Patent ID: 7523389

Claim:
A document display method which is executed by a computer, comprising the steps of: operating a control thread, a display thread, and a visualization thread; causing the computer to display a document, which includes a hyperlink embedded in a text part, a still image part, and a moving image part of the document, on a predetermined display area; moving a graphic along an arrow from a position where the graphic is surrounded with a dashed line in the moving image part of the document, and to a position where the graphic is surrounded with a solid line when a picture image is displayed; operating the control thread with a transparent sheet generation unit, a thread activation unit, a position identifying unit, and a marker drawing unit; activating the display thread and the visualization thread with the thread activation unit; causing the computer to generate a transparent display area, which is established as a higher layer compared to the display area at a position that is overlapped with the display area, and where the document is permeable; causing the computer to acquire information of places where the hyperlinks are embedded and to regularly identify positions on the display area where the places are displayed with the position identifying unit, and changing the shape of a cursor when the cursor moves to places where the hyperlinks are embedded; causing the computer to draw specific markers at positions on the transparent display area corresponding to the positions on the display area every time the positions on the display area are identified by the identifying means with the marker drawing unit; and causing the computer to display the specific markers at the positions on the display area where the places, where moving hyperlinks are embedded at the time of an instruction from a user, are displayed, by changing the transparent display area, which is initially in an invisible state, to a visible state in response to said instruction.