Patent ID: 8176441
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information display device comprising: a monitor section; an operator; a display processor that displays on the monitor section identification information of a plurality of item groups and a plurality of items which belong to a lower level hierarchy of at least one item group of the plurality of item groups; an item group selector that selects at least one item group from the plurality of item groups in response to an item group selecting operation on the operator; a display controller that makes the display processor conduct an operation of displaying a plurality of items which belong to the lower level hierarchy of the at least one item group selected by the item group selector on the monitor section; a first item selector that selects at least one item from a plurality of items currently being displayed on the monitor section in response to a first item selecting operation on the operator; and a second item selector that selects the display processor to conduct an operation of displaying a plurality of items, which belong to the lower level hierarchy of the plurality of item groups, and sequentially selecting each of the plurality of the displayed items belonging to the lower level hierarchy of one of the plurality of the item groups before displaying on the monitor section next one of the plurality of the item groups in sequence in response to a second item selecting operation on the operator, and selects at least one item from the displayed plurality of items, wherein the operator comprises an operation key to be operated in selecting an item, and the first item selecting operation is an operation conducted on the operation key discontinuously, while the second item selecting operation is an operation conducted on the operation key continuously.