursor position of the other thumbnail display device, the identification information adding process of adding Cursor display control engineer that controls the display so that it is displayed at the position A method for explicitly identifying a connected user, comprising: 6. The connected user specifying device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit moves a cursor on a screen of another thumbnail display device connected to the general-purpose network to a corresponding position on the screen of the own device. , While changing the shape of the cursor so that it is different from the shape of the cursor,
The display of moving the cursor of the other thumbnail display device on the screen of the own device in accordance with the movement of the cursor of the own device dragged on the cursor of the other thumbnail display device to be changed and displayed, A connected user navigating device, characterized in that the cursor is controlled and the cursor information of the cursor is transmitted to the other thumbnail display device. 7. The connected user specifying device according to claim 2, further comprising a drag detecting unit that detects that the cursor of the own device has dragged a cursor of another thumbnail display device displayed on the screen of the own device. Cursor information transmission means for transmitting cursor information regarding a cursor of another thumbnail display device to be moved and displayed along with movement of the cursor of the own device, to the other thumbnail display device, wherein the cursor display control means comprises: As a control, when the cursor of the other thumbnail display device is moved while dragging the cursor of the other thumbnail display device, the cursor of the other thumbnail display device is also moved. apparatus. 8. The connected user specifying device according to claim 3, further comprising: cursor navigation means for arbitrarily moving the connected user's cursor position displayed by the connected user display means by dragging the displayed position. Cursor navigation information transmission means for transmitting the position moved by the cursor navigation means to another thumbnail display device, cursor navigation information reception means for receiving the cursor position transmitted by the cursor navigation means, A connected user navigating apparatus comprising: a cursor moving unit that moves a cursor based on information received by a cursor navigation information receiving unit, and arbitrarily navigates a cursor position of a connected user. 9. The connected user specifying method according to claim 5, further comprising: a drag detecting step of detecting that the cursor of the own device has dragged a cursor of another thumbnail display device displayed on the screen of the own device. A cursor information transmission step of transmitting cursor information regarding a cursor of another thumbnail display device to be moved and displayed along with the movement of the cursor of the own device to the other thumbnail display device, wherein the cursor display control step comprises the display As a control, the connected user navigation characterized in that the cursor of another thumbnail display device is also moved while the cursor of the other thumbnail display device is moved while dragging the cursor of the other thumbnail display device. Method.