Patent ID: 6542168
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A window display apparatus for displaying a plurality of windows of a window operating system on a display unit, at least part of the windows overlapping, comprising:a virtual distance defining unit defining virtual distances in a depth direction to the windows wherein each window is substantially parallel; a window rearranging unit rearranging an order of the windows so that a window which is selected is placed as a top window, so that depth position information of the selected window is changed with depth position information of a current top window; and an image generating unit generating images of the windows whose virtual distances have been defined by said virtual distance defining unit, the images being viewed from a view point freely designated, from a depth direction diagonal to said depth direction, wherein the images generated by said image generating unit are displayed on the display unit and transformed as a whole according to movement of the view point.