Patent ID: 9282206
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A portable information terminal which is capable of exclusively displaying a display screen based on a single application from among display screens of a plurality of applications, the portable information terminal comprising: a display unit that displays a display screen of a cooperation source application; a receiving unit that receives a start instruction which instructs to start a cooperation destination application cooperating with the cooperation source application; and a generation unit that generates, based on the start instruction, an image for background for the cooperation destination application by capturing the display screen of the cooperation source application, wherein the cooperation destination application has, as a main display area, a display area which is smaller than an entire display area of the display screen of the cooperation source application, and the display unit displays, as the main display area for the cooperation destination application, the display area for the cooperation destination application, and displays, as the image for background of the cooperation destination application, the display screen of the cooperation source application, at a time when the cooperation destination application starts, in a peripheral area of the main display area of the cooperation destination application after the cooperation destination application starts.