Patent ID: 7739619

Claim:
A display controller controlling a display responding to display processing requests from plural processing units, each processing unit having a predefined priority, comprising: a display controlling program that controls the display in response to one or more of the plural processing units, said display controlling program comprising: receiving a request from one processing unit to acquire one of plural predefined display areas, the one of the plural predefined display areas being designated by the one processing unit; and determining whether to provide an authorization to acquire the one of plural predefined display areas in response to an acquisition request from one of the plural processing units to acquire the one of plural predefined display areas, wherein, when plural requests to acquire a same one of the predefined display areas from more than one of the plural processing units are received, the authorization is automatically provided to only one of the plural processing units having a highest predefined priority that made one of the plural requests to acquire the same one of the predefined display areas, a processor instructing the display based on the display controlling program, and a memory connected to the processor, the memory storing the display controlling program, wherein, when an acquisition request for the same one of the plural predefined display areas is received from more than one of the plural processing units, the processor instructs the display based on the display controlling program.