Patent ID: 8988720
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A display device comprising: a display portion that includes, within one screen, as a display region, a main region and a subregion narrower than the main region and that displays a message produced by a user; an operation portion that receives a movement operation that is an operation, performed by the user, for moving the message displayed in the main region to the subregion and displaying the message and that is an operation of touching the message for changing the display region, moving a touch position to the subregion while touching the message and thereafter separating a finger; a storage portion that stores set data on the message and degree-of-importance data which is data for determining a degree of importance of the message and which includes a plurality of combinations of words and degree-of-importance values that are values indicating the degrees of importance of the words; and a determination portion that determines, based on a word included in the message and the degree-of-importance value corresponding to the word included in the degree-of-importance data, the degree of importance of the message on which the movement operation has been performed, the display portion displaying, in the subregion, the message on which the movement operation has been performed when the degree of importance of the message on which the movement operation has been performed is equal to or lower than a predetermined first criterion and continuously displaying, in the main region, without the message on which the movement operation has been performed being moved to the subregion, the message when the degree of importance of the message on which the movement operation has been performed is higher than the first criterion and further highlighting the message and displaying the message in the subregion when the degree of importance of the message displayed in the subregion is higher than a predetermined second criterion whereas, without highlighting the message, displaying the message in the subregion when the degree of importance of the message displayed in the subregion is equal to or lower than the second criterion.