Patent ID: 7956852

Claim:
An information display system comprising: a position indicating apparatus that indicates a position of a tip thereof on an input sheet during writing of a first memorandum as an indicated position; and an information display apparatus that displays information and communicates with the position indicating apparatus, wherein the position indicating apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects the indicated position as a detected position; a first storage unit that stores the detected position as a stored position; and a transmitting unit that transmits positional information indicating the stored position, and the information display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays content on a content page that is without the first memorandum, the display unit displays the first memorandum on a memorandum page that is without the content; a receiving unit that receives the positional information from the transmitting unit; an associating unit that associates the positional information with the content based on reference addresses of the positional information and the content and determines a sequence of the content and the positional information that have been associated with each other whereby the positional information directly follows the content displayed by the display apparatus when the first memorandum was written; a second storage unit that stores the positional information and the content associated with each other, the second storage unit including: a positional information data area that includes the positional information; a content page table that includes data for the content; and a page management table that includes the positional information and the content in the sequence determined by the associating unit; and a display selector operable to change the display from the content page to the memorandum page upon selection thereof; wherein the memorandum page includes the first memorandum, which is associated with the content, and a second memorandum, which is not associated with the content, wherein the associating unit is configured to associate a third memorandum written on the input sheet with the first content page including the first content, the first content is concurrently displayed as the third memorandum is written; and a second memorandum page including only the third memorandum; wherein the second memorandum page is displayed prior to the first memorandum page upon selection of the memorandum display button.