Patent ID: 8099738

Claim:
A message display device which displays a message associated with an event, in response to an acquisition of the event which triggers the display of the message while executing an application program, the message display device comprising: a display; an event acquirer which acquires an event for triggering display of the message on the display, the event being associated with the message; a data acquirer which acquires a type of application program and acquires a display mode of an image to be displayed on the display during execution of the application program; storage which stores the type of the application program, the image display mode thereof, and a message display mode of displaying a message on the display such that the application program, the image display mode and the message display mode are associated with one another, and the message display mode changes a manner of displaying a message over time; an input device; a user input device speed monitor which monitors an input operation speed of the input device; and a message display controller which, in response to acquisition of the event by the event acquirer, recognizes, from the data storage, the message display mode associated with the type of the application program and the image display mode thereof, and displays the message associated with the event on the display in the selected message display mode, and the message display controller controls a change rate of message display according to the input operation speed monitored by input device the speed monitor.