Patent ID: 9607179
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for operating a device comprising steps of: maintaining a database in which a confidentiality degree indicative of a degree of confidentiality is defined according to confidential information; and controlling displays of a first display section and a second display section provided separately from the first display section, and causing the second display section to display a substitute image instead of the image and the first display section to display the image when confidential information is included in an image to be displayed in the second display section; wherein controlling the displays comprises processing the confidential information included in the image displayed in the first display section by calculating, for each confidential information based on the database, a degree of confidentiality of confidential information included in the image to be displayed in the second display section to set a highest degree of confidentiality among calculated degrees of confidentiality as a degree of confidentiality of the image, wherein when the degree of confidentiality of the image is more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, displaying the substitute image instead of the image, while when the degree of confidentiality of the image is less than the predetermined threshold value, displaying the image.