Patent ID: 6067070
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
A display control apparatus for controlling a display section so that the display section can carry out selective displays of stored sets of text data and stored sets of image data, the selective displays including a non-scaled, independent display of one set of text data, a non-scaled, independent display of one set of image data, and a mixed one-sight display of at least one set of text data and at least one set of image data, the mixed one-sight display being carried out by dividing a screen of the display section into a plurality of scale-down display areas, automatically scaling down text data of the at least one set of text data relative to text data of the non-scaled, independent display of one set of text data and automatically scaling down image data of the at least one set of image data relative to image data of the non-scaled, independent display of one set of image data, and then displaying either the scaled-down text data or the scaled-down image data in each of the areas,the display control apparatus comprising:text data display control means for displaying the text data in the scale-down display areas;image data display control means for displaying the image data in the scale-down display areas; andscale-down percentage control means for setting a scale-down percentage of the text data displayed in the scale-down display areas by the text data display control means to a first scale-down percentage, and setting a scale-down percentage of the image data displayed in the scale-down display areas by the image data display control means to a second scale-down percentage that is different from the first scale-down percentage.