Patent ID: 6314570
Filing Date: 2001-11-06
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
A data processing apparatus which displays a set of document data on a display means together with an operation menu which has operation items for operation executions related to said set of document data, said data processing apparatus comprising:document data storage means for storing a plurality of sets of document data which are to be displayed by the display means, wherein each set of document data has a different data content and is stored together with a set of content information which identifies said data content;operation menu information storage means for storing a plurality of sets of operation menu information which are each made up of a set of operation items which correspond to one of a plurality of types of document data;first indication operation means for indicating a display of a set of document data, in accordance with a user operation;second indication operation means for indicating an addition of a display of an operation menu to the displayed set of document data, in accordance with a user operation;operation menu generation means for receiving an indication from said second indication operation means, for obtaining the content information of the displayed set of document data from said document data storage means, for extracting the set of operation menu information which corresponds to the obtained content information from said operation menu information storage means, and for generating an operation menu which has the operation items in the extracted set of operation menu information as menu items after the set of document data has been displayed and a user operation has indicated to add the display of an operation menu to the displayed set of document data; anddisplay control means for reading a set of document data from said document data storage means and having the set of document data displayed on the display means in accordance with an indication from said first indication operation means, and for having the operation menu generated by said operation menu generation means displayed on the display means.